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Fundamentals of Photography (Basic 35mm & Digital Photography) #101 (more info)
Instructor: Bryce Denison
$255.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)

This six-week, 3 1/2 hour per week, seven session class is designed for people who have recently purchased a 35mm or digital SLR camera or for people looking for a refresher on technique. Learn about exposure, shutter speeds and f/ stops. Learn composition techniques such as: the Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, S curves and C curves and Light Isolates. Learn about the use of filters and flash and of various film types. Learn about travel photography, portraiture, close-ups and how to overcome full automation in today's cameras. Any 35mm or digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera that can be adjusted for manual operation as well as automatic exposure mode is welcome in class; so long as it is not an automatic only exposure camera. (No point and shoot cameras permitted) Expect homework assignments! Do not be misled. The word "Basic" in the title does not mean "elementary" photography.  People who have shot photographs for many years would still benefit from this class just as much as a beginner. The digital photographer will learn about the merits of RAW files compared to JPEG or TIF, white balance and histograms. Evening sessions from 7-10:30 PM. plus an all-day Saturday workshop.  AM sessions from 10:30 AM - 2:30PM.

Dates:

Thursdays January 10,17, 24, 31 February 78, 14, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

     Saturday Session February 9, 2008  10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Tuesdays February 26, March 4, 11, 18, April 1, 8, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

     Saturday Session April 12, 2008 (10: AM - 5:00 PM)

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Thursdays  February 28, March 6, 13, 20, April 3, 10, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

      Saturday Session April 12, 2008 (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

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Thursdays April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

      Saturday Session  May 17, 2007   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sold Out !!!

Thursdays July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 21, 28, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

     Saturday Session  August 23, 2008   10:00 AM- 5:00 PM

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Thursdays September 11, 18, 25, October 2, 16, 23, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

Saturday Session October 18, 2008   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Wednesdays November 5, 12, 19, 26, December 3, 10, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

      Saturday Session December 13, 2008 (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

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Thursdays November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

      Saturday Session December 13, 2008  (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

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Daytime Fundamentals of Photography (Basic 35mm Classes) #101

Tuesdays February 26, March 4, 11, 18, April 1, 8, 2008 (10:30am-2:00pm)

     Saturday Session April 12, 2008 (10: AM - 5:00 PM)

Tuesdays July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 19, 26, 2008 (10:30am-2:00pm)

      Saturday Session August 23, 2008   10:00 - 5:00 PM

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Tuesdays September 9, 16, 23, 30, October 14, 21, 2008 (10:30am-2:00pm)
       Saturday Session October 18, 2008   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Intermediate Shooting Techniques  #120 (more info)
Instructor: Bryce Denison
$340.00 -
Farmington Hills Location (Map)

This six-week class is designed to compliment and provide and a continuation of the techniques and skills learned in our Fundamentals of Photography #101 (Basic 35mm Techniques class). Learn some advanced flash techniques like: rear-curtain sync, dragging the shutter, painting with light and syncro sunlight fill flash. We will spend time learning about advanced exposure techniques including: time exposures, reciprocity failure and proper tripod use. Enjoy a slide program about the history of Photography. Be prepared to learn more about close up and macro techniques and more about various accessories available to the serious photographer like: extension tubes, 2X converters and split neutral density filters. Each student will spend an individual three hour session in the studio one-on-one with the instructor. This class includes an all day field trip (usually to Greenfield Village).

Prerequisites:
Basic 35mm/Digital Techniques or permission from the instructor.

Dates:

Tuesdays April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2008 (7:00 - 10:30 PM)
Field Trip Saturday April 26, 2008  (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

   Sold Out

Tuesdays October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)
Field Trip Saturdday November 08, 2007 (10:00-5:00 PM)

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Daytime Intermediate Shooting Techniques  #120

Tuesdays April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2008 (10:30AM-2:00 PM)

Field Trip Saturday April 26, 2008  (10:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Tuesdays Oct. 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 2008  (10:30AM-2:00 PM)

Field Trip Saturday November 08, 2007 (10:00-5:00 PM)

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Portfolio Development  #140
Instructor- Bryce Denison
$340.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)
Class limited to 12

Wednesdays May 28, June 11, 18, July 9, 16, 23, 2008 (7:00-10:30 pm)
Field Trip Saturday July 12, 2008 (10:00am-5:00pm)

New for 2008!!!

