Digital Photography

Finding a creative path through the maze.

With Paul Boyer

Digital photography is here. The tools that have come on the market - both hardware and solftware - in the past year are breathtaking in their potential for creative production. We now have the ability to make and show images in ways we could not have dreamed of just a few years ago. But with the new potential digital photography has also created a high degree of confusion: there are now dozens of choices and possibilities to consider at every step along the road from conception to final art.

This workshop will help participants find their way through that forest of possibilities, and make it possible for them to work successfully on their own in the future. We will work with image capture (the camera and the scanner), image editing (i.e., making the weird into the beautiful, or vice versa), image storage and retrieval (the backbone of the operation), and image presentation (everything from printing to electronic books).

Not all tools are created equal. And not all users' needs are equal. In the course of the workshop, we will look at different ways of solving problems, and try to make some choices about the best ways to proceed. This will not be a course in how to use the camera you might have gotten for Christmas. But it will show what is possible in digital photography, and how it is different from film-based photography, and it will give you ideas for getting the most from your equipment.

Day and evening classes are offered regularly. Class size will be limited to 6. It won't matter much what brand camera you have (the instructor has a Nikon Coolpix 995), whether you use Photoshop or ArcSoft, or whether you have a Mac or PC (the instructor uses a PC).

Basic Digital Workshop $200
Limit: 5 people

Photoshop Image Editing $200
Limit: 3 people

Instructor Paul Boyer's bio