Welcome!

Welcome to the new blog for the "Make the Most of Your Digital Camera" course at Huron Heights Secondary School in Newmarket. This is an introductory course and assumes you have little or no previous knowledge or experience.

This eight-week course begins October 1, 2012 and continues until November 26. Please note that there will be no class on the night of Monday, October 8 when the school will be closed for the Thanksgiving statutory holiday.

Classes are two hours in length, from7:00 to 9:00 p.m. each evening. We will meet in room 407 on the 2nd floor.

Each week we'll discuss some digital camera concepts and some basic photography concepts so you'll learn to feel comfortable using your camera and how to make your camera work for you.

Please bring your camera to class each week. We also suggest that you bring your camera manual. That may help us help you if we can't determine how to do something using the menus on your camera. We'll do our best to help you apply the concepts you learn to the camera you own.

Projects

We will assign a photography project each week too! Please don't be intimidated ... projects are designed to help you apply some of the concepts we learn during the class by taking some photos. We suggest that you try different approaches and take many photos. That way you will begin to understand the concepts and how they apply in real life situations.

We request that you choose 1 or 2 photos you take from the project to share with the class the following week. Bring a photo on a memory stick or even on your camera's memory card. I will upload them to my small laptop and display them to everyone while you describe the image and what you were thinking while you shot it. By the way, projects and sharing are completely voluntary.

Weekly class presentations

Each week I will upload the slides that I have presented during the class. Look on the right side of this blog under that heading. You can click on a week and then read and/or download the presentation. The slides are in PDF format for easy printing.

Add photos, comments etc.

You are all "authors" on this blog and thereby entitled and enabled to add anything. Once you have signed on to the blog (using your Google id), click on the "new post" button and start blogging! It's really easy to upload a photo, create a text entry, add video and more.

Note that to just read this blog, you don't need to sign on - just go to the link.

I'm sure you'll have questions so ask in class or please email Neil and Lesley at neilandlesley@kinnearandchung.com.

See you in class!