A four-day photography workshop in a picturesque Ticino village, plus half a day for travel and departure. Away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life in the picturesque Centovalli, I offer two courses:

The beginner’s course:
The simplicity of conscious photography

You want to know how your camera works and how you can use this knowledge to get the best possible results from a shooting situation. Photography is getting easier, they say – but cameras are getting more complicated. And then there's more technical frustration than photography joy. But it's still true that for a perfect photo (without flash), you only need to choose four sizes correctly. In this course, you'll learn how to adjust these four parameters so that the camera captures what you see in your mind's eye. It's important to me to pass on basic rules that you can then apply individually to each situation. You can only master it if you know how your camera "ticks." Once you've saved your image to the memory card, it goes into the digital darkroom of image editing software (Adobe Lightroom). Because if you really want to achieve optimal results, you also have to understand how to process your photos.


Course structure

Day 1 // Arrival
Arrival during the day, starting with dinner together. Afterwards, introductions, getting to know each other, and a brief introduction to camera technology.

Day 2 // Camera
How does a camera work? Which parameters are important for the image? What do the different parameters do? When can I trust the automatic mode, and when not? A day with many practical exercises. By the evening, you'll know how to take conscious photographs. After dinner, we'll work on the skills needed for taking photos in the dark—presumably against a sparkling starry sky.

Day 3 // Light
How can we best use existing light? How can we add additional light to our images using simple means? How do we work with artificial light sources—continuous light and flash? After dinner, we'll watch a film together about the life of a photographer.

Day 4 // Image editing
How do I get images onto my computer? How do I organize my photos on my hard drive? What's the best way to edit my images? To do this, we'll work with Adobe Lightroom, one of the most popular and powerful programs for managing and editing images. In the evening, there will be time for a specific topic that interests the group.

Day 5 // Project Day
Each participant will work on a small photographic project to independently apply what they have learned in practice.

Day 6 // Departure
After a hearty breakfast we say goodbye to each other and to Rasa.


Next courses

September 21 to 26, 2025 //Detailed information and registration

 

The follow-up course:
The application of conscious photography

You're a master of your camera and want to learn more about applying your knowledge in a variety of shooting situations. You also want to progress in image editing with Adobe Photoshop. Each seminar day focuses on a specific topic.

Course structure

Sports and action photography
Photographic focus: Short shutter speeds / Longer shutter speeds and panning / Different shooting positions / Flash with short shutter speeds
Focus in image processing: color and contrast

Architecture and landscape
Photographic focus: Working with different lenses / Playing with depth of field
Focus in image processing: perspective correction / black and white conversion

Nature and Macro
Photographic focus: foreground/background / depth of field
Focus on image processing: Increase detail / stretch the depth of field (optional, with special software)

People
Photographic focus: Working with people / Making the best use of available light / Working in the studio with artificial light
Focus on image editing: Editing skin with Photoshop / black and white conversion / efficient editing of portraits with special software (optional)

Next course

No date is currently set. We will inform you via our newsletter as soon as the course is available again.


Short film with impressions

In 2020, Cristina Aires, one of the participants of the course, made a short film with impressions: