Learn Photography
with Sebastian Furtado
These are my hourly rates for photography lessons. In quantity, please just add the number of hours you would like.
This course is for someone who has a camera and wants to absorb years of knowledge over a 4-week period. This course has a general outline for beginners, but we can tailor the course to your particular level and interests.
For instance, if you already know how to shoot in manual, we can spend more time learning how to explore your particular interest in photography. Whether that’s film photography, wildlife photography, landscapes, or portraits. We can really spend more time focusing on improving your eye and exploring the photography techniques that will help you produce better and more impactful images.
Another really important and probably undervalued aspect of this course, will be knowledge I will impart onto you about file management and keeping your image’s safe.
Many photographers spend years developing their craft, only to leave their images unprotected and vulnerable to a single harddrive failure. Many people are actually just a spilled glass of water away from losing their life’s work. You work hard to capture your images, so I will teach you how to be smart about keeping them.
No more lost files and no more emergency visits to Apple begging some hapless “Genius” to recover your life’s work. (You know what I’m talking about)
1) Intro & Camera Basics:
Shutter Speed
ISO
Aperture
Film and Digital?
What kind of film should I use?
What kind of memory cards should I be using?
RAW vs JPEGs
How to shoot in manual ALL THE TIME, and why you should never shoot in Auto
What lenses should I use?
When and why should I use a tripod?
When should I use my in-camera flash?
2) File Storage:
How to store your photos SAFELY and have a fail-safe system
How to organize your photos so that you never lose another image
In-depth exploration of using Lightroom catalogs to store and organize your photos
How to process photos through Lightroom and Photoshop
How to work with different lighting styles
3) How to Shoot Landscapes:
What lens should I use?
How should I expose the images?
Is it better to overexpose or underexpose?
How do I make sure that my image is in focus?
How do I get my subject in focus and make the background all nice and blurry without photoshop?
How about light? Catchlights?
4) How to Make the Perfect Edit in Lightroom & Photoshop:
How to edit for exposure.
How to select the best images out of multiples.
How to remove distracting and unnecessary stuff from images using advanced photoshop techniques
What to look for when editing highlights, whites, shadows, and blacks
What is the appropriate amount of sharpening?