Travel and Vacation Photography
Instructors: Alan and Vicena Poulson                                                          Duration: 4 Weeks            Cost: $175            Starts: Jan 9, 2009

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. It is one thing to visualize what you want in your mind but totally another to get that result on camera. It is very common for people to go through their vacation pictures after the trip is over and find that the photographs do not depict the scenes as they remember. Often objects or people are too small or far away. Lighting is another issue. When is the best time to take photographs? Throughout the four weeks of this course you will learn how to get the pictures you want. This course will help the beginner and the advanced photographer. We have been to dozens of countries around the world and have had experiences that have made our travel photography easier and more enjoyable while shooting what we want to shoot - from animals to landscapes, architecture, and people. We want you to remember the trip like it was, so it needs to be recorded in a way that makes this possible.

This course will cover the following topics:

• Preparation: equipment, memory, tripod, and props
• Know your camera
• Plan ahead: know shots you want to get
• Learn the culture before you go
• Researching local events
• Hiring local guides
• Pictures of family
• Nature
• Cityscapes and night photos
• Animals (wild and domestic)
• Architecture
• People in their environment
• Photography basics
• Lighting
• Bad weather
• Portraits with landmarks
• Un-cluttering the scene
• Take pictures of kids first
• Multiple Shots: wide shot of whole area, get close, different angles, detail
• Action shots
• Candid shots
• Tell a story
• Color
• Size perspective