Wildlife Photography

Course overview

Your tutor, Nic van Oudtshoorn ARPS, is an experienced and multi-award-winning wildlife photographer and film maker and a qualified trainer.

Spend the morning at The Community College in Wollongong, learning all major aspects of wildlife photography, with particular emphasis on capturing wild portraits. The course covers cameras and lenses, as well as camera supports, lighting, and many other useful accessories. Students also spend time editing wildlife photos on their computers.

Late morning we head to Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, you will need to organise your own transport. We spend the rest of the day putting the theory into practice, learning how to capture portraits of many different animals in both colour and black-and-white. We explore many wildlife photography techniques, including point of view, framing, lighting for portraiture, focus and depth of field, fill-in flash and (most importantly) composition.

Please note: Symbio Wildlife Park admission fee is NOT included in the course fee. Fee is payable on entry.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Students need to bring their own laptops with either Photoshop or Lightroom loaded, if you do not have the programs you can download a 1 week free trial version from www.adobe.com (You need to do this less than a week before the course starting date.)

• Mirrorless or DSLR Camera (fixed lens cameras with a zoom function can also be used.)

• Tripod (optional)

• Any lenses you own

• Flash (optional)

• Camera Manual

• Fully charged batteries

• Writing materials, paper, etc

• Own lunch or purchase lunch at Symbio.