Summer Workshop - Basic Digital Photography
June 6 – June 29
Basic Digital Photography $350.00
Mon/Wed, 10:00am–12:30pm
VPA 343
Elyse Shapiro
Learn how to use your digital camera starting with all the technical aspects of camera operation and continuing with how to use the camera more creatively. We will discuss how to navigate through menus, modes and options simplifying the process from beginning to end. Discussions include downloading and organizing images as well basic enhancement tools in Photoshop. Additionally we will go into the wet darkroom and make photograms, which can be scanned and digitalized.
* A Digital camera capable of manual operation is required for this workshop. No cell phone cameras.
Week 1: Overview of the digital process,
Historical Context, Camera Functions
Assignment #1- Basic Camera Skills
Week 2: Continue w/ Camera functions.
Downloading, and organizing images,
Introduction to Post-Capture editing,
Assignment #2- Color in the Landscape
Week 3: Introduction to Wet Darkroom,
Assignment #3- Photograms
Week 4: Scanning Photograms,
Basic Editing in Photoshop
Elyse Shapiro began her career as a photojournalist in 1974 working for the Westport (CT) News and affiliated newspapers of the Brooks Community News group. That experience, lasting for more than 17 years helped her hone her technical skills with the camera, lenses, film, lighting, and darkroom techniques, not to mention meeting deadlines, inter-personal relationships, and spontaneity. These were the pre-digital, pre-Photoshop, pre-Instagram days, and there were no ‘do overs’!
For the past 20 years, Elyse has been a photography teacher (The Silvermine Guild in Norwalk, CT; Adjunct Professor at Western CT State University), as well as a commercial photographer, with a primary focus on weddings, portraiture, and corporate and family events.
"The world is seen through many lenses, and a crossroad exists where the objectivity of my camera meets my own subjectivity. I believe it is here that truth is captured."
elyseshapirophotography.com
June 6 – June 29
Basic Digital Photography $350.00
Mon/Wed, 10:00am–12:30pm
VPA 343
Elyse Shapiro
Learn how to use your digital camera starting with all the technical aspects of camera operation and continuing with how to use the camera more creatively. We will discuss how to navigate through menus, modes and options simplifying the process from beginning to end. Discussions include downloading and organizing images as well basic enhancement tools in Photoshop. Additionally we will go into the wet darkroom and make photograms, which can be scanned and digitalized.
* A Digital camera capable of manual operation is required for this workshop. No cell phone cameras.
Week 1: Overview of the digital process,
Historical Context, Camera Functions
Assignment #1- Basic Camera Skills
Week 2: Continue w/ Camera functions.
Downloading, and organizing images,
Introduction to Post-Capture editing,
Assignment #2- Color in the Landscape
Week 3: Introduction to Wet Darkroom,
Assignment #3- Photograms
Week 4: Scanning Photograms,
Basic Editing in Photoshop
Elyse Shapiro began her career as a photojournalist in 1974 working for the Westport (CT) News and affiliated newspapers of the Brooks Community News group. That experience, lasting for more than 17 years helped her hone her technical skills with the camera, lenses, film, lighting, and darkroom techniques, not to mention meeting deadlines, inter-personal relationships, and spontaneity. These were the pre-digital, pre-Photoshop, pre-Instagram days, and there were no ‘do overs’!
For the past 20 years, Elyse has been a photography teacher (The Silvermine Guild in Norwalk, CT; Adjunct Professor at Western CT State University), as well as a commercial photographer, with a primary focus on weddings, portraiture, and corporate and family events.
"The world is seen through many lenses, and a crossroad exists where the objectivity of my camera meets my own subjectivity. I believe it is here that truth is captured."
elyseshapirophotography.com
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Highlights
- 23 days 2 hours
- In person
Location
Visual & Performing Arts Center
43 Lake Avenue Extension
Danbury, CT 06811
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