Who Should Attend & Requirements
Who Should Attend
 DLWS
is for the beginner who has played with their camera and has the desire
to perfect rather then play at the controls. DLWS is for the beginner
who has opened Photoshop and was scared to death by all the tools, palettes
and commands. DWLS is for the intermediate photographer who has explored
their camera and Photoshop and want to get more out of them then just
the “here I was shot.” DLWS is for those who have their sight
set on perhaps taking the photography to a whole new level either for
their art or making a profession from their camera. DLWS is for those
who simply have a passion and want to explore new avenues to express
it. DLWS will challenge your visual communicating skills no matter your
level of expertise, and help you with those challenges!
 DLWS is not for the beginner who doesn’t know the basics of their camera
body. If you don’t understand the difference between an aperture and shutter
speed, then you won’t get all your bang for your buck. If you’ve
never cracked open Photoshop, you might not get all we’re trying to teach.
Even though we have a minimum of 7 Photoshop lessons starting with the most basic
and going to the most advance, you need to have at least played with Photoshop
to get the most out of DLWS. DLWS is not for the technically challenged photographer.
DLWS is not for the photographer who can’t roll with the punches--life
has no guarantees and while we do the best we can 100% of the time, that doesn’t
mean things don’t happen that simply shouldn’t. The guy running this
thing isn’t perfect, don’t expect it.
DLWS is for the digital photographer who wants to explore this exciting
and new medium, have fun and their passion fullfilled. We are after
capturing passion with every pixel. We will introduce you to a whole
lot of new concepts and techniques and we guarantee some of them will
be WAY over your head. But you know, if someone doesn’t show you the possibilities, even give you a road map, how will
your photography ever grow? We see and have designed DLWS to be only a starting
point in this pursuit. We want YOU to leave DWLS desiring, no demanding more
from your photography. We hope to give you the inspiration, tools and passion
to accomplish that!
Required to Attend DLWS
 We
have a vision, goal and purpose to what we want to enlighten, inspire
and teach you at DLWS. To meet these passions, we have requirements
of what we need YOU to bring to DLWS.
- Digital SLR camera & lens (point & shoots won’t
cut it) is required. We don’t care what brand, but we are Nikon
shooters and are a Nikon sponsored event. We have a huge locker of
loaner Nikon gear to offer the Nikon shooter. If you shoot with Nikon,
we can help you out with other lenses & bodies. If you shoot
with other brands, that’s just fine but just keep in mind you
have to come self reliant (you too can check out a Nikon system and
give it a drive).
- Notebook computer is a must. This can’t be your uncle’s
cousin twice removed notebook built in 1992 folks.
- Loaded in your computer must be Photoshop
CS2. This is a requirement. You don’t have to know Photoshop
or have mastered it, but you must own it and have it loaded on
your notebook. Elements is not enough. You must also have a Raw processing
program if you shoot Raw and a program such as DigitalPro or Adobe
Bridge to preview and sort your images.
- Minimum of 1GB of memory for your camera.
- Tripod
- CCD
cleaning kit
- Read the Participant Worksheet, read the Participant
Worksheet and then, read the Participant
Worksheet
- Have an open mind to be taken to a whole new level, to concepts that
might be way over your head for the moment. With this, we WILL open
up a whole new world of photography to you.
- A sense of humor!
Folks joining us at a DLWS event HAVE to meet us half way. We aren’t
in the position nor are we going to try to be everything to everyone.
You have to take responsibility for yourself, your own camera gear and
notebook and come prepared to learn, be pushed and have fun.
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