Photography course for beginners and advanced students, analog/digital, in Berlin-Mitte. Available as an eight-hour intensive one-day course or a ten-hour course spread over two days on the weekend.
Upon request, I can organize photography courses on other days, for different group sizes, with friends, as a team-building event, or as a one-on-one workshop.
Course Selection and Registration
For some time now, I’ve been offering photography classes in Mitte. There are beginner and advanced classes, which can be booked independently or as a progression. We can speak German or English during the classes. Please bring your camera. If necessary, I can provide one for you.
In the beginner’s course (Basics), we’ll start by identifying and discussing all the parts, buttons, symbols, and labels on the camera. I want you to understand your camera as a tool with key functions. We’ll also talk about camera formats and lenses, focal lengths, aperture values, ISO sensitivity, shutter speeds, white balance, and file formats such as JPG, TIFF, and RAW.
In simple situations, we’ll put what we’ve learned into practice both indoors and outdoors.
There are many similarities between analog and digital photography. We’ll also discuss the differences.
We’ll also talk about the work you bring with you.
The first Advanced course focuses more on the targeted use and different qualities of light and lighting, the use of flash, and mixing light sources.
You’ll receive a booklet summarizing the key points of the courses to take home with you.
The courses are held with up to eight participants. There are compact courses that cover everything in a single day, as well as basic weekend courses that take place over two days—totaling ten hours plus a lunch break.
On the last day of a course, I invite those who are interested to join me for dinner at my studio: Foto, Pasta e Vino.
You can learn more about my background on my website. Feel free to email me at: jens@projectdark.de
Best regards, Jens
Foreword to My Photography Guide for Artists:
As a child, I always baked cakes for my mother. She’s a wonderful cook, but for some reason, the cakes never quite turned out right. I enjoyed helping her. After a while, I knew some recipes by heart, and soon I had a feel for how much butter you need for how many eggs, and so on, but it would never have occurred to me to buy a cake mix. I’ll tell you, taking photos with your cell phone is like baking a cake with a cake mix.
So if you prefer cake mixes, you don’t need this book to learn about photography. But if you like to separate the egg yolks from the whites, beat the whites separately, and then gently fold them in later, then you’ll want to understand the finer points of photography, too.
Don’t worry—I don’t want to turn you into tech geeks. If you’re thinking about trading in your cell phone for a real camera, I’d like to help you explore some of the possibilities and explain what all those little buttons and displays mean.
You’ve put a lot of work into your pictures, installations, or whatever you’re creating, and sometimes a photograph is the only thing you’re left with. Or you need a decent photo to show a client, a commission, a gallerist, or a collector. I’m friends with many artists who have repeatedly asked me to take some photos for them or explain their camera to them. They’d then jot down a few notes or write a few things down. Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a simple little book that answers all these little questions.