Learn how your camera works and what it does. Topics include exposure, resolution, focus and more. Basic post-production editing, printing and sharing will be reviewed. Conclude with field practice weather permitting on the grounds of the Arts Center. Bring your camera (DSLR or similar preferred) and instruction manual.

Teaching Artist Larry Bilansky's interest in photography goes back to the fifth grade when he got his first camera. He became serious about photography in college where he helped work his way through school as a newspaper photographer for the UWM Post, his college newspaper, and as a freelance stringer for several local weekly papers. His interest in photography has never waned.

Prior to coming to Hartford in 1981, Larry worked as a wedding photographer for one of Milwaukee’s more prestigious studios and developed his skills as a fine art photographer. His works have been exhibited in a number of juried art shows as well as several galleries in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Reading, Pennsylvania.

Larry currently produces fine art photography professionally. One of his specialties is Nontraditional Portraiture, which he defines as anything you want it to be other than the standard studio portraits. Included, along with studio work such as intimate portraits (often referred to as “boudoir” photography) and figure studies, is live action photography – performance photographs of theatre, sports, dance, musicians etc and workplace portraits.