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🟢 FREE Introduction to Digital Photography Classroom: January 10th

Essentials:
🟢 Photography 1 (know your camera) - with Walter - Classroom: January 15th
🟢 Photography 2 (art & creativity) - with Walter - Classroom: March 4th
Photography 3 (advanced techniques) - with Walter - Classroom: April 29

Go further:
🟢 Digital Camera Class - Classroom: November 15
🟢 Better Phone Photos - with Walter - Classroom and local Field Trip: May 23rd
🟢 Photo Editing Light- Classroom: March 2nd
🟢 Photo Explorers: Photo Safari: Forts&Castles: December 7
🟢 Workshop - Studio Lighting with a model December 13

Pro Workflows:
Photo Editing 1 - Classroom: Oct 28
Photo Editing 2 - Classroom: Jan 6
Photo Editing 3 - Classroom: Feb 24

Showcase & Certification:
Photography-2 Art show April 1st 5:30 - 7:00
Certified Professional Photographer - Classroom: Nov 8 & 9
🟢 Downeast 4 nights • 5 days • 6 lighthouses • 1 epic milkyway - September 30th to October 4th, 2026
🟢 Downeast Huddle January 26th 6-7:30pm
Grand Tetons & Yellowstone - coming for Fall of 2027 - start saving!

Details subject to change - we'll keep you posted.

Essential courses:

In-Person. Online. Your Choice.
Photography 1. Photography 2. Photography 3. Choose how you learn best.
Classroom or Zoom. Live or recorded. We adapt to you.
State-approved curriculum. Certificate included. Because your education matters.


Photography 1 (know your camera)

This is our most popular course that has helped hundreds of people to get more out of their digital camera and start taking the kind of photos they really want to take. Join us for a 6-week course that'll demystify your camera's features and show you how you can use them to your advantage, as well as what all the numbers mean. 

Photography 2 (art and creativity)

Take your photography to the next level and master the intricacies of composition and subject placement. Like a painter, if you're always aware of foreground, mid ground and background, your photographs become more artistic. Once you start looking at your photos from a compositional standpoint, your photography will improve leaps and bounds.

Photography 3 (advanced photography)

Advanced photography concepts and techniques - like lighting, contrast management, and posing people - together with computer editing and organizing skills will hone your photographic prowess and make you feel surefooted with your camera and skill level, no matter what the situation calls for. In our Advanced Photography course, we bring all of it together and dramatically boost your confidence level.

Get your Photography Black Belt certificate bundle:

All 3 courses, Photography 1, 2, and 3, as a bundle. Learn your camera, learn about photographic art and composition, and learn about advanced photography techniques, with a discount. Complete 3 courses and get a certificate as a Black Belt Photographer, to show the world your status and your photographic prowess. 

Pro Workflow:

Now that you're taking stunning photos, learn how to import them to your computer, color correct, brightness adjust, and generally make them all the can be. Photo Editing 1 through 3 will teach you everything you need to edit your photos and make them look great.

Photo Editing 1 (Get to know Lightroom)

Push your photography to the next level and learn more about what to do with your photos. We’ll start setting up your computer and begin editing and tweaking your photos with Adobe Lightroom. 

Photo Editing 2 (Lightroom and Photoshop)

Dig deeper into Adobe Lightroom and find out how to make it play nice with Adobe Photoshop.  We’ll touch on Photoshop, when you need it, and what it can do for your photos. 

Photo Editing 3 (Advanced Photo Editing)

Explore Adobe Photoshop more fully and learn how to make your photos eye-poppingly awesome. 

Get your Photography Ninja certificate bundle:

All 3 courses, Photo Editing 1, 2, and 3, as a bundle. Learn advanced photo editing from the ground up. Get really comfortable with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Complete 3 courses and get a certificate as Photography Ninja, to show the world your photo editing ninja skills. 

Other courses, classes and learning opportunities:

Live and in-person, at our Amherst, NH classroom facilities, and surrounding areas.

Memberships - go further

Ongoing learning reveals and unleashes the photographer in you. If you're up for a more intensive photography experience, choose one of our membership plans.

Photo Explorers contain:
• Monthly Photo Safari
• Monthly Tweak & Toast editing sessions
• Free access to monthly workshops

Photo Safaris contain:
• Monthly Photo Safari to a location that we hope yields pretty photos

Join us for monthly Photo Safaris with a group of like-minded people, or join an all inclusive Photo Explorers membership that adds Tweak & Toast editing sessions to the photo safaris as well as free access to the monthly Workshops.

Workshops - go further

Monthly workshops on ever changing and different topics. Check the upcoming workshops and the schedule for what's up next.

Professional Certification

Many, once they have polished their skills in photography, want to go pro. Take the Professional Certification and become a Certified Professional Photographer. Add the letters CPP behind your name and show the world that you are serious about your craft. 

Big Kahuna+ Bundle

The Big Kahuna Plus:

C1MAC1 Photography 1 course - $599

C1MAC2 Photography 2 course - $849

C1MAC3 Photography 3 course - $949

C1MAC4 Photo Editing 1 - $699

C1MAC5 Photo Editing 2 - $849

C1MAC6 Photo Editing 3 - $949

C1MAPE24 24 full months of Photo Explorers - $1,920

C1MALe01-06 All 6 videos in the Lightroom eLearning series as a bundle for immediate download - 299.94

C1MACPP  Professional Photographer Certification Course - $1,998

+ Bonus Items: C1M Academy Book Adobe Lightroom and C1M Academy Book Adobe Lightroom Digital Workflow 

Self directed courses:

Study what you want, when you want, and at whatever pace you want. Like Your Camera, Take Beautiful Photos, and Kick It Up feature online reference learning along with videos and practice sessions that'll make you love photography even more.

Adobe Lightroom - Getting Started

Setting up and getting started in Adobe Lightroom in 4 easy lessons. 

Like Your Camera course

In this course you'll learn what your camera's functions are, how they work, why you should care, and how to use them. All that, so the camera won't get in the way of your photography.
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Take Beautiful Photos

In this course you will learn how to best approach your photography. Leverage composition and visual guidelines to create photographs with an impact.
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Kick It Up

In this course you'll learn how to take your best photographs and make them even better. Increase contrast, fix exposure, correct color casts, partially increase or decreasing brightness, and a lot more.
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All 3 At Once

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Buy all 3 courses at once at a discount and dramatically improve your photography. Like Your Camera, Take Beautiful Photos, and Kick It Up, all at once. Set yourself free to keep learning when you want to and how you want to. - Yeah, freedom!
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