Everyone needs a refresher now and then, and our camera basics covers just that with the option to put it immediately to use!  Paired with the afternoon course “Lighting in the Studio,” the basics covers all the buttons and settings on your camera, followed by decisions for aperture and shutter speed settings.  Tips on lighting and composition will follow; and then you’re ready to go! What we’ll cover:

• Controlling exposure so that you’re the one in control, and not your camera.  Shutterspeed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and all those other (useful) buttons on your camera.
• Concentration on using shutter speed setting for creative control and blur/sharpness.
• Focusing on aperture settings for depth-of-field control.
• Designing a photograph with theory of image composition, color, and balance.
• Thinking about lighting techniques as they apply to basic additional tools of reflectors and the addition of flash.

Participants are encouraged to bring their DSLR camera or their preferred standard point and shoot.

Location: The Hutong

Date: Saturday January 17th, 10:00 – 13:00

Price: 300 RMB, 250 for members.

After growing up in Memphis, TN, Shannon Fagan spent a decade in New York City developing a career in assignment and stock photography for clients such as Intel, BMW, Time, Fortune, and the New Yorker before relocating to Beijing in 2011.  He has served on the board of directors and committee chairs for The American Photographic Artists and American Society of Media Photographers, and was President of the Stock Artists Alliance.  Shannon’s experience in China includes the creation and lead of a production operation for commercial images used by international companies to advertise their Asia-based operations.