Sports and Digital Photography Lessons

Want to improve your sports or digital photography skills? Hickingbotham Photography offers private lessons that will improve your photo skills. Lessons are tailored to your interests and experience level. You may choose from a wide variety of topics (listed below). About Hickingbotham Photography.

What to Bring

Your camera and lenses, laptop with the photo software you use, and samples of your photos (both good and not so good).

Cost

Private photo lessons are $75 hour. Additional travel expenses may apply. Gift certificates available. Contact us for more information or to book your lesson.

Topics

  • Composition
    • know your objective
    • what is achievable
    • isolating the subject
    • learning by experimenting
  • Exposure
    • metering modes (weighted, center, spot)
    • exposure modes (program, aperture, shutter, manual)
    • histograms
    • blinking highlights
    • expose to the right
    • controlling depth of field
  • Focusing
    • how autofocus works
    • single vs continuous autofocus
    • diagnosing out of focus photos
  • Camera Settings
    • sharpening
    • tone
    • iso
    • file type
    • white balance
    • color space
  • Equipment
    • cameras
    • lenses
    • tripods, monopods, and heads
    • accessories
    • cleaning equipment
  • Color Management
    • monitor profiling
    • printer profiling
  • Digital Processing
    • file types (raw, jpg, tiff)
    • color space
    • levels
    • curves
    • gamma
    • noise
    • sharpening
    • file naming
    • archiving
  • Printing
    • printer types
    • papers
    • color management
    • upsizing
    • optimizing output
    • mounting and framing
  • Web Publishing
    • resampling
    • color space
    • pitfalls
  • Photoshop®
    • setup and configuration
    • Adobe Camera Raw®
    • Adobe Bridge®
    • exposure correction
    • color correction
    • noise reduction
    • retouching
    • adjustment layers
  • Flash Photography
    • flash vs strobe vs hot lights
    • sync speed
    • shutter speeds
    • fill flash
    • single flash as main light source
    • multiple and remote flashes
    • diffusion and bounce techniques
  • Panoramas
    • camera setup
    • panorama heads
    • stitching software

Waterpolo photo

Prices and terms subject to change without notice.