Class Schedule:
May: Thursday night’s 6:30-9:30pm (6th, 13th, 20th and 27th)
Class cost: For 12 hours of quality time spent learning $120
Location: Same building as Advance, but on the bottom end, in the center location.
Parking: There is plenty of available parking on the bottom end of the building.

Week 1: Terminology, Camera Settings, Synchronization, In-Camera Flash & Various Flash Modifiers
Week 2: On/ Off-Camera Flash Units, On/ Off Camera Diffusers, Ring Flash Units, Flash Control Units, Balancing Mixed Light
Week 3: On & Off-camera Flash Combo’s, Master /Slave Operations, Multiple Off-Camera flash Units, Group Operations
Week 4: Putting it all together, Indoor Shooting, Outdoor Shooting


This program is for photographers who want to create photographs with artistic lighting without buying or carrying lots of lighting equipment. Learn how to control the flash unit in your camera and accessory flash units available for your camera. Investigate and practice the operation and configuration of various flash units to achieve desired lighting in various photographic conditions.

This class meets four separate times over the course of one month (once a week: every Thursday night from 6:30-9:30pm). This is not studio photography, instead it is dedicated to using on camera flash to enhance lighting conditions, in any situation, to creatively improve your photography and become a more versatile photographer in any lighting situation. Below, you will see a list of topics we cover, each week. The cost is $120 per person and the class is held in the same building as Advance Camera, on the upper half, but on the opposite side of the building.

Almost every month Advance Camera offers a free workshop at the West Slope Community library, located just a mile down the road from Advance. The presentation is called and is based on “What you need to know about digital cameras.” This class covers topics that can be applied to both compact and D-SLR digital cameras, such as shutter speeds, F/stop’s, ISO, flash and composure.

In order to sign-up for this class, you must stop by or call the West Slope Library. The classroom can accommodate up to 25 people, but tends to fill up fast, so call and get on the list today!

You can find the West Slope Community Library on Facebook or on the world wide web.

This weekend all the local camera clubs in Oregon and Washington come together @ Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. There are 7+ workshops throughout the two day convention. It’s sponsored by Canon and Lewis Kemper will be discussing “Light & Composition” and “Landscapes of Iceland.” Friday nights keynote presentation is free to the public and starts at 7:30. Anyone interested in learning should come! Advance Camera will be there Saturday cleaning cameras and offering 1/2 price sensor cleanings! Which means, bring your camera! If you have questions, or want to see a list of events, check out the 4C’s website listed below. Hope to see you there! http://www.columbiacameraclubs.org

The Presenters
You can check out the work of many of the speakers on their websites:

Sean Bagshaw – www.outdoorexposurephoto.com

Jon Canfield – www.joncanfield.com

Michael Durham – www.durmphoto.com

Michael Henley – www.contimages.com

Ron Kaplan – www.ronkaplanphotography.com

Lewis Kemper – www.lewiskemper.com

Don Lyon – www.cuephoto.com

George Ostertag – www.ostertagphoto.com

Terry Tallis – www.terrytallis.com

Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest Spring Meeting

On April 4th, over 200 members from both Oregon and Washington congregate at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham for the biannual spring meeting. Tamron, ProPhoto, Advance Camera and Trek-Tech helped support this event while Don Gale, a successful commercial and industrial photographer taught various techniques that have earned him national recognition. If you care to see Don’s work, check out his website www.photographybydon.com. In addition, there is a photo contest that consists of up to 4 of your favorite images consisting of scenic’s, wildlife, and plan life. Members were allowed to bring up to two prints, 48’’ in size to the event to be judged by If you are interested in becoming a member of this group, or want to know more about the organization, check out their site. www.nppnw.org

Prior to the even, registered members were reminded to bring there cameras in for cleaning. Members started arriving promptly at 9am to drop off there camera with Dave for cleaning, and by the end of the day all of the cameras had been cleaned, tested and if needed the firmware was updated. This year, Dave cleaned almost 50 DSLR’s and helped many with various technical questions. With that said, when problems or questions arise, feel free and stop by Advance Camera for help. Everyone here wants to help.

Below are pictures taken at the NPPNW biannual meeting. The main photo shows the Advance Camera booth with owner Dave Sleeth in front. You’ll also see him smiling, busy at work cleaning cameras and checking them out. The bottom right picture is of the Tamron booth, shared with ProPhoto. Tamron had several knowledgeable reps showing off their latest high-end lenses.

The Sportsman show is an event where hunters, fisherman and anglers come to congregate to look at the latest equipment as well as buy product at the right price. This is also a place where many may not expect to see a local camera store, but for the last 4 years Advance Camera continues to grow with the support of the locals and the vendors whom contribute.

This year Advance Camera brought two new product lines to the show which were quite successful. Zen-Ray, a locally based company in Beaverton that makes high end, low cost binoculars and accessories helped us bring in a large amount of there product, which sold beyond what we had predicted. This start up company is new to the industry and currently only has an online presence. However, that is changing, since they are locally owned, they are able to drive there product over, rather than ship it which means you can come into Advance Camera to see and or purchase Zen-Ray products. In addition to there nitrogen filled 8X42’s (water proof, fog proof, phase coated) binoculars that start around $150. To my knowledge there is no vendor on the market that has this much product, at this price point, which is why we sell them. Though, there is no question that this year, the digital camera spotting scope adapter was the most popular item! We sold out with two days left in the show (Saturday and Sunday). Next year, this wont happen.

Samsung also contributed generously, though we did not sell as many digital cameras as binoculars, they had great show presence and better support from the local rep Ken Long, whom is seen in the picture below. This next year will be significantly better for them as there product line has increased, the price points have dropped below there competitors and there new innovations set them apart from all the other manufacturers.

Below are a couple pictures of this years Oregon Sportsman Show. If you have any questions, or want to see any of these new products, please stop by the store, call or shoot us an email. To contact us, go to…
advancecamera.com

Steve and myself (Jordan) showing off our booth, with product all around.

Both the Zen-Ray rep and the Samsung rep working the booth with Steve Haning

Steve Haning and Ken Long

Just a glimpse of how many people come to this show… on a constant basis. There must be a reason?