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A PPSOP class makes a great gift and we will email you a gift card you can print up and give as a gift. What a great last minute gift idea! If you are buying a gift, please specify in the comments when purchasing the class that you want a gift card and include the name and email address of the lucky person! We will email the card to you with their login information and that is all there is to it!

8-Week Digital/Film Photography Courses

4-Week Digital/Film Photography Courses

4-Week Digital Darkroom Courses
Compelling Photographs - "Must Know" Fundamentals of Composition Compelling Photographs - "Must Know" Fundamentals of Composition    Revised & Updated!
Do you often come back ‘empty-handed’ after spending a whole day out shooting? Do
you often crop your photos AFTER you shoot in order to salvage something good from
your efforts? Do you have some great ideas but then fail in trying to execute these ideas?


Instructors: Robert LaFollette                                                                 Duration: 8 Weeks            Cost: $395            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Travel and Vacation Photography Travel and Vacation Photography      New Class!
This course is designed to help you get the pictures you want when you travel. People often get very excited as they take pictures, just to be disappointed with the results when they are downloaded or developed...


Instructors: Alan and Vicena Poulson                                                      Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Compelling Photographs - "Must Know" Fundamentals of Composition Wildlife Photography 101    New Class!
Robert will take you on a journey like no other as you will explore how to capture some of life's most beautiful creatures, from the birds of prey, songbirds and shorebirds, as well as many of our common and not so common animals, reptiles and amphibians...


Instructors: Robert LaFollette                                                                   Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Photo Illustration: An Introduction to Digital Product Photography Secrets of Lighting on Location
Photographing on location creates a new set of challenges to the professional photographer. Working in the studio can be accomplished with a small space and some lights, but working on location often requires you to work in larger environments and presents technical challenges not present in the studio.


Instructors: Charlie Borland/ Hannah Cole                                           Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Street Photography: Finding Order in Chaos Digital Snap-Shooters Guide to Great Photos!
Mark's lessons are all written in a language that even second graders can understand and on top of that they are all amply illustrated with some really simple yet beautiful photography, photography that you will soon be shooting with careless abandon!


Instructor: Mark English                                                                          Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Photo Illustration: An Introduction to Digital Product Photography Photo Illustration: An Introduction to Digital Product Photography
Lighting and styling products is a very complex subject and any successful photographer will tell you that lighting is one of the most important aspects of great photographs. If you understand the basics of lighting and where to place your lights for a nice portrait, then you are ready for Charlie Borland’s Photo Illustration.


Instructors: Charlie Borland/ Hannah Cole                                           Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
All About Color All About Color
Color can create a sense of time, place, and emotion .Color (including black and white) makes or breaks a photograph. It follows that to create artful or powerful photography, a photographer should learn about color.


Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind                                                         Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Street Photography: Finding Order in Chaos Street Photography: Finding Order in Chaos
Arguably the most challenging area of photography, but practiced by such legendary photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, and Elliott Erwitt, street photography is a form of candid photography that often defies the rules of composition.


Instructor: Mason Resnick                                                                       Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Street Photography: Finding Order in Chaos The Art of Food Photography
Are you as passionate about food as you are photography? Do you find yourself looking through culinary magazines and cookbooks, mesmerized by the photographs and wondering how the photographer was able to create such a stunning image?


Instructors: Ron Goldman/Kathleen Clemons                                         Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Portraits Unplugged Portraits Unplugged
This class will help develop your ability to 'see' the quality of light and apply it to 'real' people. We don't scout locations, we scout light and make the location work. We put our people in the light, critically aware of the direction as well as the quality, to create our interpretive portraits.


Instructor: Bobbi Lane                                                                             Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Lighting Challenges of Architectural Photography Lighting Challenges of Architectural Photography
Join award-winning commercial photographer Charlie Borland as he shares his knowledge in a step-by-step approach to making the jump from lighting novice to experienced lighting technician in architectural photography.


Instructors: Charlie Borland/ Hannah Cole                                              Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Lensbaby Magic Lensbaby Magic
Lensbaby photos are everywhere! Isn't it time you found out why so many photographers are embracing the lensbaby blur? We'll show you the how, what and why you need to get you using this lens to create works of art with your camera.


Instructor: Kathleen Clemons/Ron Goldman                                           Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
The art of Seeing The Art of Seeing
How do you see the world around you? Do you often see what others miss or are you inclined to miss what others see? You are not alone if the art of seeing has escaped you! As is often the case, most have no idea how to interpret the world around them.


Instructors: Chris Hurtt/ Bryan Peterson                                                 Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Electronic Flash-The 'Mystery' Revealed! Electronic Flash-The 'Mystery' Revealed!
You will learn how to flash-freeze sports action, light up the camp tent, or create a colorful effects during this course. After completing the many assignments in this short, but jam-packed course, you will know how to use your flash in many practical and creative ways.


Instructors: Charlie Borland/ Hannah Cole                                            Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Wedding Photography by Master Photographer Ken Sklute Wedding Photography by Master Photographer Ken Sklute
Ken brings over 32 years experience to this class, using examples of past and present weddings to exemplify how to deal with selecting the correct lens, digital exposure, composition, how to arrange groups, creating a workflow as a foundation of consistency.


