Writing With Light Photography classes offered through your local Park and Recreation departments provide a fun, affordable, and convenient venue. Go to the Schedule page for a list of upcoming classes.

You can also arrange for private lessons or private classes for small groups to fit your own schedule or need for specific or targeted information. Go to the Private Lessons page for more information.

Enjoy the fun of photography and perfect your technical skills. I will teach you how to correctly expose for different lighting situations, understand your f-stop and shutter, learn to translate your camera manual and apply that knowledge to operate your camera. Simple explanations and exercises will start you on your creative path.

In this fun, hands-on introduction to photography, we will work to understand the camera, light meters, lenses, filters, flashes, and basic composition. This will prepare us for night shooting and portraiture activities in class. Classes are offered in both the digital and the black-and-white film mediums. In the black-and-white film class, we will also practice film development and printing in the darkroom. You will learn basic photographic concepts that you can translate into any medium - black-and-white, color, or digital photography. Bring your camera and manual to the first class.

For the schedule of current and upcoming classes, click Schedule.

Intermediate/Advanced Photography

This class is for students who have taken the Basic Photography class and already know how to shoot technically excellent photographs, setting correct expose, etc. A variety of topics are covered as selected by students at the beginning of the session. Topics include:

• How to improve exposure
• Slide film
• Night shoot field trip
• Infrared film
• Image/emulsion transfer workshop
• Hand coloring black and white prints
• Toning black and white prints
• Liquid light darkroom
• Slides/negatives manipulation
• Film experimentation
• Pinhole camera
• Advanced digital imaging

For the schedule of current and upcoming classes, click Schedule.

Image and Emulsion Transfer Workshops

FUJI INSTANT FILM TRANSFER  A fun non-darkroom workshop in which you can use your slides to produce impressionistic watercolor-looking images.  These popular art pieces can be enhanced with oils, pastels, pen and ink and three-dimensional materials. Rather than allowing your instant print to develop, we pull the pieces apart, toss out the “print” and use the negative to transfer your image onto paper or cloth.

EMUSION TRANSFER  Ever wonder how the picture sticks to the paper?  We will make a copy of your slide on instant peel-apart film and then float the image off the copy to float it onto paper, glass, fabric, or even wood. Fun, immediate and successful non-darkroom process. 

These workshops are also offered in private lessons, or you can arrange for an afternoon garden party, children’s birthday, or family/friends get-together. 

For the schedule of current and upcoming classes, click Schedule.