Photographing Winter Sunrise Scenes class began on Sunday (1.11.15) with a max cap. of 16 students ready to go at 6 am! Enjoying coffee with the new opening powerpoint created just for the class, students were soon out walking through the Sensory Garden and on the way to the Serpentine Bridge. While the sun wasn’t with us for too long, everyone had a great time capturing images of other parts of the garden. Class meets for a second (and final) time this Sunday. Before we get out to a different photo location, we will enjoy last week’s images.

New classes will be listed very soon so be on the look out for them.

Trees form a natural frame.

Intro photo students learn how to get images like this "Shadows at Sunrise"

Hopefully the sun will be with us this Sunday so we can get images like this from last year’s Winter Workshop.

18mm, f8 @ 1/30, no filter

18mm, f8 @ 1/80 with 3-stop ND Grad

I received a 3-stop, soft-edge ND grad filter from the Camera Clubhouse cats. They decided to purchase from Breakthrough Photography since I mentioned that one of my students brought Breakthrough Filters to a recent class and, on inspection, the filters seemed to be very well made. An ND Grad filter starts dark and fades to clear so the placement of the dark portion is determined by both the bright part of the scene and the photographer. This filter made quite a difference in holding down the sun in the upper part of the image. Check out the “no-filter” image and ND Grad image. The difference will amaze you. Please note: I have no affiliation with Breakthrough Photography and chose them only based on student referral.

Winter Sunrise Class off to Great Start

Filters can make a difference

Beginning Digital and the fun begins June 20 at the CBG

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Intermediate Photography–The next step–starts Saturday, July 25

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