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Weekly Classes -- Summer 2008
Portrait Photography II
Jay Marino
This is a five week course.
Tuesday, 9am to 11:45am
Session S1 • Levels 2-5
Course code 779
Are you interested in Portrait Photography? Take this course to advance your basic skills. Learn how to use your external flash for outdoor portraits and how to find outdoor locations for shooting. Experiment with window lighting for portraits. Set up an indoor studio with reflectors and lights and continue to refine the pose and posing groups.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Basic Digital Photography
Jay Marino
This is a five week course.
Tuesday, noon to 3pm
Session S1, S2 • Levels 1-5
Course code 791
Come learn about your digital camera! This course will help you understand the features on your digital camera and teach you when and how to use them. Learn how to move files onto the computer to organize and save your photographs. You will be introduced to Photoshop and shown the difference that it can make to digital images. There will be demonstrations, explanations, and in-class projects. You will also have assignments between classes for critique so bring your camera and camera instruction manual to class.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Darkroom for Beginners
Heather Peterson
Tuesday, 7pm to 9:30pm
Session S1, S2 • Levels 1-5
Course code 789
In this introduction to basic black and white darkroom procedures, students will learn to process their own film and make quality enlargements. Basic camera knowledge is required. Returning students may use the darkroom to complete individual assignments.
Lab Fee: $15
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Portrait Photography
Jay Marino
This is a five week course.
Thursday, 9am to noon
Session S2 • Levels 1-5
Course code 776
This course covers the fundamentals of posing, composition and lighting. You will learn how to photograph individuals, couples, families, and groups. You will learn to set up a natural light studio, to take candid portraits, and how to use the light for dramatic portraits. You will also learn professional techniques to help you get relaxed comfortable poses. There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations and in-class projects. Come learn to take better pictures of the family at holidays, get-togethers and on vacation.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Travel Photography
Jay Marino
This is a five week course.
Thursday, 9am to noon
Session S1 • Levels 1-5
Course code 787
Come and learn how you can make your vacation photography more interesting. This class will cover how to add more impact to your photographs of buildings, shopping areas, restaurants, outdoor sculptures, and landscapes by using perspective, framing, and composition. Students will learn how to develop a storyline and make a slide show of their work. There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations and in-class projects. This course will make your vacation photography more interesting.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Digital Photography — Getting Creative
Jay Marino
This is a five week course.
Thursday, noon to 3pm
Session S1, S2 • Levels 2-5
Course code 792
Get creative! Learn to call attention to your subject, making your images more interesting and guiding the viewer's eye. Students learn to use compositional techniques such as leading lines, linear perspective, converging lines and framing. Special effects with the wide-angle and zoom lens and the difference between shape and form will be explored. There will be assignments for critique, demonstrations, explanations, and in-class projects. Come expand what you see, what you look for and what you can do. Make your pictures more dynamic.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Digital Architectural Photography
Randy Van Duinen
Thursday, 6:30pm to 9pm
Session S1 • Levels 1-5
Course code 790
This class focuses on both interior and exterior architectural photography, emphasizing composition, lighting and the digital process. Class will take part in two field trips working on both interior lighting and ways to photograph exteriors with both day and twilight. Students discuss digital workflow, equipment used and working with Photoshop. Weekly assignments and helpful critiques are included.
Lab fee: $10
Tuition $205 members, $235 nonmembers
Creative Photographic Lighting
Charles Vosburgh
Thursday, 7pm to 9:30pm
Session S1 • Levels 2-5
Course code 761
This is a comprehensive hands-on course teaching practical skills for the better use of light in photography. Students will learn how to control light and get the best results in any situation. This course demonstrates a variety of lighting techniques in an easy, down to earth style. Topics covered include evaluating and using existing light, the use of reflectors and light modifiers, and how to use your on-camera flash as an effective lighting tool. Learn professional secrets to getting predictable results in difficult lighting situations.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
The Art of Studio Lighting
Charles Vosburgh
Thursday, 7pm to 9:30pm
Session S2 • Levels 1-5
Course code 762
This hands-on class covers all aspects of studio lighting. Learn the practical applications of photographic lighting and develop an understanding of light and how it works. Explore photographic lighting as a form of creative expression that can transform an ordinary photograph into something special, using light, color, and composition combined, to make visually stunning images. This course demonstrates how to work with professional lighting equipment, including strobes, softboxes, reflectors, and grids, to name a few.
Tuition $115 members, $145 nonmembers
Workshops
Surreal Photography
Randy Van Duinen
S2: Saturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17, 10am to 4pm
Levels 3-5
Course code 797
This workshop will focus on advanced Photoshop techniques. Students learn creative ways to push many of the powerful features in Photoshop to create surreal works of art. Llearn how to put together digital montage, blending many images to form a single piece of artwork, and make a photographic plan in order to photograph your ideas. Previous Photoshop experience is required.
Lab fee: $10
Tuition $150 members, $180 nonmembers
Multimedia Storytelling
James Branaman
S1: Saturday & Sunday, June 14 & 15, 10am to 4pm
S2: Saturday & Sunday, August 9 & 10, 10am to 4pm
Levels 2-5
Course code 798
Learn how to tell stories through still photography and audio to give your audience a more complete storytelling experience, ideal for online presentation. Learn techniques on using audio equipment to gather ambient sound and interviews through hands-on experience and how to combine sound using audio editing software. Learn how to shoot with multimedia in mind, then edit and sync those photographs with the audio as a package. Getting your work online will also be discussed. By the end of this course the class will produce a multimedia project which will be published online. Suggested class materials include — camera*, audio recorder*, headphones.
* Digital preferred
Materials list available before class
Lab fee: $15
Tuition $150 members, $185 nonmembers
Related Info
Registration Information
Spring 2008 Photo Talk Series
Join us January 7th as Melissa Lyttle, founder of APhotoADay, discusses her work and how new technologies may help photographers achieve their vision. For more information, click here.
Session Dates
Summer Session I
June 9 - July 20
Summer Session II
July 28 - September 7
Forms
Registration Form (.pdf)
Registration Form (.html)
Guide to Skill Levels
Level 1: Beginners
Student has no skill in the medium
Level 2
Student has some minimal experience in the medium
Level 3: Intermediate
Student has knowledge of basic skills in the medium
Level 4: Advanced
Student has knowledge of and has had previous instruction in the medium
Level 5: Professional Level
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