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Cat# Title Medium Time (Minutes)
0001 Introduction to Photography Exploring Photography DVD 30
Learn how to handle your 35 mm camera with skill and ease. Get sharp, correctly exposed pictures instead of fuzzy, faint near-misses. Start capitalizing on such camera features as adjustable shutter speed, lens opening, built-in exposure meters and interchangeable lenses. Increase your percentage of good results.
0002 The Art of Composing Pictures Exploring Photography DVD 45
In this program you’ll begin to understand the nature and qualities of light and how to use lighting to improve your pictures. In addition, you’ll also learn tips and techniques for composing better pictures.
0003 Action Photography Exploring Photography DVD 30
Join action photographer John Vaeth for an in-depth look at the lenses, films and techniques that make sports photography such an exhilarating pursuit. Go on the scene to take dynamic pictures of bicycle, motocross, water skiing, snow skiing, basketball, diving, swimming, gymnastics and wrestling. Adapt what you have learned to any situation in which your subject can’t or won’t sit still.
0004 Basic Picture Taking Exploring Photography DVD 30
Build better pictures of just about anyone or anything, step-by-step. Learn how to express what you see photographically. Get expert advice on how to take exciting, humorous, memorable photo of the subject you feel “oughta be in pictures.” Improve you chances of snapping that “lucky” shot.
0005 Effective Use of Lenses Exploring Photography DVD 30
Deepen your knowledge of interchangeable lenses. Discover what lens focal length can tell you about angle of view and magnification. Learn to use the relationship between focal length and minimum shutter speed for maximum picture sharpness. Examine normal, wide-angle and telephoto lenses in terms of use, perspective and distortion. Start manipulating depth of field to your picture-taking advantage.
0006 2nd Suncoast Virtual Salon - 2003 Suncoast Club CD 45
0007 3rd Suncoast Virtual Salon - 2004 Suncoast Club CD 45
0008 Existing Light Photography Exploring Photography DVD 30
Enjoy taking unobtrusive (without flash) picture by natural light. Choose the proper film, filter and processing for different type and intensities of light. Discover how to judge and work with lighting situations encountered in everyday life. Improve the pictures you take at sporting events and after sunset.
0009 Imaginative Use of Filters Exploring Photography DVD 30
Explore these interesting add-ons that feed your creative impulses. Discover the versatility of a polarizing screen and the practical and psychological joys of color conversion filters. Find out how to let one filter do the work of several, how to fine-tune your color slides, how to add softness, blur, star bursts, rainbows, even mind boggling multi-image effects to your pictures.
0010 The Language of Light Exploring Photography DVD 30
Begin to understand the nature and qualities of light. Learn to recognize and control light direction. Work with contrast to bring out the best in your subjects. Use the color of light to express your moods or feeling. Turn even bad-weather lighting conditions into opportunities for atmospheric pictures.
0011 Photographers and their Films Exploring Photography DVD 30
Look at color and black-and-white films with an eye for the kind of pictures you like to take. Learn to choose the right type, size and speed of film to meet your particular picture-taking needs. Get an insider’s understanding of why photographers sometimes choose a black-and-white film or a slow color film. Find out how to turn the “wrong” film into a good, sometimes even great, spontaneous picture!
0012 Photographing People Exploring Photography DVD 30
Focus on photography’s most popular subject – people! Discover how to make a subject’s face “light up” rather than “freeze up.” Learn to make choices that will flatter your subject in indoor as well as outdoor settings. Perfect posing and camera-handling techniques that will transform you into a photographer, as popular as your subject.
0013 Prize-Winning Pictures Exploring Photography DVD 30
Eavesdrop on two photo experts as they talk about what turns a picture into a prizewinner. Find out how you can improve your chances of clicking a “lucky” shot. Practice seeing the world with an imaginative eye. Learn when, where and how to look for the contest picture. Discover how to plan a posed shot so that it looks spontaneous and how to capture a spur-of-the-moment shot with prize winning ease.
0014 Using Flash Exploring Photography DVD 30
Brighten your picture outlook with automatic or manual flash equipment. Learn how you can improve on natural lighting with a “dash” of flash. Discover the advantages of bounce flash, multiple flash, even painting with flash. Come to know your flash equipment so well that you’ll think of it as a helpful, photographic companion.
0015 Advanced Existing Light Photography Advanced Photography DVD 30
0016 Glamour Photography Advanced Photography DVD 30
Join master photographer Gary Whelpley as he shows you what beautiful pictures you can take using only “the light that happens to be on the scene.” Tour Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center from twilight through starlight. Slip indoor for the action-paced Empire State Games in Syracuse, New York. Even step inside a typical home for soft, natural portraits of children as you learn to capture all the mood and color you see.
0017 Images with Imagination Advanced Photography DVD 30
Enter the special – tabletop/still-life/derivation – world of Joe Timmer, winner of over 500 photo-competition awards in more than 25 countries. According to Joe, who has become world famous among camera clubs as a competitor and lecturer, competition photography is a game that you can play and win with your camera. He shows you how you can manipulate your subjects and use trick photography to create slides with immediate impact to capture the attention - and vote - of the judges.
0018 Nature Photography Advanced Photography DVD 30
Join wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen in Grand Teton National Park for an insider’s perspective on the joys of photographing animals in their natural environments. Get up and out early to picture ducks, geese, osprey, swans, even elk and moose. Learn what lenses, films, shutter speeds, and techniques to use. Camouflage yourself and your camera to take pictures of birds attracted by decoys and callers. Find out how to prepare, how to travel, and how to act in your efforts to become one with the wildlife whose freedom your pictures celebrate.
0019 Scenic Photography Advanced Photography DVD 30
Join scenic photographer Abi Garaman for a breathtakingly beautiful look at the Grand Tetons. Learn how to carve a well-composed photograph from the grandeur all around you. Practice composing scenic photos, framing them to lend a feeling of depth, manipulating their horizon lines, varying them by choosing different camera angles. See the effect of different focal-length lenses on a frequently photographed cluster of pines. Hop atop the photographer’s wagon-type vehicle for a point of view that places a barn in just the right position amidst the picturesque mountain peaks.
0020 The Way I See It Advanced Photography DVD 30
Four experienced professional photographers talk about how and why they selected their specialties and what “tricks of the trade” they have discovered over the years. Decide whose experiences and preferences most closely match your own. Is it the “people” photographer who likes to portray active subjects in natural settings? Is it the nature photographer who got started picturing flowers, bugs and leaves right there in her own backyard? Is it the action photographer who has been preparing to be “in the right place at the right time” since childhood? Or is it the scenic photographer who insists that you leave “your imprint” on every picture you take.
0021 Images of the Masters-Creating the Image (B&W) DVD 45
4th Suncoast Virtual Salon - 2005 Suncoast Club
3091 Across Australia Travelog #1 56
3092 Sydney, Australia’s Harbor City #2 47
3093 Canon photo Safaris (Commericals) VHS 120
3094 Take Beautiful Outdoor Photographs of Children 42
3095 Olympic National Park 30
3096 Hidden Canyons 56
3097 Yellowstone National Park 37