Mark Lissick/Wildlight Nature Photography - Online Photography Courses

MARK'S EIGHT WEEK PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES ARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE AND HELP YOU TO CREATE STRONG VISUAL IMAGES JUST LIKE THE PRO'S.

While looking at a stunning visual image, have you ever wondered "How did the photographer do that. I wish I knew the secret." In reality there are no real secrets to creating a stunning visual image. To do so the pros use the same techniques and methods that can be learned by anyone. Like Mark's field mentored intensive workshops and educational photo adventures, the goal of the on-line courses is provide you with an opportunity to learn new techniques and skillS and help you hone your photographic vision.

All the courses are comprised of stimulating weekly lessons, assignments designed to nurture your creativity, and honest constructive PERSONAL critiques. In combination, they can lead you on a journey to create your own personal imagery that can be visually compelling.

Each week you will be emailed a new lesson that contains lecture and discussion information and color photographs exemplifying the lesson. The weekly lesson plan is sent to you in an MS Word (.doc) format that is easily download and printed.

Along with the lecture material will come a shooting assignment which will provide an opportunity to put into practice what was contained in the lecture. The assignments are designed to provide you the direction and guidance needed to master the topic at hand and to develop a strong compositional and aesthetic eye as you approach the creation of an image.

From the time you receive the weekly lesson you will have approximately 10-12 days (covering two weekends) to complete the assignment and upload 1-3 images on to the light table for review and critique by Mark.

Years of experience with the field-based workshops has shown that immediate and constructive feedback from a professional photographer of one's work is the best and quickest way to improve your photographic skills. It is the single most anticipated event in any of my workshops. Within a week of submitting your assignment you will be sent a personal critique covering insight into your photographic approach along with helpful suggestions and tips.

DESIGNING IMAGES 8 Weeks Beginning April 3, 2010 $300.00 More info sign up now

PHOTOGRAPHING FLOWERS 8 Weeks Beginning April 3, 2010 $300.00 More info sign up now

This eight week course is designed to familiarize yourself with some of the fundamental design element used to compose, via camera and lens, what we "see" with our imagination. The materials will help you develop a strong sense of composition and aesthetics will learning to create simple but visually strong images.

Intended for: Photographers who have a working knowledge of aperture and shutter speeds

C O U R S E T O P I C S I N C L U D E:

Designing with light

Creating mood

Visual weight and balance

Creating a sense of depth

Using color for visual effect

Design by framing and the use of space

R E Q U I R E M E N T S:

Digital or film based 35mm SLR camera equipped with aperture, shutter, and manual priority controls.

Tripod

This eight week course is designed to improve your artistic and technical skills on the macro to small landscape levels. You will be introduced to techniques that will help you to capture the image just as you see it. The goal of this course is to teach you how to make strong visually stunning flower images using some very simple and straight forward tools.

Intended for: Photographers who have a working knowledge of aperture and shutter speeds

C O U R S E T O P I C S I N C L U D E:

Designing with color

Simplify and strengthen

Controlling light

How to avoid making a bad flower image

Creating mood

Creative use of depth-of-field

R E Q U I R E M E N T S:

Digital or film based 35mm SLR camera equipped with aperture, shutter, and manual priority controls.

Tripod

Macro lens or a set of close-up screw on adapters

This eight week course gives you an understanding you how your camera's metering system works and how to use this tool to improve your creative image making. With all of the technological advances in cameras over the last ten year (both film and digital), photographers are having an ever harder time mastering the basics of their camera's metering system. Questions ranging from "What metering mode do I use?" to "How do I meter a scene?" and "How do I use what the meter is telling me so that I can create a strong visual image?" are still being asked. This course will teach you about the different metering systems in your camera, how to understand what your meter is telling you, make correctly exposed images without having to bracket, and how to use the meter information for maximum creativity.

Intended for: Photographers who have a working knowledge of aperture and shutter speed settings.

C O U R S E T O P I C S I N C L U D E:

Understanding what you meter is telling you.

- Why you cannot let the camera control exposure.

- Why your meter wants to turn bright snow and dark shadows grey at the same time.

- When to use spot metering, matrix metering and center weighted metering.

- What you have to know to accurately meter for sunny days, foggy days, and heavy overcast days.

Determining what to meter in a scene.

- How to meter for backlit, sidelit, and frontlit conditions.

- Using the information from your meter to achieve the correct exposure the first time without the need to

bracket.

- Understanding and using the Zone System for exposure calculations.

- Why using grey cards do not always works in nature photography.

- How to meter with telephoto and wide angle lenses.

Using exposure creatively.

- How the use of split neutral density and polarizing filters can affect your exposures.

- How to determine exposure for: telling a big story; isolating subjects; softening motion, freezing action,

panning, creating soft waterfalls and cascading rivers; and enhancing (or reducing) colors.

- Creating mood.

R E Q U I R E M E N T S:

Digital or film based 35mm SLR camera equipped with aperture, shutter, and manual priority controls along with matrix (evaluative), spot and center weighted metering modes.

Tripod (recommended but not required)

If you are technically proficient but still find yourself saying that your images don't look anything like it did on location then you are struggling with your artistic vision. This eight week course introduces you to techniques that will help you expand your creativity and enhance the visual impact of your images. As our camera's are excellent recorders of information, artistic expression must come from within ourselves and not the camera. With this understanding, this course will spend time discussing lighting, exposure and compositional techniques than can be used so that the resulting image communicates the same vision and feelings to the views as it did to you when on location.

Intended for: Serious amateur and intermediate photographers who have a working knowledge of aperture and shutter speed settings. This course is designed to be taken either by advanced level photographers (intermediate level) or the completion of either the Designing Images or Photographing Flowers course.

C O U R S E T O P I C S I N C L U D E:

Designing with light

Improving perspective and visual depth.

Using visual weight to achieve balance.

Creative use of motion.

Composing for visual impact: Beyond the Rule of Thirds.

R E Q U I R E M E N T S:

Digital or film based 35mm SLR camera equipped with aperture, shutter, and manual priority controls.

Tripod