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better travel photography
Raw Down the River with Steve Davey
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Website, Images and text © Steve Davey/stevedavey.com 1990-2012
Steve Davey is a professional photographer and writer based in London. For the past twenty years he has photographed people, places, cultures and festivals in some 84 countries for a range of books, publications and websites worldwide.
Steve has recently published Footprint Travel Photography, the leading guide to the subject and has launched the Better Travel Photography range of international photography tours. Steve also writes regular travel photography features for various publications and websites around the world. To see more about Steve click here...
What will I learn on this course?
This course will teach you everything that you will need to know about shooting in the versatile RAW format. We will cover why you should be shooting RAW in the first place, and looking at the benefits. We will move on to how to set up the camera, and what camera controls you do, and don't need to consider. This course will also look at the basics of exposure and how to shoot RAW. This will be a practical hands on demonstration in some of the most atmospheric places along the River Thames. We will end up looking at digital workflow and simple RAW processing of some of your pictures on a laptop.
• Benefits of RAW
• Setting up your camera
• White Balance
• Improving exposure
• Simple Histograms
• Shooting RAW
• Colour profiles
• Contrast & Saturation
• Sharpening
• RAW Workflow
• RAW software
• Basic RAW processing
There are many reasons why the RAW format on your DSLR is more versatile and will give you higher quality pictures, yet for many photographers it is a confusing format which they would rather avoid. True, it will take up more disc space, and does also require some degree of computer post processing, but the RAW format gives you more control over your pictures and crucially for beginners, it allows greater flexibility when trying to correct mistakes made in camera.
The basic premise for shooting RAW is that many of the vital creative decisions, such as white balance, contrast and saturation, are made in controlled conditions on a computer rather than on a shot by shot basis in the field. You also preserve much more of the quality that your camera is capable of, rather than having it save in the lossy compressed JPEG format where much of this is lost.
By exploring some of the most photogenic parts of the River Thames, we will look at the benefits of the RAW format, and some of the practical ways that you can implement it. The course starts with a short computer based lecture and finishes off with look at some of the pictures you have taken and a tutorial on RAW processing. The start and end points will be notified with your invoice.
Cost of this course: £85
£80 if booked in conjunction with another course (or two people booking together)
Dates for this Course
No dates are currently scheduled
This exclusive workshop will guide you through the benefits and practicalities of shooting in the versatile RAW format whilst exploring some of the most photogenic locations on the River Thames in London.
Better Travel Photography was created by Steve Davey to celebrate the art of travel photography and to help people improve their travel photography skills and get more out of their travels. Some of the highlights of the site are image galleries, travel photography features and 501 Travel Photography Tips. This site also features Steve's exclusive range of travel photography tours.
