Colin Harrison will present four classes on successive weekends that cover the end-to-end processes of digital photography from shot to print. Each class will be 3 hours long and they may be taken individually or all together as a course, according to the student's needs. Students will learn to develop skills in noticing and understanding interesting subjects, capturing subjects effectively and creatively with a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, and processing and printing such images with Adobe Photoshop. This course is the beginning of an enormous, indeed lifetime, learning experience and in 3 hours students will not become experts. The aim is simply to learn some of the many entry points into deeper learning.
Eighty percent or more of the impact of a photograph comes from where you chose to stand, where you pointed the camera, how you framed and lit the scene, and when and how you made the exposure.
The primary duties of the photographer are to be an observer, recognizing and framing striking subjects that will attract and hold the viewer's attention, and then to know how to capture them based on methods of composition employed by visual artists of all kinds.


All materials are provided. No prior experience is required.