Classes | Photography for Knitters & Craft Bloggers

Photography for Knitters & Craft Bloggers

Learn to tell the story of your craft visually, and make your images sing! Want to improve your photography? Join Gale Zucker for a  hands-on digital photography workshop . The class will include technical instruction, tips for choosing situations/locations, working with the light, the psychology of photographing people and how to make them comfortable while getting the kinds of images that keep the focus on your handwork. . We’ll concentrate on making images of yarn, knitting, crafting  and finished objects as well as capturing the world around you. Taught as  illustrated talk, demonstration and plenty of hands-on action,  photographing inside & outdoors. (weather permitting) . Gale will also do a demo of optimizing your images once they’re out of the camera and into a blog page or website, using free, web-based software, no PhotoShop knowledge required. If wifi is available, students can practice along. A dslr isn’t necessary; point & shoot cameras are welcome. Students must know how to access the settings on their cameras .

Students should bring to class:
  • Your dslr or point & shoot camera
  • A media card  to put photos on inside your camera
  • Your manual
  • Yarn fiber and other craft materials you want to photograph
  • Finished objects to photograph

Optional: tripod, Laptop or iPad

Homework: Read your camera  manual, and know how to located the controls for your camera settings , especially setting the ISO, turning off the flash, and taking the camera off Program mode.