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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Beginning Digital Photography*
Instructors: Rhea Pappas (Sec. 1); John Pennoyer (Sec. 2)
Section 1: Tuesdays, April 6–27, 6:30–9:30pm
Section 2: Thursdays, May 20–June 10, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadlines: Sec. 1 – March 30; Sec. 2 – May 13
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 10 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: Saturdays, April 17–May 8, 10am–1pm
Reg. deadline: April 10
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, May 4–11, 7–9pm
Reg. deadline: April 27
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 to the workshop.
Beginning Adobe Photoshop CS4*
Instructor: Rhea Pappas
5 sessions: Thursdays, April 15–May 13, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: April 8
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 CS4 (for Macintosh, though Windows users 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!
Basics of Adobe Lightroom 2
Instructor: Richard Fleischman
1 session: Saturday, May 8, 10am–2pm
Reg. deadline: May 1
Tuition: $95/$70 members
Max. enrollment: 5 students
Learn about incorporating Adobe’s fantastic Lightroom software into your photographic workflow. A stand-alone product separate from Photoshop, Lightroom has quickly become a critical part of many professional photographers’ tool kit. Not only can Lightroom be used for cataloging all of your photos and photo collections, it is one of the most advanced RAW converters on the market and can be used with your DSLR for tethered shooting to the computer.
Once the image has been processed out of Lightroom, we’ll use Photoshop CS4 to complete the transformation of your RAW file into the photographic image you saw at the moment of capture. In addition to covering some basic Photoshop corrections not possible in Lightroom, we’ll explore in Photoshop how to incorporate “virtual copies” made in Lightroom with different exposures into a seamless high dynamic range image, capturing highlights at the edge of detail, and shadows rich with detail. Space is limited – register early!
TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The Art of Photography I*
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Mondays, April 12–May 24, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: April 5
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, April 14–May 26, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: April 7
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.
Fine Printing & Toning Techniques
Instructor: Dan Beers
6 sessions: Mondays, April 19–May 24, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: April 12
Tuition: $275/$235 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Professional fine art printer and photographer Dan Beers will teach you advanced techniques of black and white fine art printing, including flashing and bleaching, split filtering, selenium, sepia, and various color toners. You’ll learn and practice these techniques in the darkroom under Dan’s supervision. Students should bring their own 35mm or 2 1/4” negatives to the first session. This class is structured for intermediate to advanced photographers with darkroom experience. Tuition includes photographic paper and chemistry.
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