Courses will include how to change various camera settings such as the shutter speed, f/stop, and ISO. Allowing you to start making creative decisions for the camera.
When you take a class at Portland Camera Service you’ll learn how to use your camera to its fullest abilities while improving your photographic skills and creativity.
Courses will include how to change various camera settings such as the shutter speed, f/stop, and ISO. Allowing you to start making creative decisions for the camera.
With better understanding of exposure you will get quality photos that you’ll be able to reproduce due to a basic understanding of the manual settings
Week 1: Introductions, camera walk-through, exposure basics, how to use manual mode.
Week 2: HW review. Auto vs. Program, Shooting modes (P, A, S, M), meetering, focus and drive modes.
Week 3: HW review. Subject: composition, depth of field.
Week 4: HW review. Subject: exposure review, how to use your built in flash creatively, Q&A
Portland Camera Service is family owned and operated and was established in order to provide professional photographers, enthusiasts and photographers just starting out with services, products, and education in Portland, Oregon.
They wanted to have a place where all levels of photographers could find not just great products, but also professional advice, classes, and usable studio and event space.
With over 20 years of experience in photography, lighting, and education, Portland Camera Service aims to provide their customers with the knowledge and assistance they need.
Located in the Hillsdale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon; Portland Camera Service offers maintenance services for all types of photography equipment.
With experienced technicians, cameras are cleaned, calibrated, inspected, and tested for performance.
Our product availability is wide ranging, and only trusted products and companies are featured.
When needed, a versatile studio and event space is available for rent. This space can accommodate both studio lights or daylight studio uses.
Tables and chairs will be available if needed for classes or events. If before or during your shoot, you find you are missing or in need of any equipment- lenses, lights, batteries, and more- are also available to rent or purchase.
Portland Camera Service also offers various classes and private lessons in lighting, photography, and editing for beginners and professionals alike.
Learning how to use your equipment from a professional will help guarantee you get the results you’re looking for.
In this beginning workshop, students will learn all the controls and functions on their digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, basic camera operation (including f-stop, shutter speed and ISO), fundamental concepts of photography, and how to control the photograph’s final look.
Understanding basic photography camera controls and functions to make more creative decisions. Train your eye to see stronger composition to have your photographs stand out from everyone else’s images.
Classes have been designed to combine hands-on, practical learning with inspirational insights around the broader themes of Photography.
Each Composition in the Field class begins with a talk with one of our experienced instructors, and then you and your fellow students take a stroll through one of a variety of photogenic locales (in any of the 20+ cities the DPA encapsulates).
After 20 years of offering Photography workshops, we have never produced one workshop with similar outcome, there is no exact science in how we do things but what remains consistent in our Photography classes are the specific instructions in perfect lighting.
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