Learn how to use your smartphone to take artistic, well-crafted photographs. Professional photographer Dianne Baasch will teach about photography basics and how to capture images from an artistic point of view. Explore dramatic lighting and good composition within photographs. The last half of the session will include a walk around our neighborhood to practice the techniques discussed prior (weather dependent).

Dianne Baasch is an award winning photographer based in New York City. She grew up on a farm near Miles, Iowa, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa, got her Master’s degree in Library Service at Columbia University, and discovered her love of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. She developed the skills required to convey her vision at the Maquoketa Newspaper, a graphic design firm, as a celebrity event photographer, and teaching at schools and the International Center of Photography in New York City. Her photographs will be shown in the Dewitt Library, Dewitt, Iowa, from April 14 through mid-May.

“I want to create photographs that have a presence, that show another reality that others may never have access to.”

$25 for members, $30 for non-members. Space is limited to 10 per class.

Register here for April 21st

*This class will primarily talk about iPhone photography, but concepts can be applied to any type of smartphone. All ages welcome.