2008 Classes and Instructors
June 8 - June 13, 2008
Hollywood
Style Lighting -The Lost Art
(Advanced)
Lou Szoke
Class Description Coming Soon!
The Fine Art Side of Photography
(Advanced)
Tina & Michael Timmons
Class Description Coming Soon!
Marketing Business with Attitude
(Advanced)
Greg Stangle
Class Description Coming Soon!
The (Photographic) Iron Chef
(Intermediate/Advance)
Kalen Henderson
Open up the book of recipes and follow Kalen Henderson's day-to-day
instruction, complete with each day's “secret ingredient”, ranging from high
school seniors to children to weddings. Each day will cover a new main course as
you learn how everything carefully sifts together for a mouth-watering bottom
line at the end of the year.
Each day, Kalen will address a new line of photography with a day of high school
seniors, a day of weddings, a day of children and a day of “events”. Each day
will start fresh with marketing and promotional ideas, followed by posing and
shooting, then hints to packaging and implementing great ideas for each product
line. Included will be new and innovative ideas on how to incorporate the most
up-to-the-minute technology like web design and usage, press printed products
and how to separate “gimmicks” from “trends”.
Whether you've been in the industry 15 years or 15 weeks, this course can be a
great kick in the pants or the basic outline you've been looking for.
Ala-ka-ZAM!
Photoshop Layers & Masking
(Beginning/Intermediate)
Al Audleman
Class Description Coming Soon!
Fashion
Weddings
(Intermediate/Advance)
Bry Cox
Intermediate to Bry relates Jazz Improv to photography showing how to
free your inner creative spirit to create more stunning albums, overwhelming
DVDs and images that will distinguish you as an artist. This is an informative
yet light-hearted course where Bry will show you his jazz philosophies and
fashion approach that he uses for weddings, families, seniors . . . everything!
This is his entire system from start to finish including his secrets for getting
the emotion in a portrait, his relaxed style of posing and lighting, as well as
post-production and sales techniques.
The class will also cover new technologies (without being overwhelming) for post-production work -- quick and amazing retouch techniques, creating wedding album layouts, and multimedia production: taking your album designs and creating DVD-Video packages that incorporate video, photographs, and design elements timed perfectly to music to better accent your work!
Lastly, the class will briefly cover photographer's websites: why to have one, as well as Cox’s proven system for using your website for quick, easy, and efficient web-proofing, and the secrets to using video clips on your website that can be viewed on your client’s PC or Mac computers.
Professional
Lighting Techniques
(Intermediate/Advance)
Andre Constantini
This class will demonstrate how to light people, products and interiors.
Attendees will learn lots of simple techniques to take the mystery out of
photographing any object or subject. Photographing people for head shots,
modeling portfolios, and fashion shoots. Interior photography for environmental
portrait, and commercial/advertising applications.
Topics will Include:
- Looking at light
- Using your environment as a modifier
- Location Studio Lighting
- Flash Fill Made Simple
- Using Portable Flash Techniques
- Lighting with Reflectors
- How to balance flash and available lighting
- Quick fix Photoshop technique and enhancement
Portraits
and Weddings -- The Essentials
(Beginning/Intermediate)
Betty Huth and Ed Booth
In a week long class, Betty Huth and Ed Booth will share how they use
the latest in digital photography to photograph studio and environmental
portraits as well as their "flow posing" for weddings. They will also cover
digital workflow, from image capture to delivery. Pricing, sales and marketing,
and the development of product lines will be discussed in depth. If you are just
beginning to move into the digital realm or if you want to perfect your skills
and increase your business, this class you won't want to miss!
Basics
of Portraiture and Digital Workflow
(Beginning/Intermediate)
Bob Guliani
This class is for the beginning or intermediate photographer who would
like to become more proficient at portrait posing, lighting and composition.
Demonstrations photographing children, seniors, couples, families and weddings
will enable students to become more proficient in their own studios. Techniques
and lighting for indoor and outdoor sessions will be part of the class. Some
class time will be spent viewing images and discussing how and what is needed
for digital workflow in today’s studios. Bob will discuss everyday issues that
have occurred in his studio: from marketing to printing, to client
relationships.
Painting
with Photoshop and Corel Painter
(Beginning/Intermediate)
Cheri MacCallum
A beginning to intermediate class that emphasizes efficiency and will
send you home with display images for your studio.
Great
Lakes Greats
(Advance)
Jim Churchill and David Deutsch
It’s time to put PRO back in Professional Photographer
A class by: David M. Deutsch, Master Photographer Cr., PPA Certified. Now more than ever, we need to get back to the basics of our art. Good posing, lighting and expression never go out of style. In this class David will guide you through his approach to composition, lighting and color that help him to create beautiful artistic images that adorn the walls of his client’s homes.
Topics to include:
- Portrait design elements
- Basic posing & lighting to flatter your subjects
- Wedding photography techniques
- Plus much more
Deutsch’s program covers the many aspects of running a successful business. You will learn to challenge your own creativity and enhance your photography as an art form. You'll find new ways to add excitement and emotion to your photography with a strong concentration on the fundamentals of what he calls “EEP” (exposure, expression and posing).
You say it’s impossible to get a merit on a wedding photograph?? Come to this class and learn how to create salon quality images that your clients and the judges will love.
This class is geared to photographers who want to take their photographic skills to the next level and to re-ignite their passion in the art of photography.
