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Beginning/Intermediate DSLR Photography Course

Classes are Limited to 15 Students Each

$65 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

Need to have a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera.

  • How your DSLR or SLR works
  • How to properly care for and clean your camera
  • Importance of color correcting your computer
  • Use of White Balance
  • Shooting Raw vs. Jpg
  • Reading a Histogram
  • The Exposure Triangle {ISO-Shutter Speeds-Aperture/F-stop}
  • ISO Speeds and how to use them
  • Reading Light
  • Shutter Speeds and their uses
  • Discuss Shutter Priority Mode
  • Apertures/F-stops and their uses
  • Discuss Aperture Priority Mode
  • Manual Mode
  • Metering modes {when and how to use them}
  • Focusing modes and how to use them
  • Image Composition
  • Flash Techniques
  • Lens discussion and applications
  • Wildlife, Landscape, Portrait Tips
  • Numerous tips and tricks from a professional photographer

Dates:

  • 07/27/2010 - 7-9:30 p.m. and 08/03/2010-7-9:30 p.m.
    Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up
  • 08/24/2010 - 7-9:30 p.m. and 08/31/2010-7-9:30 p.m.
    Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

Beginning/Intermediate DSLR Photography Course - SATURDAY

Classes are Limited to 30 Students Each

$65 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

Need to have a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera.

Requires pre-registration and payment!

  • How your DSLR or SLR works
  • How to properly care for and clean your camera
  • Importance of color correcting your computer
  • Use of White Balance
  • Shooting Raw vs. Jpg
  • Reading a Histogram
  • The Exposure Triangle (ISO-Shutter Speeds-Aperture/F-stop) ISO Speeds and how to use them
  • Reading Light
  • Shutter Speeds and their uses
  • Discuss Shutter Priority Mode
  • Apertures/F-stops and their uses
  • Discuss Aperture Priority Mode
  • Manual Mode
  • Metering modes (when and how to use them)
  • Focusing modes and how to use them
  • Image Composition
  • Flash Techniques
  • Lens discussion and applications
  • Wildlife, Landscape, Portrait Tips
  • Numerous tips and tricks from a professional photographer

Dates:

  • 08/28/2010 - 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
    Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

Creative Photoshop Class - Senior Announcements

Classes are Limited to 25 Students Each

$30 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

Don't spend a ton of money to have senior annoucements deisgned and printed. Learn how to do them yourself with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.  You can then take them to any photo processing place and get as many as you need printed.  It is fun, easy and inexpensive.

I will walk you through how to make a collage of photos with borders and text.

The first hour will be instruction and the 2nd hour you will get to work on your own announcements so bring some photos!

Examples will be coming soon!

*Don't have a laptop or maybe your software is installed on your desktop at home?  We have a couple of laptops available.  Be sure to call to reserve them.

**Wanting to purchase the software but not sure which one to purchase?  Both have trial version available on Adobe's website www.adobe.com.  You can do a lot with Elements so that is usually what I recommend.

Dates:

  • 08/10/2010 - 7:00-9:00 p.m.
    Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Beginning

Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

$100 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

The HDR Class is back by popular demand!

You will learn the following:

  1. What is HDR and why do I want to use it
  2. Exposure bracketing and how to do it if your camera doesn’t have that feature
  3. RAW HDR (making an HDR pic from 1 raw file)
  4. Photomatix exposure blending and tone mapping
  5. Photoshop Merge to HDR feature
  6. Photoshop layers (putting the cool hdr sky back into the original photo or manual HDR by combining parts different photos)

You need to have the following equipment:

  • SLR or DLSR
  • Laptop
  • Photomatix
  • Photoshop

*Try to have both Photomatix and Photoshop installed on your computer.  You can get trial versions online or trial versions will be available the day of class.

Dates:

    Learn How To Sell Your Stock Photography - Instructor Kriss Russell

    Classes are Limited to 25 Students Each

    $250 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

    Learn how to make money with Stock photos!

    Kriss Russell is well known for her Stock photography.  She is going to share her knowledge and secrets so you too can make money selling you photos.

    The first night will cover all the basics.

