Upcoming Schedule
January 20th & 21th, 2012, Yellowstone Park FULL
May 17th, 18th & 19th, 2012, Yellowstone Park FULL
June 14th, 15th & 16th, 2012, Yellowstone Park Sign Up
January 18th & January 25th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
January 31th & February 7th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
February 8th & February 15th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
February 22nd & February 29th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
March 6th and March 13th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
March 21st and March 28th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
April 11th and April 18th, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
April 24th and June 1st, 2012, 7-9:30 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
December 3rd, 2011, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
February 4th, 2012, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
March 3rd, 2012, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
April 7th, 2012, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
May 5th, 2012, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
June 2nd, 2012, 10:00-4:00, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
January 17th and January 24th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
February 21st and February 28th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
April 3rd and April 10th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
March 12th and March 19th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
April 30th and May 7th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
February 6th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Finished
Portrait Class and Model Shoot
February 18th, 2012, 10am-4:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls FULL
April 28th, 2012, 10am-4:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
Portrait Photoshop Class
February 20th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
March 24th, 2012, 10am-4pm, Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
March 26th, 2012, 7-9:00 p.m., Perfect Light Store, Idaho Falls Sign Up
- All courses and seminars require payment within 72 hours of signing up. Payment can be received over the phone by credit card or in person at the store.
- Cancelation Policy - All cancelations must be made 7 business days prior to the class date. If you do not cancel 7 business days prior to class, you will not receive a refund. If you do cancel 7 days prior to class, you will receive a 100% refund. If you have any questions, about this policy, please give us a call.
- Perfect Light, LLC reserves the right to cancel any class that does not meet minimum participant requirements, in which case participants will be notified as soon as possible and all money will be refunded. Perfect Light, LLC is not responsible for any losses incurred as a result of a course cancellation.
Course Descriptions
Beginning/Intermediate DSLR Course (Two Night Course or All Day Saturday)
Instructor: Christopher Balmer
Price: $65.00
This course is designed to teach you the following:
- 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
Photoshop Elements - Beginning
Instructor: Susannah Reed$65 Per Person
This Beginning Photoshop Elements class will help you to learn the basics:
- Transferring and organizing your images
- Opening and adjusting RAW images
- The entire Adobe Workspace
- Which file format you should work in (.jpg, .tiff, .psd)
- How to make a stamp for your signature and watermarks
- Adding a frame or border around your image
- Selective color
- How to convert images to Black and White
- Resizing your image for the web, email or print
- Color Correcting your monitor
- And much, much more...
*This is a two night course and on the second night you will get a chance to work on images right along with me.
**You are more than welcome to bring your Laptop but it is not required. We have one Laptop available to rent for $10.00.
Photoshop CS3, CS4 & CS5 - Beginning
Instructor: Susannah Reed$85.00 per person
This beginning Photoshop class will help you to learn the basics of Photoshop.- Transferring and organizing your images
- Opening and adjusting RAW images
- The entire Adobe Workspace
- Which file format you should work in (.jpg, .tiff, .psd)
- How to make a stamp for your signature and watermarks
- Adding a frame or border around your image
- Selective color
- Black and White
- Resizing your image for the web, email or print
- Color Correcting your monitor
- And much, much more...
*This is a two night course and on the second night you will get a chance to work on images right along with me.
**You are more than welcome to bring your Laptop but it is not required. We have one Laptop available to rent for $10.00.
Instructor: Susannah Reed
Cost: $
Do you have a Senior graduating this year? Or maybe someone has asked you to take some Senior Portraits. Susannah will take you through posing, lighting, equipment and much, much more.
Senior/Graduation Announcement Class - Photoshop Elements or CS 3/4/5
Instructors:Cost: $30
Tired of spending money on Graduation Announcements? Want a great way to show off those Senior Pictures you spent a fortune on?
In the class, you will learn how to design a Graduation Announcement and/or a Senior Announcement with images. I will show you from start to finish how to create your own but also where to go to get those awesome templates to save you the time and energy.
You can then go and print them where ever and as many as you like and save a ton of money.
Newborn Photography - The Basics
Instructor: Susanna ReedCost: $50.00
So you are getting ready to have a baby or maybe a friend or relative would like you to take some images of their newborn? This class will teach you the basics of Newborn Photography. Including lighting, technique, equipment and a Q & A session.