The Art of Seeing  #150

Instructor:   Bill Gosa

$395.00

Farmington Hills Location (plus a few field trips)

This class will train the photographer to SEE artistically.  Establishing your ability to compose and create a photograph of interest. You will learn the essence of the visual experience in appreciative discovery and photographic expression. Many photographers have been conditioned to be subject matter conscious and are not sensitive to the multitude of emotional, spiritual and intellectual experiences. Cameras are available to everyone but many people with cameras are not photographers. You only see what you are taught to see. Seeing compositional elements and rendering photographic art that will kindle the viewer’s emotions and intellect will assist you in any photographic endeavor. What you bring to the subject is more important than what the subject brings to you. Subjective interpretation is the key to understanding the aesthetic experience when focusing the camera. Before you release the shutter and record your selection and rejection your ideas should be with deliberate and knowledgeable seeing. This class has extensive shooting in each class and field trips with film or digital cameras.

Prerequisites:  Fundamental Principles of Photography #101

Dates:

Tuesdays  January 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 2008  (7-10PM)

Tuesdays  May 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 8, 2008  (7-10)

Thursdays September 11, 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 2008  (7-10)

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Color, Form, Space and a Sense of Place  #180

Instructor:  Bill Gosa

$595.00

Farmington Hills Location (plus a few field trips)

What is Fine Art Photography?  What is Documentary Photography? 

During this eight-week course, students will learn how to identify the qualities of the image to characterize a "Fine Art Photograph" and how to compose and express their creativity using digital or film cameras.  Conceptual considerations considerations will include: from pattern to idea and from part to whole.  We will learn compositional techniques to create an aesthetical ability to see our photographic values.   We will also learn how to achieve the photographic qualities in our work expressing: from surface to depth and from optical to tactile.  Depth of field will not be discussed... rather the volumetric quality of form.  We have all accepted the art form of painting on canvas and its advantages; constructing forms, creating layers, lighting highlights, shadows and texture.  The fine art photographer must rely on the camera, lenses and paper/canvas to convey their artistic vision.  We will not focus on effects using digital image manipulation.  Rather, the intent of the class is to establish your ability to see artistically to render fine art photography using the camera not your PC or Mac.  The class will study the work of Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cartier-Bresson, DeCarava and Edward Weston. There is a Weekend field trip to Hart Plaza - Downtown Detroit included in this class, guest speakers and another field trip to an industrial studio.

Class size is limited to 10.

Prerequisite Classes:

Fundamental Photography #101

Intermediate Photography #120

Basic Photoshop #201

The Art of Seeing #150

Dates:

Wednesdays April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2008 (7-10 PM)

Wednesdays October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 26, December 3, 10, 17, 2008

(7-10PM)

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Basic PhotoShop  #201 (more info)
Instructor: Rich Grubola
$395.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)

This six-week class is designed for photographers desiring to acquire skills necessary to manipulate digital photographic files. This class is not for graphic design artists. Students will learn how to open and save files in order to work on them.   Learn to adjust color, contrast, saturation and hue to your satisfaction. Learn how to use the tools provided in Photoshop like the magic wand, cropping tool, airbrush, eraser, dodging tool and more. The computer lab has state-of-the-art Windows based computers, high-end scanners and large monitors to insure each student has everything needed to create or just correct superior images. These courses emphasize a "hands-on" approach to processing photographic images in Photoshop. Class size is limited so each student has his/her own computer on which to work. In addition, a small student/instructor ratio ensures individual attention.

  Each class begins with a brief theory session in which new concepts are introduced and discussed. This is immediately followed by a computer lab where students are provided with customized Photoshop exercises to demonstrate the theory. These exercises are followed with comprehensive examples cumulatively building upon student knowledge to recreate "real world" uses of Photoshop for digital/film photographers. Students spend the majority of each class session actually working at their individual computers with Adobe Photoshop.

