Centennial Park

Meet at the steps of the Parthenon, Nashville’s full scale replica and tribute to their sister city, Athens, of Greece where you will practice the art of architectural photography, learning how to create drama from a perspective below which pastes the imposing building hard against the sky for a visually dramatic sensibility. Or include adjacent trees to lead the eye of the viewer of your image all around within the frame of the shot. Try positioning the lawn as a excessively long expanse of grass in front of the building, referred by photographers as a “Horizontal Rule of Thirds” and the building becomes romantic in a completely different way.

From there your Digital Photo Academy instructor will lead the group to the greenery of garden not far away with colorful flowers and a pond accessorized by ducks and other charming creatures. There is an effective strategy to frame a pond with nearby branches and convey a story book impression. Learn how to photograph the fountains so the flowing water appears in a velvety smooth flow or change your shutter speed and you have crystal clear water, as if the moving waters were stopped dead for a split second.

But this 132 acre urban park offers far more than flowers and trees. Your DPA instructor will demonstrate and supervise dynamic angles of the promenades and pathways, creating leading lines within your image to tell any kind of visual tale.

Call Digital Photo Academy at 1 877 372 2231. Lots of people seem to hang up if our welcome recording comes on instead of a live voice, but we promise to return your message within a day or two if you leave one with your name and number.  It would be even better if you included your e mail address as well as the date and city of the class you are considering.  If leaving a voice mail message is not your thing, please email us at [email protected].

2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203