How to Buy a Digital Camera
Christmas is coming and once again digital cameras will be a popular gift. Do you know what to buy? Review the various types and brands of cameras and key terminology. Understand sensors and just how many megapixels you need. We’ll discuss zoom ranges and interchangeable lenses, flash memory formats, and battery concerns. Head out to the mall or online stores armed with information that will save you more than the low cost of this class.

Wed., Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m.
Great Lakes Campus, Rm. 101
Instructor: Tom Kachadurian
Cost: $10          Code: 5872

Understanding Your Digital
Point-and-Shoot Camera
Even inexpensive point-and-shoot digital cameras can be powerful picture making tools. Learn how to identify and use basic and advanced functions of your digital camera. This hands-on class explains white balance, manual exposure, exposure compensation, flash modes, quality settings, and other functions. Bring your digital camera with a fully charged battery, a memory card, and your user manual. Please specify your brand of camera when registering.

Mon., Sept. 21, 6-9 p.m.
University Center Rm. 215
Instructor: Chris Doyal
Cost: $45         Code: 5873

Digital Point-and-Shoot Photography—
A One-Day Workshop
Learn to take better photos with your point-and-shoot camera by working side-by-side with a professional photographer. Begin in the classroom reviewing the basics of exposure, composition, and the various shooting modes on your camera. Bring in some problem photos for diagnosis and possible solutions. Then take your new skills outside for practice and instant feedback and instruction. End the day with a detailed critique of the day’s photos. Bring a sack lunch, appropriate clothing for the weather, your P&S digital camera, owner’s manual, memory card, and a fully charged battery. Prerequisite: Understanding Your Digital P&S Camera.

Sat., Oct. 3, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 
Great Lakes Campus, Rm. 101
Instructor: Chris Doyal
Cost: $59          Code: 5874

Understanding your Digital SLR Camera
Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras are far more complex than their film counterparts. Learn how to identify and adjust basic and advanced functions of your new DSLR camera. This hands-on course will explain and clarify white balance, manual exposure, exposure compensation, flash modes, quality settings, lens selection, and other functions. Bring your digital camera with a fully charged battery, a memory card, and your user manual.

Wed., Sept. 16, 6-9 p.m. 
Great Lakes Campus, Rm. 101
Instructor: Thomas Kachadurian
Cost: $45      Code: 5875

Digital Camera Output, Printing, and Scanning
Digital cameras are great, but… Discover how to get images off your camera and onto your computer or placed into a word document, newsletter, or greeting card. Learn to use your printer effectively and discover the advantages of long lasting inks, different papers, and refillable cartridges. Explore how to scan images and text and use the basic operations of a scanner including resolutions, sizing, and output.

Wed., Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m.
University Center Rm. 8
Instructor: Steve Stanton
Cost: $39       Code: 5880

 

 

Professional Techniques for the
Average Photographer
In this series, you’ll learn simple techniques to improve the quality of your photographs whether you are a hobbyist or advanced amateur. Even experienced photographers will pick up tips! Join professional photographer, Thomas Kachadurian, with his “learn, do, review” format that makes learning easy and transferable. Bring your digital camera, tripod, and questions to one or more of these practical short courses. Enroll in any one class at full price ($45) and save $7 on each additional class in the series.

Essential Skills for Photographers
Are you still not comfortable with the transition from film to digital? Practice and master the simple but essential relationship between shutter speed, f-stop (aperture), and ISO. Find out how to set the correct exposure and what the numbers actually mean. Learn how to expose photographs correctly and how to know and exploit the capabilities of digital cameras. Discover how to see and think like a photographer by exploring composition and visualization. If you are not completely familiar with your camera, please take Understanding Your Digital SLR Camera first.

Wed., Sept. 23, 6-9 p.m. 
Code: 5876

Light: Photography’s Third Leg
Photography is a three-legged stool—subject, composition, and light. Learn how to find light in different settings. Discuss the color (white balance) and texture of light. Discover simple techniques of using controlled light in your photographs. Spend time actually photographing subjects with available light in and around the classroom. Review what worked and why.

Wed., Sept. 30, 6-9 p.m.
Code: 5877

Photographing People
Most photographs include people. Examine methods for creating flattering and interesting photographs of human subjects. While this is not a session about classic portraiture, you’ll learn to see like a portrait photographer, and learn to put people at ease, find flattering camera angles, and tell a story with your photographs. Explore using natural light in ordinary situations to create dramatic portraits. Note: Light: Photography’s Third Leg is recommended but not required before taking this course.

Wed., Oct. 7, 6-9 p.m.
Code: 5878

Flash Photography Demystified
Cameras come equipped with increasingly complex and expensive on-camera flashes making flash photography seem far more problematic than it really is. Uncover basic principles on which all flash photography is based. Learn how to make natural looking photographs using flash as fill light and as a main light source. Prerequisite: Essential Skills for Photographers or an understanding of the relationship between shutter speed, f-stop (aperture) and ISO.

Wed., Oct. 14, 6-9 p.m. 
Code: 5879

All in series meet at Great Lakes Campus, Rm. 101
Instructor for all: Thomas Kachadurian

Cost: $45 for any one;
save $7 on each additional