Capture the Beauty of the Night Sky at Joshua Tree National Park! Enjoy an evening under the stars 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…
Find out more »Join Chris Crosby in partnership with Samy's Photo School in Death Valley National Park for a multi-day immersive experience in one of the most unique landscapes in the world. Spend four Golden Hours and two nights exploring the vast arid landscapes that the park has to offer. During this workshop, Chris will guide you to some of the most interesting areas of the park, some well known and some hidden gems. Rippled sand dunes, multi-colored badlands and salt flats of…
Find out more »Learn how to produce amazing animal imagery in this three-part workshop! This workshop includes a wildlife photography lecture (live online), hands-on shooting session at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and a photo review and critique session (live online). Karen Schuenemann will teach you how to produce amazing animal imagery. She will offer techniques that will change your perspective and teach you the nuts and bolts of Wildlife Photography. Karen will not only review the technical aspects of wildlife photography, but she…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Join Chris Ewen Crosby in Joshua Tree National Park March 12-14, 2021 for a multi-day immersive experience amongst ethereal Joshua Trees, amazing rock formations and dark skies. This unforgettable photographic experience will include four Golden Hours and two nights exploring the vast arid landscapes in one of the country's most interesting National Parks. Chris is dedicated to providing the best instruction on all aspects of the art of landscape photography and night photography. During this workshop, he will be guiding…
Find out more »Meet Sony Ambassador Stan Moniz in California's first official International Dark Sky Community, Borrego Springs! Enjoy an evening under the stars and learn the proper astrophotography techniques necessary to capture the Milky Way and the beauty of the night sky. 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…
Find out more »Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s (GSENM) vast and austere landscape embraces a spectacular array of bold plateaus and multi-hued cliffs that run for distances, defying human perspective. “The Stair” is high country, 3,000 square miles of colorful sandstone cliffs soaring above Southern Utah’s narrow slot canyons, delicate washes, and seemingly endless slickrock. The monument is a pristine backcountry that affords excellent solitude opportunities and an unconfined wilderness that will reward you with all-embracing creative image opportunities, vivid memories, and a yearning…
Find out more »Capitol Reef National Park is the visible outcome of what took 70 million years and two major geologic events to create. Named for what it looks like (white rock domes like the U.S. Capitol, rocky ridges like marine reefs), Capitol Reef National Park is a 100-mile pinch in the earth’s crust in the geographical middle of nowhere, but it’s overloaded with geological, cultural, and sensory consequence. There’s the Waterpocket Fold, a jagged scar formed from the monocline — the seam…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »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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