This new course will be offered for the first time Fall 2024. Following my "Understanding Holograms" course, this one is designed to get you started making your own holograms. Although the sessions will still be offered live via Zoom there will be many videos explaining 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 the 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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Course Fee: $450

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Course Sessions:

Session 1   Tuesday, November 12th, 2024

- learn how single-beam holograms work and why they are so much easier to make holograms with

- lists of suppliers for the components you will need. 

- best location for your system

- design fundamentals for building your own vibration isolation table.

- bring photos of potential sites for your holographic system that you can screen share

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Session 2   Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

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

- instructions for making your own plate holders,

- instructions on how to build your own laminar flow unit.

- how to laminate your film, 

- instructions for UV curing your hologram

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Session 3   Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

- learn how to prepare content for your holograms,

- making your first test exposures,

- keeping a lab journal, documenting your work

- learn how to shift the color of your images

- combine recordings to make multi-color holographic compositions

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Session 4   Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024

- pseudoscopic, real, and virtual images

- designing complex images

- optical tricks to increase the brightness of your holograms

- texture, color, color mixing

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Session 5   Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

- single-beam laser transmission holograms

- illuminating single-beam laser transmission holograms

- Troubleshooting your systems

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Session 6   Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

- sharing your creations

- making larger holograms

- sealing, framing, lighting, and presenting your holograms

- storing and protecting your holograms

- the Holographic Community, reviving the vitality of the past

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