Peter Glass Photography offers classes and courses for your business, corporation, or nonprofit association. These also are offered to individuals, where the teaching is done in a one-to-one setting. Their length can range from one hour, to one day, to multiple days. And the training takes place at your choice of location.
Below is a list of available classes and courses. If you have specific topics not listed here that you would like taught, please let us know. Most importantly, all the lessons are tailored for your specific requirements. For more details, please telephone or e-mail Peter Glass by clicking “Contact” above.
Understanding Your Digital Camera – All the basics will be covered, including setting the aperture, shutter speed, and ASA; working with depth-of-field; selecting lenses; focusing the image. Those mystifying buttons, dials, functions and modes on your camera will be explained thoroughly. And you will learn to hand-hold your camera properly, as well as the advantages of using a tripod or monopod. Students should bring their digital cameras, along with the instruction booklets.
Advanced Digital Photography – The basic operation and use of the digital camera will be reviewed. From there, the more advance controls on your camera, including those defined as ”custom”, will be shown. You will learn the many advantages of shooting “RAW”, as compared to “JPG”. More complex lighting methods, including creatively using a handheld flash, will be demonstrated. You will study more interesting and adventurous composing ideas. And you will discover the wonderful world of digital imaging, using either Photoshop or Elements, where images can be fixed-up, enhanced, or completely changed. Students should bring their digital cameras, along with the instruction booklets.
Small Camera Flash Advantages – Whether using your on-camera flash or a small portable handheld strobe, there are simple techniques that greatly improve the quality of your flash photography. These include learning how to soften or eliminate ugly, distracting shadows, modeling the light to give depth to the image, making the background less dark, and correcting color problems with the ambient lighting. Students should bring their digital cameras, instruction booklets and, if possible, a portable handheld strobe.
Improving Your Photography – Students are asked to bring in photos they’ve taken that they consider unsatisfactory. These will be shown in class and ideas for improving them will be discussed. Improvements might include using a different lens, changing the camera angle, fixing lighting problems, adjusting the depth-of-field, manipulating the image in Photoshop, etc etc etc. Basic camera operation and use, as well as general photographic composition, also will be discussed.
Improving Your Public Relations Photos – PR photos are a necessary part of running most businesses and organizations, but often are limited to the typical “grip and grin” or grab shot. You will learn the ins and outs of the posed, the candid and the “posed/candid” shot. Included will be techniques for locating, positioning, and lighting your subjects. Also, you will see how manipulating foreground and background elements can greatly improve the composition of your image.
Producing Dynamic Product Photos – Whether your company’s product is large or small, it usually takes quite a bit of work to effectively photograph it. For example, a background to isolate or enhance the product will need to be put together. Illumination, including one or more lights, reflectors, gels, etc, must be set up. The best camera angle and camera lens must be determined. All this and more will be explained and demonstrated.
Photographing Your Employees – People in business often need photographs of themselves for a variety of purposes: capability brochures, corporate web sites, annual reports, etc. You will learn techniques that will help you create more interesting and useful images . . . from simple head shots to more complex environment portraits. You will be experimenting with paper backgrounds, shooting locations, portrait lighting, posing, and everything else necessary to produce the results you want.
Improving Your Images With Adobe Elements – You take a photo with your digital camera and, no matter your skill level, there are bound to be problems. For example, the colors are not right, the exposure is uneven, the cropping looks unappealing, or the picture is just plain boring. You will learn how to drastically improve your images using Adobe Elements, an inexpensive but extremely powerful image editing software that compares quite favorably to the very expensive and complex Adobe Photoshop.
Creating a Digital Photographic Workflow – The steps involved in a company’s photographic workflow, to be efficient, must be performed correctly, completely, and in the proper order. You will learn both how to create a workflow that matches the needs of your company as well as the specifics of each step created. Included steps will be preproduction, taking the pictures, downloading them, adding metadata, showing the images to those needing to see them, backing them up, cataloging them, fixing and improving them in a digital imaging program, and producing the final images.
