Photography Classes Online

by

A.H.(Al) MIerau, Saskatoon, Canada

Explore Your Creative Self!

FILM and DIGITAL camera users, I welcome the opportunity to work with you with this six week online course.

Level: Beginners to intermediate; advanced.

These online photography classes will introduce you to the basics of photography using a SLR film or digital camera, and compact digital cameras. . You are going to learn how to go past the automatic mode settings of your camera and learn how to manually control your aperture and shutter speeds. Depth of field, macro photography, filters, fill-in-flash, and composition will be covered.

Prerequisites for photography classes

--A positive attitude.
--A SLR type of film or digital camera. If you are using a compact type of digital (non SLR type), one that allows you to over ride the automatic settings is recommended.

Technical

You will have to upload your weekly for to a web site. I do not teach you how to do this. If you do not have a host you can utilize the student upload area provided by LVS. There is a free HTML tutorial available here.

Many students have used the services of pbase over the past several years. You can check these services out at :
http://www.pbase.com. Here is one of my own sites that I am testing out on pbase.com. http://www.pbase.com/al_mierau/galleries.  If you want a lot of bandwidth, without ads, a yearly contract with pbase is suggested.

Students also make use of photobucket, shutterfly, picasaweb and no doubt there are many other sites that allow you to upload images along with your comments. Just make sure you know how to do this before you start taking a class. If you want to also take a course in Photoshop Elements or Photo Impact, go to our "LINKS" page.

References from former students

Questions? You may contact me at the following e-mail address:
alm@lvsonline.com

Questions re fees for classes: I do not charge fees. LVS-leader in virtual studies, with whom you will be taking the course, sets the fees and they are only $25.00 US funds. The fee pays for the BBS board and ongoing administration. LVS is comprised of a wide mix of professionals, many retired, who believe in giving back to the community. Just because the fees are minimal, does not mean you will not be given care and attention taking classes. If you have any doubts about this statement, please check out my references.

Notice. This site is being downscaled as all work is being moved over to our new site at http://photography-classes-online.com/

Jan Registration is now Closed
Classrooms opened Jan 4, 2010
First lesson posts Jan 9, 2010
Mar Registration opens Feb 15, 2010
Photography Basics - beginners to intermediate
Photography Basics II - advanced class
Photography Basics III- High Definition & Panorama - advanced class

Questions? You may contact me at the following e-mail address:
alm@lvsonline.com

(Al Mierau's photographs have been published nationally with Gardens West, Air Canada, Grandfather, and Heritage Canada magazines)

Photographs by Al Mierau