Course Schedule

Date: Next date TBA

Time: 6.30 - 9pm
Cost: $150.00

Course outline

Part One (2.5 hours theory)
Two ways of seeing. A brief exposure of the contrasting styles of two acknowledged masters of photography

Lens movements. What they are, what they do & is software a better alternative.

Quality control.  Excellent technique v’s expensive equipment.

Interior photography. Best use of wide angle lenses. Shooting angles to think twice about.  Quick fixes for colour temperature. Modifying the environmental. Flare, hotspots and shadows.

Exterior photography. Choosing the right moment. Twilight shooting. High contrast and how to deal with it.

Part Two (2.5 hours practical)
Field trip around Sydney

Venue

Foto Riesel training room. Level 1, 362 Kent St, Sydney (next door to our camera shop, take the lift to level 1).

Phone: 9299 8833

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Instructor

Martin Van Der Wal
Martin is a self taught photographer. An assiduous follower of Ansel Adams Zone System, his early dark room work laid the foundation for what he believes is the most essential skill for any photographer: the ability to quickly ‘read the light’...instinctively assess the dynamic range, how this relates to the composition and subject, then react to it in a creative way using the tools at your disposal.
Martin has made the complete transition from analogue to digital. Along the way he has gone from Large Format technical cameras and sheet film to DSLR.

The first serious opportunities to use photography as a tool occurred during the seven years Martin worked on a cross cultural education program Australian Aborigines Woomera (1976-1983). The role was a wide ranging one including tour management, classroom teaching, and the building of a visual history of this groundbreaking effort to bring aboriginal culture into the schools program in every state of Australia.

Following the experience gained Martin was asked in 1984 by the then Director of The National Gallery of Australia James Mollison if he would undertake a project to take portraits of all the Aboriginal Artists then in the Collection. This Australia wide exercise resulted in the purchase of fifty four portraits by the NGA.

In 1986 Martin looked for avenues into professional photography in the city. Over the next four years Martin photographed everything from Paul Hogans Byron Bay Villa to entire Fijian Island Resorts.
Tiring of the real estate milieu Martin started pursuing Architectural avenues. In 1999 Martin was given a two year commission to produce a coffee table book covering the complete cycle from construction to completion of Aurora Place, considered by some to be the finest piece of commercial architecture in Sydney.

More commissions flowed from this project and Martin has been involved in long term commissions and the production of a creative visual record of many other landmark Sydney buildings, including essays on the ex brewery site on Broadway and participation in a acclaimed limited edition portfolio on Glen Murcutt.

Martins work has been collected by The National Gallery of Australia, The National Portrait Gallery, and many private collectors.

http://www.martinvanderwal.com/index.html