Chautauqua 2025 Classes

Week 1: Title: Architectural Photography - CHQ Style

Description: With any camera, explore, discover, identify and document with daily walks Chautauqua Institution’s landmark heritage, and the unique and diversified styles of its historical architectural buildings and homes.

M, Tu, W, Th, start time: 3:30 pm, end time: 5:30 pm

Description: With any camera, this class will prepare students with the understanding, knowledge and confidence to use design and composition techniques to create images reflecting their unique perspective and expression worthy of artistic merit and recognition.

M, Tu, W, Th, start time: 3:00 pm, end time: 5:00 pm

Week 6: Title: The Art of Nature Photography

Description: With any camera, this class will prepare studentswith the understanding, knowledge and confidence to use design and composition techniques to create images reflecting their unique artistic perspective and expression of nature’s beauty within the camera and after with post-production techniques and software tools.

M, Tu, W, Th, start time: 3:00 pm, end time: 5:00 pm

Description: The 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe in Ukraine was the world’s greatest nuclear accident, releasing radioactive material and still affecting the health of millions of people and the environment for many thousands of years. Students will learn its causes, cover-up and consequences from a photojournalist who in 2016 and 2018 documented and assembled information in his new book as it appears in this course title. The class integrates the isolation and abandonment of Chernobyl with stories, interviews and images of Chernobyl survivors, victims and the babas still living there.

Tu,W, Th, start time: 2:30 pm, end time: 4:30 pm

Description: Learn to take dramatic, unique and creative images with light painting techniques using light sources such as flashlights, glow sticks, light wands, LED lights and LED toys. With any camera students can learn to pre-visualize, anticipate and photograph people and objects as never before seen in a fun and creative way.

Tu,W, Th, start time: 7:00 pm, end time: 9:00 pm

Description: Twilight often gives the sky a deep blue glow, allowing in that fleeting and brief but alluring moments the opportunity to take dramatic pictures of sunsets, architecture, highway traffic and amusement park rides. With any camera students can learn to pre-visualize, anticipate and capture subjects as never before seen in a fun and creative way.

Tu,W, Th, start time: 7:00 pm, end time: 9:00 pm.

Video - The Art of Nature Photography