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“A Quiet Moment” by Kim Hunter FeisleyIF YOU GO* What: Digital photography course for beginners.* When: 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.* Where: Association for Visual Arts, 30 Frazier Ave.* Admission: $125.* Phone: 265-4282.* Website: www.avarts.org
For many amateur photographers, upgrading from a point-and-shoot camera to a digital single-lens reflex – or DSLR – can feel like auditing a course on differential calculus. As a result, some choose to plant themselves in the familiar ground of their camera’s automatic mode and avoid all the confusing dials and switches altogether.
The Association for Visual Arts hopes to change that this week with a three-day photography course that will walk DSLR neophytes through their camera’s many advanced functions as well as introducing them to basic photographic principles.
Hopefully, the course will help demystify camera tech and generate better, more confident shooters, says AVA Director of Media and Design Zach Cooper.
“Many people out there … really don’t really have knowledge of the basic functions of a DSLR,” Cooper says. “We hope they’ll be able to take better photography … set up better composition … and have better outcomes, whether that’s doing something online with Instagram or have them printed for matting and mounting.”