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Secrets of Great Photography
This is where we start; thinking inside the box of our camera’s viewfinder.
We learn what to include and exclude, examine foreground, subject and background, and look at perspective, balance and moment as we pursue the perfection of our photographic skills.
We teach you the techniques you need to:
• Give your images impact
• Share your adventures
• Elicit an emotion.
• Tell a story.
Photo Fundamentals 1
This is basic training.
Even though we live in the digital age, the fundamentals of photography are the same as they have been since 1839. Everything in this class is need to know information!
Learn Photo Fundamentals
• Control exposure
• ISO affects detail & noise
• Aperture controls focus
• Shutter speed stops or blurs action
And all of them can change the look of our photos!
Photo Fundamentals 2
The lens is everything.
Class 2 in our Photo Fundamentals series dives right into the importance of the lenses you use, different sensor sizes, file types, subject and background, and how perspective and focus change an image. We reveal the terms and explain their meaning.
The lens makes the image; We reveal lenses for:
• Travel
• Macro
• Events
• Portraits
• Landscape
• Architecture
• Documentary
Bring Your Own Light - Flash photography
Light in a handy box. A flash is your most useful camera accessory, bringing light everywhere you need it. We reveal the formula to using flash to create gorgeous images, freeing you from relying on whatever off-color, dim, and coming-from-the-wrong-direction light Mama Nature and her minions give you!
We’ll show you how to:
- Freeze action
- Lighten shadows
- Balance flash & ambient light
- Control where light goes
- Evaluate accessories
- Bounce the light
Lightroom 1 - Organize
Workflow is the key to keeping control of your photographs. Taking photos is only the beginning, Organizing them lets you find them again, and Lightroom's complete set of tools makes organizing easy. We'll teach you:
- The best way to set up folders
- How Lightroom's collections work
- How keywords, titles and file names help
- Smart collections - they do the work for you
- Sorting, color coding and rating your images
Bring your laptop with Lightroom installed and we'll get to work!
Lightroom 2 - Editing 1
Editing your images. If you're a good photographer you won't have to spend much time here, and even less after we've shown you the ropes on a great editing workflow. Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Understanding the tools and what they do
- The Basics: White Balance, exposure and contrast
- Clarity, vibrance and saturation; when to use them
- Tone Curves - How they work
- The histogram; a map of pixel brigntness