Exploring / Basic Digital Photography

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Who is this class for?

Anyone with a camera, who wants to learn more about their equipment and what it can do.  The class covers how a camera operates, and the fundamentals of photography.   Here's what you will learn:

• What do all those knobs and buttons do, and what the heck is an F-stop? Choosing the right focus modes for still or moving subjects

  • Control depth of field (and get that nice background blur)

  • Control motion blur and camera shake

  • Choosing the best ISO

  • Why and how to read your histogram

• Should you shoot RAW or JPEG and why?

• 10 quick tips to improve your photography

• The secret to getting tack sharp photos

• Tripod, Flashes, and Lenses...Oh my!

• Photographing Flowers and landscapes

• Photographing Kids

• Photographing Sports (hint...it ain't cheap)

• Making people look their best
   

What should you bring?

• Your camera (bet you didn't see that one coming!)

• Flashes and tripods are welcomed and encouraged

• Questions

• A sense of humor, because we are gonna have some fun

• Your camera manual.  Although cameras all function on the same basic principles, menus, and button locations are different from model to model.  

Pre-Class Assignment...At a minimum please practice setting your shutter speed, aperture, and ISO before class.

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What's included?

Workbook with the class materials

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