...at the Center

EVENTS, LANGUAGE, PHOTO
PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM
➜ Create Photographs With Impact
Discover new techniques and skills to help elevate your
photography from average to exciting. Join an award winning
professional photographer as you learn how to strengthen your
compositions and create compelling photographs in any light
source using a wide variety of techniques, including selective focus,
motion blur, manipulation of light sources, backlighting, contrast,
color saturation, rule of thirds, forced perspective and many more.
By the end of this class, you will have the tools to pre-visualize new,
dynamic photographs, making the great leap from taking photos to
creating photographs with impact.
Course number: 411071
ID 19413 ❯ (Chuck) Charles Place • Sep 12 - Oct 10 • Schott, Rm 6
5 Mondays • 9:00AM - 12:00PM • $150
➜ Location Photo Shoots with a Pro NEW!
Join nationally acclaimed magazine photographer Chuck Place as
you explore different locations in the Santa Barbara area with your
camera. You may visit the bustling Santa Barbara Farmers Market
one week or the beautifully restored La Purisima Mission State
Historic Park near Lompoc the next. Each session will be a different
location, depending on events and time of year. Get feedback
each week and learn how a professional photographer approaches
various subjects or locations. Note: Some camera experience
recommended.
Course number: 411074
ID 19411 SAT ❯ (Chuck) Charles Place • Sep 10 - Oct 8 • Schott, Rm 6
5 Saturdays • 9:00AM - 12:00PM • $150
➜ Photograph Your Own Artwork – Tips and
Techniques NEW!
Part of being an artist is documenting your creations to post on
web sites or submit to galleries and competitions. Discover the
tools to create photographs that highlight your work by effectively
capturing the color, drama and essence of your art. Practice the
techniques that result photographs worthy of your artwork. Learn
different styles of marketing your artwork, from product to lifestyle
photography, and how to create those kinds of pictures. Start
sharing your work with the world!
Course number: 411075
ID 19590 ❯ Lindsey Baumsteiger • Sep 8 - Sep 29 • Schott, Rm 6
4 Thursdays • 11:00AM - 2:00PM • $72 + Lab $5
➜ Photography For Travelers
Discover the techniques professional travel photographers use to
create dynamic, powerful images in any kind of situation. Learn
to produce spectacular architectural and landscape photographs
captured at the perfect time of day. Gain insights into approaching
strangers and learn how to produce intimate portraits with minimal
equipment and available light. Leverage bad weather, producing
some of your most popular images, and learn how to make use
of harsh mid-day sunlight. Make the images from your next trip
captivating to both friends and family while transporting you back
to the sights, sounds and smells of your favorite destinations.
Course number: 411070
ID 19412 ❯ (Chuck) Charles Place • Sep 13 - Oct 11 • Schott, Rm 6
5 Tuesdays • 9:00AM - 12:00PM • $150
WRITING & LITERATURE
➜ Explorations in Literature
Become a more avid, savvy reader of fiction by learning how to
‘close-read’. Fiction reveals relationships between people and
people’s relationships to the world. Fiction often gives a clearer
view of its times than contemporary news reports of history. Explore
literature and understand the dynamics of fiction and how they
apply to your life. As you learn what to look for in your reading, your
pleasure and confidence in your literary judgment will grow with
every page you turn.
Course number: 157169
ID 19681 ❯ Shelly Lowenkopf • Aug 23 - Nov 8 • Schott, Rm 3
12 Tuesdays • 1:00PM - 3:00PM • $144
➜ Getting Started, Getting Good, and Getting
Your Fiction Published
Effective, publishable fiction requires intriguing characters, a good
story line, a compelling narrative voice, convincing dialogue,
energetic pace, palpable mood, and a strong relationship to
contemporary life. Easy to prescribe but difficult to achieve, but the
necessary skills can be taught. This class, presented by a longtime
editor and writer, provides instruction in the vital techniques,
an arena for practicing them until those skills are mastered, and
demonstrable ways for the student to develop an individual
narrative voice.
Note: Optional reading fee $20. Please come to the Wake or Schott
front desk to pay your reader fees during or after the second week
of class.
Course number: 157171
ID 19682 EVE ❯ Shelly Lowenkopf • Aug 24 - Nov 9 • Schott, Rm 20
12 Wednesdays • 5:15PM - 7:15PM • $144
32 Register online at www.theCLL.org / SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning / FALL 2016