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Short-Term Workshops Program
For classes shorter than eight weeks, try our weekend warrior workshops or short-term workshops. These are classes and seminar offerings that require less of a time commitment than our standard workshop courses, but our extremely informative.
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Short-Term Course Descriptions
The following is a list of workshops that we currently offer at NESOP and have offered in the past. If there's a workshop in which you are particularly interested, please let us know!
• Publishing On Demand On-Line Bookmaking For Photographers
• Lightroom 2.0
• Maintaining Your Mac for Photographers
• The Art of Mechanical Reproduction
• Advanced Black & White Printing
• How To Take Better Vacation Photos
• Using Your Digital SLR Camera:
• Basic instruction on the low-tech approach to taking better pictures
• Digital Demo: Getting Started with Digital Imaging
• The Basics of Vacation Photography
• Using Your Digital Point-and-Shoot Camera:
• Basic instruction on the low-tech approach to taking better pictures
• Creating a Photo Book: A Better Way to Organize Your Visual History [ Publishing On Demand On-Line Bookmaking For Photographers ]
As photographers we are all trying to solve similar problems in presenting our work. Unavailable only a few years ago, the internet has produced a wave of publishing on demand services, each with its own niche and set of offerings. This course is intended to familiarize the student with internet publishing resources currently available and is designed to assist in choosing among them. Step-by-step, we will work with the “pre-press” problem of sequencing and arranging our photos, the process of selecting the right service offering the best “look” for the finished book and finally the mechanics of getting the selected photos through the online process needed to attain the finished book. Emphasis is on experimentation and a willingness to see our work in a new and possibly more powerful way.
[ Lightroom 2.0 ] Creating the most effective workflow for your business-means first understanding what your options are, and then making the software work the way you want to work! This workshop explores the choices and benefits of various options so that you can make the right choices to personalize your own workflow. You will learn how to customize your Lightroom settings to suit your needs and how to streamline your raw processing. Sample files will be provided for "hands on" practice sessions during the class.
Then, you will learn how to incorporate Photoshop as a tool for custom work and bring your files back to Lightroom for cataloging, web design and slide shows. Use of PDF presentations, Web Galleries, and Printing will be discussed and demonstrated. Your workflow should be personal. It's about how YOU work. Learn how to make choices to create a system that's right for you.
[ Maintaining Your Mac for Photographers ]
This four-hour workshop is designed to help photographers optimize their Macintosh computers. Students will learn to effectively use the system preferences, partition their hard drives and safely back up their information. Discussions will cover utilizing a monthly maintenance schedule and using disk utilities as well as free software to keep your computer running at peak performance. Ways to troubleshoot problems and a demonstration on how to change RAM will be included as well.
Required Equipment: Students are required to have a portable hard drive or memory stick (minimum 1 GB) for this class. [ The Art of Mechanical Reproduction ]
A one-day intensive workshop which explores the art of plastic lithographic reproduction. From this process, we will construct an original photo-based, photo re-constructed image which we will relief print with etching inks on various fine-art papers, ready for hand-coloring. Required: Students must bring 15+ black and white images, which they will be willing to slice and dice to create a new composition.
Required Supplies: Students must bring several sheets of fine art fiber based paper to the class.
[ Advanced Black & White Printing: Creating the Powerful Print ]
For those with a working knowledge of silver printing from black & white negatives. During this one-day workshop, students will learn to achieve a more nuanced approach to darkroom printing through a deeper understanding of materials and technique. Students will be encouraged to explore variations in printing as a way of creating more strongly felt prints. The goal is the printing of more evocative images through an appreciation of how shifts in the tonal scale can engender a powerful deepening of the emotional content of the photograph. Required Supplies: Students should bring negatives, fiber paper and burning and dodging tools to the session.
[ How To Take Better Vacation Photos ]
This seminar offers simple techniques to help you better record your memories. Topics for discussion will include the basics of good composition, some dos and don’ts, getting in close, paying attention to light, noticing and using color in your images and making existing color images more dramatic.
[ Using Your Digital SLR Camera: Basic instruction on the low-tech approach to taking better pictures ]
How do you actually use that beautiful new camera you just purchased? If you respond better to hands-on instruction than reading a manual, this class is for you! A brief instruction on what all those buttons, dials and menus are and how to use them, this class will help you build confidence and basic skills in using your camera and will provide you with a few tips and tricks for taking better pictures.
[ Digital Demo: Getting Started with Digital Imaging ]
This class is an overview of digital imaging after capture. Attendees are not required to have any equipment, but should bring note-taking materials. From making digitized files of your existing images and transferring images from your digital camera to your computer (or storage medium) to making a basic print, this class demonstrates the basic functions of Photoshop Elements•a standard software packaged with most digital cameras being sold today. Attendees will receive full credit in the amount of this workshop’s tuition toward any NESOP Beginning Digital Camera workshop or basic Imaging workshop (Using Adobe Lightroom to Create a Digital Workflow, Photoshop I or Digital Printing).
[ The Basics of Vacation Photography ]
This class is for the beginner photographer or even non-photographer simply wanting to take better pictures for his/her personal photo album. Offering techniques that work to better record one’s memories, this class is an overview of basic photo dos and don’ts. Topics for discussion will include the basics of good composition, “getting in close,” ways to approach people, cross-cultural considerations when traveling abroad, tips on equipment, paying attention to light, noticing and using color in images, making existing color images more dramatic by clicking on that black and white setting on your digital camera, etc.
[ Using Your Digital Point-and-Shoot Camera: Basic instruction on the low-tech approach to taking better pictures ]
How do you actually use that beautiful new camera you just purchased? If you respond better to hands-on instruction than reading a manual, this class is for you! A brief instruction on what all those buttons, dials and menus are and how to use them, this class will help you build confidence and basic skills in using your camera and will provide you with a few tips and tricks for taking better pictures.
[ Creating a Photo Book: A Better Way to Organize Your Visual History ]
You’ve spent a lot of time documenting your family history, recording your vacations, capturing special moments, saving memories… Don’t leave them in a box, scattered over multiple CDs or still on your camera’s memory card. Organize your memories and create visual stories for yourself or as gifts for others by creating personal photo albums using low-cost available Web tools. This class instructs you on using online image galleries to better store and organize your images, but most importantly, on creating lovely and interesting photo books. Digital files are best, but scanners will be available for students to create digitized files of their images for uploading.
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