Our Course DescriptionsBasic Camera Course $349master your camera & its controls.Become proficient shooting inside & outdoors. To ensure a proper learning experience for each student our maximum class size is 4-5 students or less. By the end of this course you will be taught every external setting on your camera body & lens, how to use them most effectively & accomplish photos you never thought you or your camera could do. We then go into your individual cameras internal menu & unlock each mystery one at a time. Learn how to drive this confusing fusion of technology otherwise known as the modern camera. It simply comes down to aperture & shutter speed as it has been for well over 150 years. After that it is an education of additional options of your choice with the automatic settings. My students have literally said they feel completely enlightened at the end of the first half of the 2 part 1 day lesson. Part 1- the first half of the day we do the basics. This is where you begin to unlock the mysteries in the most simple and least confusing way. The simplest settings will always see you through any lighting situation and get you through most any challenge. Then it becomes your option to keep it simple or go for the automatic options the modern camera was designed to do. We then take a lunch break as you go outside and employ what you just learned to make it sink in right away. Part 2- after lunch is the second half of the day. We analyze your results, make sure you understand the morning lesson, help you with any corrections then proceed. We then move into the various educated choices you will now be able to make given the solid footing you now know. We will keep going until you have a comfortable amount of clarity and my students actually do reach this point. Even students that brought me cameras that were still in their boxes "get it" when we're done. You bought the camera with all these options, now put them to use or at least understand how to use those options. TO SIGN UP FOR A CLASS EMAIL US AT: info@thephotographyworkshops.com Photo Tour $250 Lower Manhattan photography tours.
An exciting new all day course by popular demand. Starting in our SoHo studio we will tour the cobblestone streets & historic cast iron district of SoHo, then through the cafe's,
restaurants & character of Little Italy, the fish markets, food stands & vendors of Chinatown, on to the steps of the Supreme Court where dramas like Law & Order were filmed, the classic buildings of City Hall & Wall Street to the very steps where George Washington gave his inaugural address, just a couple of blocks from the new World Trade Center construction project, among the other historic downtown sites & the Brooklyn Bridge. Advice and questions will be answered regarding your cameras and gear along with technical questions about depth of focus and exposing properly, how to make the most of composing your photos and metering in tricky lighting situations.Engage the challenges & different aspects that professional photographers use for every job such as:
TO SIGN UP FOR A CLASS EMAIL US AT: info@thephotographyworkshops.com Studio Lighting Course $745get a hands-on lesson in studio lightingDay 1- you begin with how to pick apart photos & understand how each of many beautiful images in magazines were made. Teaching you how to analyze a photo is the beginning step to creating what it is you want to say with your photography. You will then learn your way around a studio and the many choices of professional lighting. On day one you will study "hot lights", "hollywood" style spots & fresnels, booms, color metering, light meters, color balancing in kelvin degrees, using cto's & ctb's to balance daylight & hotlight in one photo, balancing hotlight & strobe. A lot of new words here?? Don't let the words scare you, all this can become a normal dialog for you by the end of the day. Day 2- this is a pure studio strobe lighting day. Get into the many choices of light sources. Spot lights, focusing spots, optical spots, honeycomb grids, soft boxes both large & small, the ever popular ring-flash, beauty dish, conical spots, umbrellas, light modifiers, soft light, hard light, open heads, bare bulbs, cucoloris, bounce lighting, bounce "v" cards, silks, diffusion, inverse square law, proper light metering, synch speeds & copyrighting. You will make an environmental portrait & light a foreground subject with a matching lit room behind. Given this education you can now make intelligent choices to actually create the hard drama or soft emotion of how you visualize the image that you want to say with your photos. Students photograph each other & take turns understanding your new medium known as light. Anyone can shoot with daylight- now you will be able to create the image you want to with your new found knowledge of how to light. This will separate you from an amateur as you can now be versed in most any studio in the world. Now you can make an educated choice about renting or buying equipment, become a photographers assistant, or open so many more possibilities about working in this industry. TO SIGN UP FOR A CLASS EMAIL US AT: info@thephotographyworkshops.com Basic Photoshop Retouching $250the natural follow-up to every course.We will teach you how to scan in your print or slide and
show you the Photoshop basics. We'll start with dusting or spotting, show
you several ways to adjust your color to tweak it or to achieve shocking
effects. If you have an old family photo you can learn on that or simply
images of your own that you would like to work on. You'll be taught some
of the functions of the toolbar, dodging, burning, eyedroppers, cloning, rubber
stamping, cropping, sizing, patch tool, healing tool, cutting a path, cloning,
adding type to an image, smooth out bumps, scratches, folds & tears.
This course is designed to get you familiar with a lot of the basic tools you
can use to get you experimenting with some of the endless possibilities that Photoshop has to offer. A lot of these skills can be applied to other
photo retouching programs as they each use some of the same basics. If you've
never been exposed to the options of Photoshop then this intro course will be
amazing! Basic Darkroom $425The alchemy of the art that was & still may be the standard, for well over a century. See why artists & purists continue!Learn why so many of my students have chosen film as their medium. 100% of my parson's/new school students chose to use film over digital. All the legendary greats and working pro's today say there is no substitute for film and the classic, timeless, often priceless gelatin silver prints continue to be capable of producing. A better understanding of what is involved in making a print & see why the big auction houses today are setting record prices in the collector's market place and the art. Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, the Weston's, Ansel Adams, Steichen, Steiglitz, Atget, Man Ray, Helmut Newton, and myself, all made their mark with this medium along with hundreds of others. Now you can too! You will learn how to expose a roll of film, mix the
chemistry, spool your film in the total dark and process it in daylight.
After drying you will then make a contact print, select a negative & make
an enlargement of that negative. It is a great way to understand
photography in one of its truest forms. Price includes materials and chemicals. TO SIGN UP FOR A CLASS EMAIL US AT: info@thephotographyworkshops.com |
Thinking of a course that you wish you could take but don't see here, need a tutor, want to ace the class you are thinking of taking next semester? Why not suggest one & we'll customize a course for you! How about view camera, still life, water splashes or how to photograph artwork? All of these courses are offered as private lessons on almostany day or evening of your choosing (for an extra fee). We love to teach!We are articulate and take care in keeping our class sizes smallto make your experience really great (usually 2-6 students). let us inspire your interest ... Contact us at:  If any of our classes must be unexpectedly canceled for any reason by
nycphotoworkshops we will refund the cost of the course back to you in
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