Part 1
Capturing the Light
Getting the exposure right in the camera.
- Shoot RAW & the exposure triangle
- Aperture, depth of field & focal length
- Shutter speed & motion; ISO & Auto ISO
- Metering, the histogram & white balance
Wildlife, Landscapes, Macro, Abstract & More
Learn to make the photograph — not just take it.
A course taught in three sessions — taught on Zoom, and built around real critique of your own images.
“A snapshot says: this was here. A photograph says: this was worth stopping for.”
3Live sessions
LiveWeekly on Zoom
15Point critique system
1:1Feedback on your work
Who it’s for
Built for club photographers who compete — open to everyone.
This course is made especially for camera- and photo-club members who enter competitions. The first goal is the one that lasts: to make you a stronger photographer for your own sake — for the satisfaction of seeing better and making the image you meant to make. And as that grows, the scores tend to follow. The same decisions that please you are the ones that move a judge from a 10–12 toward a 13–15.
All are welcome
You don’t have to compete to belong here — any camera, any level, anyone who wants to see more deeply.
The idea
Great photographs are made twice.
Once in the camera, and once at the computer. Offered in the spirit of Ansel Adams’ trilogy — The Camera, The Negative, The Print — this course treats the RAW file as your negative and the edit as the performance.
The craft of seeing, exposing, and interpreting hasn’t changed since film. What changes is that you stop letting the camera decide, one choice at a time, until you are the one deciding how the photograph looks.
In the camera
Capture a clean negative
Aperture and shutter for the look you want, balanced with ISO, confirmed on the histogram.
At the computer
Develop the print
A repeatable Lightroom workflow that enhances the file rather than rescuing it.
The curriculum
A newly published book in three parts — included with the course
The order matters — capture, then compose, then develop — but the three reinforce each other, and you’ll move freely among them as your eye grows.
Part 2
Composing the Frame
Seeing and arranging the photograph.
- Find the subject — star & supporting cast
- Visual weight, simplicity & the rule of thirds
- Leading lines, framing, balance & depth
- Reading light · border patrol · the horizon
Part 3
The Digital Darkroom
Developing the RAW file in Lightroom Classic.
- Histogram, Basic panel & the Tone Curve
- HSL, color grading, sharpening & noise
- AI local masking & a 12-step workflow
- Prepare · Repair · Finesse — knowing when to stop
This course puts it all together
Putting the whole method to work
Beyond the three books come the practical chapters — the parts that take everything to the field and the screen.
Field guide
Flowers & Macro
The course’s signature subject: soft light, isolation, and getting closer.
Golden hour
Sunrise & Sunset
Taming the widest range of light — exposure, HDR, filters, composition.
A discourse
Training the Eye
Why a thirty-minute walk is never thirty minutes again once you can see.
Competition
How Photographs Are Judged
The 15-point scoring system, and how to read — and use — any score.
Practice
The Review Worksheet
A guided critique you fill in for any image, from first impression to edit plan.
Habit
The Photographer’s Checklist
Run it before the shutter, and again before you finish an edit.
The live class
Taught live, built on your photographs
Each session pairs a focused lesson with real critique — your images, read the way a judge reads them, with a clear plan for the next frame.
Bring your work
Submit a few recent images before class — landscapes, flowers, macro, anything you’re working on.
Learn the lesson
One topic per session, from the three parts — seeing, capturing, or developing.
Critique together
We read images out loud using the worksheet: subject, light, composition, technical, and editing priorities.
Go make the next one
Leave with specific, actionable changes — and the eye to spot them yourself next time.
Join a session
Live on Zoom · weekly
- Small group, camera-club friendly
- Personal critique of your images
- Slides, handouts & the review worksheet
- Works for any camera — Canon, Nikon, Sony
- Recordings to revisit the lesson
The whole of it
Decide what the photograph is about before you press the shutter.
Making the Photograph
Your instructor
Jack B. Anon
A photography educator who teaches live, Zoom-based classes and camera-club workshops — with a soft spot for wildlife, landscapes, flowers, macro, abstracts, and mostly everything else.
The teaching grew out of a single conviction: that seeing is a skill, and skills can be taught. Every lesson, diagram, and worksheet here is built to move you from competent to memorable — and to do it on purpose.
Find the workJackAnonPhoto.com
The bookA Book in Three Parts
Ready to make the photograph?
Join an upcoming live class and start turning the pictures you take into the photographs you meant to make.