“Old School” Meets “New School”: Photography Workshop with Bill Fell

Alpenglow Festival Photography Workshop

“Old School” Photography: The basis of “New School” Photography

Before cameras have been capable of ‘auto’ all the pieces, the photographer needed to manually choose every setting to create a profitable {photograph}. These embrace: figuring out the suitable aperture and shutter velocity mixture to make sure the right publicity and focus level to create the specified depth of area, in addition to decide the corresponding aperture and shutter velocity mixture to supply a desired impact, and make use of fundamental compositional and lighting components. Join “old school” photographer, Bill Fell (www.fellphotography.net) who nonetheless makes use of movie (and processes all his personal movie and prints within the darkroom!), to learn the way early photographic methods and idea kind the idea for the operation of your DSLR digital camera.

Learn the fundamentals behind “old school” idea and methods that may permit you override ‘auto’ when obligatory to supply extra profitable images.

Topics coated will embrace:

• Basic terminology
• How to effective tune your digital camera’s gentle metre
• Camera settings – ISO & AE/L
• Sunny f16 Rule
• Use of a grey card or a substitute
• Depth of area scale and its software
• Use of distinction plus heat and funky colors to create efficient photographs
• Simple fill and subtle lighting methods

The idea session will likely be adopted by a sensible outside session. Be positive to carry your digital camera with absolutely charged batteries (and handbook, if you happen to nonetheless have it).

Note: The workshop is designed for DSLR cameras that may be operated in ‘manual’ modes (M,A,S,P) The workshop will use the digital camera’s auto publicity lock (AE/L) operate. If you aren’t aware of this operate, please seek the advice of your handbook earlier than the workshop. 

Note: 35 mm movie cameras are additionally welcome. The workshop is not supposed for cellphone pictures.

Details

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Time: 10:00am to 1:30pm
Location: Sun Peaks Centre

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About Bill Fell

Bill Fell is a effective artwork black and white photographer who makes a speciality of conventional movie and print darkroom processing.

Bill started his profession in Ontario the place he designed and applied pictures and darkroom programs for each highschool and school stage college students. As properly he was a photographic useful resource information for White Squall of Georgian Bay and for a few years performed photographic / kayak excursions as a part of Fell Photography.

Since transferring to Sun Peaks, BC in 2013 he has performed quite a few photographic workshops for Sun Peaks Resort, TNRD and Art Zone Sun Peaks in addition to collaborating in a number of group and solo artwork exhibitions. Contact: www.fellphotography.internet / [email protected] / 250-318-267