Each student is provided with a CD-ROM of exercises for use at home to reinforce class topics. Detailed written notes and step-by-step instructions are provided at every session. Each class opens with a question and answer period about the prior week's class work and the home exercises. Samples of the instructor's Photoshop work are shown each week to illustrate new concepts and introduce the computer exercises.

Outside work is encouraged. The instructor is available to answer questions about class work or individual needs. It is assumed that students have basic computer skills and photographic experience/knowledge. (Class limited to 8 Students)

Dates:

Mondays January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 2008 (7:00-10:00 PM)

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Mondays February 25, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2008  (7:00 - 10:00 PM)

Thursdays February 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3, 2008 (7:00-10:00 PM)

Mondays June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, July 7, 2008 (7:00 - 10:00 PM )

Thursdays July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2008 (7:00 - 10:00 PM)

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Mondays September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 2008 (7:00 -10:00 PM)

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Thursdays September 11, 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 2008 (7:00-10:00 PM)
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Tuesdays  October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25, December 2, 2008 (7:00-10:00 PM)

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Daytime Photoshop Classes  #201
Instructor: Rich Grubolal
$395.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)

Thursdays April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008 (10:30 AM - 1:30PM)

Thursday October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 2008

(10:30 AM - 1:30 PM) 

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Intermediate PhotoShop  #220     (more info)
Instructor: Rich Grubola
$395.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)
Class limited to 8 students

Like MPW's Basic Adobe Photoshop, this class is entirely "hands-on" with
students having their own computer work stations. While the Basic course
emphasizes Photoshop's tools, the Advanced course focuses on
photographically useful corrections and enhancements.
   Adjustment layers, masking and color blending modes are extensively used for
image manipulation and correction. In addition, students complete an
extensive digital retouching exercise in which a portrait is de-constructed
into component layers permitting detailed enhancement of lips, eyes, mouth,
eyebrows, nose and chin. Liquefy distortion is then employed to reshape
cheeks, chin and neck in addition to sculpting the waist and torso.
   Besides correcting photo realistic images, students explore black and white
photographic techniques--but using COLOR imagery in the digital domain.
Abstract, painterly and graphic arts techniques are also covered. Finally,
specialized dark room tricks such as the Sabattier effect are duplicated
using digital technology." 7-10 PM.

Prerequisites:  Basic Photoshop #201

Dates:

Mondays April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 2008 (7:00 - 10:00 PM)

Mondays October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24, 2008  (7:00 - 10:00 PM)
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Daytime Intermediate Photoshop Classes   #220
Instructor: Rich Grubola
$395.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)
Class limited to 8 students

Thursdays July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2008
(10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

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Photoshop Sandbox  #206
Instructor: Rich Grubola
$340.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map)

Students who have completed a Basic Photoshop class have learned about the tools, layering, filters and procedures to improve photographs.  The benefit of this event is to provide an opportunity for students to work on their own images under the helpful tutelage of Instructor Jim Hodel.  Students may already know about the tools and procedures, but will learn more effectively which tools to select and how to apply those modifications to their own images.  Best of all, students can print their photos on our 24" Epson 7600 printer.  There will be an additional fee for students using the printer, but it is an excellent opportunity to print portfolio and fine art prints up to 24"x36".  Scanning of film is available also.

Dates:

Thursdays April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2008  (7-10:00 PM)

October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2007 2007 (7-10:00 PM)

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Daytime Classes:

Thursdays May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 2008  (10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

Wednesdays October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2008 (10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

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Print your Portfolio  #221  (more info)
Instructor:  Joseph Wisniewski
$395.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 

This six-evening class will provide instruction and access to scanning your own film and prints. Learn how to burn a CD for storage of your large files Learn about Color Working Space. You will have the opportunity to scan up to 650MB of your negatives (retail value at $1.00 per megabyte), slides or prints to work on at a later time. CD is provided.  This class will also provide instruction and demonstration about how to print your photographs from Photoshop 7.0 or CS. MPW has state-of-the-art Epson printers available for student use and students are encouraged to bring some of your favorite images on a CD for printing in class.  This class will also provide instruction and demonstration about the techniques and methods of calibrating your computer monitor to display the same color as your printer and scanner will output. We will use a variety of software and hardware including Gretags' Eye-One.

