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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Beginning Digital Photography*
Instructors: Rhea Pappas (Sec. 1); John Pennoyer (Sec. 2)
Section 1: Tuesdays, July 13–August 3, 6:30–9:30pm
Section 2: Tuessdays, August 24–September 14, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadlines: Sec. 1 – July 6; Sec. 2 – August 17
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 12 students each section
Learn to take better digital photographs by understanding the technology behind it. This beginning class is geared towards digital SLR camera users and will cover topics such as white balance, digital histograms, file formats, and much more to help make you a better digital photographer. Through lecture, discussion, and homework assignments this class will take the mystery out of digital photography. Students should bring their cameras and operating manuals to all class sessions.
Intermediate Digital Photography*
Instructor: Rhea Pappas
4 sessions: Tuesdays, August 10–31, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: August 3
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 10 students
This course is for students who’ve taken a basic digital photography class, own a digital SLR camera, and want to achieve the best results from it. We’ll examine the more advanced methods and practices of digital photography. Building on your current digital photography knowledge, you’ll learn how to rely on the histogram, know what white balance you’ll need, be comfortable working with the RAW image format, and learn other techniques to help improve your digital photography, such as composition and workflow management.
The instructor will demonstrate lighting and Adobe Photoshop techniques for improving your images. Through lecture, discussion, assignments, and critique, you’ll leave the class with the ability to manage your own digital system from capture to print. There will be small assignments to complete outside of class. Students should bring their cameras and operating manuals to all class sessions.
Basic Portrait Strobe Lighting
Instructor: Darin Back
2 sessions: Tuesdays, August 10–17, 7–9pm
Reg. deadline: August 3
Tuition: $125/$100 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Students will learn all aspects of studio lighting techniques using monopod strobe heads. Each head can hold an umbrella, soft box, beauty dish, grid spot, and reflector. You’ll learn and practice proper setup and teardown for head shots, fashion and beauty photography, and editorial work. Students will gain an understanding of controlled lighting and a broad range of lighting skills that will serve most applications of photography. Participants should have basic digital photography experience and bring a DSLR camera to the workshop.
Beginning Adobe Photoshop CS5*
Instructor: Rhea Pappas
5 sessions: Thursdays, July 29–August 26, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: July 22
Tuition: $245/$205 members
Max. enrollment: 5 students
This course delves into the basics of Adobe’s professional image-editing and graphics creation software program Photoshop CS5 (for Macintosh, though Windows users with laptops are welcome) and will cover its tools and methods for practical photographic correction and creative manipulation. You'll learn about file formats and digital file editing fundamentals to help you build an efficient workflow. The curriculum also includes the basics of scanning documents and negatives as well as outputting images for print and the Web. Tuition includes 5 hours of computer time outside of class. Space is limited – register early!
Intermediate Adobe Photoshop CS5*
Instructor: Patrick Kelley
4 sessions: Thursdays, September 2–23, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: August 26
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 5 students
This course will help you build a digital workflow for your photography through a process of non-destructive image management for a variety of professional output. We'll begin with a review of digital imaging fundamentals of Photoshop CS5 (for Macintosh, though Windows users with laptops are welcome), and then focus on professional methods of image adjusting, color balance, retouching, and montage techniques in CS5. You’re encouraged to bring your own photographic work: digital image files as well as prints and negatives. Students should have basic Photoshop experience.
Copyright, Estimates, Pricing & You
Instructor: Terry Faust
1 session: Saturday, July 31, 10am–2pm
Reg. deadline: July 24
Tuition: $95/$70 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
It’s a critical stage in your career when money can be made from your photos. Your composition, lighting, and other technical classes have taken you up to this point but may not have addressed the business side of photography. Because of this many photographers are left scrambling to understand basic trade practices and rights while shooting their first job or making their first print sale.
Copyright, Estimates, Pricing & You will help you understand the business side of photography and know how to value your work. Questions about how to price your work, communicate with clients, estimate a job, market yourself, and bill customers will be addressed. The importance of a business plan will also be examined. Participants will leave the workshop with the essential business information needed to start their own photo enterprise.
The Art of the Digital Photo Essay*
Instructor: Terry Faust
5 sessions: Thursdays, August 5–September 2, 7–9pm
Reg. deadline: July 29
Tuition: $175/$140 members
Max. enrollment: 15 students
Students will explore techniques and strategies for telling stories with their digital photos. They will focus on how to choose a subject based on their own interests and experiences. Ways to determine the scope of their essay will be discussed along with methods for capturing the essence of what they want to say. Captions and cutlines will be explained. In-class demonstrations will be given.
The goal is to assemble five to ten strong images that tell a story. There will be simple assignments and in-class critiques. Students must have an understanding of depth of field, their camera’s manual and automatic exposure settings, histograms, and how to size and send images as email attachments.
To get the most out of this course, students need to be familiar with either the photo manipulation application that came with their camera, Photoshop, iPhoto, or Irfanview (a free downloadable PC application: www.irfanview.com).
TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The Art of Photography I*
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Tuesdays, July 20–August 31, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: July 13
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Learn the basics of the art. Using film-based photography as the medium, this course teaches the understanding of how camera controls function together to create photographic images. Hands-on class meetings include assignments that address image making effects, basic metering, hand processing film, and darkroom printing techniques in black and white.
This course serves as a foundation for pinhole and plastic camera work, frame-by-frame concepts in filmmaking, and also digital imaging and printmaking. A manual 35mm SLR camera is required. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves. Expect to purchase 2–6 rolls of black and white film.
The Art of Photography II*
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Wednesdays, July 21–September 1, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: July 14
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Develop your visual sensibilities. Through the medium of film-based photography, assignments in this course are focused on learning how to compose images. Utilizing key elements of composition, emphasis is placed on training the eye to crop using the camera lens as the guide. Class meetings include viewing and discussing both art and journalistic photography, reference to art history, and hands-on film processing and darkroom printing in black and white.
This course also serves as groundwork for filmmaking, plastic and pinhole camera work as well as the digital photographic medium. A manual 35mm SLR camera is required. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves. Expect to purchase 2–6 rolls of black and white film.
Light Observations
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Mondays, July 19–August 30, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: July 12
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Look past the obvious, discover the subtleties, and learn how to document them. This course is designed to examine the possibilities of light in analog photography for existing and natural light environments. Lecture/discussion and assignments will help you to compose striking images using new understandings of light. Students must supply a manual SLR camera (35mm or medium format) and black and white film. This course is also suitable for those gearing toward work in digital still, video, or motion picture film formats. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves.
Van Dyke Photographic Print Process
Instructor: Osama Esid
1 session: Saturday, August 28, 10am–4pm
Reg. deadline: August 21
Tuition: $180/$145 members
Max. enrollment: 10 students
The Van Dyke brown print is based on the first iron-silver process, the argentotype, invented in 1842 by the English astronomer, Sir John Herschel. Both processes utilize the action of light on ferric salts, and their chemistry is very similar. The Van Dyke process gets its name from its similarity in color to the deep brown pigment used by the Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck. Van Dyke brown prints are very simple and economical to make with spectacular results.
The workshop will begin with the demonstration of using paper as a negative, and converting to a positive print. Students will then convert their digital image to analog by printing a negative using Photoshop and a LaserJet printer. Students will coat arch paper using liquid emulsion and make a Van Dyke print using either the sun or UV light, depending on the weather.
All materials will be provided with the exception of digital jpeg files. Students are required to bring a memory card containing 1or 2 of their favorite images converted to jpeg files.
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