Photography Presentation

I'm putting together a presentation on "Intermediate" photography. I'm not totally sure what all to cover.

So - if you went to an intermediate photography presentation, what would you like to learn about?

Off Camera Lighting is a good intermediate subject.
Use of Filters (ND, GND and CPLs)
Are you touching on processing at all? HDR / Blended Exposures is a good intermediate skill as well.

Wouldn't it be helpful if you said what was covered in "Beginning Photography"?

PhotosGuy wrote in post #13775259
Wouldn't it be helpful if you said what was covered in "Beginning Photography"?

I didn't do that one...but from what I know:

What Aperture/Shutter/ISO are and how the change exposure. Very basic exposure stuff. Some very basic composition stuff (rule of thirds, watching backgrounds, etc.). General stuff about memory cards, organizing files, transferring, etc.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #13775001
Off Camera Lighting is a good intermediate subject.
Use of Filters (ND, GND and CPLs)
Are you touching on processing at all? HDR / Blended Exposures is a good intermediate skill as well.

I think I'm going to touch on RAW processing, but nothing too in depth there. I'd like to focus more on techniques.

OCL is a good thing.

I think I'd like to go over some of the techniques for portraiture and landscape photography. So ND, GND, CPL, tripod importance, basic landscape elements and techniques. For portraiture, go more into aperture/DOF, OCL, basic light modifiers.

Trying to think of anything else. I can't cover everything, but I figure that portrait and landscape are things that most people would like.

All these take the basic skills, aka "this is a camera", and apply them in different ways.
Could be done as overviews to fit your time allowance.
You didn't specify who would attend; serious photography folks, students, or new camera owners. Also, no time limit specified.

Could be an overview of the various types of photography and more tools. Anything from a flat list and some illustrative photos to more fleshed out if time allows. Could even break this up into a multi-part class if needed.
Advanced topics would be one of these types, in-depth. By giving a taste of each style, leaves room for future classes. Also would give a casual user a good enough intro to create a more memorable record of a vacation with people, places, and things photos.

landscape
portrait
action- equipment, techniques.....

Macro? - equipment, lighting, techniques, pitfalls (I've been lurking on the watch thread)

Architectural? equipment, lighting, pitfalls, techniques (the real estate thread is interesting, too)

catalog photography- whether retail, or for diy sales

food photography- for those doing their own recipe publishing or blogging.

wildlife- bit different from human portraits

celestial photography- equipment, possibilities, software

raw tools- list of raw tools for various price points and operating systems. Some before and after RAW processed images.

HDR and tools

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I have seen OCL as an advanced topic in classes, seminars. Presented as "I've tried type x and don't like my results, what else can I do?"

Well, a challenge I see in this is that once someone has learned "the basics" and become reasonably competent in them, then they are often going after one or more of many varied "fields", each of which will have different approaches and "takes" on the basics.

So, how do you give "a presentation" to a group of people who are actively pursuing a whole variety of fields -- one is out to excel in landscape/scenic photography, another portraiture, another sports, another weddings, another birds in flight, another street photography -- the "basics" are certainly in there, but from there they get out there -- how do you bring them together?

I'm asking 'cause I don't know!

As someone who has done a lot of wildlife photography, well, learning about OCF and portrait posing will not help much in that field, or my landscape photography, my street photography, event photography (unless I were to set up a photo booth)! Although with birds and other wildlife, learning to work with a Better Beamer flash extender on a hotshoe-mounted speedlite might help!!

One thing that could help would be to have photos that illustrated a variety of things -- if this is a one-time thing, in fact, moving quickly through a bunch of photos of different types having good visual impact with a bit of discussion of what specifically gave the photo that impact could be the best way of keeping people interested and encouraged...

So, go over images looking for ones that have some impact, ask yourself if there is something you could present with that image than at least gives some understanding of the why of it, and you may find yourself putting something together!

Yeah I definitely will be using a lot of photos to illustrate my points.

Good ideas. I think I also should cover the metering system and things like exposure compensation, flash exposure compensation, bracketing, exposure lock.