"Summer School" online photo class begins Friday . . .

"SUMMER SCHOOL" ONLINE PHOTO CLASS 2014

Four fun, easy (yet challenging) lessons designed to get you out there looking, composing, and creating.

The class runs for six weeks (July 18-August 25, 2014), features four lessons/assignments, and substantial critiques of your work. 

You have two weeks to complete each assignment. Submit up to three images for each assignment and receive a critique of each one from me as well as comments from your fellow students.
You'll find this "summer school" online class refreshing, fun, informative, and challenging. Any camera will work: cellphone, iPad, DSLR, etc.
Here are the names of each lesson/assignment:

EXTREME COLORS
TWOS AND THREES
CAR ART
FACES IN UNLIKELY PLACES

The registration fee is $85. You can sign up at my online store here: 

http://www.shop.carolleigh.net/product.sc?productId=78&categoryId=1

Need more information? Contact me at carol AT carolleigh DOT net 

Want to talk to me live and in person? (541) 563-3834.

New online class begins September 27

Just a reminder that my latest online photo class begins September 27 and runs through November 15th. There are ten people signed up so far, including three brand-new folks, so it's going to be a good mix.

I've got four different lessons set up, and, as usual, they revolve more around seeing, composition, line and design than technique, although technique sneaks its way in all the time. No special equipment needed; you could do all the lessons using a cellphone if you wished! The registration fee is $85 for this six-week class.

If you'd like to be a part of the fun, here's the link:
http://www.carolleigh.net/classes.htm

©Carol Leigh

Mini "Developing Your Creative Edge" online photo class beginning 9/27/13

A new mini-Developing Your Creative Edge online photo class begins September 27, 2013 and ends November 15, 2013. 

Four lessons/assignments in six weeks. Fun, easy, and you'll learn to look, to see, and to create lovely photos using seemingly mundane subjects.

As usual, the lessons/assignments are relatively easy, can be done using natural light, and can even be done using a cellphone camera if you wish.

It's about time I came up with some new lessons, so here they are and it all begins toward the end of September. Registration fee: $85. You in?

These photos MIGHT give you some clues about the upcoming lessons/assignments. And no, one of the lessons is NOT about flowers. Nor is one of the lessons about oil cans or coins. And there are no lessons that require you to find and photograph colorful buoys! But one of the lessons IS about photographing ANYTHING against a white background.

Here's a link to more information: http://carolleigh.net/classes.htm

Looking forward to working with you again (or for the first time)!

Carol Leigh

If seahorses were flowers . . .

The past few weeks our "Lucifer" crocosmia have been in full bloom. The flowers die away from the middle of the stalk out to the tip, so what you're seeing here is the last of the flowers on these stalks. I liked the way they curved and bent, so I placed them just so and shot. To me they look like botanical seahorses!

This is one of the lessons/assignments in my upcoming "Developing Your Creative Edge" online photo class. The lessons are fun, easy (yet challenging), and you don't need flash. The class begins Friday, September 27, 2013, and lasts for six weeks. Each week I post a lesson and you have two+ weeks to get it done and submit it for comments and critiques. Registration fee: $85. Questions? E-mail me at carol at carolleigh dot net.

Brand new MINI-DEVELOPING YOUR CREATIVE EDGE online class coming up

I've got a new online photo class for you, four lessons spanning six weeks, begins September 27, 2013 and ends November 15, 2013.

As usual, the lessons/assignments are relatively easy, can be done using natural light, and can even be done using a cellphone camera if you wish!

It's about time I came up with some new lessons, so here they are and it all begins toward the end of September. Registration fee: $85. You in?

Here's a link to my online store: http://shop.carolleigh.net

Looking forward to working with you again!

Carol Leigh

Mini-Macro online class coming up

A short online class designed for those of you who feel you've already got a pretty good macro photography base and are looking for some fun projects to do within a 6-week period. Lots of feedback, questions asked and answered. Stretch your artistic and technical skills within a short time frame. Class begins MARCH 1, 2013 and runs six weeks. Registration fee: $85.

Here's where you can sign up.

©Carol Leigh

Mini-Macro coming up . . .

A short online class designed for those of you who feel you've already got a pretty good macro photography base and are looking for some fun projects to do within a 6-week period. Lots of feedback, questions asked and answered. Stretch your artistic and technical skills within a short time frame. Class begins MARCH 1, 2013 and runs six weeks. Registration fee: $85.

Here's where you can sign up.

