WORKSHOPS

Long exposure experiments, creating with light and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. This is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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New Camera? Or in need of a camera brush up to understand how to use buttons, dials, shutterspeeds, f/numbers, sharpness, histogram (what's That!)...and techniques to make really creative images rather than records and those...snaps !! This most wonderful, fun and understandable class will help and teach you everything. You will walk away being friends with your camera. A must for all with a new camera or for all who just needed a brush up.
Cost: $85
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Long exposure experiments, creating with light and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. This is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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Long exposure experiments, creating with light Adventures with long exposre times and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. These is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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Photography at its finest in some of the most splended locations of what I think are some of the most beautiful coasts in the world. The backyard of photographers Ansel Adams and the Westons, we will be moving our sessions from one great place to the other. Fine arts photography for those who love nature and fine photography, young and older, motivated beginner and advanced. A great mix of talent at work with a superb photographer who will give you all the assistance and help needed. Visits to Spanish missions, old cemetaries, exotic flowers, gardens, rocky coastal coves and spectarular views...Not to mention... the wonderful little restaurants and galleries of Carmel and other places.
Cost: $650
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An Art + Nature photography super workshop. This spectacular and favorite workshop takes place in the most beautiful desert of the U.S.. Sensuous and mighty sanddunes, unbelievable salt formations of overwhelming beauty and silence,.. sunrises and late sunset shoots. A truely great photographic adventure. After 3 days in this voluptuous landscape we travel to 11.000 ft to photograph the most spectacular oldest trees in the world, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Focus on making powerful images, private instruction, lecture time, discussions, enthusiasm and adventure. A great workshop for all who love nature and photography. And of course for all levels and digital and film cameras. On location imagery discussions, re-shoots, bring laptops...
Cost: $690
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This is a class that will bring a lot of clarity, creativity and light onto the ENHANCING of DIGITAL PHOTOS. For those who have Photoshop or Elements or like programs. Through a process of practicing, instruction, and repeating, students will become proficient in all the basics and adjustments of enhancing and upgrading photos. Mastering digital darkroom will add an extra and fine quality to your photography. 8 Wednesday Evening classes -7 till 9:30 PM.
Cost: $200.
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What shutter speed to use and when? What do Apertures do? Depth of field and how to create it, histogram and controlling exposure, programs and modes..., composition.... This one day class of basics to find out and... to become the boss of your (new) camera....to have fun with it.... and to create much more than just snapshots, .... rather make really catchy and nice shots.... If all this rings a bell and you want to learn how to get the max out of that camera.... you better come! to this. A one time opportunity. And... it is really a good and fun class!
Cost: $75
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Along the the hills of the eastern Gorge we will use this day to photograph glorious blooming orchards and fields with wildflowers - learn how to SEE such landscapes, rather than snap them, try out perspectives and lenses on wildflowers and barns - in the beautiful landscape around Hood River. For all levels - digital and film users.
Cost: $85
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A workshop in the tulip gardens where we will create a non-straight forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Special work on the making of creative close up photography techniques.
Cost: $80
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Along the the hills of the eastern Gorge we will use this day to photograph glorious blooming orchards and fields with wildflowers - learn how to SEE such landscapes, rather than snap them, try out perspectives and lenses on wildflowers and barns - in the beautiful landscape around Hood River. For all levels - digital and film users.
Cost: $85
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Learning to Enhance our Digital Photos to be Masterpieces. (8 Thursday mornings)



This is a class that will bring a lot of clarity, creativity and light onto the ENHANCING of DIGITAL PHOTOS. For those who have Photoshop or Elements or like programs. Through a process of practicing, instruction, and repeating, students will become proficient in all the basics and adjustments of enhancing and upgrading photos. Mastering digital darkroom will add an extra and fine quality to your photography. 8 classes.
Cost: $200.
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A workshop in the tulip gardens where we will create a non-straight forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Close up techniques and many exciting approaches for making really stunning images.
Cost: $80
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A workshop in the tulip fields where we will create a non-straight forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Special work on the making of creative close up photography techniques.

I add this session to the previous ones because of the great condition of the flowers, and the success of the previous workshops.
Cost: $80
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This location (if you know where to go...) is a paradise for photographing and seeing the finest and rarest wildflowers and fine waterfalls during the coming days. This workshop will enable you to bring your photographic eye and shooting to a new level, far beyond the snapshooter kind of 'photography'. Learn to photograph waterfalls, mood, make wonderful wilderness and nature shots.... learning to use the controls of a digital camera...
