Introduction to Digital Photography. Free.
Find out which settings actually control your photos, and which ones you can ignore.
In two hours, discover why your camera fights you, and how to make it work with you instead. No jargon. No judgment. Just the 4 things that actually matter.
Plus: Your questions answered. Your next steps revealed.
In-person, in our classroom, in Amherst.
C1M 13 Columbia Drive Unit #3, Amherst, NH 03031
Next workshop: September 12th - 10am to noon-ish
We opened an afternoon session the same day, 1:00 to 3:00 PM.
Same workshop, same instructor, same everything.
The workshop is free. The reserved seat is $20.
Our Introduction to Digital Photography welcomes 24 photographers. When a session fills up, reserved seats go first.
Reserve now and we'll save your seat and send you the class materials right away.
No reservation? No problem. Just show up. If there's a seat open, it's yours.
Because I also teach Photography-1, a 6-week Thursday night course where you'll actually learn to use your camera. It costs $599.
But committing six Thursday evenings to a teacher you've never met is a weird thing to agree to. So the free workshop is a test drive. Of me.
Come Saturday. Watch me teach. See if I'm someone you'd trust with your Thursday nights for a month and a half. If not, you lost a Saturday morning. If yes, Photography-1 starts the following Thursday and you save $100 by registering the same day.
2,000 students have made that call over 20 years. A lot of them walked in feeling exactly what you're feeling right now.
After registering, we'll send you an email with more details. Usually within 20 minutes.
If you’re using Gmail, it’s likely that you may NOT get the email with all the details. That’s because Gmail puts the e-email directly into the “Promotions” tab (in Gmail itself) or sends it to spam.
Check your Gmail account then drag it out from Spam or the Promotions Folder and move it to the Inbox. That will tell Gmail that you wish to view the e-mail from us in your Inbox and not some random folder.
If you still don’t get the e-mail
If you don’t receive an e-mail from me, please don’t wait. E-mail me right away. And if you still don’t hear from me, it means that I haven’t received your e-mail. Please call the studio at 603.673.8200 and leave a message with your name and phone number. We'll call you back within 24 hours.
Your instructor:
I started C1M Photography Academy in 2007. Over 2,000 students have come through the classroom since then. Most of them arrived convinced they were the problem. They weren't.
Cameras are complicated because they were designed by engineers, not teachers. I'm the teacher. No theory dumps. No lectures. Just your camera in your hands and someone in the room who can answer the question you're actually stuck on.
Student Testimonials
Walter is a GREAT teacher. I am so far advanced from when I first walked into class 6 snowy weeks ago. Thank you for helping me to enjoy my hobby more than I ever thought possible!
Bob, Mont Vernon, NH
I had never taken my camera off automatic before Photography -1. I especially appreciated learning about the whitebalance setting and the ISO, because I'd never understood that. I didn't even know I could change the whitebalance on my camera. I have Lightroom, and I'd use that to try to adjust my photos, but obviously it's much better getting the right on your camera first, and now I can do that.
I took Photography-1 because in an ideal setting, I could take perfect photos and everything was great, but there were situations where I wanted to get nice photos and I was having a hard time. I didn't know if I was limited by my equipment or by my knowledge, and this course taught me that it was both. I knew the technical aspects of my camera's settings, but what I didn't understand was how they all fit together. Walter taught me that very well.
I had a love of taking pictures, and I had a little bit of a fear that making that too technical was going to take that out of it. After taking Photography-1, I think the reverse is true.