Picture This: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Your Camera
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:30 | September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21
Tuition: $150
This is a beginning course for people who want to learn more about how to use their DSLR/DSL camera. Lesson one will include basic camera functions and the ways we control the light that creates your photographs. By lesson four, you will be making frame-worthy photos of still life, scenery, and people and the environments you find them in.
This is for you if:
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Turning your camera on and setting it to “AUTO” is your default, and you just know it can do more than that (it can!).
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You are a true beginner, or you are rusty with your camera and need a refresh.
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You want to make perfect portraits ‘in-camera’, or without the use of digital photo retouching/editing (although there will be a short lesson on this)
Students must have their own DSLR/DSL camera. Cameras will not be provided.
Instructor
Frank Chodl has a BA in Studio Art/Photography and two Master degrees in education. He has studied photography at SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College of Art, and Rochester Institute of Technology. He opened his first studio in Auburn, NY, doing everything from weddings and baby pictures to industrial trade publications. He has climbed mountains to 11,000 ft., explored wild caves, hung out of airplanes at 6,000 ft., snorkeled with sharks and barracudas, piloted a 65 ft. sailboat through a midnight squall in the Bermuda Triangle, and climbed into the craters of a volcanos, all in the pursuit of his art. Frank’s works have been published and exhibited in over 12 countries and you can find examples of his work at https://chodlphotography.com/