Getting started
Making your own Holograms

This is designed to get you started making your own holograms. Although the sessions are offered live via Zoom, much additional material is available to you on the course webpage on the Ruzuku site. These will explain the various steps in the process of making your own holographic camera, creating compositions, shooting your first holograms, and further steps to expand your process of holographic image creation. The classes will also be recorded and available shortly after each class through the Ruzuku website. The recordings and the online material will be available on Ruzuku to all students for a year following the class.

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Classes are offered over 8 sessions, at 2-week intervals for the first half of the course giving you time to prepare your studio a step at a time. Each class session will offer opportunities for students to discuss any issues and to share your holographic images with the class.

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Course Fee: $750 

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Course Sessions:

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Session 1   

Holograms - The Basics

- intro to Holographic History

- learn how single-beam holograms work and why they are much easier

to make than split-beam setups

- list of suppliers for the components you will need. 

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Session 2  

Putting your Holographic Table together

- laser safety

- step-by-step guide to building your own holographic recording system

- testing the stability of your system with a Holographic interferometer

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Session 3  - Assessing your setups and preparing to shoot 

- preparing content for your holograms,

- keeping a lab journal, documenting your work

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Session 4  - Shooting your first photopolymer holograms

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Session 5 - Evaluating the first shots, troubleshooting.

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Session 6 - Creative Approaches to explore
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Session 7 - Exploring other single-beam setups​

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Session 8  - Framing, hanging, and lighting your holograms

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