Dates:

Mondays and Wednesdays:

July 28, 30, August 4, 6, 11, 13, 2008  (7:00-10:00 PM)  

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Basic Portrait Lighting  #401 (more info)
Instructor:  Bryce Denison
$340.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 
Class limited to 8 students

This five-evening class specializes in a small student to instructor ratio to provide a personalized instruction to shooting a thorough understanding of portrait lighting, the application of makeup and posing. Learn the art of seeing and painting with light using both hot lights and studio electronic flash. Learn how to diffuse and bounce light with reflectors, umbrellas, soft boxes and the difference to hard edge, raw light. Learn posing techniques that will enhance and flatter your subject and increase sales from clients. Some of the lighting styles include: Rembrandt, butterfly, single lighting, rim lighting and back lighting to achieve that high glamour look. How often have you wished you could take portraits like the Pro's do? Photographs that earn you money! Don't envy others- learn these techniques so that others envy your photos.  Students will photograph four different professional models.  One evening, a professional make-up artist will demonstrate.  7-11 PM.

In 2007, all five offerings sold out quickly.  Register soon!

Dates:

Tuesdays January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 2008  (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

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Mondays April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 2008  (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

Tuesdays June 10, 17, July 8, 15, 22, 2008 (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

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Tuesdays September 9, 16, 23, 30, October 14, 2008  (7:00 - 11:00 PM) 

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New For 2008!!!

Daytime Classes

January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 2008  (10:30 AM- 2:30 PM)

Sold Out!!!

This Five-Week Class will provide instruction on photographing jewelry, glassware, fashion and food. Learn how to get close to the jewelry and still maintain depth of field and how to capture rim lighting on the edge of a bottle without losing the transparency. Learn how to make sure one dress size can fit your model and how to preserve food from wilting under the hot lights. Learn how to create shadow -less lighting for your product advertising photos.

Tuesdays: February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2008 (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

Mondays: October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2008  (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

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Advanced Product Advertising Photography  #441

Instructor Alvin Haas

$450.00

Farmington Hills Location

Commercial product photographers are among the highest paid professionals in the world, but for a good reason. If it were simple, anyone could make images that get published nationally.  This five-week class provides insight on how you can achieve superior results by combing artistry and technical excellence. Learn to conceptualize and implement ideas that sell and therefore pay. Master styling, arranging, lighting and photographing table top products.

Class size limited to 8 students

Prerequisites:  Basic Portrait Lighting and Basic Product and Fashion Lighting Techniques

Dates:

Thursdays:  July 10, 17, 24, 31,  August 7, 2008  7-11:00PM

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Advanced Fine Art Studio Portraiture  #440 (more info)
Instructors:  John and Nancy Swearingen
$340.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 

Come experience Team Swearingen.  John and Nancy own a delightfully unique portrait studio in Northville, Michigan.  They create their fine art portraits from soup to nuts based upon the principles of the old master painters! Natural light, beautiful composition and a refined sense of color and texture permit their clients to have a great experience in the process and everyone has fun.

  Learn how to create a gracious, hospitable environment to help make a memorable time with your clients and perhaps their families.  Portraiture is an intuitive process that combines both technical mastery of the medium and the empathy between the artist and the subject, needed in any medium; painting, photography or the music of poetry.  This six-session course at the MPW campus, a guided field trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts to discuss the influences of the classic painters.  The weekend field trip to the Swearingen’s beautiful natural light studio in Northville will provide students the opportunity to view and shoot under their unique tutelage.

35mm or medium format film and digital cameras welcome. Expect homework and a field trip! Model fees are included. (Class limited to eight students)

Basic Portrait Lighting #401 is a pre-requisite.

Dates:

Thursdays: October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, 28, December 4, 2008 

(7:00-11:00 PM)

New for 2008!!!

