Thursday, October 4 & December 6, 7-9 pm
Eiben Hall, Room 110, Chaminade University
FREE
PNM sponsors ongoing response and critique sessions led by photographer David Ulrich and others. This is a time for photographers and students to come together, dialogue, and share work.
Please bring 8-10 examples of your work, either on a thumb drive or in print form. Please be sure to save your files as JPG’s with a maximum file size of 2-3 megabytes — larger files take too long to load. Participants are encouraged to join in the dialogue with each other’s work and plan to stay for the duration of the session.
Eight weeks, October 17 – Dec 12, Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm (No class October 24 and November 21)
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Cost: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich
Learn to master the tools necessary for creating photographs with power and meaning and editing them into coherent groups of images, whether for a portfolio, personal project, album, Instagram, website, or publication. Learn the fundamentals of visual expression. Take effective steps towards realizing images that reflect a grasp of technique, an understanding of the visual language, solid editing tools, and the powerful clarity of your personal relationship to image-making. Unravel the mystery of learning to see with a camera
Explore using photography as an inner practice that leads you more fully into a rich engagement with yourself and the world, and a platform for sharing your questions, observations, and discoveries.
Class time is divided between slide shows, weekly assignments, readings, editing sessions for selecting and enhancing images, printing, and critiques. All participants have the opportunity to make one or more 13X19 prints of your images.
Participants receive a free pdf copy of David’s new book, The Way of Light: Awake in the World with a Camera, from which class material and assignments are drawn.
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 (2018). www.creativeguide.com
Saturday, October 20, 9am-4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $145
Instructor: Tracy Wright Corvo
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed specifically for photographers to address their real-world needs for a comprehensive photographic workflow. Learn how to create an easy, efficient, and repeatable digital workflow and use the power of Lightroom to organize, edit, enhance, present and print your images. Focus is to get you started in Lightroom so that you can use it immediately. Bring a memory card or thumb drive of 20-30 digital images to load for hands-on practice
Prerequisite: Ability to navigate the Mac desktop.
OPTIONAL: Bring a 1- 3TB external hard drive that is formatted for a MAC.
Tracy Wright Corvo is a portrait and headshot photographer based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has a background in fine art photography and education and has a passion for teaching photography to students of all ages. Tracy donates her photography services to several local charities each year. tracywrightcorvo.com
Sundays, October 21 & 28, 9am – 4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost $275
Instructor: Bill Morrison
Learn to design with these amazing programs from Adobe’s Creative Suite. Explore page layout and typography with Adobe InDesign. With Adobe Illustrator, see how to create dynamic graphics and logos for print or web. And with Adobe Photoshop, exam the tools to produce perfect images that make your design stand out. Learn, hands-on, with real design projects, plus tips and tricks to help you along. Learn to accurately assemble type and images for all your design projects, and how to properly produce files for final output.
Bill Morrison is a web designer and digital media educator. He has a strong interest in helping digital media enthusiasts become comfortable and productive using complex software.
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $40 per session
Instructor: John LeBlanc
Wednesdays, October 24, November 7, 14, 28, and December 5. 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.
Saturday, October 27, 1pm-7pm
Eiben Hall, Room 110, Chaminade University
Fee: $135
Instructor: Ric Noyle
A critical part of any photograph requires a good understanding of lighting your subject. Natural light is ideal but often requires a good knowledge of how to use what you see and then control and modify it, for the image you wish to create
Learn about photographic lighting in several different types of situations that require color corrected controlled light: objects on white backgrounds, people on a controlled background, and controlling lighting outdoors. Learn to use umbrellas, softboxes, reflectors, overhead silks, lighting equipment and lighting set-ups.
Part of this class will be on how to control studio lighting and then the class will meet on location, with a model till dusk.
Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of camera use. Please bring your camera gear and a capture card for on-site photography.
One of the premier photographers in the Pacific Rim, Ric Noyle serves a diverse international clientele from his home base in Honolulu. For more than 30 years, he has excelled in photography’s most demanding genres – fashion, food, people, resorts and aerial – bringing a fresh eye and a unique approach to each one. Ric is also the founder and director of PHOTOCON. ricnoyle.com
Sundays, October 21 & 28, 9am – 4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost $275
Instructor: Bill Morrison
Learn to design with these amazing programs from Adobe’s Creative Suite. Explore page layout and typography with Adobe InDesign. With Adobe Illustrator, see how to create dynamic graphics and logos for print or web. And with Adobe Photoshop, exam the tools to produce perfect images that make your design stand out. Learn, hands-on, with real design projects, plus tips and tricks to help you along. Learn to accurately assemble type and images for all your design projects, and how to properly produce files for final output.
Bill Morrison is a web designer and digital media educator. He has a strong interest in helping digital media enthusiasts become comfortable and productive using complex software.
Eight weeks, October 17 – Dec 12, Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm (No class October 24 and November 21)
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Cost: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich
Learn to master the tools necessary for creating photographs with power and meaning and editing them into coherent groups of images, whether for a portfolio, personal project, album, Instagram, website, or publication. Learn the fundamentals of visual expression. Take effective steps towards realizing images that reflect a grasp of technique, an understanding of the visual language, solid editing tools, and the powerful clarity of your personal relationship to image-making. Unravel the mystery of learning to see with a camera
Explore using photography as an inner practice that leads you more fully into a rich engagement with yourself and the world, and a platform for sharing your questions, observations, and discoveries.
Class time is divided between slide shows, weekly assignments, readings, editing sessions for selecting and enhancing images, printing, and critiques. All participants have the opportunity to make one or more 13X19 prints of your images.
Participants receive a free pdf copy of David’s new book, The Way of Light: Awake in the World with a Camera, from which class material and assignments are drawn.
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 (2018). www.creativeguide.com
Saturday, November 3, 9am-4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $145
Instructor: Colin Macdonald
Colin Macdonald is the director of web operations for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He instituted the first multimedia courses at the UHM Department of Communication, where he taught multimedia design and development for over a decade. Previously, he directed creative services for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As an art director for A&M Records in Canada, he gained extensive knowledge of print media. He has conducted traditional media and multimedia training courses in Asia, Hawai’i, and the continental United States for nearly 20 years. He is a core faculty member of Pacific New Media.