Common Ground Photography provides both technical and creative training as well as exposure for up and coming photographers and photojournalists in the Dharamsala community.
Through workshops, group critiques and exhibitions featuring Common Ground Photographers, our team of photographers seeks to produce an insightful mosaic of photo essays of life in exile, documenting the daily struggles, triumphs and mostly, the tidbits in between from an insider’s perspective.
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5-Day DSLR Photography Workshop
7 to 11 September 2011 at the Tibetan Welfare Office Hall, Dharamsala
Common Grounds Project is offering a hands-on and interactive five-day digital SLR photography course aimed at training Tibetans in the Dharamsala community with their technical and creative photography skills. The course will be taught by Reuters correspondent, Abhishek Madhukar with lectures from David Huang. The outline of the five-day course is as follows:
Day 1 – Introduction & composition [Wednesday, 7 September, 5.30pm to 7.30pm]
- Introductions and expectations
- Photographs that changed the world
- Examples of great photography
- 10 rules of photographic composition
- Know your camera
Day 2 – Exposure controls [Thursday, 8 September, 5.30pm to 7.30pm]
- Aperture and depth of field
- Shutter speed
- ISO
- Light meter
- Exposure modes
- Low-light and flash photography
- Shooting assignment (portrait, environmental portrait, street life)
Day 3 – Lenses, captioning, critique & review [Friday, 9 September, 5.30pm to 7.30pm]
- Types of lenses (wide angle, telephoto, prime)
- Captioning
- Group critique of student photography (6 from each student)
- Review of Exposure Controls 1
- Shooting assignment in RAW & JPG
Day 4 – Post-Processing & archiving with David Huang [Saturday, 10 September, 2pm to 5pm]
- Basic editing in JPG (Photoshop)
- Editing in RAW (Lightroom)
- Color management & calibration
- Archiving photographs
Day 5 – Review of techniques [Sunday, 11 September, 2pm to 5pm]
- Hands-on review of techniques
- Q & A session
*Note: Since this is a hands-on class, please bring your digital SLR camera with you to class.
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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP 1 PHOTOS
DSLR Photography Workshop 1 - Resources
PHOTOS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (14 images)
10 RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
EXPOSURE CONTROLS (Aperture, shutter speed, ISO, etc.)
