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Online courses combine written lessons with personal critiques to provide you with concrete instruction and feedback specific to your photographs. All levels of photographers can benefit from this type of instruction. The advantage of an online course is you don't have to show up at a certain place and time every week! It fits easily into your work and personal schedule.

Courses (see descriptions below)
-Visual Design: Creating Stronger Compositions
-Macro Photography: Seeing the Details
-Creative Flower Photography

Overview
Each course lasts four weeks, every week a lesson is emailed to you. The lesson contains an assignment which you have ten days to complete. Then submit your assignment photographs by email. You'll receive a critique of your images, providing constructive suggestions, insightful observations and tips. You will also have the opportunity to email questions throughout the course.

Cost: $150

Registration
You can begin the online courses at any time. Simply register at the time you'd like to start the course and the first lesson will be sent to you. Each course will run four weeks from when you begin. We want to make our online courses as convenient as possible for you. Choose the best time for your schedule! Contact us with any questions.

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Online registration is a secure, fast way to pay. If you are unable to register online or would prefer an alternate payment option please contact us.

 

In detail
Every week a lesson is emailed to you as a pdf document. The lessons contain illustrated examples, as well as an assignment. Since the lesson is emailed to you, you have the flexibility to read it at your convenience. Read the lesson on your computer or print it out to take it with you. Assignments will focus your attention on one aspect of the course material. You will have ten days to complete the assignment. After completing the assignment, select your photographs and submit them by email. Constructive feedback will be emailed to you about each of your photographs. These comments will highlight the strengths of your images as well as suggest how they can be improved. Receiving a critique of your work will help you to learn what makes a great photograph. Immediate feedback is one of the fastest ways to improve your photographs. Through these critiques, you will find out how to improve your image while it is still fresh in your mind. You can then apply what you've learned the next time you're out photographing.

Questions
 Traveling? Busy with work? On vacation?
Not a problem, the lessons will always be waiting for you in your email. Assignments can also be sent in late for the critique. Just let us know you'll be missing a week; the online format allows some flexibility. We'll do our best to work with your schedule.

Do I have to submit new work for the critiques?
It's preferable that you create new photographs for each assignment. One of the purposes of courses is to motivate you to produce new images. Yet we understand that the critiques are very important and your schedule may not allow you the time to shoot new material.

  
   

Visual Design:
Creating Stronger Compositions

Macro Photography:
Seeing the Details

Creative Flower Photography

Visual Design focuses on the building blocks of creative compositions. By learning about key compositional components you will be able to confidently apply these principles to many types of subjects. Learn how to work with contrast, perspective, motion and textures in your photography. This course will help take your compositions beyond the ordinary and create photographs with impact. Corey will share techniques he uses to highlight the strengths of a subject to make people stop and take notice of your photographs. Whether you're beginning to learn about composition or want to assert more control over the elements in your viewfinder, Visual Design will provide you with a new perspective on the elements you see every day.

Topics covered include:
-Shadows
-Contrast
-Shapes
-Lines
-Depth of field
-Lighting
-Texture
-Reflections
-Framing
-Perspective

Macro Photography delves into the intimate world of the details all around us. Almost anything can be a fascinating subject when you look closer. Textures, patterns and shapes pop out. Lines, space and balance take on greater significance; they become the primary elements in your composition. Macro gives you the ability to create an intimate portrait of a small subject, or an abstract image that loses all connection to reality. This course teaches you how to effectively use depth of field, control lighting and create simple yet compelling compositions. It's a whole new world when you work on the macro level! Corey will share the techniques he uses to turn details into photographic art. This course will benefit those starting to explore close-up photography as well as more experienced macro photographers.

Compact cameras should have the ability to focus down to 1-2 inches in the macro mode. SLR owners should have one of the following so you can get close to your subject: macro lens, extension tube(s) or screw-on close-up lens (diopter).

Topics covered include:
-Macro equipment options
-Maximizing depth of field
-Lighting: diffused, direct, backlight
-Patterns, lines and colors
-Simplifying compositions

Creative Flower Photography will teach you how to design eye-catching flower photographs with vivid colors, interesting patterns and unique perspectives. This course will help you elevate your flower images from documentary to artistic. Do you think your flower pictures look good, but you wish they had that extra punch? Sign up for this class! Through the lessons and critiques, Corey will share the techniques he uses to show off the natural beauty of flowers and their surroundings. Whether you are just starting to photograph flowers or an experienced photographer, Creative Flower Photography will provide you with new skills and tools.

Topics covered include:
-Selective focus
-Shooting through
-Portraits and close-ups
-Using background colors
-Reflectors and diffusers
-Repeating patterns