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107 - Increasing Personal Creativity in Photography

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Student Furnished Course Supplies/Prerequisites: Participants need a digital camera with understanding of basic controls. Smart phones are welcome, although they may be occasionally restrictive.

Course Description: Two objectives – to have fun and to end the Summer confident that we can take better pictures from more creative perspectives. Each class will contain a short segment on a topic important to the understanding of good photography and will constructively and collaboratively critique 2-3 photos submitted by participants. A famous photographer once said that pictures are taken with a camera, but made in the darkroom. Never has that been more true than in the digital age. Images are taken with some type of device, but made better with software. Several levels of software will be demonstrated during the classes. Participants will not end the Summer with a mastery of any type of software, but will better understand what software can do and know what they would like to do with software.

Course Instructor: Richard Horn’s lifelong interest in photography was firmly established by a course taken while a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Kansas. It was taught by several of the masters of the profession at the time. For the next 35 years he worked for E.I. DuPont and Eastman Kodak in a variety of Research and Marketing assignments. During this time the profession changed from photography and film to imaging and digital capture. Prior to retiring from Kodak, he led the group responsible for the “system quality”of digital output paper prints.
rrhorn@mac.com