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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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To download a printable registration form, click here.

 

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  [ Offered Fall 2008 ]

• 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 ]

Instructor:

Sue Ann Hodges

Day and Time:

Saturday & Sunday, TBA

Dates:

[2 days] 11/8 - 11/9

Tuition: $350 for registration and payment in full received by 11/7/08

$375 for registration received after 11/7/08

To download a printable registration form, click here.
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[ 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.

[ 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.


[ 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.

 


May 2008: NESOP Photo Blasts—a series of brief (one-hour) workshops offered at no cost in collaboration with Hunt’s Photo & Video in Melrose, MA. Classes are held at Hunt’s Photo & Video, 100 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 and are led by NESOP instructors. These workshops are short, simple how-to classes designed to provide quick snapshots of information. Offerings such as “How to Use Your Digital SLR Camera,” “Photoshop Basics” and “Basic Color Management” are popular and are great jumping-off points to NESOP’s more comprehensive workshops. Space in the Photo Blasts is limited; as such, attendees must pre-register with Hunt’s. Call (781) 662-8822 to pre-register. All registration is handled directly through Hunt’s Photo & Video for these workshops.


Upcoming classes are:


[ How To Use Your Digital SLR Camera ]

To pre-register please call Hunt's at (781) 662-8822.

If you have just purchased a new digital SLR camera (or if you receive one as a holiday gift), but need a little more confidence in working with it or if you are thinking about this investment, this seminar will show you why digital SLR is such a great tool in image making.  This seminar offers basic hands-on instruction so you can learn what those buttons, dials and menus are and how to use them.


[ Basic Color Management ]

To pre-register please call Hunt's at (781) 662-8822.


What is it?  Why do you need it?  What will it do to improve your image-making?


[ Photoshop Basics ]

To pre-register please call Hunt's at (781) 662-8822.

This seminar is for the novice who wants to learn simple principles to get started within Photoshop.


[ Optimizing Your Mac for Imaging ]

To pre-register please call Hunt's at (781) 662-8822.

This seminar offers you an introduction to the basics of maintaining your MAC for peak performance. Learn simple periodic tests to run on your computer to keep it running smoothly, how to de-fragment your machine and how to partition your hard drive.


[ Natural Light Digital Still Photography ]


To pre-register please call Hunt's at (781) 662-8822.

How to improve your low light results and lessen dependence on flash!


[ 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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