Area Photographer Offers Camera Workshop for Amateur Shutterbugs

Photographer Kathy Peoples will be holding a photography workshop on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the on Street Road in Warminster.

The Get to Know Your Camera workshop will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Hotel located at 240 Veterans Way in Warminster and is open to the public for a registration fee of $79.

“The workshop is for people who never take their camera out of automatic,” Peoples said. “It’s going to be about how to take your camera out of auto and be in control of taking better pictures.”

Attendees can expect to learn all the main functions of a camera including the “Menu buttons and their uses, such as: scene modes, Av, S, Tv, or P settings, focus settings, metering choices, white balance importance, lenses and filters, and composition" according to Peoples’ photography website.

The workshop will include hands-on instruction for both digital and manual cameras where students will be instructed and then asked to take pictures, Peoples said.

The day includes a 45 minute break for lunch that will most likely be catered.

Peoples has been taking pictures since a very young age, she said, and owns the Katydid Photography studio in Warwick on Bristol Road, which she opened in 1984. She has served on the Board of The Delaware Valley Guild of Professional Photographers for five years and is a certified professional photographer with the Professional Photographers of America.

Peoples also belongs to the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International association.

“People are overwhelmed with all the buttons, there’s so many,” Peoples said, “So what I do is hit on all the important things that they need to know.”

To register for the Get to Know Your Camera workshop, interested persons should call 215-672-5686 or email katydidphotography@comcast.net to confirm their reservation.

For more information on Peoples, Katydid Photography, or the workshop, visit http://www.katydidphoto.com.

Peoples was kind enough to offer some free tips which preview some of the information that attendees can expect to learn at the workshop:

Quick tips from Kathy Peoples of Katydid Photography

1. For action shots (i.e. children’s sports) Use Tv or S mode. You can also try using a higher shutter speed like 1/1000.
2. As the day gets darker, try taking the ISO off the automatic setting and raise the number.
3. Remember to pay attention when using the flash. A built in flash will only go 10 to 12 feet on average.