    On Saturday, you will get plenty of shooting time with models in different setups.  You will also receive one-on-one help.

    Dates:

    • 08/04/2010 - 7-9:00 p.m. and 08/07/2010-9:30-3:30
      Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Class is Full
    • 10/20/2010 - 7:00-9:00 p.m. and 10/23/2010-9:00-1:00
      Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

    Model shoot

    Classes are Limited to 15 Students Each

    $50 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

    Want to shoot some beautiful models and get the rights to the images?  Then this is just for you.

    This class is just what it says.  We will provide a few models, you bring your camera and shoot.  This is great opportunity to get some images for your portfolio.

    Wanting some help from a professional during the shoot?  Then our Model Workshop class is probably more what you need.  (Please see Portrait/Light and Photoshop Workshop)

    Need some equipment or want to try it out before purchasing?  We will have some reflectors, Gary Fong and equipment available. 

    Time and Locations will vary depending on the season.

    Dates:

      Photoshop - Beginning

      Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

      $85 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

      Come and learn how to enhance and fix-up your photos!

      Must have Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4.

      Dates:

      • 09/15/2010 - 7-9:00 P.M, and 09/22/2010-7-9:00 p.m.
        Location: Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up

      Photoshop Elements- Intermediate

      Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

      $85 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

      You know the basics of Elements or maybe you've already taken the Beginning Course and now you are ready to learn more.

      This class is designed to go beyond the basics and teach you how to really get in depth with processing you images.   We will talk about layering, blending, enhancing and actions plus a lot more.

      *Don't have a laptop or maybe you work on a desktop at home?  Give us a call, we have a laptop available but make sure to reserve it.

      Dates:

        Photoshop Elements-Beginning

        Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

        $65 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

        Learn everything from transferring, storing, organizing and post-processing your images.

        The second night you will get a chance to work on images.  Touching up, enhancing colors and applying filters are just a few of the topics covered.

        Dates:

        • 08/25/2010 - 7-9:00 p.m. and 09/01/2010-7-9:00 p.m.
          Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

        Portrait Photoshop Class

        Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

        $50 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

        You are taking awesome portraits, now you want to learn how to make the look awesome in Photoshop right?

        This class will teach you just that.  Learn how to clean up and soften the skin, smooth out skin tones, brighten up eyes, adding and removing shadows and highlights and much, much more.

        I will cover a lot of information in just a couple of hours so make sure you are comfortable moving about in Photoshop CS 3, 4 or 5 or Photoshop Elements.  If you need some more experience prior to the class, check out our beginning classes.

        Dates:

        • 09/13/2010 - 7-9:00 P.M.
          Location: Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up

        Portrait/Lighting and Photoshop Workshop

        Classes are Limited to 15 Students Each

        $200 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

        Want to learn how to take portraits from beginning to end.  Start in the classroom on a Wedensday night and go over settings, equipment and flash techniques.

        After you learn the basics of shooting portraits, you get a chance to shoot some models in different environments (Saturday morning) and you get the rights to the images to use for your portfolio.

        So you've learned the basics and shot some images.  Now you want to learn how to really make them pop with photoshop.  Then Tuesday night, you can learn various techniques on post-processing.

        Portrait/Lighting Class Only - $75.00
        Portrait/lighting Class and Model Shoot - $150.00
        Model Shoot Only - $75.00
        Portrait Photoshop Class Only - $50.00
        Portrait/Lighting Class, Model Shoot and Portrait Photoshop Class - $200.00

        Dates:

        • 09/08/2010 - 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
          Location: Perfect Light Store - Idaho Falls Sign Up

        So, You Want to Shoot Your Kids Wedding?

        Classes are Limited to 10 Students Each

        $150 Per Person {Requires pre-registration and payment}

        • Hands-on Indoor/Outdoor shooting
        • Photoshop techniques
        • Posing techniques
        • And much, much more...

        Dates:

        • 10/02/2010 - 10:00-4:00
          Location: Willards Art Center-Idaho Falls Sign Up
        • Hours: Monday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Tuesday-Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
        • Phone: 208-523-6789
        • Fax: 208-523-3484
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