Taking beautiful, well composed, and thoughtfully executed photos has become a sought after skill. During Creative Photography for Kids, we discuss how we can control our environment to capture beautiful images. However, our camera was still in control.

In Advanced Photography for Kids & Teens … I will teach children how to take control of their camera to expand on their creativity in photography.

Photographing in manual mode can be really intimidating, especially when you don’t fully understand what aperture, ISO, and shutter speed are and how they work together.

This class will teach children a fundamental understanding of shooting in semi manual modes and full manual mode.

• We will begin with understanding key camera settings and the meaning of exposure.

• We will start with a good understanding of Aperture and how we can use aperture to bring creativity to our images. We will learn how to use Aperture Priority Mode.

• Then we will get an understanding of Shutter Speed and how it can make or break our images. We will learn how to use your Shutter Priority Mode to capture moving objects without motion blur or do the opposite and show motion.

• Then we will learn all about ISO and how it impacts images. We will put together Aperture-Shutter Speed-ISO and learn how they all work together to achieve the image we are after. We will learn how to read our camera’s light meter and histograms.

• Finally we will discuss the do’s and don’t to cropping, how to set your white balance.

• We will look at how photographers get inspiration from the world around them and from fine art.

• Our final project will be to create a storytelling movie using images with the tools you have learned during the week.

Numbers will be strictly limited to 6 kids as this is a more advanced topic and will require more individual attention to master the skills.