Palisades-News-June-3-2015-

Palisades NewsPage 16 June 3, 2015Above: AP photography student Melissa Ramos started taking photos as a seventh grader at Columbus Middle School. The Crenshaw resident has studied two years with RickSteil and plans to attend Santa Monica College this fall. Right: This was senior Xena Ahalfeilat’s first photography class. She snapped the photo of her mom and dad on theSanta Monica Pedestrian Bridge. She is going to San Francisco State for business and marketing, but would like to continue taking photography classes.Looking Through a Different EYEPalisades High School student photography was ondisplay last month in the Palisades Branch Librarycommunity room. Teacher Rick Steil chose fromthe works of more than 160 students in his beginning,advanced and AP photography classes. The photos on theSpotlight page are representative of that top-notch work.Since Steil started teaching at PaliHi, seven years ago,the classes have grown by more than 60 students. Theformer professional fashion photographer said, “I’vebeen told its one of the hardest classes to get into at Pali.”This summer Steil will host a week-long photographycamp with morning or afternoon sessions on thePalisades High campus. Enrollment will be limited to10 in each session, and a student must be in seventhgrade or older (adults are welcome) to enroll.Steil will teach digital photography basics, includingcomposition, shutter speed/aperture/ISO, Photoshop andinkjet printing. Call: (310) 428-1160 or rsteil@palihigh.org.Left: Nicole Gozini, a junior, took this photo of her grandmother for beginning photo. She has been invited to join AP photography next year. Right: Jasper Shorr, a senior, plansto attend the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is undecided about his major. This was the first photography class he took.