Commercial Portraiture on Location  #541

Instructor: Bryce Denison

$340.00

This four-week class will provide the student with hands on expierience setting up the lights, evaluating the location and determine the lighting ratios to photograph an executive portrait, a musicians' portrait suitable for a CD cover and others.  The first night is in the studio, but the next four are on location. 

Basic Portrait Lighting #401 is a pre-requiste.

Dates:

Wednesdays:  April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008  (7-10:30PM)

New for 2008!!!

Advanced Wedding Photography  #530

Instructor:  Bryce Denison

Farmington Hills Location

$295.00

This four-week class will provide insight on advanced sales techniques such as on-line retailing and advanced promotional techniques such as custom portfolio books. Learn about current styles and trends like the photojournalistic approach to wedding coverage and the latest rage of "Trash the Dress".

Prerequisite: Basic Wedding Photography and Buisness Techniques #520

Dates:

Wednesdays:  April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2008  (7-10 PM)

Mondays:  December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008 (7-10 PM)

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New for 2008!!!

Commercial/Beauty Photography  #425

$495.00

Instructor:  Stella Zaharieva

Beauty Photography is not portrait, fashion or glamour photography.  It is a tool of the Commercial/Advertising industry to sell products such as hair care, cosmetics, skin care lotions, fragrances and jewelry.  In this five-week class, students will take the role of photographer as if they were working for an advertizing adgency.  Students will plan the concept the image, plan the shoot itself including makeup, hair style and model type.  A professional hairstylist/makeup artist will be present each night to prepare the model according the the concept of the shoot (decided upon by the students).  Prerequistes:  Basic Portrait Lighting #401.

Dates: Wednesdays:  October 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12,17, 2008 (7-11:00 PM)

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Framing for Photographers  #801
Instructor Kelly Kossuth
$450.00
Farmington Hills Location

This six-week class is designed for Photographers to learn not only the aesthetics but the "nuts and bolts" of mounting, matting and framing photographs.  Students are expected to bring a photograph or other piece of artwork (16x20 or less in size) they wish to frame. Learn what it takes to make your images "archival".  Learn color theory and what the possibilities are with framing like ordering the materials from a wholesaler to complete your piece.  Learn about cold and hot mounting, cutting mattes and cutting the glass.  Finally, assemble the frame to make your finished piece, ready to hang. Class size limited to six.

Dates:

Wednesdays: May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2008  (7:00 - 11:00 PM)

Just Added !!!

Dates:

Sundays: October 26, November 2, 9, (if neccesary 16,) 2008  10:00-5:00 PM

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Feathers and Fur - Portraiture of Pets  #406  $250.00

Instructor:  Bryce Denison

Farmington Hills Location

This two-evening class will provide instruction on lighting and posing animals.  Dark fur reflects very little light.  Learn how to get detail in the shadow areas without washing out the highlights.  Learn about the film types needed to shoot difficult subjects such as animals.  Learn about the physical attributes that dog show, horse show or cat show judges use to determine "best of breed"; then apply those characteristics to posing your animal to maximize their best features.  35mm, medium format or digital cameras are welcome.

Dates:  Tuesday August 19 - Wednesday August 20, 2008   (7:00- 11:00 PM)

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Digital Video Editing w/Adobe Premiere  #701
Instructor Lewis Dennison
$395.00
Class limited to 8
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 

This six-week class will provide the student with information from lecture and hands on assignments of how to script, shoot, capture the video to convert to a digital format, then edit the video.  Learn how to include wipes, fades and dissolves to make sure your videos are not the cure for insomnia!  Learn how to put in a sound track and most importantly edit for continuity from a working pro.

Dates:

Wednesdays: June 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008    (7:00 - 10:00 PM)  

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Lighting for Video  #704
Instructor Lewis Dennison
$225.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 

This Three-week class will provide instruction on lighting for making videos.  Learn about scrims, flags and go-bo's.  Learn how to light a set or an interview.

