A short video on our ‘flipped-classroom’ where course material is first viewed via Streamed On-Demand delivery, and subsequently supported through our free weekly Live Streamed Tutorials where we go over and clarify the workshop’s content, and answer your follow-up questions.
Updated 17 November 2024
WHAT CONSTITUTES A WORKSHOP?
• HD Workshop Recordings of the six streamed on-demand workshop sessions.
• Downloaded Workshop Resources – extensive notes, test images, LUTs etc.
• Workshop Specific Support – bespoke printer/camera profiling etc.
• LIVE Tutorials – weekly sessions Live Streamed on YouTube.
HOW CAN I ACCESS YOUR WORKSHOPS?
Our workshops are attended via Streamed On-Demand delivery for viewing at any time and in any time-zone at your own pace. They are presented as a ‘flipped-classroom’ where the course material is first viewed, and subsequently supported through weekly free Tutorials Live Streamed on YouTube to go over and clarify the course content and answer any follow-up questions.
HOW DO I ENROL IN A WORKSHOP?
Workshop Bookings are via each workshop’s webpage and as soon as payment is received you gain instant access to all of the workshop’s content. The cost per person per workshop is AUS $330 payable by Credit/Debit Card, PayPal, or EFT and includes all fees and charges.
HOW LONG CAN I ACCESS THE COURSE CONTENT?
Our HD Workshop Recordings of the six workshop sessions can be streamed multiple times without any time restrictions for a combined total of eighteen session views, and our extensive Workshop Resources (course notes & videos, images, test images, targets, actions, macros, & 3DLUTs) are downloaded and saved for offline viewing also without any time restrictions.
Our current Workshop Recordings are from our most recent LIVE Workshop presentations, and are being progressively replaced with new and comprehensive Recordings covering all of the content disparately covered in previous LIVE Workshop presentations over many years, and when finalised will automatically replace our current Recordings, which you’ll also be able to access.
WHO CAN ATTEND A LIVE STREAMED TUTORIAL?
Anyone can attend our free weekly Tutorials Live Streamed on YouTube from January 2025.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF A ‘FLIPPED-CLASSROOM’?
While Streaming On-Demand delivery provides maximum flexibility when and how you initially engage and interact with our course material, the flipped-classroom’s weekly Live Streamed Tutorials support a comprehensive adaptation and application of each workshop’s content to your evolving creative practice, while ensuring our time together is entirely devoted to addressing your interests, questions, practice, aims and ambitions.
HOW EXPERIENCED DO I NEED TO BE?
It depends on what you are looking to achieve. Our workshops are intense affairs, covering a lot of information with often surprisingly new or alternative forms of practice for most people. On the other hand we try very hard to ensure our workshops are mostly ‘stand alone’ events in the sense that we do not assume you have attended any of our other events, nor in any particular order. Our only assumption is that you are working at the level the workshop is presented at, or aspire to work at that level. Any familiarity with the relevant applications and processes is a bonus, but not essential. Most important is the desire to learn and understand more about what you are doing and to become better at it.
I DON’T LIVE IN AUSTRALIA – CAN I STILL ATTEND LIVE TUTORIALS?
You most certainly can with over 40% of our participants attending from outside of Australia. Our experience of working with overseas guests has been utterly wonderful despite the Time Zone differences for LIVE in-person events. For example a 10.30am start Australian Eastern Daylight time (AEDT) is 3.30pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) the previous day (eg. Los Angeles or Vancouver), or 6.30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) the previous night (eg, Montreal or New York), but can also start as late as 11.30pm (GMT) (eg. London) or 12.30am Central European Time (CET) (eg. Vienna, Austria). On the other hand time zones like Hong Kong (HKT) are only three hours earlier. But when Time Zone differences are simply too great, then additional tutorials can be scheduled in your Time-Zone.
WHAT DOES INTRODUCTORY – INTERMEDIATE – ADVANCED MEAN?
What we are trying to indicate are the expectations and interests of those who have attended that workshop in recent years. Each workshop’s syllabus is therefore the structured accumulation of questions and topics it has addressed over time. And given how different individual interpretations and applications can be, a workshop’s classification is inclusive and not meant to dissuade anyone from attending.
WHAT SUPPORT MATERIAL AND RESOURCES ARE PROVIDED?
Each workshop has its own resource rich website containing extensive and detailed class notes, videos, presets/actions/macros and test forms/images covering the main concepts and processes presented. Each workshop resource website is also updated regularly, and any attendees’ images that have been featured as ‘case studies’ in our LIVE Tutorials are returned with all adjustments intact.
WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR WORKSHOPS IN?
Most people attend our workshops on a ‘need to know basis’ though it is also not unusual for someone to enrol in the same workshop(s) over a number of years in order to keep abreast of the latest developments in that field. While others might enrol in an ‘intermediate level’ workshop (to fill in ‘the gaps’) after they have attended some of our ‘advanced’ workshops.
WHO ATTENDS YOUR WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATIONS?
A broad range of people enrol in our workshops and book consultations for all sorts of reasons. Approximately a third are professional artists who want to seriously refine their technique, and/or want to know what is required to significantly expand their understanding, appreciation, and practice. Some are making the transition to digital processing or from basic to advanced digital processes. Approximately a third are enthusiasts supporting their interests and passion for all things photographic. And approximately a third are professional photographers seeking inspiration and wanting to up-skill or consolidate their technique, and to more efficiently integrate and facilitate their professional workflows.
WHAT EQUIPMENT IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND A CONSULTATION?
Our consultations are via ZOOM therefore you will need a laptop or desktop computer, or a smartphone or tablet, an internet connection, speakers/headphones, a microphone, and a webcam either built-in or attached to your computer or mobile device. For example, if your main workstation doesn’t have a webcam or audio, you can also simultaneously logon via a phone or tablet and use that device for audio and/or webcam while also being able to view and work on your workstation’s larger monitor. ZOOM runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iOS and Android and we have a commercial license so there are no restrictions. Full system requirements can be found at ZOOM’s Help Centre.
WHAT IF I CAN’T ATTEND A CONSULTATION I HAVE BOOKED?
Personal consultations can be cancelled or rescheduled as required.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DIGITAL PRINTING
AND CRAFTING A DIGITAL PRINT WORKSHOPS?
Our intermediate Digital Printing workshop concentrates on the processes and procedures underpinning the physical production of fine prints, while our advanced Crafting a Digital Print workshop focuses on perfecting file preparation for printing. The workshops therefore compliment each other as two halves of an accomplished printing workflow, where refined practical skills and informed aesthetic judgements are the main aims, and the creation of stunningly beautiful fine prints along with the confidence and pride that comes from being in control of your own production are the main objectives.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE UNDERSTANDING
PICTURES, EXHIBITION PRACTICE AND THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY?
Our Understanding Pictures workshop concentrates on Pictorial Design and the construction of pictures for enhanced aesthetic affect. Exhibition Preparation focuses on the refinement of images for public presentation in galleries, publications and online. Thinking Photography refines the scholarship and rationale underlying both the construction and presentation of images. Therefore these workshops effectively address the What, How and Why of research based contemporary artistic practice’s creative and cultural contributions.