The Beginners' Workshop or the ability to shoot on the Semi-Auto Modes (Aperture Priority Mode, Shutter Speed Priority Mode).

Yes, we provide the Canon R50 mirrorless camera and 3 lenses during the class. 

Yes, you can bring your own equipment and learn how to use it.

Yes, you can!

There are only 5 core and universal settings that you need to know to shoot on any cameras, including mirrorless and DSLR cameras.

However, DSLR cameras will give you a harder time to change the focus point and nail the exposure. You have to do multiple trial-and-errors in order to determine the exposure and composition. The process can take up to 60 seconds. 

As for mirrorless cameras, changing the focus point is extremely easy and you can also instantly preview the composition and exposure before a shot is take. The process may take as short as 5 seconds. 

While you can still apply the knowledge that you learn in the class with a mirrorless camera to your DSLR, you'll hate the old technology in it.

The photography industry is rapidly moving towards mirrorless technology, and DSLRs doesn't worth that much in the used market. We recommend you to sell your DSLR equipment as soon as possible when it still has a little value, and use the money to go fully mirrorless. 

You'll learn the difference between a DSLR and a mirrorless camera in great detail in the Beginners' Workshop. In summary, the advantages of mirrorless cameras over traditional DSLRs are:

1) Faster focusing.

2) Captures an image electronically rather than optically, allowing more accurate focusing.

3) Have Eye AF (automatically places and locks the focus on a human/ animal eye, resulting in sharper portraits).

4) Allows live view shooting, which means the users can instantly see the exposure and composition on the LCD screen. Note that the "live view mode" of a DSLR camera do not work in the same efficient way as a mirrorless one.

5) Lighter.

6) Will replace the DSLR cameras in a few years.

Google it:

"_your camera model + dslr or mirrorless?"

and you will see the result.

E.g "Canon R50 dslr or mirrorless"

--> Google's answer: Mirrorless

E.g "Nikon D700 dslr or mirrorless"

--> Google's answer:  DSLR

If you have no photography background, or are shooting in the Auto Mode, please take the prerequisite course, The Beginner's Workshop. Even you are already shooting in the semi-auto modes, we still encourage you to sign up for the Beginner's Workshop to build up a solid foundation in photography.

While the Intermediates Workshops are totally different from Beginner's, the first 30 minutes in Intermediate I  will be a review of Beginner's Level concepts.

Attendees who have attended the Beginner Workshop in the same day will have an option of taking a longer lunch break and be back at 1:30pm (instead of 1pm). 

It is necessary for us to spend 30 minutes to help attendees from the previous sessions refresh their memories.

The Beginners & Intermediate  Workshops are designed to help attendees build a solid foundation in photography, each of them have a different focus. 

By completing the 3 Workshops, attendees should be able to shoot confidently in the manual mode with great awareness of lighting. 

In the Intermediates I & II, attendees will be introduced to various types of photography through hands-on practice in the manual mode: Landscape, Portrait, Action, Still-life, Street, Water (long exposure) and Light Painting.

Accessories for long exposure photography such as ND and GND filters will be provided in the Intermediate II Workshop.

Yes, teenagers aged 12+ are welcomed!

The class will be a mix of teens and mostly adults students.