This live online course is held on 3 consecutive days: January 8th 9th and 10th from 10am – 1pm each day. This course is held on 3 consecutive days: January 8th, 9th and 10th from 10am – 1pm each day. A 20 minute break will be provided each day. This Class is Limited to 10 Student Only! Course Description: Many photographers are finding Adobe Lightroom Classic to be the perfect tool for organizing, processing and enhancing images. This beginner Lightroom…
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Samy’s Camera is very pleased to welcome Nikon Professional Service Representative, Michael Dionne for those new to the world of photography What is the difference between an ƒ-stop and a bus stop? ISO? Shutter Speeds? Aperture? And seriously… what is the difference between all those different scene modes? If you are new to the world of ‘real camera’ photography... that is, if you finally have one of those really cool interchangeable lens cameras... and have no idea where to start,…
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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…
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Samy’s Camera is pleased to welcome Nikon Professional Services Rep Michael Dionne for this live educational event. Unleashing YOUR Nikon! This information packed seminar will help you discover those secret settings and pro-level techniques that you crave! If you are serious about moving past “what everybody else does” and want to make your images really stand out, then we have just the class for you!! Nikon Professional Service Representative, Michael Dionne, will be your guide as you journey through the…
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Natasha Calzatti will teach you how to make black and white images that are expressive and strong, simulating the great masters. You may know how to use Lightroom or Photoshop features to create black and white images, but many of these conversions aren’t very good. In this workshop Natasha will teach you how to make black and white images that are expressive and strong, simulating the analog silver gelatin print from the great photography masters such as Irving Penn and…
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This is an intensive, live three day hands-on computer workshop that will be held on January 15th, 16th and 17th from 10am - 1pm each day. Longtime Photoshop Instructor Natasha Calzatti will cut through the complexity of Photoshop and help you to master it as a photographic tool. Natasha will show you the fundamentals of Photoshop, how to do the things most beginners want to do when they first open up the program. This workshop is designed for the Lightroom…
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Shooting candid photography in the streets is certainly different since the pandemic. After six months of experience David Herman will share his techniques for getting great un-posed images in this new environment. This one day online workshop will include technique, composition, and equipment choices. Just bring your desire to wander and observe. A sense of humor is always welcome. The instruction/presentation slide show will be online (via Zoom) in the morning. Participants will be given an assignment and take photographs…
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This 2-part workshop includes a live lecture on Zoom and a hands-on, in-person shooting workshop at an Orange County 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 and…
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Samy’s Camera is pleased to welcome Nikon Professional Services Rep Michael Dionne for this live educational event. Come and explore the exciting Nikon Z cameras with us! Michael Dionne will be our guide through some of the cool and fun features buried within these cameras. EVF Settings, File Options, AF Point Settings, Menu Customization and Focus Stacking are just some of the highlight of this fast paced, fun-filled on-line seminar. Make sure to stick around until the very end when…
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This three-park workshop includes a Live Lecture via Zoom, a Hands-On Photoshoot with a Model and a Critique/Review Session Live on Zoom. We all take more photos of people than of any other subject – but we can make them much, much better with planning for the activity, the light, and the camera settings. This three-park workshop includes a live lecture via Zoom on Thursday January 21st at 7pm. The lecture will cover capturing models candidly or engaging them directly…
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