Canyonlands National Park is the perfect place to develop your landscape photography skills. Here is a land of colossal photographic drama, a ‘Get Out There Adventure’ with crimson canyons, stout mesas, flat top buttes, and cathedral spires in the heart of southeastern Utah’s Red Rock Country. The class is in the Island of the Sky District, where water and gravity have been the prime architects of sculpting layers of rock into a rugged, remote landscape where the Green and Colorado…
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Dive into the fundamentals of Sony photography with the Intro to Alpha class on live on Zoom and get all of your questions answered.Learn from Sony Technical Representative, Joshua Fulton, as he goes over the key differences between Sony Camera models. Joshua will teach you how to get started with your Sony camera. This beginner's guide class will touch on the following topics: ISO, shutter speeds, and aperture usagePortraiture, sports, & landscape photographySony camera featuresSelecting the best Sony Camera for…
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Learn how to produce amazing animal imagery in this three-part workshop with award winning wildlife photographer Karen Schuenemann! This is a three-part workshop including a wildlife photography lecture, a hands-on animal photo shoot at the LA Zoo and a photo review, critique session. Over these 3 session, Karen will teach you how to produce some amazing imagery. She will offer techniques that will change your perspective and teach you the nuts and bolts of Wildlife Photography. Karen will not only…
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This 2-part workshop includes a live lecture on Zoom and a hands-on, in-person shooting workshop at a local Los Angeles area beach.Seascape is one of the more challenging landscapes to capture as it involves motion, changing light, and water. To be successful you have to capture the motion of the water while exposing correctly. In this two part course, Chris Crosby will teach you what he considers to be the essentials of seascape photography that will help you produce better…
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Samy's is pleased to host this live online event featuring Veronica Cotter & Kevin Graham of Hahnemühle. In this digital age, we have become accustomed to viewing the events of the world and our lives on a screen. Images are uploaded and shared. They become attachments and are stored in the cloud but ultimately turn into digital dust. Join this live online event focusing on how the tangible has once again gained value. The passage of time seems to have…
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Samy's Camera is pleased to host Michael Bulbenko and Fujifilm for this live online event. The Fujifilm X and GFX series cameras have a loyal following with acclaimed image quality and innovative designs. This overview will explore differences in body styles and operations and optical choices. Taught by Fujifilm technical experts Michael Bulbenko and Luis Navarro. This class is being taught live online on Zoom. The Zoom login link will be emailed to registered attendees prior to the class. Instructor: Michael…
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In this class George will teach a variety of strategies for making your images more engaging, through an implied narrative. Is storytelling something you can only do with a video on IG or Tik-Tok? Still images can also tell a story, by capturing an emotion or a gesture that raises questions, and invites the viewer to imagine any possible resolutions. The viewer participates in understanding and interpreting the story - the more open-ended, the better! Photojournalists have illustrated stories with…
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Samy's is pleased to host Dave Black for this live online workshop! Nikon Ambassador, Dave Black, will be teaching and demonstrating the artistic lighting technique of Lightpainting, which combines long exposure times with illumination from mobile light sources to create unique photography. This highly creative technique is applicable for every photographic genre and is the gateway to more styles of Creative Lighting. Dave will teach you the step-by-step method and how you can do it from the comfort of your…
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Samy's Camera is pleased to host Fujifilm for this Live Online event.For anyone using Fujifilm X or GFX system mirrorless cameras, this class will help explain some of the ins and outs of using camera menus, controls and optics. Concentration will be on X-T3 models and newer along with all GFX models. Taught by Fujifilm technical experts Michael Bulbenko and Luis Navarro.
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Capture the Beauty of the Night Sky at Joshua Tree National Park with professional adventure photographer and Sony Ambassador Stan Moniz!This event will be held in Joshua Tree National Park, home to some of the darkest skies in Southern California.STAN WILL TEACH YOU THE FOLLOWING: All of the factors necessary to capture sharp stars including proper exposure times and image balance.Creative compositions with the Milky Way and surrounding landscape.The use of external lightning to enhance shadows and highlights to a…
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