Future Light Digital Workshops offers training for digital photographers at all levels. Whether you are just taking your camera out of its box, or are a seasoned professional, FLDW offers classes customized for you. The Future Light classroom is located on the second floor of the Calumet Photographic retail center in the Mission-Potrero neighborhood. Enjoy FLDW's personalized classes and expert instruction in a spacious setting customized for the needs of digital photographers, and take advantage of Calumet's extensive retail selection, rental equipment and knowledgeable staff. For details about our address see Location.
Learn digital photography the right way with Adobe Certified Experts in Adobe Photoshop and exceptional authors of digital photography books and training videos. Take home Future Light's specially designed tutorials on CD for review and study at a later date. Visit the Classes page to view the schedule of upcoming workshop.
New web based seminars. Join us for a new interactive learning experience. Beyond the Lens Web School brings you the same high quality instruction that we offer in our classroom to your desktop. Future Light Digital Workshops and Outback Photo are partnering in this new venture. We will have many new classes online soon, but our initial test phase will start in February with a Texture Blending class taught by Uwe Steinmueller from Digital Outback Photo. To sign up for this class, follow this link -
Texture Blending with Uwe Steinmueller • February 4, 2010
Introduction to Digital Photography Field Workshop
This class is perfect for the beginning digital photographer. During the course of the workshop you will learn how to set all the basic controls on your camera, as well as understanding the important menu items and shooting modes available. We'll focus on strategies for improving your photography, including how to achieve perfect color, how to capture the decisive moment, and how to improve the quality of your photographs.
Class meets from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m., Fee $85 per class
Wednesday, February 3 • Friday, February 12 • Saturday, February 27
"I enjoyed your workshop a great deal. I felt that you were giving us cutting edge techniques. I don't know of any one who is experimenting and sharing the results in the way that you are have done. Brad's knowledgeable assistance and his fabulous equipment is a unique situation for a workshop. I may try to take it again."
(October 2007, Larry Larsen)
High Dynamic Range Photography with Photomatix Pro
The high contrast of normal sunny daylight scenes is often hard to capture with a single shot. HDR photography circumvents these limitations by combining multiple exposure values in a single image. This one-day workshop is a combination of hands-on shooting and classroom instruction that explores advanced techniques in tonemapping using Photomatix Pro to create the HDR image.
What you’ll learn:
• What is HDR
• How does it work
• Why is HDR important
• Capturing multiple shots
• Balance f-stop, exposure and ISO
• Good bracketing sequences
• Merging images to HDR
• What alignment methods work best
• Limits of HDR merging (moving objects, moving camera)
• Why does HDR help with noise
• Tonemapping with Photomatix Pro
• Lens defects and how to handle them: Chromatic aberrations (CA), distortions
• Correcting perspective in Photoshop
• Why image stabilized lenses are helpful
• HDR and B&W
• Freehand vs. Tripod
• Composition ideas
Saturday, February 13
Sam Hoffman and his team at Lightsource offer exceptional experience and quality for the ultimate high resolution scans and large scale digital printing.
