Meet-Up in LA: Downtown Los Angeles with Peter Bennett (Hybrid Learning – Two Sessions)
Join us in Downtown Los Angeles to explore its vibrant urban landscape through hands-on photography excursions and engaging online critiques, all designed to enhance your storytelling skills
Photographing and Lighting Models with Ian Spanier (Hybrid Learning – Two Sessions)
Learn to photograph and light models in a fun, hands-on studio setting with Ian Spanier. This one-day class is perfect for photographers looking to gain experience working with models—no lighting experience needed.
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Creative Survival with Ken Merfeld (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
This class invites photographers to reconnect with creativity by exploring their personal environments, inner expression, and the world around them. Through conceptual assignments, group critique, and discussions on perception and appreciation, participants will expand their visual language and artistic mindset.
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The practice of using multiple exposures to create a single image can bring dreamlike, surreal and otherworldly qualities to photography and expands the possibilities for imagination and vision. Fine-art photographer Manuela Thames demonstrates methods that can be applied to all genres, from portraits and landscapes to abstract and still life.
Photography and Poetry have long been linked. While they are quite distinct art forms, there is a lot to be learned from the traditions of poetry that can help us in our photographic work. In this workshop, we will look at how we can borrow poetic devices such as metaphor, parallelism and symbolism to create a visual language.
Shooting with Intention with Aline Smithson (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
This workshop will inspire participants to reconsider how they make work, how they interpret their lives and their world, and by bringing depth and meaning to their efforts. Designed for all levels of fine art photographers.
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Portfolio Development Workshop with Susan Burnstine (Online Learning – Six Months)
This six-month workshop is tailored for fine art photographers seeking to develop a standout portfolio that resonates with their unique sensibilities and target audiences, including gallerists and curators. Through a combination of monthly critiques, editing sessions, and in-depth discussions on branding and presentation, participants will gain valuable skills in articulating their vision and refining their work in a supportive group environment, ultimately culminating in a cohesive and impressive portfolio.
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Introduction to Adobe Photoshop with David Calicchio (Online Learning – Twelve Sessions)
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop is a core fundamental class for photographers. Using Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC), the course teaches the most important tools for retouching, precise image adjustments, combining multiple images using layers, and helping students to understand the process behind color correction.
Introduction to Adobe Lightroom Classic with Michael Pliskin (Online Learning – 12 Sessions)
This workshop focuses on the most essential workflow and developing features of the Adobe Lightroom Classic with the needs of the photographer in mind. Students will learn how to import, sort, organize and enhance their digital images, as well as batch process groups of images, quickly and efficiently.
Funding the Publication of Your Photobook with Mary Virginia Swanson (Webinar)
Learn what it really takes to fund and publish a photobook, from production costs to distribution realities. In this session, Mary Virginia Swanson shares practical strategies for sponsorship, insights on photobook competitions, and honest advice on crowdfunding, empowering artists at any stage of their project.
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