The Ohio Valley Camera Club currently offers two photography educational series each year:

• Introduction to and Understanding Photography
• Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

Introduction to Photography is a comprehensive 14-hour (six session) course for beginner to intermediate photographers. Covered in these sessions are the following materials:

Session 1 – Introduction to Photography (History & Light Triangle)

Session 2 – Exposure, Part 1 (Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed, & more)

Session 3 – Exposure, Part 2 (Camera modes, Histograms, & more)

Session 4 – Image Composition & Camera Settings for Different Types of Images, Part 1

Session 5 – Camera Settings for Different Types of Images, Part 2

Session 6 – Image Storage/Workflow & Backing Up Photos

After each on-line session a copy of that session’s presentation is emailed to attendees as a pdf file. In addition, a video link is provided in case an attendee wishes to watch any session over again.

Introduction to Adobe Lightroom is a detailed 5-hour (two sessions) course for any photographer who wants to learn how to use most of the features in Adobe Lightroom, one of the premier photo editing tools available today. In addition to providing slides on the material examples on use of Lightroom tools are demonstrated live. Covered in the two sessions are the following materials:

Image Storage

Re-Naming Your Folders?

Intro to Adobe Lightroom

Which Adobe Plan Makes Sense for You?

Lightroom Plans Comparison

Processing Workflow

Library Module

Develop Module

Briefly Covered are

Map Module & Shortcuts

Print Module & Shortcuts

Book Module & Shortcuts

Slideshow Module & Shortcuts

Web Module & Shortcuts

Exporting Images

After the second on-line session a copy of presentation is emailed to attendees as a pdf file with a detailed Table of Contents making it easy to find topics for review. In addition, a video link is provided in case an attendee wishes to watch any session over again.