Newborn/Birth Announcement Class - Photoshop Elements or CS 3/4/5
Instructor:Cost: $30
Ok, so now you know how to take those adoreable photos of newborns but now you need to put them together in an Birth Announcement. This class will show you how to do just that.
We will show you how to build templates from beginning to end. She will also so you how to manipulate templates you download from the internet.
If you are new to Photoshop CS or Elements, it is recommended that you take the Beginning Class in order to get the best results from the class.
***Must have Photoshop Elements 7 or above OR Photoshop CS 3/4/5
Portrait/Lighting and Photoshop Workshop
Instructors: Susannah Reed
Wanting to learn how to take great portraits? This class is designed to help you learn how to do just that. This class is a three part class: Classroom, Model Shoot and Photoshop workflow. In these three parts you will learn:
Classroom and Model Shoot
- what settings to use on your camera for different situations
- different types of lighting
- what to wear and what not to wear
- pricing tips
- Posing and posing lingo
- taking what we learned in the classroom and putting it to work
- using the different types of lighting
- working on posing
Photoshop Workflow*
- download images after a shoot
- editing photos
*This is not a beginner Photoshop course. Please take either the Beginner Photoshop Class or Beginner Photoshop Elements prior to this class OR have a basic knowledge of either of these programs including the tools, palettes and menu and option bars. $75.00 for the Portrait Class (This price does not include the model shoot or the Photoshop Class)
$150.00 for the Portrait Class and the Model Shoot (This price does not include the Photoshop Class)
$200.00 for the Portrait Class, Model Shoot and Photoshop Class
$50.00 for just the one night Portrait Photoshop Class
Instructor: Steve Ridges
$95.00 Per Person
The HDR Class is back by popular demand!!!
You will learn the following:
- How your DSLR or SLR works
- What is HDR and why do I want to use it
- Exposure bracketing and how to do it if your camera doesn’t have that feature
- RAW HDR (making an HDR pic from 1 raw file)
- Photomatix exposure blending and tone mapping
- Photoshop Merge to HDR feature
- Photoshop layers (putting the cool HDR sky back into the original photo or manual HDR by combining parts different photos)
You will 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.
Instructor: Susannah Reed
Want to learn how to take those great Family Portraits outside? In this class, Susannah will teach you posing amd lighting techniques as well as all the other information needed to take those beautiful Family Portraits.
We will have a family of 4 available for you to practice some shooting with.
Space is limited so make sure to sign-up and pay right away.
$150.00 per person for a Full Day Course
$50.00 per person for the optional Wedding Photoshop Workflow Class
Want to learn how to take amazing wedding day photographs? Come join us for a fun filled day of learning the tricks of the trade. This is an all day class that begins in the classroom and then we take what we learned there out and use it in a model shoot. There is also a Photoshop workflow portion that takes place on an evening after the day class. In this class you will learn:
- Different lighting
- Different parts of a wedding day and what to do for each
- Things to have on hand the day of
- Wedding dos and dont's
- Posing tips
- Creating an itinerary for the day
- Package ideas
- downloading wedding day images
- editing
- presenting final photographs to the happy couple after
Basic Wedding Photoshop Workflow Class
Instructor: Christopher Balmer
Price: Single Person $469, Couple $769.00
See Yellowstone at a magical time and learn how to shoot great landscapes and wildlife in the winter. Plus, one on one training with Christopher.
Place: Yellowstone Park
Includes - Instructor, Room for 2 nights (Dbl. occupancy) and
Guided snow coach for two days.
Register and pay by November 15th / No refunds after December 5th
Limited to 11 Students
Sign Up Quick! All Spaces filled in 3 hours last course!
Instructor: Christopher Balmer
Price: Single Person $639, Couple $896.00
Come and experience Yellowstone in the spring. Baby animals,
wildflowers and more. Plus, one on one training with Christopher.
Place: Yellowstone Park
Includes - Instructor, Class Room Time, Room for 2 nights (Dbl. occupancy) and
Guided snow coach for two days.
Register and pay by March 15th / No refunds after April 5th
Limited to 8 Students
Sign Up Quick! All Spaces filled in 3 hours last course!