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One Day Workshops

Our one day “Boot Camp” style classes are a great way to get your feet wet in a variety of photography topics. These classes are a concentrated, intensive, and designed to get you going. They are a great precursor to their full class session counterparts!

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

If you’re thinking about taking up photography with a digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera, this is the class for you. Our Digital Boot Camp is a crash course that introduces students to the basic operation of a digital SLR camera with an interchangeable lens. You don’t need any previous experience whatsoever – it’s a workshop meant for beginners. You don’t even need to own a digital SLR camera yet – we can provide you with one for the class.

TABLETOP / PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY

During this workshop course you will become familiar with various approaches to tabletop and product photography, while also developing necessary business skills.

BEYOND THE BASICS OF LIGHTROOM

This one-day workshop is a crash-course in using this powerful photo processing tool. Among other things, you’ll learn how to use collections, enhance images in under 15 seconds and set up your file structure properly.

PHOTOSHOP

You love your digital camera. You love the photos you take with it – travel shots, family and friends, artistic scenes. You want to take the next step and add a “professional” finish to your images and you don’t want to spend months learning how to do it.

FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

Film is not dead! If you want to experience how photography was done before all this digital stuff came along, this is the class for you. The Film Boot Camp is a crash course that introduces students to the basic operation of an SLR camera. You don’t need any previous experience whatsoever – it’s a workshop meant for beginners. You don’t even need to own a film camera – we can provide you with one for the class.

WEDDING & EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY

The knowledge and skills of a professional wedding photographer are many and varied. The essentials have been boiled down and are presented here for people who are considering a career in wedding photography.

DIGITAL COMPOSITION : RETOUCHING BOOT CAMP

This boot camp examines the tools and techniques that Adobe Photoshop features to aid in the creation of flawless images.

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

If you have ever wanted to capture architectural structures creatively, then this boot camp is for you.