The Milton Photo Class

THE MILTON DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS WINTER 2006

Eight exciting weeks of digital fun, folies and learning.

This blog is a collection of photos from the town of Milton’s Digital photography workshop. The purpose of this blog is to show how our members are progressing with their photography skills as they learn step by step over an eight week course on how to take better pictures. Everyone who is taking the class is at a different level and is here to help improve their picture taking in a fun, social environment.
MEET THE CLASS
Bob
Bob has a HP Photosmart 945 at 5.3MP. Bob is here to learn new photo techniques and to take himself from just picture taking to doing photography.
Marshall
Marshall is lucky to have a Nikon Digital SLR. He hopes to get knowledge with the operation of his digital camera.

Barbra
Barb has a Kodak Easyshare C340. Barb writes that she is a beginner. She can put in batteries, knows where the card is, can take a picture but she doesn’t know the meaning of all the symbols on her camera. She wants to learn how to work her camera, what the symbols mean and says it would be nice to learn how to capture good images. She say she doesn’t want me as a teacher to hesitate to go back to the bare basics in the class.

Judy
Judy is using a Canon Powershot A75. She expects to use her camera in its full capacity and to use it more efficiently and to stop cutting off objects.

Susan
Susan has a Nikon SLR and would like to understand the features on her camera.

Michelle
Michelle has a Sony Cybershot at 3.2 mp. She wants to learn about the special features on her camera, wants to take better landscape shots and wants to learn how to take better pictures through windows.

Neil
Neil has a Canon Powershot S30 and admits he is very computer challenged. We hope by the end of the class Neil will be admitting he is not computer challenged and will learn to love working with both his computer and his camera.
Neil P.
Neil has a Sony Cybershot with 4.1 mp. He is a new owner of a digital camera and wants to understand the operations and features of the camera.
Mike
Mike has a Fuji Finepix 2600 with 2 mp. His goal is to learn new photography tricks, especially nighttime or dark lighting shots. He admits his camera has 100 iso only and says “Its poor for dark shots.”

Kate
Kate has a Kodak Easyshare CD 33 at 3 mp. She wants to improve on her photo techniques and to get more knowledge on photography.

Amy
Amy is using a Concord Duo 2000 at 2 mp. She says she has never used a digital camera and she needs to know how to use one to take great pictures.
Jack
Jack has a Fuji F10 and is looking to develop general expertise in the use of his camera.

John
John has a Sony F828 with 8 mp. He wants to learn to take better digital pictures and to learn how to do photo editing.

Alice
Alice has a Cannon Powershot S215 with 5 mp. She received her camera as a gift in July and she has taken over 11000 photos. She would like to learn how to use more functions on her camera beyond auto-focus and to edit her photos as well as combining photos into documents.

Ruth
Ruth has a Fuji S3100 at 4 mp. She hopes to gain confidence with the camera settings and saving on her computer including filing and emailing cropping and so on. In other words, Ruth says she needs to learn it all.

The final member of the class is me, teacher AnnK.
AnnK uses a Fuji Finepix F610 with 12 mp. From this class I hope to help people with their problems while keeping each weekly session as fun and as interesting as best as I can. With my background and knowledge, I hope to share the tips, tricks, and hints I have accumulated over the years of being a photographer and to help everyone to be more comfortable using their cameras, no matter what their level might be.