Photography Classes and Workshops

Dates: Tuesdays, Sept 13, 20, 27, Oct 4
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Price: Members $150, Non-Members $170

Instructor: Dick Handshaw 

Class Size: Minimum 4, Maximum 15
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate

It’s pretty easy to set your DSLR or Mirrorless camera on Auto and take pictures. But you are missing a lot by letting the camera make all the decisions for you. If you want more out of your camera and more out of your photos, this class is for you.

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• Do you know how to control exposure in difficult lighting situations that can fool your
• camera? 
• Can you put your focus exactly where you want it or does the camera make that
• decision?
• Can you make some parts of the picture blurred and some parts tack sharp?
• Can you show blurred motion when you want to and eliminate blur when you want to?

This class will teach you how your camera sees things so that you can make it see things the way you want it to. It is suitable for beginners but it is not basic. It will give you an in depth understanding of how cameras work and how to develop your vision as a photographer. You will practice each new concept with assignments and receive feedback from fellow students

and your instructor.

YOU NEED TO BRING:

1. An adjustable DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
2. Your camera’s instruction book
3. A fully charged battery
4. A memory card that has been recently formatted

Thursday, October 13, 20, 27 – 6:30 – 9:00

Cost: Members $100, Non-members $120

Instructor: Michael O’Neil

Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Class Size: minimum 4, Maximum 15

The camera is an amazing way to spontaneously experience the world around us, but it can also be a tool for creating images with thoughtful intention. This session is for intermediate and advanced

students to explore the process of creating images through a thoughtful and deliberate process, unlocking new possibilities for students who would like to pursue a new approach to working with color, focus and subject.

Your instructor has 24 years’ experience teaching photography, with half of that at the University level.

By the end of this session, you will have a better sense of what makes you special as an individual and as an artist, and how to incorporate your perspective into your art. You will each be on a solid path to creating the images that only you can create.

Dates: Tuesdays, Oct 18, 25, Nov 1, 8
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Price: Members $150, Non-Members $170

Instructor: Dick Handshaw 

Class Size: Minimum 4, Maximum 15
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced

This class is for those who have completed Digital Photography One or have permission from the instructor. This class builds on the skills you learned in the Digital Photography One and uses the same experiential format, allowing you to practice each new skill one at a time with

plenty of feedback from your instructor and other students in our image review sessions.

In this class you will:

• Know when and how to use Aperture preferred, Shutter preferred and Manual modes
• Master exposure with exposure compensation and histograms
• Use different modes and techniques to gain more control over auto focus
• Manage your white balance and gain even more control over depth of field
• Receive in-class feedback from four specific shooting assignments

YOU NEED TO BRING:

1. An adjustable DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
2. Your camera’s instruction book
3. A fully charged battery
4. A memory card that has been recently formatted

Date: Saturday - October 15 

Time: 1:00 - 5:00 pm

Instructor: Don Brown 

Cost: $75 member, $85 non-member 

Skill Level: Beginner

Class Size: Minimum 10, Maximum 20

Prerequisites: Computer knowledge, Lightroom or similar photo editing software, original images.

Description: The vacation is over and you have captured hundreds of images with your digital camera, now what? These images are generally referred to as “directly out of camera” and usually require some degree of processing/development to optimize their appearance. 

This workshop will teach you the basics of digital image editing/development to make corrective AND creative edits to the images using the Adobe Lightroom Application. Just as photographers in the film days were required to master darkroom techniques to be successful, the digital era requires that photographers master to some extent the craft of digital editing. 

Adobe Lightroom is one of many software applications used by photographers to bridge the gap between capture (of raw data) and publishing the final product. 

In this workshop we will introduce you to all of the modules in LIGHTROOM but  concentrate on the DEVELOP module. 

Developing your captured image (Post Processing) is the most important step after you have captured the most perfect image. This workshop will help you easily take control over your images and create beautiful images that stand out from the crowd.

Bring to Class:

Your laptop computer with Lightroom Classic installed and your own images in a folder on that laptop. 

Dates: Oct 15 and 16
Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Price: Members $300, Non-Members $320

Instructor: Scott Stallings

Class Size: Minimum 5, Maximum 8

The wet plate collodion process was first introduced in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer and remained the dominant photographic process until 1880.  Wet plate collodion images are celebrated and most recognized for their incredible sharpness and clarity.  Each plate is made individually and is, therefore, a singular, unique photographic object.

In this two-day workshop, taught by Scott Stallings, students will learn a brief history of the Wet Plate process as well as a modern perspective on Wet Plate Photography, including how to safely mix chemistry, flow collodion onto the tin plates, expose the plates in cameras provided, and develop the plates in the darkroom.  This will produce finished photographic plates that will set up to dry overnight, and then be varnished and scanned when dry.  Students will have the opportunity to make plates with both outdoor and studio lighting, on different sizes of large format cameras.

All chemistry, materials, and safety supplies will be provided.

Date: November 5

Time: 1:00 – 5:00 PM

Price: Member $75, Nonmember $85

Skill Level: Beginner

Instructor: Eric Notheisen
Class Size: Minimum 10, Maximum 20

Prerequisites: Laptop computer with either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements installed, several Raw Images

Description: This workshop is an introduction to the photo editing process for raw images. The hands-on course will lead students through the Demonstration and Performance training method. At the end of this course the student will be able to perform most parts of the editing task. 

Content Outline

a. Review of definitions

b. Setting preferences in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

c. Open an image file with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)

d. Initial editing in ACR

e. Opening the file in Photoshop

f. Cropping an image

g. Dodging and Burning

h. Theory of Adjustment Layers

i. Correcting flaws

j. Noise Reduction and Sharpening