Denver Photography Workshops

Beginner Photography – The Fundamentals

Whether you've been shooting photographs for years or just picked up your first DSLR, this workshop is going to help you to make immediate improvements to your photography skills. Knowing the fundamentals is imperative no matter your photographic interests, be it portraits, landscapes, street photography or even macro. And possibly more important, photography is just a whole lot more fun once you are able to more closely produce the images you see with your eyes, or in your head.

Topics Include (not limited to):

Composition:

Rules of Composition.
Psychology of composition.
Using your cameras focus points.

Exposure:

Achieving proper exposure.
ISO and image clarity.
Metering options

Depth of Field:

Aperture (f stops).
Boca blur.
DOF and focal length.

Know Your Camera:

M, A, S, P – what are they for?
Using presets
Working with your menus

Location: To be announced (West Denver area).

Class Dates:

January 12, 2013 - noon to 4 p.m.
January 26, 2013 - noon to 4 p.m.

Group Size: Maximum of 8 students.

Price: $75/Person

Environmental Portrait Workshops

This outdoors workshop is designed for the amateur shutterbug who wishes to improve the images they take when posing and photographing people (or pets) outdoors in natural settings using mostly natural lighting.

Topics Include:

Learn to see and manipulate available light for impact when photographing people.

Learn the difference that significant and subtle posing techniques can make for a professional look…

PORTRAIT LIGHTING

How to see light.
Using the environment like a studio.
Using Light modifiers.
Additive vs. Subtractive lighting.
Six creative portrait lighting patterns.
Separation lighting for dimension.
The creative expression of lighting ratios.

PORTRAIT POSING

Masculine and feminine posing.
Correcting asymmetrical features.
What to do with those wacky hands, arms and legs.
Posing the individual.
Posing the couple.
Posing the group.

Location: To be announced (West Denver area).

Class Dates:

To be announced 2013 (starting sping 2013)

Group Size: Maximum of 8 students.

Prerequisite knowledge: This class assumes you have a working knowledge of your camera's functions and understand the basics of exposure and depth of field. You don't have to know too much… but this is not a "learn your camera" class. Tripod helpful but not necessary.

Price: $99/Person

Mountain Wild Flower Workshops

For those of use living here in the Rocky Mountains we have a wonderful venue for photographing wildflowers. But photographing flowers in their natural habitat is not all that easy. More often than not you are going to be dealing with harsh lighting situations, environmental issues like wind and a wide variety of backgrounds which may not contribute to your composition.

This wild flower photography workshop takes place "in the field" and will help you to take on a variety of situations. You will learn to use the available light to your advantage. By using strobes, diffusers, tents, backdrops and reflectors you will find that you can produce beautiful results even in the worst daylight conditions.

Topics Include:

Working with depth of field
Using backgrounds
Using diffusers and reflectors
Working with light tents
Composition techniques
Working with Macro (for those who have a macro lens).
and more…

Included in your fee:

Instruction by Gene Tewksbury
Transportation to our location

Location: To be announced (depends on where the flowers are blooming). Usually within an hour of the front range.

Class Dates:

To be announced (starting sping 2013)

Group Size: Maximum of 5 students.

Prerequisite knowledge: This class assumes you have a working knowledge of your camera's functions. You don't have to know too much… but this is not a "learn your camera" class.

Required equipment: You should have a DSLR camera with either a telephoto lens or a macro lens. It is highly recommended that you also have a tripod.

Price: $99/Person

Payment Options:

Paypal
Credit Card