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To participate in any of the Balanced Exposure classes, you must bring your own DSLR camera or hybrid camera. Hybrid cameras must be able to shoot in manual mode, aperture priority and shutter speed prority modes. Standard "Point and Shoot" cameras do not qualify for admission to DSLR classes offered through Balanced Exposure.
Our Room Number
Please note that Balanced Exposure is in Room 1480 (at the farthest end of the hallway) on the 14th floor of the north tower of Zurich Towers. Suite 1400 is a mailing address and represents the entire 14th floor.
Attention Boot Camp Students: If you cannot make it to one of the Boot Camp dates in May or June, you may upgrade your Boot Camp class to the Four Hour Photo Essentials Class for only $15 more. This gives you an extra hour of training and you'll get up to 6 months to take the Photo Essentals class. Just call 847-840-4082 with a credit card and provide your current voucher number to get upgraded.
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Welcome To
Balanced Exposure!
With the advent of digital cameras, the interest in photography has skyrocketted! But knowing how to take a great picture still remains a mystery to many people. Plus, how do you distinquish a good camera from a mediocre one? What settings do you use to control the camera to get the best shot? How do you use post production software to enhance and correct your digital images? Balanced Exposure explains all that in the various classes, workshops and training programs it offers to both the average photography consumer and the professional photographer.
Providing photography training for the Chicago area, we are located in the northwest suburbs in Schaumburg, Illinois. Our photography classes and photography workshops are great for those in need of a quick and easy way to get started in photography. But we also provide photography training for those who want more in-depth training. For instance, our wedding photography training provides a great foundation for those photographers entering the field. And for photographers who need help in learning studio techniques, Balanced Exposure provides both classes and a location to do that kind of photography!
Why Balanced Exposure?

At Balanced Exposure, we take photography seriously but we don't teach it that way! We want all photographers to create the absolute best images they can but we want them to learn how to do it while having fun.
Today, even inexpensive digital cameras are capable of taking some amazing photographs! Learning to use the new cameras properly is the key to getting great shots. While we can speak "technical talk" with the best of them, we try to keep the language a little more simple. We'd rather teach in a language everyone can understand. That's what makes us unique and why our students continue to come back to us to learn more advanced techniques.
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