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.

Many students have used the services of pbase over the past several years. 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.

Students also make use of photobucket, shutterfly, picasaweb and no doubt there are many other sites that allow you to upload images along with your comments. Just make sure you know how to do this before you start taking a class.

References from former students

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

Sept registration opens July 28, '08

Photography Basics - beginners to intermediate

Photography Basics II - advanced class

(rev 06-08)

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