Training

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Also check the Links page for more learning opportunities and other items of interest.

Scheduled Training

If you know of any training opportunities, let us know.

Bryan Hansel - has a variety of workshops that he puts on each year. Here's a link to his workshop page on his site. He puts on excellent workshops and we have used him as a guest lecturer in combination with putting on training for our camera club.

National Camera Exchange has a variety of training available. You can view them all on their website here. They have a large number of classes at reasonable prices. Some are free. If you purchased a camera from them, they have coupons they give you for free training. I've been to training there and it is worth taking advantage of.

Lake Maria State Park
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/events.html?location=spk00217 - More Info: Call (763) 878-2325.

The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum offers photography classes. Here is a link to their photography classes and events. Descriptions of these are shown below. You may need to search for photography classes on their site to get this list or an updated one or to sign up for the classes. Immerse yourself in 1300 acres of rich subject matter, dramatic color, open spaces and abundant wildlife to capture stunning nature photographs. Your close-to-home photographic excursion awaits.

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Online or Special Events

Nikon has some good free training on their site. Don't need to use a Nikon for some of it to be useful to you.

5 Ninja Tips to Speed Up Your Lightroom Workflow.webloc

Friends of Sax Zim Bog

Depth of Field- A Visual Lesson.webloc

Easy Ways to Add Pizzazz To Blank Walls in Photoshop » MCP Actions.webloc

Filters Tutorial 2014.mp4 - YouTube.webloc

How to Use Lightroom’s Lens Correction Controls | Light Stalking.webloc

Tamron Photo Tips and More

The 15 Features of Your DSLR That Every Photographer Should Know - YouTube.webloc

The B&H Guide to Exposure- Understanding Aperture | explora.webloc

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Other Training Opportunities

Creative Techs Training - free worldwide creative courses. This one was provided by Carol H. She says: "I just sat through a GREAT FREE Webinar on Digital photography. They also have a 6 month free class on Photoshop. You can register and check out at http://www.creativelive.com/photography. Check it out.

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Training items from our members

A Black and White to Color Trick in Powerpoint - Jean Davids demonstrated a technique she found on About.com using powerpoint to show the dramatic difference in a photo going from black & white to color. It can really add a dramatic effect. The one I demonstrated isn't quite as dramatic as the more difficult version but it works good. It was more dramatic when saved to a movie format versus the powerpoint slideshow demonstrated here (note it is 4.6 mb in size so you should have high speed internet to view it). You can go to the about.com website here to view the detailed instructions. You will need the Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer or Microsoft Powerpoint (2004-2007 or newer version) to view this. The more difficult variation can be found on this website. It uses the animation settings to animate layers on a slide in Powerpoint. It is more effective but more confusing to setup.

Non-Photoshop Editing Software - Jean Davids and Arne Myrabo gave a presentation at the October 2011 meeting on photo editing software that is available other than Photoshop. Here are notes from that presentation. They are if PDF format and will require a PDF viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, to view them. These notes include information and links to software including Google Picassa and Picnik, GIMP, Seashore, Raw Therapee and ACDSee Pro 5.0. Update (11/8/11): Arne found an article of interest regarding post production software. Digital Photography School conducted a poll to see what the most popular software used is and the most popular now is Adobe Lightroom at 32%. In 2009 Photoshop CS was at 37%. Now the numbers have reversed in popularity. See the full results at DPS website here.

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Classic Portrait Lighting - Kelly Klatt and Wendy Dappen gave a presentation on this topic in our April 2010 meeting. Wendy had a handout at that meeting that discusses Light Source, Light Ratio, Light Pattern and Lighting Terms. She updated the copy we are presenting here for you to be able to download. When she gets her samples of each completed, we will provide a link to that here, too. Watch for it at a later date. Thanks to both of you for a great session and thanks Wendy for the additional updated documentation.

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To view the information and obtain the powerpoint slideshow from the "Options For Printing Your Own Photo Books" seminar that was presented at the Monticello Photo Show on Saturday, March 27th, 2010, by Jean Davids and Val Somerville, simply click on the link shown above.