I. Meeting 1: Photography with a Light Touch.

1. Introductions.
2. Class Business: Registration, attendance, and review of course outline.
3. Identifying class questions about Light and Photography.
4. Light: How it works.
5. Lighting and The Five Time Zones for photography.
6. Technical stuff on cameras and exposure.
7. Slide presentation: What you see is not always what you get...
8. Photo Assignment 1.

II. Meeting 2: Metering: Moody & the Beast.

1. Review Photo Assignment 1.
2. Metering: How light meters work, or don't…
3. 18% Grey Scale.
4. The Zone System.
5. Scene-Brightness-Range (SBR): Assessing contrast in light & shadows.
6. Slide Presentation.
7. De-coding symbols in the viewfinder.
8. Decision Time.
9. Photo Assignment 2.

III. Meeting 3: The Third Eye & Photography

1. Review Photo Assignment 2.
2. Severe Contrast/Light and Shadows: Some Solutions.
3. The Color Wheel and Light: How to get rolling with your internal metering...
4. Flash and Reflectors: Working with shadows in high-contrast conditions.
5. Filters and Shades and Umbrellas: Working with highlights in high-contrast situations.
6. The Color Wheel and Light.
7. Slide Presentation.
8. Aesthetic decisions: (The Three Bears syndrome)

IV. Meeting 4: Saturday All-Day Outing

1. 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM ~ Intimate Landscapes: Group and Individual Instruction.
2. 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM ~ Lunch and Discussion of Western and Eastern Design Perspectives.
3. 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ~ Macro/Close-up Photography: Group and Individual Instruction.
4. 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM ~ Grand Vista Photography: Group & Individual Instruction.

V. Meeting 5: Sharing of Slides from Fieldwork Outing

1. 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ~ Sharing of slides from Saturday field work.
2. Course/Workshop evaluation and feedback for Instructor.