Eight weeks, July 11-August 29, Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Cost: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Through six dynamic lessons, learn to use photography to awaken your creativity, cultivate photographic seeing, and create meaningful photographs that are uniquely your own. Investigate the key elements of the photographic language through assignments, slide presentations, exercises in craft, and individual critiques for a wide range of personal and professional applications. The cultivation of an individual style and point of view is emphasized.
ZEN CAMERA is divided into six lessons with numerous tools and exercises to help participants realize the content of each lesson:
Lesson One: Observation
Lesson Two: Awareness
Lesson Three: Identity
Lesson Four: Practice
Lesson Five: Mastery
Lesson Six: Presence.
Both vision and craft are addressed in this class. Camera and software use is explored to help you refine and strengthen your visual expression. You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.
Class content is distilled from the instructor’s new book from Ten Speed Press/Random House (February 2018). All participants receive a free hardbound copy of David’s book, Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography.
Prerequisite: A basic familiarity with your camera. Open to all levels from novice to professional. All camera types are welcome, including cell phones.
Please bring 6-8 jpeg images of your work on a thumb drive to the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com
“David is a master teacher, encouraging us to go further into our own photography journey with quality assessments along the way. He has a magical ability to coach students to achieve more. Love his classes.”
—Nancy Page
“I loved how this was framed and using David’s book was awesome. It allowed for reflection and deepening of my work.”
—Leslie Gleim
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $40 per session
Instructor: John LeBlanc
Wednesdays, July 18 & 25, August 1 & 8, 7-8:30pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $145 (or $40 per session)
Instructor: John LeBlanc
WordPress Wednesdays is a four (4) class series providing entrepreneurs, professionals and even hobbyists the skills & resources to develop attractive, functional and sustainable websites with WordPress for their business or pastime. The classes are intended for people who are looking to build, design and manage their own website. Workshop Topics:
Prerequisite: Confidence operating a web browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Firefox
John LeBlanc is an independent WordPress specialist and web developer. He’s been developing websites and web content management solutions professionally since 1997, serving as the first staff webmaster at CBS in Boston.
8 Weeks, Thursdays, 6-9pm, July 12 – September 6, No class August 9
Eiben Hall, Room 110, Chaminade University
Cost: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few … This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.”
—Shunryu Suzuki, from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
It is estimated that 1.3 trillion photographs were taken in 2017, 75% of which were made with cell phone cameras. An entire generation has grown up making incessant use of photography as a form of visual communication yet know little about the medium or its expressive possibilities. This class is designed for those who take pictures and want to understand more about photography.
Learn the visual dynamics of photography. Awaken your creativity and generate images that exceed your expectations. Explore the fundamentals of personal expression through photography and discover your unique vision. Investigate the key elements of the visual language through assignments, slide presentations, and individual critiques for a wide range of personal and professional applications. The cultivation of an individual style and point of view is emphasized.
Prerequisite: A basic familiarity with your camera. Open to all levels from novice to professional. All camera types are welcome, including cell phones.
Please load 6-8 selected jpeg images of your work on a thumb drive for the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and program director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com
Four meetings: Saturdays, July 21, 28, & August 4, 11
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $250 (Register before July 14), After July 14, $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop—all integrated parts of the Adobe Photoshop “family”—offer an unprecedented set of tools for editing and manipulating photos for expressive results. This advanced basic to intermediate-level class, which meets over four sessions, covers the chief features of RAW processing in Camera Raw and Lightroom and the multiple pixel editing tools available in Photoshop. Because it meets over multiple weeks, it offers an opportunity to ‘take home” the lessons, digest the tools, and apply them to your own work in a way that is not possible in an intensive, weekend workshop.
Week One: Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom controls for raw processing, global editing, noise reduction, B&W transformations, lens corrections, parametric and point tone curves, and powerful local editing tools. Workflow and import options.
Week Two: Photoshop adjustment layers, content layers, and smart objects. Learn non-destructive techniques fully edit your photograph for highly expressive results, employ filters non-destructively, and integrate Camera Raw and pixel editing tools in a single Photoshop file.
Week Three: The incredibly powerful and versatile tools of layer masks, luminance and color masks, and layer blending modes.
Week Four: Get it clean; get it sharp; and get it sized and optimized for various forms of output. The power of content-aware editing, retouching, color spaces/color conversion intents, interpolation algorithms, and effective methods for sharpening different types of output.
You’ll leave the class with a much better understanding of global and local Raw and pixel processing as well as learning about the full integration of Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop into your workflow.
