2012 Workshop Schedule

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New WORKSHOP in Harrisburg - Capture to Output: Photoshop Elements v10 for Photographers

Fee: 325.00 / 2.5 days / Hands-on lab (November 2012)  Details to follow.

If you enjoy photography and travel, join one of our photo safaris! Our professional photographers will show you where to find great pictures and how to create them. You will receive instruction on composition, exposure, and lighting. Harrisburg Photo Safari provides training workshops for photographers at any skill level with any kind of camera. Our groups are kept small (up to 15) to provide hands on instruction based upon your individual needs.

Monterey/Big Sur, California 

July 1-5, 2012 / $895. (Fee does not include travel or lodging). Limited enrollment 15.  ** SOLD OUT **

Skill Level: Advance to Pro. Participants should have a working knowledge of their camera. This workshop is NOT applicable to point and shoot cameras.

Spend a long weekend photographing the Big Sur coastline with its rocky shores, waterfalls, mountains and sea. We will photograph the "greatest meeting of land and water in the world"- Point Lobos in Carmel. This quote has always been credited to Robert Louis Stevenson but the statement was made by artist Francis McComas (1875-1938), who came to the area from Australia to paint.

Pt. Lobos has the most unusual rock formations and patterns than you can imagine along with crashing waves and beautiful vistas.

We will catch each sunset at the water's edge at different locations including Pacific Grove, and early morning mist in the forest. We will also do some low light photography around Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey. You will learn not only how to take an effective landscape photo but how to look for abstract and graphic patterns in nature.

Come and experience one of the most beautiful places on earth and a favorite of both Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.

Creative Nature/Outdoors Photos with Lensbaby - Hershey Gardens and Longwood Gardens.

Sunday, June 11, 2011.  9:30 AM to 2:30 PM / $125, includes Hershey Gardens admission.

Sunday, May 22. 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM / $125 + Longwood Gardens admission -

Learn techniques and use accessories to create unique images using the Lensbaby MUSE and the Composer. Participants will be provided with a Lensbaby loaner and accessories.

Limited to 12. 8 with Canon dSLR Cameras and 4 with Nikon dSLR Camera.

Skill Level: Beginners, point and shoots, and those new to dSLRs.

Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera

For beginners and intermediate folks with digital Point and Shoots and those new or wanting to move to dSLR's. You will learn how the camera captures and create a digital exposure, camera settings such as; sRGB vs. Adobe RGB color spaces, resolution, camera raw and jpeg file formats, ISO settings, White Balance, preset scenes and creative modes: Aperture/Shutter Priority and Manual mode (Av, Tv and M). I will demonstrate some basic composition techniques: Rule of Thirds, GET CLOSE, Leading Lines, Framing, Point-of-View (POV), that will immediately improve your photos . Bring your camera, camera manual, extra batteries, notepad, pen and an empty memory card, as you will be formatting the memory card in class. Workshop Fee: $125 includes presentation material and catered lunch.

Locations:

Harrisburg, PA (Wildwood Nature Center) - Saturday, May 5, 2012

Harrisburg, PA (Wildwood Nature Center) - Saturday, Oct 6, 2012

Workshops start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 3 p.m.

Photographing Orchids - Longwood Gardens

Sunday, Mar 6, 2012  9:30 AM to 4:00 PM / $195. Limited enrollment 12.  ** SOLD OUT **

Skill Level: Advance to Pro. Participants should have a working knowledge of their camera. This workshop is NOT applicable to point and shoot cameras.

Learn to shoot the natural beauty of orchids through composition, light, and background control, and close-up photography. The day includes a digital orientation with an illustrated handout, personal attention, and a critique of participants’ images. The goal is to get the best possible images using digital equipment. Single day garden pass and lunch are included.

2012 Macro Photography Boot Camp - $175

Harrisburg, PA - May 11-13, 2012

Monterey, CA - July 6-8, 2012

Must have a minimum of 15 students.

This will be an in depth unique three days of learning, fun, and entertainment. It is for the beginner to the intermediate photographer wanting to learn more about the macro world in nature.

I will cover cameras, lenses, tripods, heads and special macro accessories. How to create artistic images using a Lensbaby. Focus Stacking images with Helicon Focus. See how to build a collapsible enclosed plexiglas wind box for shooting flowers. Shooting high magnification with a focusing rail. How to control lighting with diffusers, reflectors, and a plamp. Most new to macro photographers struggle with depth of field, but I will make this easy to understand.

Learn the rules of composition for composing and framing your subjects. I will show you how to choose the perfect flower out of a grouping. With all the chaos in nature you will learn how to define the interesting subjects from the clutter. Choosing the right shooting angles for the proper background that compliments the main subject. Creating artistic compositions with flowers. How to create art combing subjects in nature.

Learn my techniques for processing images.

Bring your camera, camera manual, lens, tripod, because I will have subjects set up for you to shoot.  Lensbaby will be providing lens for you to try out.

Birding / Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, FL 

Friday, April 29 - May 2, 2012 / $1,095. (Fee does not include travel or lodging).  Limited enrollment 15.

Skill Level: Advance to Pro. Participants should have a working knowledge of their camera. Requires 400mm lens or longer. This workshop is NOT applicable to point and shoot cameras or beginners.

The Gator Farm is alive with subjects and is the best place I know of to practice and perfect fill flash and exposure techniques, as well as learning when to and not to take an image. Learn how to effectively compress the lighting ratio to that of your capture medium, and to recognize what makes an effective image. Instruction will include Advanced Manual Flash Techniques, Incident, Spot and Sunny f/16 metering, Post Production and more. If you can do it here, and you will, you can do it anywhere!

Includes photographer’s one - year membership pass.