Education | August 2013

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 2013

PRAIRIEVIEW ON CUTTING EDGE OF PHOTO TECHNOLOGY

This year’s PrairieView graduates pose for a group photo. Submitted photo

By Holli Moncrieff For the Free Press

changing technology. The school offers hybrid courses that teach both film and digital, and has expanded into video courses as well. “It’s almost impossible to find or buy a camera that doesn’t also take video, and now they have a wonderful thing called time lapse—you can have a wonderful time-lapse video of an entire sunrise or sunset,” says Koshyk. “We have a 12-week course where students learn how to make digital videos and edit them with the same camera.” Also available are classes in smartphone photography, blogging, social media and website building. “There are more photos uploaded to Facebook every month than have been taken in the rest of history combined, and it seems like every day there are new ways to share photos online,” Koshyk adds. “We’ll teach you how to make the most of this technology while never losing the fact that photos are

made by people. You still need to know what you want to say and how to say it.” The school has managed to embrace new technology while staying true to photography’s roots. “If people want to learn how to work in a darkroom, they can,” Koshyk says. “It’s mostly young people who want to work with film now. When you take them into a darkroom and show them something coming up in the developer, it’s like Harry Potter to them.” PrairieView holds classes every day of the week and 30 to 40 different courses are offered each year. Students can choose from an array of evening and weekend workshops that start at $49. “I guarantee you’ll be taking better pictures after the class than you were before it. The minute you open your mind to the idea that you don’t know everything about photography,

There’s never been a better time to develop a passion for photography. Preserving one’s precious memories has never been easier, says Craig Koshyk, president and founder of the PrairieView School of Photography. “There are cameras available now that are more powerful than any we’ve ever had before—this is a new golden age of photography,” he explains. “The content of the photo is still king but technology is helping us say what we want faster and more efficiently.” Koshyk says one of the reasons behind PrairieView’s success is the school’s ability to adapt to the ever-

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