Please review the basic toolbar and menu settings in Photoshop as well as the basics of layer management. You can review layer management here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/layer-basics.html
Class is taught on iMac computers with Photoshop CC 2017 with provided training files. Also, please bring 6-8 full resolution images of your own to work on during the class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and the upcoming Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com
Eight weeks, July 11-August 29, Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Cost: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Through six dynamic lessons, learn to use photography to awaken your creativity, cultivate photographic seeing, and create meaningful photographs that are uniquely your own. Investigate the key elements of the photographic language through assignments, slide presentations, exercises in craft, and individual critiques for a wide range of personal and professional applications. The cultivation of an individual style and point of view is emphasized.
ZEN CAMERA is divided into six lessons with numerous tools and exercises to help participants realize the content of each lesson:
Lesson One: Observation
Lesson Two: Awareness
Lesson Three: Identity
Lesson Four: Practice
Lesson Five: Mastery
Lesson Six: Presence.
Both vision and craft are addressed in this class. Camera and software use is explored to help you refine and strengthen your visual expression. You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.
Class content is distilled from the instructor’s new book from Ten Speed Press/Random House (February 2018). All participants receive a free hardbound copy of David’s book, Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography.
Prerequisite: A basic familiarity with your camera. Open to all levels from novice to professional. All camera types are welcome, including cell phones.
Please bring 6-8 jpeg images of your work on a thumb drive to the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com
“David is a master teacher, encouraging us to go further into our own photography journey with quality assessments along the way. He has a magical ability to coach students to achieve more. Love his classes.”
—Nancy Page
“I loved how this was framed and using David’s book was awesome. It allowed for reflection and deepening of my work.”
—Leslie Gleim
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $40 per session
Instructor: John LeBlanc
Wednesdays, July 18 & 25, August 1 & 8, 7-8:30pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $145 (or $40 per session)
Instructor: John LeBlanc
WordPress Wednesdays is a four (4) class series providing entrepreneurs, professionals and even hobbyists the skills & resources to develop attractive, functional and sustainable websites with WordPress for their business or pastime. The classes are intended for people who are looking to build, design and manage their own website. Workshop Topics:
Prerequisite: Confidence operating a web browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Firefox
John LeBlanc is an independent WordPress specialist and web developer. He’s been developing websites and web content management solutions professionally since 1997, serving as the first staff webmaster at CBS in Boston.
8 Weeks, Thursdays, 6-9pm, July 12 – September 6, No class August 9
Eiben Hall, Room 110, Chaminade University
Cost: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few … This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.”
—Shunryu Suzuki, from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
It is estimated that 1.3 trillion photographs were taken in 2017, 75% of which were made with cell phone cameras. An entire generation has grown up making incessant use of photography as a form of visual communication yet know little about the medium or its expressive possibilities. This class is designed for those who take pictures and want to understand more about photography.
Learn the visual dynamics of photography. Awaken your creativity and generate images that exceed your expectations. Explore the fundamentals of personal expression through photography and discover your unique vision. Investigate the key elements of the visual language through assignments, slide presentations, and individual critiques for a wide range of personal and professional applications. The cultivation of an individual style and point of view is emphasized.
Prerequisite: A basic familiarity with your camera. Open to all levels from novice to professional. All camera types are welcome, including cell phones.
Please load 6-8 selected jpeg images of your work on a thumb drive for the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and program director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com
Four meetings: Saturdays, July 21, 28, & August 4, 11
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $250 (Register before July 14), After July 14, $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop—all integrated parts of the Adobe Photoshop “family”—offer an unprecedented set of tools for editing and manipulating photos for expressive results. This advanced basic to intermediate-level class, which meets over four sessions, covers the chief features of RAW processing in Camera Raw and Lightroom and the multiple pixel editing tools available in Photoshop. Because it meets over multiple weeks, it offers an opportunity to ‘take home” the lessons, digest the tools, and apply them to your own work in a way that is not possible in an intensive, weekend workshop.
Week One: Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom controls for raw processing, global editing, noise reduction, B&W transformations, lens corrections, parametric and point tone curves, and powerful local editing tools. Workflow and import options.
Week Two: Photoshop adjustment layers, content layers, and smart objects. Learn non-destructive techniques fully edit your photograph for highly expressive results, employ filters non-destructively, and integrate Camera Raw and pixel editing tools in a single Photoshop file.
Week Three: The incredibly powerful and versatile tools of layer masks, luminance and color masks, and layer blending modes.
Week Four: Get it clean; get it sharp; and get it sized and optimized for various forms of output. The power of content-aware editing, retouching, color spaces/color conversion intents, interpolation algorithms, and effective methods for sharpening different types of output.
You’ll leave the class with a much better understanding of global and local Raw and pixel processing as well as learning about the full integration of Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop into your workflow.
Please review the basic toolbar and menu settings in Photoshop as well as the basics of layer management. You can review layer management here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/layer-basics.html
Class is taught on iMac computers with Photoshop CC 2017 with provided training files. Also, please bring 6-8 full resolution images of your own to work on during the class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and the upcoming Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. www.creativeguide.com