LEI0101 - Outdoor Photography
Course Description
You'll capture better outdoor shots if you grasp a few essentials, whether you use a DSLR, mirrorless, or advanced point-and-shoot camera. This course will cover exposure (including ISO, aperture, and shutter speed), major camera functions, composition advice, and how to edit your photos at home. Understanding your cameras, exposure, composition, editing basics, landscape shots, wildlife photos, and how to shoot better dawn and sunset photos are among the skills you'll acquire.Course Outline
Week 1.
Introduction to the scope of the class.
Description/study of outdoor photography
Discussion of possible subject matter
Viewing famous street photographs
Week 2.
Location shooting Palatine
Week 3.
Review location shooting experience
Critiquing students’ work (as a class)
Beginning image processing (Photoshop)
Week 4.
Location shoot Barrington
Week 5.
Review/Critique students’ images from
Barrington shoot Image processing (Photoshop)
Week 6.
Location shoot Mt. Prospect
Week 7.
Review/Critique students’ work
Image processing Photoshop
Send image files to a printer
Assignment, purchase a photo frame for the next class
Week 8.
Mat completed prints
Frame completed prints
Class critique of completed work.
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If you’re suspicious of photographers who want you to invest in a trip to Kauai in order to take beautiful landscape shots, you’re already more perceptive than most and perhaps you just need to get to Harper College. A photographer in the U.S. Army and a graduate of Columbia College, Harold Rail makes a living in photojournalism, commercial, and creative photography, so the man has the chops. A decade’s long dedication to Zen Buddhist practice informs his images with knowing nano-second captures of infinity – and, honestly, where else can you get the combo of experience and artistry? Rail champions the art of photography teaching affordable classes for children, teenagers, and adults at Harper College. See the eccentricity and enthusiasm that blooms in his photographic work on exhibit at the new Hyatt Centric in Chicago, too.