Digital
Photography Basics—
Getting
Comfortable with New Tools
A
basic course for the digital photography beginner
Class
size: Maximum 4, minimum 2
Cost:
$200
Digital
photography is here. The tools that are coming on the market are breathtaking in
their potential for creative production.
We now have the ability to make and show images in ways we could
not have dreamed of just a few years ago.
But with the new potential digital photography has also created a
high degree of confusion: there
are now dozens of choices and possibilities to consider at every step
along the road from conception to final art.
This
workshop helps participants find their way through that forest of
possibilities, and makes it possible for them to work successfully on their
own in the future. In the
course, we concentrate on image capture (using the camera and
becoming familiar with the menus and the new vocabulary), image editing
(i.e., making the image look its very best), image storage and
retrieval (the backbone of the operation), and image presentation (everything
from printing to electronic books).
Not
all tools are created equal. And not all users’ needs are equal. In the course of the workshop, we will look at different ways
of solving problems, and try to make some choices about the best ways to
proceed.
For
those students who find themselves wanting to go further into digital
photography at the end of this course, the next step is the Image
Editing / Photoshop course.
Classes
are held at the Open
Shutter Gallery, 755 East Second Avenue. |