Beginners & Intermediate Photography Class

Beginner Digital Photography

This beginner digital photography course is meant to help you master your digital camera. This course covers the basic concepts and practice of digital photography, including understanding the functions and use of the camera (all those buttons!), lenses, accessories, and many photography concepts. Topics include exposure, camera controls, light, photographic equipment, composition, and the 'art' of photography. There will also be various practice assignment exercises and discussion. Students are taught the skills and various creative options of shooting in manual mode with a digital camera. If you have a digital camera, artistic curiosity, and a desire to learn photography, then this is the course for you! 

Intermediate Digital Photography

Advance your techniques, post processing and start thinking like a photographer

This intermediate digital photography course is meant to build on your understanding of how to use your camera and introduce you to some of the more common techniques used by professionals to achieve even more creative freedom.  This will include some of the advanced techniques used in the field such as exposure compensation, focus stacking and long exposure.  We may explore other artistic methods as well such as multiple exposure and intentional camera movement (ICM). We’ll walk through the ‘life’ of an image through a workflow process and time will be spent in editing software (Lightroom) to demonstrate some of the many editing techniques that are available. Where do you want to take your image? Ultimately, we want to practice photography as an art, and we’ll examine how to think like a photographer as you approach different scenes and scenarios.This realm of photography can cover a wide range of topics.  Therefore, there will be time available for students to bring in their own topics as well.

This class assumes that the students understand the fundamental functions of the camera and how different settings can be used to achieve specific desired effects.  Mainly the various ways to adjust exposure, both with camera settings and accessories.  Students should also have some familiarity with different compositional concepts.

About the Torsten Wennberg: He's been a New Englander his whole life. He grew up in northern Connecticut at a time and in a place where running around the woods and climbing trees was normal. That's where he developed an appreciation and love of nature. When college came around, he went to UNH. Besides the academics, it was a great location, offering both the rugged mountains and varied seacoast. As he started getting into hiking, photography was a way to give his nature adventures even more purpose. After graduating UNH he stuck around the seacoast and tested out Newmarket, Durham, Dover, and Portsmouth in his 'early' years before settling in Nottingham where he currently lives. Photography was always a part of his life from working for the UNH student newspaper covering concerts and hockey games, to stuffing his camera in his backpack for hikes in the white mountains, to covering a few weddings and ultimately to create art. Photography gave him some adventure while also preserving his quiet, introverted self. He enjoys trying to be the visual storyteller rather than the subject of the story. He still has many exotic locations to check off his bucker list; Faroe Islands, Iceland, Fjords or Norway, Swiss Alps, and Middle-Earth... New Zealand. But right now as a full-time working parent, husband, homeowner, etc., he has found that the more techniques, styles, and approaches to photography that he has learned, he can often create a captivating image almost anywhere. That is the key to photography, always trying and learning new things. 

Who: 18+

When: Beginners-Tuesdays @6:00pm-8:00pm

           Intermediate-Thursdays @6:00pm-7:00pm

Cost: $100 for course, Preregistration Required

Where: Town Hall Conference Room 1 & 2, (Located at 139 Stage Rd. Nottingham, NH 03290)

What to bring: A sense of humor and willingness to explore, your camera- preferably one that can shoot in different modes (DSLR or mirrorless type recommended), the booklet, instructions or manual that came with your camera, email or internet access at home to be able to share (upload) image files.

Program cancelations will be communicated through Nottingham Parks and Recreation Facebook page and emailed to participants as soon as possible! All individuals will be required to register online prior to participating. Please visit our online portal HERE to create and account and sign up!