So, you’ve gotten a new camera. Upon looking at the photos you took over the Memorial Day weekend you realize that your shots are blurry, or that those fantastic sunrises just don’t seem to have the same oomph that they did while you were standing on the beach. What to do? Take a photography workshop!

One of the many benefits of living in a major metropolitan area such as Atlanta is that it draws special events to the area. Atlanta will be one of eighteen cities in which Digital Days Photography ^[1] will offer their two-day photography workshop. The workshop will be held at the downtown Sheraton hotel on Saturday June 6th (from 1pm-5pm) and Sunday June 7th (from 9am-5pm).

Saturday’s session ($69) will be “Learn the Basics — Inspiration, Fun, Cool things you can do with Photography”

• Digital Fundamentals

• Learn about all the necessary digital photography techniques and terms, from scene modes, manual modes, ISO and depth of field, and everything in-between
• Learn how the fundamental settings affect the shot you want to get
• This session builds a strong foundation of digital photo knowledge

• Explore composition and subject
• Different shooting styles from landscape to macro

• Get familiar with a basic digital workflow
• Learn some editing tricks
• Printing and sharing options!
• Create calendars and postcards. And so much more!

And Sunday’s session ($99) will be “Beyond the Basics — Here’s how to make great pictures, and what to do with them”

• Brief review from Day 1
• Examine light & composition, subject, color & movement
• Advanced camera functions
• Exposure modes
• Analyzing the histogram

• Live model shoot! Lighting is set up and we have several model stations
• Our instructors are available throughout the shoot to answer your questions

• Various attendee images from the model shoot are critiqued live by our instructors

• How to organize your workstation/color calibration
• Build a foundation of digital organizational techniques
• Tagging, metadata, etc…

• Color Management
• Skin Tone
• Digital Darkroom

Sign up to attend both days and the cost of the workshop is only $139.

If you have more questions about this workshop feel free to visit Digital Days Photography’s FAQ page ^[2].

Sound too good to be true? Well, Digital Days Photography will sweeten the pot for two Atlanta Metblogs readers. The first two people to correctly email Atlanta Metblogs Contests ^[3] the names of the two people who will be teaching the Atlanta workshop (pssst, their names and bios can be found on Digital Days Photography’s ^[1] website) will get free admission to both days! Entries into this contest must include your full name and a valid email address; winners will be notified via the email address supplied. Entries received after 12pm Daylight Saving Time on Tuesday June 2nd will be discarded.

ps- I’ll be attending both days, so if you see me please say hello.