Introduction to Digital Photography (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
Sunday January 11th, January 2004

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Introduction to digital photography is a one day introductory workshop that will introduce participants to photographing with digital cameras. The workshop will address both technical as well as creative aspects of digital photography. This will be a hands-on workshop, so remember to bring your camera (and you manual), so that you can fully participate. There is no prerequisite knowledge required to attend this workshop, but we do strongly suggest that you experiment a bit with you camera before you attend. When you arrive at our workshop you should at least have new or fully charged batteries, your camera's memory card(s) (with no images on it (them)), and have a basic understanding of how to at least take a snapshot with your particular camera.

This workshop will begin with a mini lecture or discussion of general digital camera tips and techniques. We will then travel to the first of our two locations to begin the interactive portion of our workshop at San Luis Mission. Our second location, for our sunset shoot, will be at Lake Talquin. After the workshop we will have a rap up discussion over dinner (dutch treat) at Jim and Milts BBQ.

Workshop Details

This workshop's objectives are to:

• demonstrate and describe basic techniques and concepts of photography
• provide you with useful information on buying and/or using digital photo equipment
• help you improve the use of your digital camera to achieve terrific results
• answer your specific questions about digital photography, editing, storage, archiving and printing
• answer your specific questions about photographic design, composition, selecting and approaching subjects and other creative issues
• encourage photography at all levels

Specific workshop topics include:

• Benefits and drawbacks of digital photography
• Comparing traditional and digital cameras
• Describing function of image sensors and digital media cards
• Understanding the role of image size, resolution and compression
• Typical camera categories, features and other considerations
• Recommendations on how to select and buy a digital camera
• Tips on using the camera, image file formats/sizes and media cards
• Tips on shutter lag, battery life, focus and basic handling
• Live demonstrations using digital cameras
   
• Photographic Design topics such as:

  • Photographic composition and design
  • Finding photographic subjects
  • Color
  • Seeing photographically