2016 Spring Catalog

PHOTOGRAPHY

iPhotography NEW! That iPhone in your pocket has a great camera – today’s smart phones are much more than “point and shoot.” Take full advantage by learning to maximize the potential of your iPhone camera, work around its limitations, and utilize several popular photo apps to enhance your pictures. Martin Merchant: See Photoshop for Beginners.

The Fundamentals of DSLR Cameras Move beyond the “auto” mode of your digital SLR camera. We’ll cover the menus and settings, interchangeable lenses, shutter speed and aperture, metering, focus and white balance. Bring your camera and manual. Charlie Seton has a MBA from the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. He has 45 years of experience as a photogra- pher, specializing in performance, food, architectural and event photography, and digitizing and restoring old photographs. 5 Thursdays: March 10 – April 14 (no class March 24): 7:30 – 9:30 pm plus one additional field trip date TBA MHS Palmer Rm 142 / $210 / Code 244 Next Steps of DSLR Cameras This class builds on your photographic knowledge and skills and allows you to apply them in a more focused way. You’ll choose any area of interest and refine it throughout the course. Some possibilities: creative portraits of family or pets; documen- tation of a group or place; or exploring night photography. Each week, we’ll review and discuss the shots you’ve taken, then you’ll have an opportunity to go back, “fill in the gaps” and improve on these photos. By the end of the class, you should be well on your way to a finished project of either an exhibition or a book. Pre-requisite: basic photo course or equivalent experience. Charlie Seton: See Fundamentals of DSLR Cameras 5 Thursdays: April 28 – May 26: 7:30 – 9:30 pm MHS Palmer Rm 142 / $175 / Code 245 Photoshop for Beginners NEW TEACHER! This class introduces Photoshop to the beginner in a methodical and engaging series of lessons that involve classroom practice with photographic images. Starting with basic tool sets, the class progresses to projects that apply techniques that utilize layers, masks and tonal and color adjustment procedures. Students will become acquainted with retouching methods along with the rich creative possibilities Photoshop offers for compositing and enhancing. Martin Merchant spent over two decades as a commercial photographer before deciding to teach high school in Hastings- on-Hudson, NY, where he just retired after 15 years – the last six as Art Department Chair. 5 Wednesdays: April 27 – May 25: 7:00 – 9:00 pm MHS Palmer Rm 107 / $150 / Code 246

Friday: April 15: 9:30 – 11:30 am Larchmont Temple Rm 2 / $35 / Code 247

Lightroom for Beginners: A Better Way to View, Organize and Edit your Photos Taking lots of photos and having a hard time keeping track of them? Want to be able to fix up parts of your photos in addition to doing overall corrections? Shooting in RAW format? Ready to move beyond iPhoto and Picasa? Lightroom is a wonderful program which can do all of this and much more at a very reason- able price. In five sessions you will learn the basic interface, how to import and organize your photos into folders, basic photo fix- up, how to upload your edited photos to social media, and even how to create a photo book without leaving Lightroom! You must bring your own laptop (Mac or PC) with a copy of Lightroom that you’ve purchased. Please contact Charles Seton if you have questions regarding purchasing Lightroom. Lightroom for Intermediates NEW! For those who have taken Lightroom for Beginners or who have previous experience. You will build on previous skills as well as learn to edit a photo shoot, the use of key wording for future image retrieval and how to manage and back-up files securely. Students will also learn to process their own images using local correction tools of Lightroom as well as practice the comprehensive use of the cropping tool and print preparation module. By the end of the course students will be able to bring out the best in every shot, creating amazing images that inspire and delight. You must bring your own laptop (Mac or PC) with a copy of Lightroom that you’ve purchased. Please contact Charles Seton if you have questions regarding purchasing Lightroom. Charlie Seton: See Fundamentals of DSLR Cameras 3 Tuesdays: May 3 – May 17: 7:30 – 9:00 pm MHS Palmer Rm 142 / $90 / Code 249 Charlie Seton: See Fundamentals of DSLR Cameras 5 Tuesdays: March 8 – April 12 (no class March 22): 7:30 – 9:00 pm MHS Palmer Rm 142 / $145 / Code 248

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