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February 20th: 12:30pm – 4:30pm: Intro to Your Camera

An introductory class covering the basics of digital photography. We can make this class mandatory for any novices who want to take the rest of the course, as well as a good refresher for people who aren’t totally familiar with their cameras or digital software.

February 21st: 12:30pm – 4:30pm: Field Photography: Introductory

An Indoor/Outdoor Photography excursion (weather dependent!). Class will begin inside with a basic overview of techniques, settings, etc, and then move outside for either in-town or ski mountain action photo shooting.

February 22nd: 5:30pm – 9:30pm: Introduction to Lightroom

Intro to Lightroom. This class will cover the basics in Lightroom and touch on photoshop slightly (more to cover their relationship). An indoor class, this session will also cover some basic digital photography concepts that are also used in processing digital images.

February 23rd: 5:30pm – 9:30pm: Advanced Lightroom and Photoshop

Advanced Lightroom and photoshop. This class will cover more advanced Lightroom techniques. Students can use the images shot in class #2 or bring their own pre-existing images.

Intro to your Camera

  • camera body parts
  • lenses (built in, P&S -vs- interchangeable, primes, wide, mid, tele)
  • sensor
  • memory card
  • battery
  • exposure
    • aperture, big -vs- small, thin -vs- deep
    • shutter speed, fast -vs- slow
    • ISO, noisy -vs- not.
  • high key images
  • low key images
  • lenses
  • focal lengths
  • aperture
  • ISO
  • shutter speed
  • modes
  • memory cards and batteries
  • JPEG -vs- RAW
  • focus (rear button)
  • histogram 
  • “blinkies”
  • Sensor sizes
  • metering modes
  • camera modes (PASM -vs- icons)
  • WB….
  • resolution
  • flash basics (FEV, on camera -vs- off, diffusion)

Photo Excursion

  • Landscape shots, setup and thoughts
  • aperture and or manual, DOF, ISO exposure.
  • action shots setup and thoughts
  • shutter speeds, AF, ISOs  exposure and drive modes

Intro to LR

  • best “DAM” program
  • importing
    • don’t import duplicates
    • smart previews
    • where to put them
    • format/eject when done
    • internal/external images?
  • COLLECTIONS!  (way to have the same image in multiple places, IE normal dates and “lighthouses”)
  • keywords
  • where the photos live
  • rating/colors/stars
  • develop module
  • exporting
  • editing….
  • presets
  • side car files and virtual copies
  • doesn’t actually change the raw files
  • PS edits pixels and changes/“damages” things, IE can’t go back, LR can always go back
  • Basic editing
  • isolate colors
  • noise
  • CA/Lens
  • crop
  • B&W
  • spot/brush/grad fixes
  • any folder changes need to be done in LR (or you’ll have to show LR where the folder is again)

Advanced LR and PS

  • in depth image editing in LR and PS, what’s the same, what’s different
  • actions and droplets
  • ACR
  • layers
  • masks
  • spot removal/cloning/rubber stamp
  • HDR
  • Pano
  • image size -vs- canvas size
  • how to do a sequence
  • skew -vs- LR
  • transform