Getting started
Making your own Holograms

This new course was offered for the first time beginning March 21st, 2026. It is designed to get you started making your own holograms. Although the sessions were offered live via Zoom, with many videos 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 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

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

to make than split-beam setups

- lists 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,

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Session 3  - Assessing your setups and preparing to shoot 

- learn how to prepare 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 - Troubleshooting and exploring other single-beam setups

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Session 6 - Creative Approaches to explore

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Session 7  - Next Steps

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Session 8  - Framing, hanging, and lighting your holograms

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