This blog post will be a class review of our Intro to Photography course at the Hermitage Museum. Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me over the last 6 weeks! It has been so much fun getting to see y'all grow and evolve in this class. Today we did a [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach

This week was all about Still Life photography. According to Wikipedia: "still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects." For our photo activity this week we set up a light box and learned how to take still life photos of [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach

This week we spent a lot of time chatting about Motion photography. We also touched on how to read the flashing highlight alert warning (blinkies) and the histogram in your camera’s view screen for each photograph you take. Learning to read the histogram for each photograph you take is essential because with digital image [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach

Week 3 in our class is all about lighting and portraits and how to create an image that tells the viewer something about you (or the person you are photographing). If you missed Week 2, you can catch up here. This week we reviewed the exposure triangle: ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, DOF, the Rule [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach

This week in our Hermitage Museum photography class, we spent the majority of our time covering composition, and depth of field. We also covered metering modes, Camera Dial settings, and went over recaps and questions from last week's lesson. One of the very first things we talked about was the "Aspect Ratio" (which is [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach

Hey there and welcome to week 1 of classes with Hermitage Museum digital photography! This is our class blog - the place where you can find information on each week's class as well as further reading on the topics that we discuss and additional links. I will be adding information each week, so please bookmark the [...]

Read the Entire Post on Judith Soule – Portrait Photographer – Virginia Beach