Instructor: Ken Sklute                                                                            Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Capturing the Beauty of Flowers Capturing the Beauty of Flowers
You'll learn the rules of composing stunning flower photos, how to isolate and simplify your flower compositions, how to use natural light to your advantage, as well as how to work around less than desirable lighting situations.


Instructors: Kathleen Clemons/Ron Goldman                                       Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Photographing Children Photographing Children: Rising to the Challenge
Whether you are a parent or grandparent who wants to take better pictures of children, or a photographer looking to break into the business of children's photography. Photographing Children will provide all the inspiration and skills needed for capturing the spirit and individuality of children in timeless and memorable photographs.


Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind                                                     Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Conceptual Photography - Honest, Emotional Photography Conceptual Photography - Honest, Emotional Photography
This class will give you the necessary skills to develop a colorful, visually honest, and meaningful body of work with a content that resonates deep within the viewer. You will explore concepts, develop ideas, and find inspirational ways to shoot and capture your thoughts.


Instructor: Dave Nitsche                                                                      Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Studio Lighting 101 Lighting Techniques of the Portrait Masters - An introduction to digital portrait photography
This course is designed for photographers with no experience. Maybe you have lighting equipment and are unsure how it all works. This course really is the next best thing to working side by side with the lighting master himself, Charlie Borland.


Instructors: Charlie Borland/ Hannah Cole                                           Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Great Pet Photos Made Easy Great Pet Photos Made Easy
This class untangles the complexities of successful pet photography so that in four weeks you will have the basics to take your photography to the next level or even higher. So grab your camera and learn the skills necessary to take professional quality animal photos.


Instructor: Darwin Wiggett/Mark Degner                                              Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Painting Photographs Painting Photographs
This class explores recipes for applying painterly effects to your photos. It responds to the 'hands-off' process of digital photography with 'hands-on' recipes. While our digital hand selects, masks, and guides the pen or mouse, the painting photos process is more tactile.


Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind                                                     Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
The Evolution of a Masterpiece The Evolution of a Masterpiece    New Class!
Unleash the artist in you with Photoshop. If you have ever hoped your photographs could express more of what people really see and feel, this course will show you how. Great photos have a soul. I will teach you how to make your best photos speak those thousand words that a good picture is worth. You can make your photos truly exciting and communicative: personal, beautiful objects that you (and your customers!) will want to hang on a wall.


Instructor: Danilo Piccioni                                                                        Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Unleashing the Power of High
          Dynamic Range (HDR) Images Unleashing the Power of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Images
You will learn how to create High Dynamic Range images from a bracketed sequence of exposures that will allow us to capture these scenes; i.e. we will be able to photograph scenes where the dynamic range is massively larger than can normally be recorded in a single image.


Instructor: David Nightingale                                                                   Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom:  Simplify Photography from Shoot to Finish! Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1 & 2: Simplify Photography from Shoot to Finish!
Lightroom is the photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time taking pictures.


Instructors: Alan and Vicena Poulson                                                      Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Street Photography: Finding Order in Chaos The Art of Printing and Selling Your Art
Mark English, a photographer and fine art printer with over 30 years experience, brings his knowledge and expertise to PPSOP with four of the most concise, thorough and remarkably easy to understand lessons ever found on the subject of digital printing.


Instructor: Mark English                                                                          Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
CS3 Workflow Lifesavers CS3 Workflow Lifesavers-The NEW Adobe Photoshop CS3: Better, Faster, Smarter - and Automated!
Jack Davis and Geno Andrews have an all new four-part class packed with indispensable insights, techniques and time-savers to make your experience in Photoshop CS3 less painful and more productive.


Instructor: Jack Davis/Geno Andrews                                                   Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Photoshop Basics 101-The Basics of Photoshop for the Overwhelmed Photoshop Basics 101-The Basics of Photoshop for the Overwhelmed
This class is for anyone who has ever jumped into Photoshop, CS, CS2 and even the new Photoshop CS3, and found himself screaming at his computer monitor saying, "I hate this digital stuff... Watch Geno's introduction video


Instructor: Geno Andrews                                                                    Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Controlling The Weather and Mastering the Light in Photoshop Controlling The Weather and Mastering the Light in Photoshop   
This course is jammed packed with creative, easy-to-duplicate PhotoShop tutorials and tips on techniques. What are you waiting for? In only four weeks, you will be in control of the weather and the light in your photography. Sign up today!!


Instructor: Danilo Piccioni                                                                        Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
The Art of B&W, Infrared and Sepia Photography in Photoshop The Art of B&W, Infrared and Sepia Photography in Photoshop
After taking this class, not only will you discover how to post-process your digital color photographs into B&W or infrared, but you will also learn how to showcase them at their best using frames, borders and vignetting.


Instructor: Danilo Piccioni                                                                     Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
Beyond Color Photography In Photoshop Beyond Color Photography In Photoshop
You will learn the techniques to "reinvent" your color images and take them to a new level. You will be taught how to apply duotone, triotone and quadritone effects. In addition, you will learn how to create Split Toning, Cross Processing and posterizing effects.


Instructor: Danilo Piccioni                                                                     Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $195            Starts: Oct 10, 2008
 


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