Getting started
Making your own Holograms

This new course will be offered for the first time in January 2026. 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 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 will be offered over 6 sessions at 2 week intervals to give you time to prepare your studio a step at a time. Each class session will offer opportunities for students to discuss any issues they are having in preparing for each step, and to share your images with the class.

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Tentative Class dates: 

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Saturday, Jan 17, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

Saturday, Jan 31, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

Saturday, Feb 14, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

Saturday,Feb 28, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

Saturday, Mar 10, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

Saturday, Mar 28, 2026 12 - 3 pm EST

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Course Fee: $500 with an Early Bird discount of $50 if you sign up during a limited period when registration opens.

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Class Registration will begin in November

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Course Sessions:

Session 1   

- 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   

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

- instructions for making your own plate holders,

- Laminating your own film to glass plates 

- instructions for UV curing your hologram

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Session 3   

- learn how to prepare content for your holograms,

- making your first test exposures,

- keeping a lab journal, documenting your work

- learn how to record different colored images

- combine recordings to make multi-color holographic compositions

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Session 4   

- 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   

- single-beam laser transmission holograms

- illuminating single-beam laser transmission holograms

- Troubleshooting your systems

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Session 6   

- 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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