Photo Credit: Luke Boland
This course will introduce you to setting up your own website, demystifying basic HTML code as well as processes such as adding hyperlinks and images. You will also discover how to style pages using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets.
Date: Sat 20th July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Dave Shepherd
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
A comprehensive introduction to darkroom processes, from processing your own film, to producing contact sheets and high quality black and white darkroom prints. You will need to bring a roll of ILFORD HP5 black& white film already exposed and ready to process. Chemicals and paper will be provided.
Date: Sun 21st July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Sarah Hayton
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
Gwynfryn Jones, Summer 2012
A practical introduction to the photographic studio. Learn how to manipulate flash and backdrops to create professional digital portraits or still life images.
Date: Sun 21st July or Sat 27th July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Michal Iwanowski
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
Using our digital darkroom, this practical workshop will introduce you to Adobe CS4, the industry standard tool for creative digital imaging. Designed for those with little or no experience; it will cover the scanning and uploading of images, adjustments and preparing files for production of a finished digital print.
Date: Sat 27th July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Anne Siegel & Helen Warburton
Location: Ffotogallery Meeting Room, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
New cameras are often an exciting prospect but can also be a daunting one due to the complexity of the camera and the realisation of having to wade through pages of incomprehensible instructions. This course is aimed at deciphering the jargon through practical assignments, giving you the opportunity to put into practice what you learn while obtaining maximum use of your film or digital camera.
Date: Sun 28th July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Faye Chamberlain
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
Spend a morning comparing some portrait history with contemporary styles before exploring practical image making in the afternoon. Just bring your own camera.
Date: Sun 28th July
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Toril Brancher
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 2, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £25
Photo Credit: Fiona Carmichael
Following on from our introduction, this advanced level workshop offers a brief theoretical and thorough practical understanding of studio lighting. Covering studio set up, equipment, lighting know‐how, image editing and more, it will provide the sufficient knowledge and skills to enable you to confidently use the vast array of techniques and effects that studio lighting has to offer.
Date: Sat 3rd and Sun 4th August (2 days)
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Michal Iwanowski
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 2, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £80 (for 2 days)
Craig Morton, from Port Talbot Photo Ramble, Summer 2012
Join photographer Faye Chamberlain on a ramble, photographing the woodland scenery in and around Merthyr Tydfil.
Faye will be on hand to answer your questions for a day full of insights, informal tuition and discussions about all things photographic and more! We cannot guarantee glorious weather but we can guarantee a fun day out! Sturdy/comfortable footwear recommended.
Date: Sat 24th August
Time: 10.00am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Faye Chamberlain
Location: Meeting point tbc (details on booking – transport not provided)
Price: £15
Get creative with this hands on two-day workshop and discover the processes and drying methods involved in using photographic liquid emulsion by printing onto a range of different surfaces.
Date: Sat 24th and Sun 25th August 2013
Time: 10:30am – 4:30pm
Tutor: Sally Cohen
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £70 (for 2 days)
Introduction to digital printing processes using Ffotogallery’s new professional large format inkjet printer. Use Photoshop to learn about embedded image profiles, paper profiles and understanding colour for print.
Date: Sun 8th September
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Gawain Barnard
Location: Ffotogallery Darkroom 1, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Price: £30
