AboutAdvanced Digital Training was opened eleven years ago, coinciding with the explosion of interest in a new innovation - the digital camera. The potential that these new devices promised aroused great public interest, and the school began in the early days by holding information sessions that helped people understand just how these new and exciting devices worked, and could benefit them.
Today, and with eleven successful years behind us, we focus on two very important aspects of digital photography: understanding the specifics of different makes and models of cameras; and second, teaching students how to fix and share the best of their photos using great software tools such as Photoshop Elements, Lightroom and other software that has evolved over time.
The decision to locate to the North Shore was taken due to the fact that it was at the intersection of large populations to the west (Squamish, West Vancouver etc), to the east (Coquitlam, Burnaby and outlying regions) and the Downtown metropolitan area.
Aside from location, we chose to keep our classes small. Introductory camera classes are limited to 8 people, but the more in-depth classes that deal with computer manipulation of images are limited to 5 although the average class normally has 3 or 4 people. Our mandate is to offer students personalized instruction in very small class settings as our belief is that people both learn less, and are more easily intimidated in large class settings. That belief has proved to be absolutely correct as demonstrated by the feedback that we routinely get from our "graduates".
The owner / lecturer (Peter Levey) has spent a lifetime in education - high school, scuba instruction, software instruction culminating in his current role as the sole instructor at Advanced Digital Training. His conversation style and very careful ability to make difficult concepts seem clear and simple, has endeared him to students who have frequently returned for follow up courses, or personalized one-on-one instruction.