For those who can take off quickly this is the chance to have a fantastic day of photography and learning how to use your digital camera from an expert.
Cost: $80. special price for fast deciders
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What to do when we come to a new city? New Delhi....Vienna, Salzburg, New York..? Just point a camera at some prominent buildings and shoot it..? This is usually how it goes, right? But in this workshop you will learn how to look for very nice angles and perspectives and how to put a theme to your approach to capture a real live image of any city you will visit. We will do just that in this workshop. Walking, and discovering and seeing how to make a series of beautiful and describing images, in this case, of Portland!
Cost: $85
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This location (if you know where to go...) is a paradise for photographing and seeing the finest wildflowers and fine waterfalls. This workshop will enable you to bring your photographic eye and shooting to a new level, far beyond the snapshooter kind of 'photography'. Learn to photograph waterfalls, mood, make wonderful wilderness and nature shots.... learning to use the controls of a digital camera...

For those who can take off quickly this is the chance to have a fantastic day of photography.
Cost: $80 special price for fast deciders
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At a setting along the not too well known North coast we will have our workshop among beautiful driftwood and capes, a session with photos more in the style of Weston masterworks. Very focussed selecting of our scenes, exposure and composition challenges is the stuff we will work with. We then go to a fine and rustic harbor for another session and... hopefully a great sunset (see picture) - of fine photomaking. A student commented one year later: this workshop taught me how I look at things and what to do with all the settings on my cameras, than any other workshop I ever attended!
Cost: $85
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All about Macro - and the Fine Arts Close Ups. The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at the technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up and Macro photography techniques, and artistic insight - . Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Contact us about what lenses, close up lenses to bring.
Cost: $80
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The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at artistic satisfaction. Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Special focus on technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up techniques with composition. Please contact us about what lenses to bring. All info will be sent to you after your registration is complete.
Cost: $80
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The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at artistic satisfaction. Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Special focus on technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up techniques with composition. Please contact us about what lenses to bring. All info will be sent to you after your registration is complete.
Cost: $85
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The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Special focus on technical and artistic approaches to making really sublime images of all flowers. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers. This session is a perfect blend of close-up and macro techniques with artistic composition. Please contact us about what lenses to bring. All info will be sent to you after your registration is complete.
Cost: $85
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Moving water in nature can be very illusive. Sometimes frozen like ice or glass, other times choppy, whirling or amost invisible with light on it... This workshop will combine techniques, artful seeing and observing, and trying out and establishing exposure techniques to get just that kind of magic that beautiful moving waters have for us. A wonderful way to combine your love of photography and nature and to come home with gorgeous photos, rather than some snapshots. Digital and Analogue
Cost: $85
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Photographing a sunrise in the Smith Rocks is like roaming in the Negheb desert, then the eerie beauty of windmills and deserted bleached huts, faces of ranchers, twisted juniper limbs and then a sunset in the Painted Hills... and whatever surprises that will announce themselves to be seen, evaluated quickly and then shot carefully. Say goodbye to the never satisfied snapshooter to enter a land of honest and great photography. Digital and Film, newcomer or more advanced... All welcome as long as you love what you do! Two wonderful, long days full of new things, photographic challenges, discussions, joy.... One overnight.
Cost: $180. ex motel, food, gas
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An early morning workshop so the roses are still fresh for the day. Location: Portland Rose gardens. Come and do away with the snapshooting fad! Click, click, click, over exposed images...you have seen it all? This great and fun Rose session will show you all the ins and outs of working with the digital controls we absolutely need to learn to make fine photos and close ups that come out the way we want it. Composition, lighting, controlling light and contrast, determining precise exposure, digital and film CLOSE UP/MACRO techniques. These workshops welcome everybody, and each person receives a great deal if individual assistance and encouragement. You can be better than a pro!! But it IS a pro who will show you how to do it!
Time or workshop: Sunday morning 7 till 11 AM
Cost: $60
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Location: Portland Rose gardens. Come and do away with the snapshooting fad! Click, click, click, over exposed images...you have seen it all? This great and fun Rose session will show you all the ins and outs of working with the digital controls we absolutely need to learn to make fine photos and close ups that come out the way we want it. Composition, lighting, controlling light and contrast, determining precise exposure, digital and film CLOSE UP/MACRO techniques. These workshops welcome everybody, and each person receives a great deal if individual assistance and encouragement. You can be better than a pro!! But it IS a pro who will show you how to do it!