Dates:

Thursdays:  May 29, June 5, 12, 2008   (7:00-10:00PM)  

Forensic Photography #822 (more info)

This six-week class will provide the student with basic photography techniques, but also the basis for how evidence techs work in the field.   This class is designed for people that wish to work in either civil law or criminal law.  Perhaps your intention is not to work in law enforcement, but to prove a point or win an argument.  This class will show you how.  Learn how to establish a scene, measure and sketch and document a scene.  Learn about the chain of evidence and techniques like fingerprinting or making a cast of a footprint or tire track.  The field trip will be an arson/fatal scene.  Learn to determine cause and origin.  If you enjoy the TV show CSI, now live it and make money doing it.  Bryce Denison is a full time forensic photographer working for the Detroit Fire Department.

Dates:

Wednesdays: January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 67, 13, 2008 (7-10:00pm)

Wednesdays: September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 15, 22, 2008 (7:00-10:00PM)

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Sports and Event Photography #103       (more info)
Instructor Bryce Denison
$340.00
Farmington Hills Location (Map) 

This six-week class provides both classroom instruction and at least three field trips.  Students will photograph motor sport racing at Waterford Hills, competitive tennis and gymnastics at a local gym. Students will learn about photographing using "long" lenses, vibration reduction (or image stabilization) and noise reduction in their digital files and how much shutter speed it takes to freeze action.  Students will learn about making money in the competitive field of Event Photography. Event Photography is photography that traverses from team photographs at the local little league football, baseball, basketball, soccer leagues to portraits of couples at a local bar/nightclub.  Learn how to capture, print and market such photographs.  The class will culminate in the development of a sports portfolio of their best work.

Dates:

Mondays: July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 18, 25, 2008 (7:00-10:30 PM)

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The Business of Photography  #121  

Instructor:  Bill Gosa

$340.00

Farmington Hills Location

Are your best photographs still making you money? Or are they sitting in a file cabinet gathering dust?  Learn how to get into the stock photography market.  Learn how much to charge for your photographic services.  Learn about Copyright Law, writing contracts, work for hire, model releases, and one-time-use leases.  You might shoot the best photos in the world, but if you don't market and advertise correctly; who would know or buy them?  This six-week class will cover these and many other topics.

Dates:

Wednesdays: February 20, 27, March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2008 (7-10:00 PM)

Wednesdays:  September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2008  (7-10:00 PM)

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Web Page Development for  Photographers

#224    $295.00

Instructor:  Vadim Yelizarod

This four-session class will provide students an opportunity to map out the framework of designing and assembling a web page, and then actually make your web page. Learn web page creation using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia Fireworks.
Learn how to scan photographs, size them and place them in your web page. Learn about organizing your text, making hot buttons and uploading files and updating your web page. Learn about registering a domain name and how to make sure your web address is found among the major web browsers search engines. Most of the students who enroll in classes at MPW are photographers and models, but this class is available to everyone.

Dates:

Wednesdays:  February 27, March 5, 12, 19, 2008  (7-10:00 PM)

Wednesdays:  October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008  (7-10:00 PM)

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Healing with Photography   #164  $340.00

Instructor: Marilyn Zimmerman
    (more info)

  Art and Photography in particular have long been a vehicle to address the process of greiving for the passing of a loved one. Sally Mann, Nicholas Nixon, Joanne Leonard, Emit Gowan and others are examples of photographers that document family life that succeeds at several levels.  Fine art photographers have documented family tragedies such as a loved one succumbing to Cancer or AIDS.  Photographs made of this are powerful documents to the spirit of the subject to share their life with the next generation perhaps not having the privilege to have met them.

Photographs documenting family events and milestones have been a time-honored tradition.  Baby photos, First Communion Photos, Little League photos prom and high school graduation photos illustrate a youths rite-of-passage to becoming an adult.  Wedding photos and baby photos complete a cycle.  Many photographers have documented family life with such style and verve that those images are elevated to fine art:  This six-week class may have an incredible theaputic or cathartic value to learn how to use photography to deal with loss and tragedy.  Students in this class are expected to already have a basic understanding of shutter speeds and f/stops.

Dates:

Mondays: April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 2008 (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)

New for 2008!!!

