Fotografický workshop – Experimental techniques in photography: art filters and light painting techniques

Duration: 5 hours 

Maximum number of participants: 6

Beginning to get bored with your camera? Your pictures are quality, but you still feel, that they are too much alike the other ones’? Let’s just go on. Working with experimental techniques will give your photos a zest and move them to a new level. You won’t any need to buy expensive equipment. You will learn to work with anything around you and to create original pieces based on what you get at hand.

Light painting is also an experimental technique in photography and, thanks to its mysteriousness and sometimes unexpectable results, is rapidly gaining popularity all over the world. Our course will teach you to choose the best place for shooting, to get a good understanding of shooting in the dark like well balanced exposure, sharpening, working with space. We’ll test different light sources and will learn, what tools use light painting artists all over the world and how to create them by yourself.

• How to make a shot that wouldn’t be standard
• What tools we can use in experimental photography
• How to focus in when it is poor lighting
• How to navigate in the darkness
• How to get a perfect exposure in difficult lighting situation
• How to create your own light painting tools

What experimental techniques there are and how to gain them

During the workshop we are going to make some abstract photos, to create a couple of stunning portraits and spectacular still lifes.  And sure, there would also be the space for your own ideas and suggestions.

This course will be interesting either for beginners, who still have a fresh look at photography, either for advanced photographers who just need some shift towards not so serious and standard approach.

You will need a DSLR or mirrorless camera with an option of manual exposure mode, a tripod and a hint of imagination.