Photography Classes

Classes will resume in spring 2025.

Is your new digital camera still a mystery? But maybe you bought it so you could catch that eagle in flight or capture magical family moments.

Do you wonder what other kinds of equipment would help you get stellar shots? Don’t know what a ‘raw’ image is and why on earth you’d want one?

Learn how to get beautiful photographs of the flora and fauna in your neighborhood…or on a world tour! Learn how to work with natural light and flash to get fabulous photographs of people and places. Master the workings of  your DSLR camera, and editing your photographs with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

What you will learn:

• Understand how your camera works – shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus
• What to do with your photos after the shoot. This class uses Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for excellence in editing.
• What equipment do you need – tripods, lenses, flashes, external hard drives for all of those stellar photos.

Required for class:

• Digital single lens reflex camera – this is not a class for smart phone photography.
• Laptop computer.
• Adobe Photography Plan – 7-day free trial, then $20 a month – includes Lightroom and Photoshop.

About the instructor

Kate Lynch trained as a photographer and journalist at Arizona State University, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in film photography. She studied digital design photography at Pierce College and the Nikon School. She teaches photography in Washington state and exhibits widely in the Pacific Northwest. She designed a popular 24-hour photography competition called SequaliShoot, challenging local photographers to get their best shot of trails in DuPont, WA. More about Kate.