Training

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Scheduled Training

If you know of any upcoming training, please use the Contact Us page and let us know what and when.

Crex Meadows Nature Photography Seminar - Saturday, August 7th and Sunday, August 8th, at Crex Meadows Wildlife Education and Visitor Center at Grantsburg, WI. This two day seminar covers a variety of topics which include "the camera as a tool for creativity", "creative use of light", "aperture and shutter speeds", "creative macro photography", "high dynamic range photography" and "creating the artistic image". In addition to classroom training, there will be a sunset photo session at Crex Meadows. On Sunday at 6 am, there will be a sunrise photo session at Crex Meadows followed by wildflower photography at the visitor center gardens. Please see the Crex Meadows website for full information.

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Other Training Opportunities

Minnetonka Center for the Arts offers photography classes. This entry was recommended by Steve F. You can ask him more about it if interested. The Center's mission is to "... provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions and cultural enrichment for people of all ages, interests and abilities. As part of that they offer a variety of classes including photography classes. Check out this link for the following 2010 classes:

• Photo 1
• Beginning Digital Photography
• Introduction to Lightroom
• Intermediate Digital Photography
• Making Photographs (developing a personal style, strengthening your vision, etc.)
• How to Photograph Your Artwork

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

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The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum offers photography classes. Here is a link to their 2010 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.

2010 Photography

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.

With the Arboretum as your inspiration and your laboratory, learn tips and techniques from renowned photographers. Participation in a photography workshop includes an invitation to participate in the Student Fine Art and Photography Exhibit and Sale on December 4 & 5, 2010, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day in the MacMillan Auditorium. Unique to the Arboretum, this holiday-season sale features greeting cards, prints, framed and unframed originals, and other art and gift items by 2009 Arboretum workshop participants. Media represented include watercolor, oil, pastel, drawing and photography.

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High Dynamic Range Photography - Claire and Patrick McGillic gave a presentation on HDR photography in August. We said we would get back to you with more information so here it is. You can view sample HDR photos done by Patrick McGillic (member Claire McGillic's son) on this link. Here is a link that Claire has provided for a tutorial that she thought was best. It also shows how to set up the camera for taking photos to use for HDR. The program that they liked for creating these HDR photos is called Photomatix. It can be done in Photoshop CS3 & CS4 as well using their Merge to HDR function. However, Photomatix does it much quicker and has a lot of setting options to try different effects easily. Another program they recommend if your photos end up with noise in them is a program called Noiseware by Imagenomic. It is fast and does a great job at removing unwanted noise. You may recall that they were passing around a book on HDR photography. The name was "HDR Photography Photo Workshop". It is written by Pete Carr and Robert Correll. The link I provided is to Amazon.com but you can Google it and see what your other options are if you are interested in it. Note: Both Photomatix and Noiseware will run on either a Mac or Windows machine.

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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.

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One of our club members indicated that he did not have RAW support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows. Here is the link to Adobe's website where you can download Camera Raw support for your version of Photoshop Elements. Here is the equivalent link for you Mac users. Here is a link that shows video on doing editing camera raw with photoshop elements. Hope this helps you all out.