Photographing Signs of Spring: On-line

Join us on-line for Signs of Spring

GREAT NEWS: We have a spring class! This will be the first of it’s type since it’s all going to be an on-line experience except for the time you spend with your camera. Here again is the catalog copy about the class.

Photographing Signs of Spring: Online

https://www.chicagobotanic.org/adult_education/photography/photographing_signs_spring_online

Spring is often subtle in its arrival. Discover the ideal camera and lens settings to capture those small hints of the changing season. Learn to recognize which perspectives will best highlight these small-scale buds and shoots. Macro or close-focusing lens quite helpful, but not required. This class will be taught online using Zoom, Dropbox, and email. Registered students will receive login instructions. Class limited to digital cameras only. The School’s CEUs=8 hours

FPC elective Jack Carlson, certified professional photographer

$159/$199 | Online

4 Fridays, April 24 – May 15, 2020, 9 – 11 a.m.

White adds great color–too bad it’s snow.

Here’s the Signs of Spring Syllabus:

Photographing Signs of Spring (SoS)

April/ May 2020

Chicago Botanic Garden

 Jack Carlson, Photography Instructor

jack@jackcarlsonphotos.com

Welcome to the Photographing Signs of Spring—on line.  Classes have been designed to find and photograph natural garden subtleties during the transition from (our seemingly endless up and down temperature changes) winter to spring. This year, assignments have been designed for ease of subject location and recognition.We’ll discuss topics such as composition (aka subject placement) light levels, color and texture. Then it’s up to you to put those concepts into reality and send them to me. I’ll put them in a Dropbox for all of us to enjoy and decide why we like each image. Note: Questions gladly received throughout the week, so don’t hesitate to email them whenever they arise.

Syllabus

April 24     

• Welcome
• Topic of the Week: Vertical Orientation—When Higher Beats Wider
• Present expectations of topic through powerpoint and handout material
• Review assignment
• Q and A for assignment and camera settings
• Photography on your own

 May 1

• Review student images in Dropbox
• Topic of the Week: Photographing Color (or the lack of it)
• Present expectations of topic through powerpoint and handout material
• Review assignment
• Q and A for assignment and camera settings
• Photography on your own

May 8

• Review student images in Dropbox
• Topic of the Week: Texture and Perspective of the Transitional Landscape
• Present expectations of topic through powerpoint and handout material
• Review assignment
• Q and A for assignment and camera settings
• Photography on your own

 May 15

• Review student images
• Topic of the Week: What Story Does Your Image Tell?
• Present expectations of topic through powerpoint and handout material
• Review assignment
• Q and A for assignment and camera settings
• Photography on your own
• Virtual Browniefest