Photography Classes Online

by

A.H.(Al) MIerau, Saskatoon, Canada

Explore Your Creative Self!

FILM and DIGITAL camera users, I welcome the opportunity to work with you with this six week online course.

Level: Beginners to intermediate; advanced.

These online photography classes will introduce you to the basics of photography using a SLR film or digital camera, and compact digital cameras. . You are going to learn how to go past the automatic mode settings of your camera and learn how to manually control your aperture and shutter speeds. Depth of field, macro photography, filters, fill-in-flash, and composition will be covered.

Prerequisites for photography classes

--A positive attitude.
--A SLR type of film or digital camera. If you are using a compact type of digital (non SLR type), one that allows you to over ride the automatic settings is recommended.

Technical

You will have to upload your weekly for to a web site. I do not teach you how to do this. If you do not have a host you can utilize the student upload area provided by LVS. There is a free HTML tutorial available here.

Some of my former students have used the services pbase. You can check these services out at :
http://www.pbase.com.

Here is one of my own sites that I am testing out on pbase.com. http://www.pbase.com/al_mierau/galleries.  If you want a lot of bandwidth, without ads, a yearly contract with pbase is suggested.

NEW: Our recent 27 day trip to the Maritimes and New England states is the bottom thumbnail on the pbase gallery.

Get your recommended image pixel print size here.

Questions re fees for classes: I do not charge fees. LVS-leader in virtual studies, with whom you will be taking the course, sets the fees and they are only $25.00 US funds. LVS is comprised of a wide mix of professionals, many retired, who believe in giving back to the community. Just because the fees are minimal, does not mean you will not be given care and attention taking classes. If you have any doubts about this statement, please check out my references.

Registration for May opens April 13, 2009
Photography Basics - beginners to intermediate

Photography Basics II - advanced class

(rev 11-06)

References from former students

Questions? You may contact me at the following e-mail address:
alm@lvsonline.com

October 2007 tour to the Maritimes and New England States. (images)

October/Nov 2008 tour of the south eastern USA (images)

The link for our 2005 tour through Amish Indiana and Ohio, all the way to Pigeon Forge, is on my site over here:

http://mierau.ca/. Go down to the Amish buggy and click open the text link beneath the image. We repeated this tour again in May 2006, and will be touring this same route again Sept/Oct 2009..

(Al Mierau's photographs have been published nationally with Gardens West, Air Canada, Grandfather, and Heritage Canada magazines)