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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Beginning Digital Photography*
Instructors: Rhea Pappas (Sec. 1); John Pennoyer (Sec. 2)
Section 1: Tuesdays, October 5–26, 6:30–9:30pm
Section 2: Wednesdays, December 1–22, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadlines: Sec. 1 - September 28; Sec. 2 - November 24
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 10 students each section
Learn to take better digital photographs by understanding the technology behind it. This beginning class is geared towards digital SLR camera users and will cover topics such as white balance, digital histograms, file formats, and much more to help make you a better digital photographer. Through lecture, discussion, and homework assignments this class will take the mystery out of digital photography. Students should bring their cameras and operating manuals to all class sessions.
Intermediate Digital Photography*
Instructor: Rhea Pappas
4 sessions: Tuesdays, November 9–30, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: November 2
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
This course is for students who’ve taken a basic digital photography class, own a digital SLR camera, and want to achieve the best results from it. We’ll examine the more advanced methods and practices of digital photography. Building on your current knowledge, you’ll learn how to rely on the histogram, know what white balance you’ll need, be comfortable working with the RAW image format, and learn other techniques to help improve your digital photography, such as composition and workflow management.
The instructor will demonstrate lighting and Adobe Photoshop techniques for improving your images. Through lecture, discussion, assignments, and critique, you’ll leave the class with the ability to manage your own digital system from capture to print. There will be small assignments to complete outside of class. Students should bring their cameras and operating manuals to all class sessions.
The Experimental Portrait 
Instructor: Jila Nikpay
4 sessions: Thursdays, October 7–28, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: September 30
Tuition: $215/$185 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Extraordinary imagery is often a result of experimentation. This class focuses on understanding the essence of portraiture and expanding its meaning. Students learn to think as directors by creating situations in which their subjects are free to reveal select aspects of themselves.
Slide presentations provide participants with an art-historical context for thinking about portrait making. Group discussions address the psychology of light and composition, the impact of situation and gesture, and gaze. With this newfound knowledge, students explore how to use photographic processes and modes of presentation to best express their ideas.
Students photograph either in the classroom or in a variety of unique locations. Participants are encouraged to work on individual portrait projects and work together to help each other refine their focus. Coursework includes group and individual assignments.
Students may use traditional or digital SLR cameras and should have an understanding of camera settings.
Basic Portrait Strobe Lighting
Instructor: Darin Back
2 sessions: Tuesdays, October 5–12, 7–9pm
Reg. deadline: September 28
Tuition: $125/$100 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Students will learn all aspects of studio lighting techniques using monopod strobe heads. Each head can hold an umbrella, soft box, beauty dish, grid spot, and reflector. You’ll learn and practice proper setup and teardown for head shots, fashion and beauty photography, and editorial work. Students will gain an understanding of controlled lighting and a broad range of lighting skills that will serve most applications of photography. Participants should have basic digital photography experience and bring a digital SLR camera to the workshop.
Beginning Adobe Photoshop CS5*
Instructor: Rhea Pappas
5 sessions: Thursdays, October 21–November 18, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 14
Tuition: $245/$205 members
Max. enrollment: 5 students
This course delves into the basics of Adobe’s professional image-editing and graphics creation software program Photoshop CS5 (for Macintosh, though Windows users with laptops are welcome) and will cover its tools and methods for practical photographic correction and creative manipulation. You'll learn about file formats and digital file editing fundamentals to help you build an efficient workflow. The curriculum also includes the basics of scanning documents and negatives as well as outputting images for print and the Web. Tuition includes 5 hours of computer time outside of class. Space is limited – register early!
Sunrise, Sunset
Instructor: Terry Faust
1 session: Saturday, October 16, 10am–12pm
Reg. deadline: October 9
Tuition: $95/$70 members
Max. enrollment: 10 students
Feel like a fiddler on the roof when you see a perfect sunrise or sunset? You've always used P for Program and it has worked fairly well, but now, as vibrant golds and reds reflect off cathedral clouds and the blazing orange orb in all its glory sinks or rises, you shoot and check your monitor. What the heck? Where's all the detail, the drama, the atmosphere? Why is the scene so: 1) dark, 2) light, 3) drab? You shoot again, but things don't improve. The magic is disappearing. Ever happen to you?
This workshop is devoted to one task, capturing sunrises and sunsets. We will create a set of easy alternatives to P for Program that will allow you to confidently photograph dramatic sunrises and heart-breaking sunsets. In the process you will master some simple manual settings and learn about a new innovation in photography: High Dynamic Range (HDR), a method of increasing the range of lights and darks in a picture by using free software to combine several different exposures. Please bring a camera that has a manual function to override the automatic settings, and a tripod.
