Instructor

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  Dan Nelson
  Dan grew up in Dewberry, Alberta. Dan's photography career started when he and his science teacher started a photography class when Dan was in grade 9. They taught darkroom techniques and processing to grades 7 and up. Dan continued doing this until he finished high school. He was also the yearbook photographer. After finishing high school, Dan was a TV camera man for five years doing studio and on location news work. In the mid-nineties, he moved to Edmonton to be a color dark room technician, working in sales and printing professional photographer's competition work. Since then, and for the last twenty years, he has been working for Technicare Imaging, working with Photoshop and digital lab large format printers. He is a self taught photographer and has been doing family portraiture, commercial photography and weddings for forty years. He joined the Profession Photographers of Canada in 1997 and received his Craftsman and Masters designations with accreditations in Image Manipulation and Fine Art. He has also judged image competitions for PPOC Alberta and Metro College. He has expanded his knowledge experimenting with many different aspects of photography and has taken a special interest in Night Photography. Dan Nelson Portrait Design is the name of the photography company that Dan has built and you can check out his work and services through his web site.