Courses:
Digital Photography & Imaging

Digital Photography - Level 1

Designed for those who own a digital camera and wish to learn how to operate its features. Learn to take better pictures with your digital camera by getting to know what your camera can do and improve your photography skills at the same time. Topics include:
digital camera components and settings, composition, focus, flash, macro, download to PC, and look at image editing.
No previous experience required. Bring your digital camera and instruction booklet to class. Course notes provided.

Digital Photography - Level 2

Discover the joy of taking better photos with your digital camera. We will use the camera settings for creative control and experiment with a range of photography techniques. The workshop includes artistic, technical and practical aspects of photography - lighting, exposure, flash, composition, portraits, action, night, landscapes and travel. Some experience with digital cameras required. Bring your digital camera and instruction booklet to class. Course notes provided.

Adobe Photoshop - Digital Imaging Level 1

Ideal for those who are familiar with the features of their camera and wish to learn imaging and editing skills.  Expand your digital photography skills into the realm of the digital darkroom. You will learn how to use Photoshop CS2 to edit and enhance digital photos; including crop and resize, red-eye corrections, make adjustments, selections, create B&W, sepia and artistic effects.
Basic computer skills essential. Bring your digital photos on a
CD-R (not CD-RW) to class. Course notes provided.

Pixel Processing: examples of sprinkling some pixel dust:

1. A typical photo taken at restaurant - by waiter. Taken a bit too far; room lights have created yellow color cast; and a bit blurred.
2. Cropped the image tighter.
3. Removed the yellow color cast.
4. Removed the blotches on the wall, and sharpened to produce the final image.


Example of advanced selection/extraction techniques to handle difficult outlines such as hair, and the addition of a background and border to produce the final image of the 'triplets'.

Adobe Photoshop - Digital Imaging Level 2

Improve your image enhancing with advanced digital darkroom techniques. You will learn about:
adjustment layers, selection techniques,
creating montages using blending modes, advanced corrections, masking, restoration and repair of old photos, black and white conversion and color management.
Basic computer skills essential. Bring your digital photos on a CD-R (not CD-RW) to class. Course notes provided.

Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photography

Learn to use Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom from shoot to finish.  Explore a complete workflow - importing and managing digital images; creating keywords, collections and virtual copies; editing and enhancing for white balence, exposure, color and tones; creating black and white, sepia and duotone images; sharpening; integrated editing with Photoshop; printing, exporting and presenting the finished digital photos.
Basic computer skills essential. Bring your digital photos on a CD-R (not CD-RW) to class. Course notes provided.

Exposure - Digital Photography Workshop

This workshop is focused on understanding lighting and the factors that control exposure - aperture, shutter speed and ISO.  The practical sessions will cover the use of camera settings together with the histogram display to achieve good exposure.

Camera RAW Processing - using Adobe Photoshop

This hands-on workshop focuses on understanding Digital Camera RAW formats and the use of Photoshop CS2's Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) processor to edit and enhance RAW images. We will look at a typical processing workflow using ACR.