2D-3D Design

Dates:

Wednesdays  April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)

Thursdays   April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21, (10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

Business Principles for the Graphic Designer

Dates:

Tuesdays  May 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1,   (10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

Wednesdays May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2,  (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)

Adobe Illustrator

Introduction to Quark Express

Dates:

Wednesdays May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2,   (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

Thursdays   May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26, July 3  (7:00 - 10:00 PM)

Quark Express and CMYK & Pre-Press Concepts for the Graphic Designer

Dates:

Tuesdays  July 29, August 5, 12, 19, 20, 26,   (10:30 AM - 1:30 PM)

Tuesdays July 29, August 5, 12, 19, 20, 26,  (7:00 PM- 10:00 )

Audio Recording for Video Production

Wedding Videography

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Classes to Be Re- Visited or Considered for 2009

Woodward Re-Photographic Project  #163

Instructor:  Marilyn Zimmerman

$340.00

Farmington Hills Location

This six week class will provide instruction on how photographs can create change in the world community or even your local community. Students will have an opportunity to create photographs relating to the Woodward Re-Photographic Project.  The site of turn of the Century images procured from the archives are revisited in person during of the the field trips then re-photographed from the same angle and perspective, if possible.  Learn about Lewis Hines' Photographs or Jacob Riis's images that brought about social change leading to the elimination of slums in 1800's New York City or the establishment of Child Labor Laws through the power of photography.  Learn how to shoot photographs that make a difference and perhaps the establishment of your own project.  At the conclusion of the class, the finished project (your photographs) will have a public exhibition in a relevant space.

Dates:

Mondays:  April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21, 25, 26, 2007  (7-10:00 PM)

Photography as Social Consciousness  #165

Instructor:  Marilyn Zimmerman

$340.00

Farmington Hills Location

Make a statement with your photographs! Make a difference! Powerful visual images influence what we think, how we behave and even what we desire.  Learn about images that throughout history that have informed us , entertained us, and swayed our thinking.  View photos made by Margaret Bourke-White, Sabastiao Salgado, W. Eugene Smith, William Henry Jackson, Edward Sherrif Curtis, the photographers from the F.S.A. and others to explore how their photographs brought about social and even economic change. Expect homework assignments and projects to make your photographs stand out with relevance.  Wayne State University Professor Marilyn Zimmerman leads this special  six-week class.

Dates:

Mondays:  June 11, 18, July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2007  (7-10:00 PM)

Astro Photography    #841

Instructor: Alan Hoskins

$340.00

Farmington Hills Location for the classroom portion.  Field trip location to be announced.

This four- week class will provide the student with hands-on experience, the techniques and procedures to photograph moons, planets and deep space objects through a telescope.  Learn how telescopes work and how to navigate in the night sky.  Learn about computer stacking programs to enable you to photograph even more than you can see!  Students will have the opportunity to photograph craters of our moon and at least the Rings of Saturn.  The availability to photograph deep space subjects will be dependant on the weather. The class includes three classroom sessions and two shooting sessions.  You are welcome to bring your own telescope, but if you do not have one, one can be provided if enough advanced notice is given. Space is limited.

Dates:

Fridays: November 9, 16, 23, 30, 2007  7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Developing a Personal Style  #160 (more info)
Instructor -
$340.00 
Class Limited to 10

This five-week class will explore who were the pioneers and masters of photography from a historical perspective.  By studying what they did, what their photographs achieved, students will use that information to shape a philosophy and define a personal style to their own photographs and portfolio.  Society places a premium on being "the first" or "the best" or possessing the most unique individual vision.

 This class is relevant for any photographer who makes their living making photographs or desires to.  A commercial photographer or a fine-art photographer can learn to design and present their photographs with their own unique signature.STYLE PAYS!!!

Dates:

Dance Photography - Movement and Blur   #122    

Instructor:  Bryce Denison

$340.00 

Visualize the Dancer gliding and moving through your viewfinder.  Learn to capture the graceful leaps, steps and twirls that is the dancers' art.  This four-week class involves two field trips and a studio session.  Class size limited to 8

Dates: 

ON LINE CLASSES!!!!
(Distance Based Learning)

Coming Soon - Mid year 2008