©Carol Leigh

Mini-Macro Online Class Begins 3/1/13

Designed for those of you who have already completed my Macro and Close-Up Photography online class and/or those of you who feel you've already got a pretty good macro photography base and are looking for some fun projects to do within a 6-week period. Lots of feedback, questions asked and answered. Stretch your artistic and technical skills within a short time frame. Class begins MARCH 1, 2013 and runs six weeks. Registration fee: $85.

Here's where you can sign up.

©Carol Leigh

Macro/Close-Up class begins June 1

My online class, "Close-Up and Macro Photography for Beginning to Intermediate Photographers," begins June 1. Here you can see photos I took for my dreaded "Ice" assignment, but we won't be doing that one this year — I've found something else that's a bit easier and is still lots of fun. But isn't this ice cool? The bottom one looks kind of like a whale's head...

I've set up a private group for my students, and that's where I post all my lessons, critiques, comments, photos, and where all the students post their work, their comments, questions, etc. I post a lesson each week and then students have two weeks to post their results for comments and critique.

It's casual, fun, not overly technical, and inspires you to try new things, be aware of what you and your camera are doing, and, most of all, to SEE.

The registration fee is $180 for the two-month class. Here's the link to the registration page: http://www.shop.carolleigh.net/product.sc?productId=32&categoryId=3

©Carol Leigh

Beginning photomontage online class begins 3/21

My beginning photomontage online class starts on March 21 and I'd love to have you as part of the mix. Registration fee for the two-month class is $180. Throughout I'll show you, step by step, how I put together my photomontages. Lessons in the form of PDF files as well as more than 40 short videos show you exactly what I do and how you can begin creating your own works of art using your photographs.

Have you already taken this class? If so, you're welcome to audit it, run through the lessons again to keep your skills honed, and to remind you how the montages are made. The auditing fee, for previous students only, is $49.

To register, visit my online store at http://www.shop.carolleigh.net. Looking forward to working with you, whether for the first time or yet again! ©Carol Leigh

It begins New Year's Day ...

The "26 in 26" project begins January 1, 2011... A letter a week for 26 weeks. For additional information click here. To register for the project (registration fee is $62), click here. What's YOUR photo project for next year? ©Carol Leigh

Ask an artist ...

Most artists have an answer when asked, “What are you working on now?” This could be your answer . . .

I follow many non-photographic art blogs and was intrigued by what a bunch of artists in Australia were doing: creating a series of artworks, one letter a week, for 26 weeks. Some worked in clay, some in metal, some were calligraphers, some were sculptors, etc. At the end of six months, each participant had, letter by letter, piece by piece, created an unusual whole. Well, if it's good enough for these artists in a variety of media, then what could we as photographers do?

So I've set up a photo project for next year called "Twenty-Six in Twenty-Six." We will all, week by week, concentrate on looking, seeing, creating one photograph a week of a different letter.

Maybe you'll find an "A" on the side of a train, a "B" that you've altered using your Photoshop post-processing skills, a "C" in the way a piece of metal curves on a gate, a "D" that you've made yourself out of rocks or feathers or have drawn in the sand. Your letters can come from all sorts of places. The key is to be out there looking, creating, photographing.

If you're looking for a non-stressful, interesting, continuing project to keep your focus on photography in 2011, this will do it for you. At the end of the project you'll have a comprehensive little body of work: an entire alphabet. I'll take the best of everybody's work and will put together a magazine depicting what we've done and will send a copy to each participant. You in?

Registration fee: $62. Begins January 1, 2011. Information and "the rules of the game" will be sent to you around the beginning of December. Fun stuff! Join us! Click my online store to register. ©Carol Leigh

Online photo class about to begin ...

My "Developing Your Creative Edge" online photo class begins May 1 and runs for two months. During that time, lessons/assignments will be about: 1) photographing doors, windows, and walls, 2) a walk around the block, 3) office art, 4) alphanumeric, 5) red, white, and blue, and, finally, 6) twos and threes. Here's a link to the class description: http://www.photoexplorations.com/edge/dyce05.htm
 

If you'd like to be a part of this crazy mix, I have a couple of spaces available. The best part of the class is seeing everybody's photos and my critiques (which usually run 2-4 pages in length). You learn not only from your own work but from the work of others. All this takes place in a gentle, encouraging, non-confrontational environment. No critique will begin with the phrase, "What the heck were you THINKING?"  :-)

Our first lesson is about doors, windows, and walls, and my three examples here are colorful doors on the Oregon coast, three windows in an old building in Colorado, and a leafless vine growing against a wall at the Getty Museum. ©Carol Leigh