Time or workshop: Sunday morning 7 till 11 AM
Cost: $60
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This session will travel into the Southern Cascades to find this stunning waterfall. Rainbows, contrasts, silvery light against dark shadows. A splended scene that lends itself to many different and wonderful shots. This is a workshop that any person could do. It is a grand practice in seeing and applying what you know and find out during this workshop. You will find yourself in a cathedral of light: nature at it's best. Register by email.
Cost: $85
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After the success of the first High Desert workshop in May, a repeat for all those who could not make it to that one. Your last chance to participate in this exciting and wonderful scenes workshop and to learn more about real photography with your camera and its controls. All levels are equally welcomed. Photographing a sunrise in the Smith Rocks is like roaming in the Negheb desert, then the eerie beauty of windmills and deserted bleached huts, faces of ranchers, twisted juniper limbs and then a sunset in the Painted Hills... and whatever surprises that will announce themselves to be seen, evaluated quickly and then shot carefully. Say goodbye to the never satisfied snapshooter to enter a land of honest and great photography. Digital and Film, newcomer or more advanced... All welcome as long as you love what you do! Two wonderful, long days full of new things, photographic challenges, discussions, and fun.... One overnight in a great motel in a rustic desert town.
Cost: $180. ex motel, food, gas
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This is a fantastic four day photography workshop with fifth day digital imaging workshop to process all the work we did. The setting is the beautiful Sitka campus and gorgeous coastal environment, north of Lincoln City, at the Oregon coast. During the first four days we will go on two big photoshoots in superb (and almost unknown) coastal locations. Former students of all skill levels rave about this inspired, informative and hands-on workshop, guided by a top landscape, illustrative photographer. In addition to the photo outings we will offer discussion, instruction and talks on techniques (both film and digital), needed to operate your equipment in order to make truly beautiful photos - which everyone can learn to make. This workshop will convince you of the need to use and develop your gifts of seeing and imgination, as opposed to random and massive picture snapping. To be selective, observant and open to what the present reveals will be a core discipline practiced during these days. Next to the outings there will be a day of portraits and photographing the nude with a fine model. Any person with the motivation to bring her/his of photography to a higher level, no matter which level, will love this workshop. As an optional optional day there is the digital enhancement class. Students bring their own laptops to look at and process their photos with either Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements, or other digital managing software, under the guidance of the instructor, Peter Schütte. Film users are very much invited to this session because it will teach them what can be done to enhance photos in this manner. By 'enhancing' we mean correcting the basic limitations of film and paper in a subtle manner to attain the finest possible quality of our imagination. REGISTRATION: Sitka Center for the Arts +1 (541) 994-5485 - www.Sitkacenter.org
Cost: please contact me
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GLOWING SLOT CANYONS. Photo workshop amidst the most beautiful nature in the South West. Among the pink and red rock country in and around magic Zion NP we will set up our cameras and work on translating the natural beauty of this very beautiful scenery. Special seminars on light measurement, digital and film exposure and digital image management, double exposures, great (short) hikes and photo sessions, and the surprises of new and terrific scenes each day. During the Zion session we travel to the Page, AZ. area for a full day inside the deep slot canyons, a place of unimaginable beauty and forms. I will guide you to my most favorite places and work with each participant on capturing the finest images. Both camping and motelling nearby our base is possible. You will come back with the most beautiful photographs. For all levels and those who love nature and want to improve their photographic vision and skills. Special focus on digital imaging technique.
Cost: $690
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This is a class that will bring a lot of clarity, creativity and light onto the ENHANCING of DIGITAL PHOTOS. For those who have Photoshop or Elements or like programs.. Through a process of instruction, practicing and repeating, students will become proficient in all the basics and adjustments of enhancing and upgrading photos. Mastering digital darkroom will add an extra and fine quality to your photography.
Cost: $ 220.for 8 classes
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This Fall photo workshop takes place in three beautiful locations, each with old growth forest and superb waterfalls, cascadesand Light... Dream places for photographers! We will deal with How to Tame our Excitement (!) and instead of 'shooting' we carefully work on making the most gorgeous photos. But you will need to deal with the technical tools of your camera to make it all happen - and this is what you will get in this workshop as well. Plus a group of great people, enthusiasm, love for what we accomplish. And an excellent teacher-photographer. An all day workshop to places in the southern - Cascades. A great workshop to end the season before the rains come.
Cost: $85
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Adventures with long exposure times and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. These is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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