Highlights:

• Selecting the proper exposure and reading histograms
• Creative control through white balance
• Making images that show a sense of place
• Understanding important topics in your camera manual
• How to research photographic opportunities before you leave home
• Basic composition techniques
• Analyzing the light in your scene
• How to tell a story with your images
• New ways to share digital photos with family and friends
• What to include in your travel camera bag
• Ten tips to simplify your travel photography and give images impact
• Digital camera terms, tools, and techniques
• After you return: selecting, storing, and sharing
• Review and discussion of workshop participants field work

Overview:

This workshop is designed for anyone who brings a camera along on a vacation and wants to learn some of the techniques professional travel photographers use to create images with impact and to bring back memorable pictures from their journey. You won't become a professional travel photographer by completing this course, but you will notice a significant improvement in the images you choose to share with others.

Digital photography has brought renewed excitement and challenges for travelers: new options, new terminology, and new techniques for photo sharing. Have you experienced being on a trip and returning with images that don’t meet your expectations? If so, this course will give you the tools you need to make dramatic improvements in the quality of the images you bring home.

Curriculum & Format:

On Friday night we’ll begin our introduction to travel photography by viewing a PowerPoint presentation that will demonstrate design elements for photography and enhance your understanding and use of light. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work with their cameras as we discuss features unique to digital cameras.

On Saturday morning, we’ll continue our discussion of light, introduce a couple of camera options that are specific to digital photography, and discover how to plan for a personalized photographic story before leaving home. During individual work sessions, each workshop participant will become familiar with the options we discuss in the classroom.

On Saturday afternoon the class will meet at a Santa Cruz location to create images for their photographic story about the area. The group will reconvene on Sunday morning to share their story images and learn how to improve and solidify their photo story. The workshop will end at noon on Sunday.

Class size: 10-15 students

Cost: $250

Date: June 22 - 24, 2007

Instructor: Allen Kuhlow

FORMAT:
Lecture, Demonstration, Group Sessions, Field Sessions, Individualized instruction

REQUIREMENTS:
Digital camera and camera manual are suggested, but not required. Transportation to a local Santa Cruz site is required.

AUDIENCE:

Photographers interested in improving their travel photography and their ability to share their images with family and friends.

Contact Allen Kuhlow for sign up by clicking here

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