Digital Photography for Beginners through Intermediate into Advanced Summer 2005 Introductory level course Taught in Guatemala Lecture in Spanish Request more information

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If you realize there is still life left for traditional film, and wish to learn digital photography without abandoning 35mm Kodachromes, 120 Fujichrome, or 4x5 Ektachrome quality, then you will feel at home with Nicholas, a photographer steeped in Nikon, Leica, Hasselblad, and Linhof experience.

We all start out with simple point-and-shoot digital cameras: Canon, Sony, Fuji, Nikon CoolPix. Nicholas began with a Sony Mavica, moved through three models of Nikon CoolPix, and now uses a Nikon D100 and Sigma SD9. He has used medium format and large format digital cameras also, so you will learn the pros and cons of every kind of camera. Dr Hellmuth has tested medium format (on Hasselblad) and large format digital cameras for their manufacturers too. Dr Hellmuth has been photographing in Guatemala for over 40 years.

How many other instructors of digital photography have written their entirely own textbook when they noted that normal books were not quite thorough enough?

The reason you can learn from FLAAR reports is because every statement in Nicholas Hellmuth’s instructional materials is based on a single set of premises:

What class of camera is optimal for the kind of photography I do:

What lens, back, filter, tripod, or accessory is...

Taking the photograph is only the first step. The darkroom development and the eventual printing are where the image achieves its final expression.

Yet how many conventional photographers never had time or space to have their own darkroom and who never printed their own photographs? Now you can do all the development in Adobe Photoshop and do your own printing with any number of inkjet printers, dye sublimation or even laser printers (with the new Tektronix).

Just as the chemical soup and timing within the darkroom resulted in a different feel for the photographic image, so also today you can tweak your photograph in Adobe Photoshop software. In printing you can select which printer, which inkset, which media, and continue to tweak the appearance of your image through color management in the RIP software.

But the reason why, at the end of having taken this course, that you will look back and be really glad you did, is that FLAAR has dedicated over 30 years to traditional photography with Leica, Nikon, Rollei, Hasselblad, and Linhof large format up to 8x10 chromes. So we know the world of 35mm negatives and slides, the world of medium format and larger. Yet we have made the transition, and thereby can assist you to enter digital photography too.

Most of the people who sign up say they were unable to find any other course where the instructor so clearly had personal experience in all four levels of digital cameras (point-and-shoot, 35mm, medium format, and large format).

Once they sign up and take the course, they realize that most universities do not have the range of equipment of FLAAR. Plus Dr Hellmuth also teaches at the University of Malta and at Bowling Green State University. Each university has additional equipment and different kinds of studio lighting. So Professor Hellmuth has seen it all.

Besides, not many other professors have nine wide format inkjet printers in their office (four in Guatemala, five at BGSU).

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• Last updated: Sept. 14, 2004 / Redesign May. 2004 / updated June. 13, 2003