1st Avenue North St. Petersburg DSLR Photography Lesson
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 11:28PM Jason Collin 
Linda & her Nikon D3100 on our 3rd DSLR Photography Lesson - 1st Ave North, St. PetersburgLinda's intensive DSLR Photography Lessons continued this morning once again in downtown St. Petersburg. This was her third lesson in seven days (1st, 2nd). If only all my students were that frequent I could finally get that Porsche 911 Carrera S I have been wanting. Speaking of Porsches, I find out that Linda has quite the knowledge of cars as she even knew a 911 from 1999 would still be the air-cooled version. I was impressed.
For this 2-hour lesson block we mostly setup shop on 1st Avenue North around the 2nd Street North cross street. This stretch of 1st Avenue North is lined with multiple storefronts all displaying different, vibrant colors (see photo above). It is my favorite place to photograph people in downtown St. Pete.
We had practiced flash portrait photographs last time, so today I had Linda focus more on composition and style. I introduced her to the wonders that can happen if you purposefully tilt the horizontal axis in your viewfinder and push the shutter. The off center shot is not a style one would want to do a majority of the time, but I do like to toss in a few of this style of shot every now and then to spice things up.
I also had Linda shoot from a lower than eye-level perspective with her Nikon D3100 to produce a creative forced perspective portrait.
Having covered a most of the areas I like to shoot at in downtown St. Petersburg, our fourth lesson, already scheduled for Friday morning, will be at John's Pass Village!
Reader Comments (2)
Three lessons in 7 days, you say. 'Tweren't nuthin'. If I had the stamina of my youth we'd be doing a lesson every day! I haven't had this much fun learning something new since I had to replace the timing chain and gear in my 1972 one ton van! However, that is not a skill set I can or would want to use in my day to day living. The photography lessons are. They are already changing the way I look at my world. Your one-on-one, individualized teaching style has allowed me to really 'focus' better than I could ever do in a classroom or group setting. I appreciate that more than I can express. I'm sure that many who have taken lessons with you would say the same thing.
I would like to encourage anyone who has only thought about taking lessons with you to set their reservations aside and click on the DSLR Photography Lessons link and just 'DO IT'! 'DO IT NOW'! Anyone who is serious about making pictures and takes the lessons you offer will learn just how much fun it can be to handle that camera like a pro.
I'm looking forward to Friday's lesson. Soon, I will want to be able to show you just how great that Porsche 911 Carrera S will look through the lens on my D3100!
Thanks very much for the feedback Linda! I am very glad the lessons we have had so far have been helpful and are changing your outlook to more of that of a photographer's!
Ah, and I may have moved on from Porsche to Ferrari....depending on the budget of course!