This comprehensive beginner’s course will enable you to learn basic photographic skills. Exercises and instruction will concentrate on proper exposure, metering, shutter speed control, composition, depth of field, and the use of priority modes on the latest DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Students will be introduced to portraiture using Speedlights, available light and tungsten light. Portable flash will be demystified.

A demonstration and a working session with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom Classic will allow students a fundamental understanding of post-capture possibilities in two classes of the course. Class discussions and critiques with emphasis on improving composition and technical skills will round out this basic but thorough course.

Duration: 30 hours
Content:

• The Camera – The Digital Image – File Management
• Portraiture with Available Light, On-Camera Flash, and Tungsten Lights
• Studio Portraits with Tungsten Lights
• Composition & Color Relationships
• Intro to Adobe Lightroom Classic. Demo & Workshop
• White Balance & Depth of Field
• Demo & Workshop
• Optics, Lenses, Off-Camera Flash & Long Exposure

The students will choose a combination of the studio portraits they have shot in class 3 and present the prints to the rest of the class.

Equipment Required:

A 35 mm DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) or mirrorless camera, SD cards (minimum 32 GB), and USB key (minimum 32 GB), or external hard drive, tripod.

It is strongly advised that the student brings their camera’s instruction manual.

NOTE: Our non-credit courses are not graded.

A Certificate of participation will be awarded to students who attend and participate in a minimum of 80% of the classes.