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PHOTOGRAPHY

Winter 2008

Basic Photography (KTD & Field)
Night Photography (KTD & Field)
Intro. To the Digital Camera (IVC)
Interm. Digital Camera (IVC)
Intro to Photoshop Elements (IVC)
Interm. Photoshop Elements (IVC)
Intro to Printing and Scanning Photos (IVC)

Note: Community Education photography classes do not include darkroom work. If you are interested in learning about techniques used in the darkroom, please call the Art Department at 415.485.9480 or go to www.marin.edu.

Basic Photography

This course on basic photographic techniques will cover camera types, lenses, filters, depth of field, exposure control, flash equipment and lighting, films and tripods. Composition, close-ups, landscapes, people and portraits, night photography and special effects will also be covered.

Two field trips include a Sunday morning in Muir Woods and a class night starting in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts, then the Golden Gate Bridge and finally Vista Point. You are responsible for your own transportation.
Bring an adjustable camera to class each week. Digital techniques will be discussed; however, this class is beyond the level of simple point and shoot cameras. Darkroom work (processing and printing your own film) will not be discussed.

Jed Manwaring specializes in travel and outdoor photography. His photographs have appeared most recently in Golden Gate National Parks: A Photographic Journey and in the 2004 CEDCO Sonoma calendar.

  • 7 Wednesdays, 7:10-10pm
  • Jan. 30-Mar. 12
  • Kentfield Campus, Dickson Hall 30
  • Field trip: Wed., 7-10pm, Feb. 27
  • Plus Sunday, 8-11am, Feb. 10
  • Fee $127 (Includes $10 materials fee)
  • Course #9246

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Night Photography

Learn to gauge long exposures in locations illuminated by artificial light, as well as by the light of the full moon, for beautiful photographs of the world at night. Emphasis will be on evaluating existing lighting and exposing accordingly. Some classes will be on location at places like the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Presidio and the Marin Headlands.

The class is limited to 12 students and is not for beginning photographers. You must know how to use your specific (preferably manual) camera and have a firm grasp of the basic concepts of photography. Digital cameras (with full manual override) are acceptable for most of the fieldwork.

Tim Baskerville, BFA, has been teaching photography classes at U.C. Berkeley Extension and U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and at Pacific Media Arts since 1998.

  • 7 Fridays, 7:10-10pm
  • Feb. 1-Mar. 21 (No class Feb. 15)
  • Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 171
  • Includes field trip Friday, Feb. 22, 7-10pm
  • Fee $164 (Includes $10 materials fee)
  • Course #9247

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Intro. to the Digital Camera

This course is designed to educate you about the different types of digital cameras and the features that are available. You will learn what you need to know before making your purchase, so that you can choose the best camera for your needs. We will also discuss basic terminology, explanations of the different camera settings, formats used by digital cameras and computers, transferring images to the computer, making basic image adjustments using Adobe Elements, preparing images to email as attachments and options for printing digital camera images.
You do not need to own a digital camera to take this class although, if you already own one, you are encouraged to bring the camera and the manual with you.

  • Ed Woods
  • Friday, 10am-5pm
  • Feb. 1
  • Indian Valley Campus, Ohlone 216
  • Fee $100
  • Course #9248

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Intermediate Digital Camera

This course will cover techniques for improving the composition and quality of your photographs. You will use features of a digital camera to give you better control over your images: shutter and aperture priority, manual mode, white balance adjustment, metering, built in flash, zoom, macro and auto focus vs. manual focus. You will be given a list of different types of pictures to take during class. The images will be downloaded to the computer and we will use Adobe Photoshop Elements to evaluate and optimize the quality of the images.

If you own a digital camera, you should bring it with you to class.

This class builds upon skills learned in Intro. to the Digital Camera.

  • Ed Woods
  • Friday, 10am-5pm
  • Feb. 8
  • Indian Valley Campus, Ohlone 216
  • Fee $100
  • Course #9249

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Intro. to Photoshop Elements:
The Digital Darkroom

The focus of this course is to learn basic photo editing to improve your digital photos. We will perform simple image clean up and photo enhancements and provide step-by-step exercises to create contact sheets of your digital camera folder, crop and resize images for email and print, repair damaged or scratched old photos, correct lighting, brightness/contrast and color, remove blemishes, red-eye and other irregularities and create a digital photo album of your pictures.

We want you to succeed in this class and suggest that you be proficient with the computer before enrolling.

  • Jazmine Loiselle
  • Friday, 9am-4pm
  • Feb. 22
  • Indian Valley Campus, Ohlone 216
  • Fee $122 (Includes $22 materials fee)
  • Course #9250

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Interm. Photoshop Elements:
The Digital Darkroom

This course will continue to focus on photo editing techniques. We will review the basics, introduce basic selections and layers, cover how to control separate areas of a photo in order to execute customized lighting and color adjustments and step-by-step instructions creating a slide show with viewing capabilities on a CD or the Internet.

This class builds upon skills learned in Intro. to Photoshop Elements.

  • Jazmine Loiselle
  • Friday, 9am-4pm
  • Feb. 29
  • Indian Valley Campus, Ohlone 216
  • Fee $100
  • Course #9251

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