Idaho Photographic Workshop

Navigation for the Photographer

Using Map, Compass and GPS for the Photographer.

Will Announce Fall Dates in Late July.
If you travel doing photography this course will have useful information. 

The main emphasis of this course will be how to use a map and compass to navigate to a selected designation. On our path to using map and compass we will explore modern GPS units, smart phones, electronic compasses and dead reckoning. Technologies for communication from remote areas will be covered including mirrors, flags, satellite phones and personal location devices such as those made by Spot LLC, a subsidiary of GlobalStar. The “Lab” portion of this course will be a GeoPhotoCache exercise with the student following “Orienteering” style courses with problem solving exercises and photography at waypoints. The first exercise will be held in Boise parks, covering several miles of trail during a 3-hour class. During this class, five-minute photo sessions will be included at waypoints, creating a Photo Safari theme. This ten-hour course will have three sessions, two classroom sessions, three-hours each. The last session will be a three hours in the field, finished with a one-hour image review/questions. Course fees are $95.00 ($85.50 Members) with a minimum of 6 students, maximum of 20 students.

Please pay and register for this class using PayPal. You can use your Paypal account or a credit card to submit this online payment.

Navigation – : $95.00

Navigation – member discount: $85.50

Course Syllabus

Maps

Map sources for your use will be explored; using maps to plan a trip to and from your designation will be explained. Included in the map portion will be map grid systems, determining the coordinates of a point on the map and reading the graphics used in cartography.

Types of maps and travel include:
• Road
• Topographic —Hiking, 3D visualization
• Marine, general theory
• Aerial, general theory

The Compass

This portion of the class will review several styles of compasses and the pluses and minuses of each style. Magnetism, the compass, the earth, nearby objects and how they are related will be explained.
1. Land Navigation
2. Orienteering
3. With GPS
4. Emergency — Making a compass, finding North without a compass.
5. Marine Navigation, overview
6. Air Navigation, overview

GPS

The Global Position System, using satellites and local beacons.
1. General Theory
2. Cell or Smart Phone GPS
3. GPS receivers for the road, the water or off road.
4. GPS and the Compass

Navigation via DR (Dead Reckoning)
1. Sun
2. Moon
3. Local geography
4. In a fog, under heavy brush or tree canopy.

Resources used to create this course

Björn Kjellström: Be Expert With Map & Compass, Wiley Publishing 1994 Captain Bill Brogdon: Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us, International Marine, 2001 Alan M. MacEachren: How Maps Work, The Guilford Press, 1995 Eduard Imhof: Cartographic Relief Presentation, English translation 1965 from Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin

Land Navigation, 3-25.56 US ARMY Field Manual

Addendum

The student does not need a GPS unit to take this course. Several styles of GPS unit will be available to learn the basics. If you wish to bring your own GPS unit, we can explore how to use it and the limitations of GPS units. GPS Units should be a handheld model for hiking or pedestrian travel with ability to load selected Maps. Road and marine styles will be reviewed.

Compass styles vary from base plate, lensatic, electronic, to transit. The base plate is fine if you currently have this style of compass. Lensatic is good for better accuracy while the transit is just too heavy for normal use. Brunton has recently created a combination mirrored base plate style that would be a great first choice. For rough use, the higher priced lensatic with illuminated dials work in all conditions. Base plate styles are most often used in orienteering. Manufacturers include Brunton, Silva, Suunto and Cammenga. Rulers, UTM grids and scales will be discussed.

Bio

Instructor Cal Werry has been a professional photographer for over 20 years and has traveled internationally on photography productions. Werry’s earlier jobs provide a great background for this course on navigation. Enlisted in the US Navy during the early ’70s, Werry gained the rate of Second Class Petty Officer in the Tradevman? rating. Operating, manufacturing and instructing on flight simulators at Moffett Field, CA. Werry helped train Navigators and flight crews in anti-submarine warfare. After gaining a BFA in Ad Design from Boise State University (1980), Werry went though Aviation Officer Candidate School and Ground School at NAS Pensacola, Fl. From 2001 to 2004 Werry was Senior Graphic Designer at Techsonic Industries, designing manuals, packaging and advertising for this manufacturer of recreational sonar and GPS products. Werry was part of the user interface design team for Techsonic’s first GPS offerings. Techsonic and its Humminbird brand where acquired by Johnson Outdoors in 2004. Werry moved back to Idaho in 2006 and currently is a freelance photographer.

Please pay and register for this class using PayPal. You can use your Paypal account or a credit card to submit this online payment.
Navigation – : $95.00

Navigation – member discount: $85.50

Calvin L. Werry, Instructor Idaho Photographic Workshop Boise, Idaho Cell: 208-863-3330 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it