By Tata Rossi 16 days ago, Professional photography
Photography workshops in Sydney are dedicated to a broad range of genres, including landscape, portrait, wedding, and street genres.
Not surprisingly, the most popular type is travel photo workshops, as they appeal to both local and visiting photographers and hobbyists interested in taking mesmerizing pictures of the Sydney Harbour, Bondi Beach, and the Blue Mountains.
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
I think this photography workshop is the perfect option if you’re interested in honing your portrait skills, as it both uncovers the deepest secrets of this genre and provides essential tips on lighting, camera setups, and posing.
During the workshop, you’ll be able to work with a diverse cast of models while learning how to expertly navigate different portrait styles.
This workshop series also offers outdoor photoshoots across Sydney, enhancing your experience and helping you adapt to different shooting conditions. After the course has ended, you’ll be ready to take stunning portraits using any DSLR or mirrorless camera.
Price: $450
Period: 1 day, 9.5 hours
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
This tour is highly recommended to anyone interested in conveying the beauty of the area around Sydney through their photos. During the workshop, you’ll learn the ins and outs of the process entailed in becoming a travel photographer, from learning how to compose and frame your shots to picking the optimal equipment and adapting to the lighting on the scene.
The most appealing part of this option is its focus on hands-on activities. Hosted by experienced photographers, you can rest assured all the theories you learn will be put to practice outdoors as you’re adventuring around Sydney. This tour offers both the skill enhancement and inspiration you need to make your Australia trip unforgettable.
Price: $450
Period: 1 day, 9.5 hours
Location: 162 Goulburn St, Sydney NSW 2000
This half-day workshop will introduce beginners to the art of photography and remind hobbyists of all the essentials. During this introductory course, you’ll be taken on a journey across both popular and hidden locations around the Sydney Harbor Foreshore that are perfectly suited for taking some beautiful photos.
The most interesting part of this Sydney photography course is its focus on covering all the basic techniques as well as providing handy photography tips for beginners. You’ll quickly get acquainted with all your camera’s shooting modes while getting practical advice throughout the trip whenever you need help with something or don’t know how to take a particular shot.
Price: $240
Period: 1 day, 6 hours
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
This workshop is dedicated to speedlight flash photography while providing hands-on insight into the art of handling studio lighting. Hosted by Daniel Linnet AIPP, this course offers invaluable practical guidance into different techniques that will help hone your photography skills.
When browsing through different 1-day photography workshops in Sydney, this one stood out because of the opportunity it provides to collaborate with experienced models while experimenting with different lighting setups and portrait techniques.
Whether you don’t have prior speedlight photography experience at all or just want to learn some new tips and tricks, you’re bound to benefit from visiting this course.
Price: $450
Period: 1 day, 10 hours
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW
This workshop has a comprehensive course that will help improve the technical skills of the participants as well as develop their ability to express their creativity. During the workshop, you’ll discuss a broad range of subjects like white balance metering, exposure adjustments, and the intermix of depth of field and lighting when composing artistic shots.
Moreover, the hosts provide practical advice on camera metering, focusing methods, picking optimal manual camera parameters, lighting analysis, composition, live view usage, and several other topics. You’ll also gain valuable insight into the process that goes into making educated creative choices.
Price: $185
Period: 1 day, 4 hours
Location: 162 Goulburn St, Sydney NSW 2000
This workshop will help both improve your nighttime photography skills and invite you to explore Sydney from a new perspective. From taking pictures of hanging neon signs to capturing moonlit streets, you’ll learn how to leverage longer exposure times and freeze movement to take professional quality night photos.
During the course, you’ll find out how to pick the right gear, set the exposure manually, and pick the right angles to ensure you capture the subject in the best possible light while conveying the beauty of the surrounding scenery.
Price: $99
Period: 1 day, 3 hours
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW
This workshop focuses on the art of macro photography, helping you get the most out of the colors, textures, and shapes of your subjects. During the lesson, you’ll participate in hands-on activities dedicated to different macro photography techniques, while learning about depth ratios, measurements, and how to properly use different lenses and accessories to get the best results.
During the course, you’ll experiment with both manual and semi-manual modes as well as different depth-of-field parameters and composition techniques.
The aspect I enjoyed the most about this option was the covered macro lighting methods that involve all kinds of reflectors, shapers, and diffusers, which are used to make your photos as visually impactful as possible.
Price: $185
Period: 1 day, 4 hours
Location: 162 Goulburn St, Sydney NSW 2000
This workshop focuses on helping you learn the ins and outs of your smartphone’s camera and its capabilities. The hosts ensure you’ll master the skills and tricks necessary to take pictures that rival those created with pro-grade photography gear.
Regardless of whether you’re a hobbyist photographer or a regular user who just wants to take higher quality photos with their phone, the workshop instructors will adapt to your knowledge level and offer useful insights and practical advice tailored to your skill set. If you plan to stick to your smartphone for all your photography needs, this option will definitely be beneficial.
Price: $99
Period: 1 day, 3 hours
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
This session provides an insight to the world of street images, helping any attender to learn how to capture the dynamic lights and bustling atmosphere of the scenery, which is usually making its way within a normal urban lifestyle.
This special event hosted by Glenn Lockitc, running for an hour, shows you how to become inspired as you take a journey across the city and get on about that work about the methods used for depicting the beauty of Kings Cross, which is one of the famous districts in Sydney.
This class is for anyone who would love inspiration, new ideas, and to improve on skills. Each part of the workshop teaches you something new in Australian urban photography.
Price: $195
Period: 1 day, 4 hours
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
I greatly appreciate how efficient this workshop is at explaining all the basics and technicalities involved in digital photography. Once you’ve finished this course, you’ll be ready to masterfully handle different subjects and genres from portraiture to landscape photography.
Another pleasant benefit is the 3-hour field trip across the Harbour Foreshore. During this adventure, you’ll be able to experiment with daytime, twilight, sunset, and nighttime photography, trying out all the techniques you’ve learned during the more theory-focused part of the workshop. Such a hands-on approach along with the studio section helps ensure everything you’ve learned is engraved in your brain.
Price: $425.00
Period: 8 weeks
Location: 7 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria NSW 2015
This Sydney photography workshop focuses on Adobe Lightroom and how it can be used to enhance and streamline your editing workflow. It'll guide you on sorting, managing batch catalogues, exporting/importing your pictures, applying presets, changing colors deeply, and establishing a unique style that should help in delivering your work.
Even more amazing is that this photo editing workshop actually goes through both basics and some more advanced photo editing techniques. From the traditional adjustment of exposure and contrast to processes as detailed as selective editing and AI-based retouching, you learn different techniques of enhancing photos until the actual results have been pinpointed.
Price: $425.00
Period: 4 weeks
