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Last Minute Portrait Course Space

After a last minute cancellation we have 1 space left for the Portrait Photography Course on Sunday May 8th 2011

New Bird, Nature & Landscape Course on 3rd & 4th September 2011

Take your own family portraits for £99

Digital Photography Courses have teamed up with The Studio 17 to allow you to use your camera and their professional photographic studio to take professional quality photographs of your children on June 25th

Studio 17

Studio 17

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Book Now to take your own family portraits for just £99

This is a very special opportunity to take professional quality photographs of your children for a fraction of the cost involved in having similar pictures taken by an expensive studio photography company.

Digital Photography Courses have teamed up with The Studio 17 to allow you to use your camera and their pro photographic studio and lighting.

You will receive expert tuition in setting your camera for the best results and any images you take are yours to keep and print yourself at your minimum cost.

During this Studio Photography Course you will learn how to:

  • Shoot a family portrait using a professional studio
  • Select your favourite image for printing
  • Correct images in Photoshop for a clean white background
  • Crop images for a range of print sizes

The sitting includes a free 8in x 6in print, of your choice, on the day, and other pictures or sizes can be purchased separately and collected or posted later if required.

You will still have all your images on your memory card which you can make into a DVD slide show or print at home or at a commercial printers.

The next courses and dates are:

 Jacqui

Portrait Photography Course on May 8th - Just 1 spaces left

Learn how to take professional looking portraits at home with a simple and low cost flash and backgrounds set-up. Your own dedicated flashgun with bounced head and a tripod are really useful additions for this course. We will also show you how to shoot pictures by available and window light.

For more details visit www.digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/portrait-photography-course.html

This month’s project:

Create a Flower Collage using Picasa

Full moon

Anyone who has been on one of our photography courses knows what a great fan I am of the free Picasa photo-editing program. One of it's lesser known tricks is it's ability to make fantastic collages with just a few clicks. To create a collage like the one opposite:

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How to Create a Flower Collage using Picasa

  1. Photograph each flower with a piece of black cloth behind to give a deep black background.
  2. Select your favourite pictures and cropped each shot as a square image using the crop tool set to CD Cover.
  3. On the Tuning Tab slide the Shadows slider to the right until the dark areas go fully black.
  4. Do this with each picture until you have enough for several rows.
  5. Depending on how big you want your print you could go for 4,6,9 or 12 images. I used 12 images on a 24" x 16" canvas.
  6. Select your 4,6,9 or 12 corrected images by marking them as favourite using the Gold Star button.
  7. Click the collage button and use Mosaic or Grid from the drop down menu to see which looks best.
  8. You can also choose to add some grid spacing and a black background if your images need some extra space.
  9. Once created use the crop tool again to size the image to the correct size for printing.
  10. I had a 24" x 16" canvas printed at www.snapmad.com for £20 which looks great.

If you do get a great picture then please upload it to our Facebook page.

Join Our Digital Photography Courses Facebook Group

We now have a Digital Photography Courses Facebook Group where students can add photographs for other students to view and comment on. Sincere thanks go to Terry, Ian, Becky, David and Paula for their many contributions and constructive feedback on each other pictures. Please take a look at the images and maybe upload some of your own as I really look forward to seeing your work.

www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_174199095945669

Kettering and District Photography Society

Digital Photography Courses are proud to have a close association with the Kettering and District Photography Society and several of our regular students attend their. If you live in the Kettering area I highly recommend you visit the KDPS website and pop in and meet them at The Corn Market Hall, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN15 7QA.

Student Testimonials

April Student Gallery

Images are on the website at: http://www.digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/2011-april-gallery.html

Pictures by Tony Pringle Pictures by Daljeet Kaur

Excellent Course. I now feel totally confident in using my DSLR camera of the Auto setting. - Andrew Brittle

Fantastic course. I can't wait to get out and practice the skills I have learnt. Thank you so much. Angela Lambourn

An excellent day. It really help to simplify what until now had been a complex subject. I now have the confidence to use to use my DSLR and I can't wait to get out there and start practicing. Chris Marchant

I've enjoyed taking pictures and also understanding the features and settings of the DSLR. This course has help me to focus properly and get good pictures. Daljeet Kaur

You are a star! I had a great time and I really feel the course was tailored to my experience and ability. Joanna Preston

I could kick myself for not doing this course sooner. I've learnt so much in such a lot in such a short period of time. No longer will my camera remain the it's bag. Julie Pike

A very enjoyable day. I've learnt everything I want and I'm already planning my next course. I can't recommend Glen's courses enough. Martin Saggers

A very useful course for explaining the problems I had in many cases problems I didn't know I had. Raymond Lambourn

We hope you have enjoyed this newsletter

Best Wishes and remember to upload some of your pictures to our New Digital Photography Courses Facebook Group www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_174199095945669

Glen

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