Duane Brovan, Commercial Photographer.
31281 Withrow Road, Shingletown, CA 96088
Email: Duane@DuaneBrovan.com Ph: (530) 474-4041 Cell: (530) 355-5417

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“Gain Control over Your Digital Camera!”
Learn how and when to override auto settings!

Subject:

Individual and Group Digital Camera and Photography Instruction for Beginners to Advance-Intermediate skill levels.

Instructor:

Duane Brovan, Commercial Photographer:

What you can learn from Duane Brovan’s instruction on Digital Cameras:

How to consistently take good photos by overriding your camera’s automatic settings. You can learn the basic components of photography (f-Stop, Shutter Speed, Auto focus-zone or spot, ISO settings, Depth of Field, Spot/Center weight Metering, White Balance, Managing Contrast and much more). Then you can move from “P” mode to “A”, “S” and “M” modes (Program mode-automatic, Aperture priority, Shutter priority and Manual modes), which will give you full control over your camera. Find out how to manage your photos so they are easy to access even many years later. Be shown how to adjust your photos for email so almost everyone can open and view them. Get answers to questions that you have regarding the entire digital photo process and get unbiased, no pressure purchasing advice.

Duane offers daily personal training sessions within the Greater Redding and Red Bluff areas including Shasta and Northern Tehama County cities and communities (Anderson, Shasta Lake, Cottonwood, Palo Cedro, Shingletown, Millville, Whitmore, Bella Vista, Old Shasta, and Happy Valley ). With prior arrangement he is available for out of the area training and seminars.

Instructor Background:

Instructor has 5 years digital photography experience from point-n-shoot to DSLR (digital Single Len Reflex); 4 years as commercial photographer taking over 30 hotels/motels, portraits, and product shoots for web and ad materials. 5 years Photoshop experience (5.0, 5.5, 6, 7, CS) manipulating and adjusting photos. He has written a digital photo tips column for Ridge Rider News, author of bi-weekly email article called Photo Tips for Realtors, author of a monthly digital photo newsletter. He has taken a course from Shasta College on how to instruct adults called “Fire Instructor 1A” and conducted fire training classes for the Shingletown Volunteer Fire Company. Duane is a member of the Professional Photographers of the North Valley and a member of the Shingletown Shutterclickers.

Reasons for Receiving Personal (Individual) Instruction on your own digital camera and equipment:

Affordable one on one instruction using your own equipment, why learn how to use something you don’t have or don’t wish to know? One on one instruction allows you to receive pin-point help and answer your specific questions. Most photography classes teach what the general public might want to know. Your personal instruction is geared to what you need to know for your specific purpose.

Personal Training and classes are offered in Redding, Anderson, Red Bluff, Shasta Lake, Cottonwood, Happy Valley, Shingletown, Palo Cedro, Millville and Bella Vista area.

The beauty of digital photography is it doesn’t cost to experiment with your camera’s settings. And you can usually recall what those settings where while viewing your photo (Exif information). Plus, you can have almost instant feed back, so you can try again right away. But just because you are using a digital camera It doesn’t mean that you will become a excellent photographer overnight. It will take many, many hours of experimenting and trying new settings and observing the weather and the movement and position of the sun at different times of the year. You don’t even have to travel further then one block to find things to capture by your camera (flowers, buildings, people, animals, landscapes, parks, etc.).

It can seem overwhelming and too complicated to override the auto program at first, but with some good one on one instruction on your photo equipment, it isn’t that hard. Using a camera in “P” “Program Mode” is like driving a vehicle with an automatic transmission. On the flat and level ground it works great, but start driving up and down long steep hills you find your transmission isn’t working, as well as, on the level ground. That is because the transmission is set for the level and almost level ground. Same with your camera (digital or film), in Automatic mode “P” the settings work great if the pre-programmed conditions occur when you take your photo! If something is not quite in line with the programmed setting, things won’t look as good. So the answer is to override the auto program! The trick is to know when and how to override the auto feature? That is where the one on one instruction really helps.

If you are anything like me, a person can tell me all about “depth of field” and it goes right over my head, until I got my first digital camera and took the same photo manually shooting at every f-stop “Aperture Priority” (luckily the camera only had ten f-stops (f2.8 to f8). I did the same for the various shutter speeds “S” mode “Shutter Priority” and noticed how the depth of field changed.

For personal and/or group digital camera and photography training within the Greater Redding and Red Bluff areas including Shasta and Tehama Counties contact Duane at (530) 474-4041 or email Duane@DuaneBrovan.com or Duane@GreatPerspective.com.