This class will cover traditional camera handling techniques and controls necessary to produce quality photographs. Students will also learn basic black and white darkroom skills needed to understand the link between the photographic process and the final print. Students may take the traditional darkroom section or the digital section separately, or take both for a reduced cost.
Class is limited to 18 students. (Minimum enrollment of 5 students)

Instructor: Grant Gardner
Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Darkroom Section: May 27 – July 15, 2009 (8 weeks)
Tuition: $130
Lab Fee: $75
TOTAL: $205

Digital Section: July 22 – August 19, 2009 (5 weeks)
Tuition: $130
Lab Fee $75
TOTAL: $205

TAKE BOTH SECTIONS: May 27 – August 19, 2009 (13 weeks)
Tuition: $200
Lab Fee: $75
TOTAL: $275

This class will explore making photographs while traveling. Field trips, exercises and critiques will encourage students to reframe the familiar in new ways.
Class is limited to 12 students. (Minimum enrollment of 5 participants)

Instructor: Alex Kravtsov
May 28 – July 20, 2009 (10 weeks)
Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
TUITION: $200.00

This class will teach beginning students the foundations of Photoshop while more experienced users will experiment with new techniques. Each class will include lab time so that students can work on their own images with the guidance of the instructor. The lab is equipped with Photoshop CS3, but most concepts will apply to earlier versions as well.
Class is limited to 9 students. (Minimum enrollment of 5 students)

Instructor: Michael Tallman
May 28 – August 12, 2009 (12 weeks)
Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Tuition: $250
Lab Fee: $75
TOTAL: $325

This class offers hands-on instruction, discussion and critique that will teach students how to maximize lighting when taking portraits both indoors and outside. In-class lighting equipment provided.  Digital or traditional cameras welcome. 
Class is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 5 students)

Instructor: Rodger Newbold
May 26 – July 28, 2009 (10 weeks)
Tuesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm 
Tuition: $300.00
Model Fees: $75.00
TOTAL: $375

Adobe Lightroom provides the simplest method of creating stunning high resolution PDF slide presentations that can be viewed on Macs or PCs. This seminar focuses on using Lightroom to create slide presentations and contact sheets, as well as using Lightroom "collections" as an organizing tool.
Class is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 2 students)

Instructor: Dana Sohm
Saturday, April 18, 2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
TOTAL: $79

This two-part course is designed to take the mystery out of HDR imaging and turn it into an incredibly valuable tool that can be used in conjunction with Photomatix to produce subtle photorealistic results or hyper-realistic surrealism.
Each section of this two-part course is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 2 students in each section)

This hands-on HDR seminar is taught in two parts as follows:

PART 1: Image Capture & 32 bit HDR files
Part 1 will focus on the best techniques for capturing bracketed exposures and how to assemble bracketed exposures using Photomatix into a 32-bit HDR file. Students are encouraged to bring their own cameras, tripods, cable releases, laptop computers, and camera owner manuals to class. Students will also receive a trial copy of Photomatix software to load onto their own computers.

Saturday, May 9, 2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Tuition: $79 (Combined Tuition for both parts 1 and 2: $119)

PART 2: Tone-mapping HDR files
Part 2 will focus on 'tone-mapping', the second step in the HDR process. Students will learn how to use Photomatix controls and how best to utilize Photoshop when finishing images.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Tuition: $79 (Combined Tuition for both parts 1 and 2: $119)

Instructor: Dana Sohm

Using both Mac and PC operating systems, Photoshop, and external calibration devices, students will learn how to get accurate and consistent prints. Students will have the opportunity to calibrate their laptop monitors with an Eye-One spectrophotometer.
Class is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 2 students)

Instructor: Dana Sohm
Saturday, June 20, 2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
TUITION: $79

Using photography as a medium of communication, mothers and daughters will explore their unique relationship. Participants will edit and discuss class assignments and look at portraits, interpretative portraiture and images where the maternal bond is the subject matter.
Class is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 4 students)

Instructor: Sallie Dean Shatz
6 Wednesdays: June 17 – July 29, 2009 (no meeting on July 22)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
TUITION: $350 per couple

Participants will build pinhole multiple "lenses" out of lens caps in the first class and experiment with these on fieldtrips. Students will need a digital SLR camera, several lens caps, a tripod and the desire to experiment.
Class is limited to 10 students. (Minimum enrollment of 5 students)

Instructor: Sallie Dean Shatz
6 Wednesdays: June 17 – July 29 (no meeting July 22)
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
TUITION: $250

Registration for the GRAND CANYON trip begins Aug.12, 2009

Spend a week jam-packed full of excitement and adventure at the edge of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Stay tuned for all the glorious details on this exciting workshop!