Trainings


If you want to take up concert photography, but you don’t have sufficient knowledge about it or you just want to improve your skills I propose you to take part in trainings I run.

The training lasts two days during which I pay much attention to practice enriched also by theory. That is why the training usually takes place in a club where we can practise with real stage and its lightning or I prepare a stage in the studio so that we can work on it.
I prefer small groups, just a few people, because only then I can answer all your questions properly and comprehensively.

If you want to take part in the training please contact me.

 

Training curriculum:

Theory, that is what you need to know

  • what is photography for– our subjective presentation of the given event
  • getting an accreditation – to whom and in what way you need to write, how to become a member of editorial staff and how to get a press card, how to make a contact with bands, how to take photos without an accreditation
  • basic theory – the rule of 3 pieces with no flash – and why in this way?
  • lightning theory – why it is good to become a friend of a lightning producer and to understand his work
  • our camera – why it is worth to know all its functions
  • reasons for using RAW format – part one
  • colour photos or black and white ones – advantages and disadvantages – how to deal with equipment’s faults
  • negotiations of special conditions for taking photos
  • interviews and why it is worth to make an appointment
Preparations, that is what you need to take with you
  • Equipment selection
    • determination of bodies’ the most important features
    • how to choose lens
    • why it is worth to buy more expensive equipment
    • second body, that is how to get more nice shots
  • backpack or bag
  • something about photo journalist’s vest and self adjustable back systems
  • memory cards – why fast – RAW – part 2
  • accumulators sets
  • a piece of foil (foil bag) and rubber band – the easiest way to protect the equipment from rain
  • lens hoods and UV filters – are they necessary
  • hearing protection, that is why we use earplugs
  • documents and accreditations, pen, paper, cards and flyers
  • cleaning accessories – removing nasty stuff from matrix and changing lens in the field
Working itself, meaning thousands of problems
  • what to take a photo of – what to look for at a concert, where to position yourself
  • bad and poor lightning conditions
    • how to take photos in the dark (ISO)
    • how to make photos in poor light – stroboscope
    • how to take photos in changing light – poor colours and stroboscope (working on RAW for later processing – RAW part 3)
    • smoke – your worst enemy and occasional friend
  • rain and dust – how to protect yourself and equipment
  • other hindrances – pyrotechnics, artificial blood and how to protect yourself against them
  • crowd or lack of moat – how to survive in the crowd of photographers and people
  • „pacts” – agreements with artists and organizers – what to accept and what not to accept
  • changing the terms of accreditation – how not to kill an organizer or a band’s manager because of someone’s whim – training of the patience of a saint ;)
  • good manners (or lack of them) – how to behave at a concert, before, during and after taking photos and why it is good to make friends with security
  • unusual situations – to take photos against the rules or not, to take photos after 3 first tracks or not, to use flash or not
Post-production, that is how to improve photos
  • how to save photos, RAW part 4
  • how not to spoil a photo, that is what not to do during processing
  • spoiling photos, that is a creative approach to RAW
  • • watermark, why it is worth to sign your photo
Publication… and what’s next?
  • where to promote your photos
  • selling photos – sad reality
When it is all done, that is what else I can do?
  • panoramic photography
  • videos recording