Beyond Selfies 1

Beyond Selfies Series

BEYOND SELFIES 1 - Cell Phone Photography (today)
Learn to create outstanding portraits, beautiful flowing long exposures, great action shots, stunning panoramas, and so much more with that little device that you always carry in your pocket or purse.

OVERVIEW OF ALL CLASSES

Great photographic images can easily be yours - all you need is a basic understanding of your equipment, editing, and composition.  Although this series of classes was specifically created to develop the joys of photographic creativity, effectiveness, and portability using smartphones and tablets, these classes are a great place to start for everyone wishing to pursue photography with any type of camera.

Any smart phone regardless of age or manufacturer can be used for these classes.  Please bring a fully charged phone to each class.  Tablets are recommended for photo editing classes 2 & 4 if available for ease in manipulating images.  Classes may be taken in any order, but the second Photo Editing class should be taken before the fourth Advanced Photo Editing class.

Lari Ott has been teaching these classes since 2015, continually updating class information as cell phone & tablet technology evolves.  All classes are interactive, each class is approximately three hours in length, and $15 each for members.  These classes are for club members only.

BEYOND SELFIES 1 - Cell Phone Photography

Rapidly evolving cell phone technology produces photos that are now on par or better than those produced by conventional mid-level cameras thanks to AI.  In most instances, photos created with smart phone cameras are easier to set up, use, and edit.  You just need to know where and how to access your phone’s many hidden remarkable features.  Come prepared to create outstanding portraits, beautiful long exposures, great action shots, and so much more on that little device that you always carry in your pocket or purse.

BEYOND SELFIES 2 - Photo Editing

Smart phones now contain powerful in-camera or in-phone editing capabilities.  But don’t stop there!  Using the Google SnapSeed app you can do so much more!  Double exposures, adding creative effects, changing perspective, getting rid of imperfections, adding text and mats to photos, and so much more are easily and intuitively available using this app. And you don't have to learn complicated commands!  Prior to class download the free Google SnapSeed app on your phone or tablet directly from the Apple or Android store.  Bring photos of a landscape, a person’s face, an off-center geometric object, and a textured scene on your charged phone or tablet.

BEYOND SELFIES 3 - Perceptual Composition

Do your finished photos match the artistic vision and the emotional appeal that you envisioned when you first took those shots?  Do others find your photos as appealing as you do?  Explore ways that you can minimize the MISmatch between your perception and the perceptions of your viewers and enhance their appeal.  Are you able to shoot and technically edit photos, but not necessarily increase its emotional appeal and sense of depth?  Your camera phone is an aid to recording and understanding your own visual perceptions.

BEYOND SELFIES 4 - Advanced Photo Editing

All editing programs typically apply edits to all of a photograph.  But perception and composition tells us that if only a particular area should be targeted for most changes.  Since this advanced photo edition class lets you explore the advantages for targeting your edits using masking and layers in an intuitive manner, it is suggested that you try advanced editing in Google Snapseed before moving to more advanced techniques in Photoshop.  A few simple steps is all you need to replace colors and backgrounds, combining images, apply textures, and alter  photos in other creative ways.  Participants MUST be experienced users of Snapseed.

HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES

Please register below if you are going to attend this class and select “I will go to this event .”  If you later determine you cannot attend this event, please sign into the website and use the same process and select “I will NOT go to this event” so the space will be available to others.

Fee: $15.00 for each class.

Class size: Limited to 25 people for each class.