Select from a wide range of outdoor photography workshops.
Several options to choose from including Macro photography, Perfect Panoramas, and Nature in Motion.

Also, we offer indoor workshops on Lightroom workflow.

 a maximum 6 people per session.

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I've held numerous workshops over the years in Scottsdale and the Bay Area. Focused on learning camera and software techniques, my class sizes are small enough to ensure everyone gets the 1:1 attention they need.

Below are some of the workshops I've held to give you a flavor of the comfortable learning environment you'll experience.

We had a great time as we walked Old Town Scottsdale and talked all about photography. 

In this class, we went over the more advanced retouching tools in Lightroom, and explored the different methods to take images from Lightroom into Photoshop.

We also went through setting up ChronoSync for backing up your images (since Lightroom has no image backup method).

We had a wonderful class at this beautiful location.  Everyone had plenty of room, and it was very easy to see this 65" monitor behind me.

Overview of Topics Covered:  - The develop module! - Using all of the develop tools. - Creating presets. - Importing with presets.  - Backing up your images.   - Backing up your LR database.

This workshop was at the Lafayette Reservoir in late afternoon. 

To recap when shooting a single row pano:

- Mount your Nodal Slide on to either your panning head, or your tripod head that has a panning head.

- Mount your camera and slide it  to the NPP (No Parallax Point) for that lens focal length.

- ALL camera exposure settings need to be on manual, including the white balance (DO NOT use auto white balance).

- Shoot in RAW if possible.

- Overlap each image by 30-50%

- other options are ND filters and polarizer filters as needed.

When using ND filters, use an app like NDTimer or LongTimePro to recalculate the shutter speed.  Since your aperture and ISO are fixed, only your shutter speed is the variable that needs to be adjusted.  

We had a great time at the Black Hawk Plaza in Danville.  We experimented with polarizing filters  and neutral density filters as well as combining them.  It was a wonderful learning and discovering time for all!

We held our Flowing Silky Water Workshop at the Blackhawk Plaza in Danville.  In this workshop, we discussed calculating long exposure times to capture that soft silky smooth textured look of moving water. We discussed length of exposure, camera angles and how it affects exposure time, color balance, neutral density filters, variable neutral density filters, polarizing filters, stacking filters, cable release, camera timer etc.

 l led a workshop on macro floral photography in Berkeley.   In this workshop, we discussed techniques in lens selection, macro lenses, adapters like the Leica Elpro, extension tubes, focusing rails, mono pods, and tripods. This workshop took place at the Botanical Garden at Berkeley CA.

 A fun group in Berkeley at the Botanical Gardens! Everyone tested out their macro gear and created some amazing images.