Copyright, Estimates, Pricing & You
Instructor: Terry Faust
1 session: Saturday, October 30, 10am–2pm
Reg. deadline: October 23
Tuition: $95/$70 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
It’s a critical stage in your career when money can be made from your photos. Your composition, lighting, and other technical classes have taken you up to this point but may not have addressed the business side of photography. Because of this many photographers are left scrambling to understand basic trade practices and rights while shooting their first job or making their first print sale.
Copyright, Estimates, Pricing & You will help you understand the business side of photography and know how to value your work. Questions about how to price your work, communicate with clients, estimate a job, market yourself, and bill customers will be addressed. The importance of a business plan will also be examined. Participants will leave the workshop with the essential business information needed to start their own photo enterprise.
TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The Art of Photography I*
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Wednesdays, October 13–November 24, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 6
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Learn the basics of the art. Using film-based photography as the medium, this course provides an understanding of how camera controls function together to create photographic images. Hands-on class sessions include assignments that address image making effects, basic metering, hand processing film, and darkroom printing techniques in black and white.
This course serves as a foundation for pinhole and plastic camera work, frame-by-frame concepts in filmmaking, and also digital imaging and printmaking. A manual 35mm SLR camera is required. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves. Expect to purchase 2-6 rolls of black and white film.
The Art of Photography II*
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Mondays, October 11–November 22, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 4
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Develop your visual sensibilities. Through the medium of film-based photography, assignments in this course are focused on learning how to compose images. Utilizing key elements of composition, emphasis is placed on training the eye to crop using the camera lens as the guide. Class sessions include viewing and discussing both art and journalistic photography, reference to art history, and hands-on film processing and darkroom printing in black and white.
This course also serves as groundwork for filmmaking, plastic and pinhole camera work as well as the digital photographic medium. A manual 35mm SLR camera is required. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves. Expect to purchase 2-6 rolls of black and white film.
4x5 on the Road
Instructor: Ted Hall
3 sessions: Saturday, October 9, 10am–5pm; Sunday, October 10, 9am–6:30pm; Thursday, October 14, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 2
Tuition: $245/$205 members
Max. enrollment: 10 students
Shake the dust off that beautiful field camera that's been sitting on the shelf! This class is designed for students with basic analog photography experience who want to learn how to use large format cameras or simply need a refresher and impetus to get that old gem of a camera back into action. We’ll seek locations to photograph historic buildings, bridges, barns, and cemeteries. We’ll also shoot a few portraits.
Session 1 will begin at IFP Media Arts, where we'll cover basic 4x5 operations: understanding bellows, adjusting the focal and film planes, proper film and film back loading procedures, and more. We'll discuss image composition as well as camera dos and don’ts. After lunch we'll scout the area for some interesting places to photograph. We’ll conclude by determining locations to photograph for session 2. Possibilities include Fort Snelling, Minnehaha Falls and Parkway, Old Cedar Bridge Park, Old Frontenac, and Lake Pepin. Students will need to provide their own transportation.
Session 2 we’ll get an early start at our first location to utilize morning light. During our lunch break we’ll compare notes, answer questions, and continue our discussion of composition. Ted will be available throughout the day to offer advice and field technical questions.
Students are encouraged to have Linhoff Photo (linhoff.com) process their film and make scans of the negatives between sessions 2 and 3. Bring scans (jpegs) to session 3, and we’ll review the work, looking at both technical and creative elements. Please bring the following to sessions 1 and 2: 4x5 or 8x10 camera (IFP has 3 Calumet 4x5 cameras available, which can be reserved for the class on a first-come basis when registering); 1-2 lenses; shutter release cable; 5-10 film backs; black/dark cloth. These items are available from instructor if you can’t provide them: focus loop; light meter; changing bag.
Light Observations
Instructor: Deborah Meyer
7 sessions: Tuesdays, October 12–November 23, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 5
Tuition: $310/$265 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Look past the obvious, discover the subtleties, and learn how to document them. This course is designed to examine the possibilities of light in analog photography for existing and natural light environments. Lecture/discussion and assignments will help you to compose striking images using new understandings of light. Students must supply a manual SLR camera (35mm or medium format) and black and white film. This course is also suitable for those gearing toward work in digital still, video, or motion picture film formats. Tuition includes chemistry, photographic paper, and film sleeves.
Fine Printing & Toning Techniques
Instructor: Dan Beers
6 sessions: Mondays, October 25–November 29, 6:30–9:30pm
Reg. deadline: October 18
Tuition: $275/$235 members
Max. enrollment: 8 students
Professional fine art printer and photographer Dan Beers will teach you advanced techniques of black and white fine art printing, including flashing and bleaching, split filtering, selenium, sepia, and various color toners. You’ll learn and practice these techniques in the darkroom under Dan’s supervision. Students should bring their own 35mm or 2 1/4” negatives to the first session. This class is structured for intermediate to advanced photographers with darkroom experience. Tuition includes photographic paper and chemistry.
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