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I'm currently teaching a class help students learn about the different challenges of creating on location portraits. This past Thursday night we had the opportunity to photograph a lovely group of young ladies who are getting ready to take part in a pageant. I'm really not sure who had the most fun; the students or the models.

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Upcoming Classes I’ll be teaching….

Beginning Photoshop CS5

Spend six nights in the computer lab learning the basics of how to enhance and manipulate your digital images using Adobe Photoshop image editing software. You'll learn how to select, crop, size, colorize, improve, prepare photos for e-mail, build creative collages, create beautiful edges for your photos and much more. Come and enjoy the creative side of digital photography. You need access to Photoshop CS5 during the week to complete the weekly homework. 3/6-4/10
 
 

Location Portraiture: Overcoming Obstacles and Creating Beautiful Images

This is a hands-on class where students will photograph family and individual portraits every week and learn to deal with many different location and lighting challenges.
Students will learn:
· How to locate and evaluate a shooting location and to determine the best ways to use that location.
· How to correctly use reflectors for both subtractive and additive lighting.
· How using off camera flash/softboxes to create directional of light.
· How to overpower the sun with a small flash.
· How to use video light to create stunning images
· How to properly pose individuals and groups to produce the best possible image.
· And much much more……
Each week the class will meet in a different location that offers varied shooting challenges. Students must come to class each week with their camera gear ready to have a super time shooting and learning together. Class locations will be sent to registered participants two weeks before class begins.
4/5-5/10
 

Advanced Photoshop

Advanced Photoshop is for persons who want to go beyond the basics and learn the creative side of Photoshop. You'll learn photo manipulations, color correction, masking essentials, blurring and averaging, layer essentials, opacity and blend modes, layer effects and styles, adjustment layers, smart objects, templates and collages, working with camera raw, and much more. Prerequisite: You must have a STRONG working knowledge of Photoshop; this is not an introductory course. 4/17-5/22

Round and Round....

This past Tuesday I had the first meeting with my new Intermediate Photoshop class...they are one lively group of folks...and really excited about leaning some tricks in Photoshop. Their first assignment was to take an image and turn it into a circle....here are a few of the things that have been turned in so far...remember all this images started out as rectangle images....wow..you guys rock..this stuff is so cool. Thanks for working so hard.

Night Photography: In the Eyes of my Students

The current group of students in my Night Photography class has been such a great joy to work with; they have been so eager to learn and so willing to help each other. I received one of the greatest complements a teacher can ever get from a student. Mark said, "I really wish the class was longer, how about a field trip." Wow...thanks Mark..your words have encouraged me to keep moving forward and sharing with others. Please click on the title of this post and take a moment to enjoy a slideshow of  the creative work of my Night Photography students.

Night Photography: In the Eyes of my Students

The current group of students in my Night Photography class has been such a great joy to work with; they have been so eager to learn and so willing to help each other. I received one of the greatest complements a teacher can ever get from a student. Mark said, "I really wish the class was longer, how about a field trip." Wow...thanks Mark..your words have encouraged me to keep moving forward and sharing with others. Please take a moment to enjoy the creative work of my Night Photography students.

In last weeks Night Photography class I asked the students to try and capture some unusual images...in other words be creative and original....well a few folks took me to task and created some beautiful images that were out of the ordinary....way to go folks...keep creating and being different.

I'm really proud of the students they are doing so well with their shots...but even more important they are building some amazing friends and having a super time discovering photography after the sun goes down.

David Griffin speaks on how photography connects us....

Week One - Night Photog Images

During week one of the Night Photography class we took a look at the history of night photography, surveyed some equipment, and looked extensively into using the histogram to judge exposure instead of the little image on the back of the camera. It's not always easy learning to use the histogram but once you get the hang of it you'll be using it all the time.

Here are a few of the images that the members of the class have sent to me...I think they are doing a super job.

Ed Foley:

Debbie Hendrix:

Kelly Sellers:

Jade Reese:

Elizabeth Hawkins:

Kimmie:

Alice Reed....a pano...very nice thinking:

Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer

If you are interested in night photography you really need to check out Andy Frazer's site..he is really posting some great information here...in fact today he's providing a scan of a very old book..well worth a look.

Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer:

You can download the entire PDF book here.

DIY Reflector ---

For sometime now I've been wanting to purchase a Sunbounce reflector...but I just couldn't bring myself to shell out the bucks. Well, today I ran across a site where the writer had posted step by step direction on how to create a DIY version....I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend...this thing looks really easy and fun to put together.....check out the link to his page...

jag's photo blog: DIY Reflector: "DIY Reflector
I have long liked the idea of the California Sunbounce, but it's very expensive, so I decided to have a go at making my own. the frame was to be constructed from PVC tube, and fitted with a two-sided cloth cover, black on one side, and silver on the other.
Here is a brief description of the project:"

Stary Stary Night....

Dark night up on the Foothills Parkway. The moon was half full and filling the sky with a bit of ambient light, but in spite of that we were still able to capture some beautiful images of the stars over east Tennessee. After spending a bit of time capturing stars we turned to painting a beautiful Porsche Boxer....what a cool feeling painting a Porsche..LOL...we had a super time together.