Lifelong Learning

PHOTOGRAPHY
AAP0795 Digital Cameras and Your Computer
This course will demonstrate how to:
  • Download your pictures from the camera to the computer.
  • Set up a simple filing system to help you organize and sort your pictures.
  • Get your pictures ready for e-mail.
  • Burn your pictures to a CD for safekeeping.
  • Use your own pictures as a screensaver.
    This is a hands-on course with exercises and projects that follow AAP0822.
  • AAP0797 Intermediate Photoshop
    This course is an introduction to image editing, collages, and presentations. In this course, students will:
  • Work on computer images and learn how to improve them.
  • Learn to adjust the exposure, contrast and color.
  • Make the image sepia or black-and-white.
  • Retouch the image, remove blemishes and enhance features.
  • Make the image black-and-white with color.
  • Learn how to make composite images or collages.
  • Learn how to make special edges, borders and frames.
    This is a hands-on, project-based course.
  • AAP0814 Portrait Photography Using a Digital Camera
    This course will cover:
  • The fundamentals of posing, composition and lightning.
  • How to take interesting and flattering portraits of individuals, couples, families and groups.
  • How to set up a natural light studio.
  • How to take candid portraits.
  • How to use the light for dramatic portraits.
  • Professional techniques for getting relaxed and comfortable poses.
    There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations and in-class projects. You will learn to take better pictures of the family at holidays, get-togethers and vacations.
  • AAP0822 Digital Photography for Beginners
    This is a basic photography course focusing on the use of digital cameras, taught by professional photographer Jay Marino. This course will help you:
  • Learn the features of your camera, what they're used for, and how they will help you take a better picture.
  • Learn the basics of good composition and good lightning.
  • Learn what makes a good picture.
    There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations, and in-class projects. Bring your camera, the manual and fresh batteries to the class. You will learn to get comfortable with your camera and the manual.
  • AAP0818 Digital Photography II – Getting Creative!
    This course focuses on steps to call attention to your subject and make your images more interesting. Students will learn how to:
  • Use compositional techniques such as leading lines, linear perspective, converging lines and framing.
  • Create special effects with wide-angle and zoom lens.
  • Differentiate between shape and form.
  • Make pictures more dynamic.
  • Guide the viewer's eye.
    There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations and in-class projects. Students will expand what they see, what they look for and know what to do with these new insights.
  • AAP0818 On the Road Again! Travel Photography
    This course will cover how to:
  • Add more impact to your photographs of people, buildings, shopping areas, restaurants, outdoor sculptures and landscapes.
  • Use perspective, framing and composition.
  • Develop a storyline and make a slide show.
    There will be assignments, demonstrations, explanations and in-class projects. Learn how to make vacation photography more interesting.
  • For further information, please call (727)341-3000 or email lifelong@spcollege.edu.