Peter Glass has been a professional corporate, industrial, magazine, and editorial photographer for over 25 years. He also has extensive experience teaching beginning, intermediate, advanced, and specialized photography courses, to both adults and children.
Below is a list of available classes and courses. If you have specific topics not listed here that you would like taught, please let us know. Most importantly, all the lessons are tailored for your specific requirements. For more details, please telephone or e-mail Peter Glass by clicking “Contact” above.
Understanding Your Digital Camera – All the basics will be covered, including setting the aperture, shutter speed, and ASA; working with depth-of-field; selecting lenses; focusing the image. Those mystifying buttons, dials, functions and modes on your camera will be explained thoroughly. And you will learn to hand-hold your camera properly, as well as the advantages of using a tripod or monopod. Students should bring their digital cameras, along with the instruction booklets.
Advanced Digital Photography – The basic operation and use of the digital camera will be reviewed. From there, the more advance controls on your camera, including those defined as ”custom”, will be shown. You will learn the many advantages of shooting “RAW”, as compared to “JPG”. More complex lighting methods, including creatively using a handheld flash, will be demonstrated. You will study more interesting and adventurous composing ideas. And you will discover the wonderful world of digital imaging, using either Photoshop or Elements, where images can be fixed-up, enhanced, or completely changed. Students should bring their digital cameras, along with the instruction booklets.
Small Camera Flash Advantages – Whether using your on-camera flash or a small portable handheld strobe, there are simple techniques that greatly improve the quality of your flash photography. These include learning how to soften or eliminate ugly, distracting shadows, modeling the light to give depth to the image, making the background less dark, and correcting color problems with the ambient lighting. Students should bring their digital cameras, instruction booklets and, if possible, a portable handheld strobe.
Improving Your Photography – Students are asked to bring in photos they’ve taken that they consider unsatisfactory. These will be shown in class and ideas for improving them will be discussed. Improvements might include using a different lens, changing the camera angle, fixing lighting problems, adjusting the depth-of-field, manipulating the image in Photoshop, etc etc etc. Basic camera operation and use, as well as general photographic composition, also will be discussed.
Improving Your Public Relations Photos – PR photos are a necessary part of running most businesses and organizations, but often are limited to the typical “grip and grin” or grab shot. You will learn the ins and outs of the posed, the candid and the “posed/candid” shot. Included will be techniques for locating, positioning, and lighting your subjects. Also, you will see how manipulating foreground and background elements can greatly improve the composition of your image.
Producing Dynamic Product Photos – Whether your company’s product is large or small, it usually takes quite a bit of work to effectively photograph it. For example, a background to isolate or enhance the product will need to be put together. Illumination, including one or more lights, reflectors, gels, etc, must be set up. The best camera angle and camera lens must be determined. All this and more will be explained and demonstrated.
Photographing Your Employees – People in business often need photographs of themselves for a variety of purposes: capability brochures, corporate web sites, annual reports, etc. You will learn techniques that will help you create more interesting and useful images . . . from simple head shots to more complex environment portraits. You will be experimenting with paper backgrounds, shooting locations, portrait lighting, posing, and everything else necessary to produce the results you want.
Improving Your Images With Adobe Elements – You take a photo with your digital camera and, no matter your skill level, there are bound to be problems. For example, the colors are not right, the exposure is uneven, the cropping looks unappealing, or the picture is just plain boring. You will learn how to drastically improve your images using Adobe Elements, an inexpensive but extremely powerful image editing software that compares quite favorably to the very expensive and complex Adobe Photoshop.
Creating a Digital Photographic Workflow – The steps involved in a company’s photographic workflow, to be efficient, must be performed correctly, completely, and in the proper order. You will learn both how to create a workflow that matches the needs of your company as well as the specifics of each step created. Included steps will be preproduction, taking the pictures, downloading them, adding metadata, showing the images to those needing to see them, backing them up, cataloging them, fixing and improving them in a digital imaging program, and producing the final images.
Peter Glass has been a professional corporate, industrial, magazine, and editorial photographer for over 25 years. He also has extensive experience teaching beginning, intermediate, advanced, and specialized photography courses, to both adults and children.