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Los Angeles Center of Photography
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The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is a nonprofit organization providing photography education and enrichment for photographers of all levels. With a wide range of classes, workshops, exhibitions, and community events, LACP offers a comprehensive experience for photographers to learn, connect, and grow in their practice.
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Actor Headshots with Mark Atteberry
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 252 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA
Learn the secrets to showcasing your best self and standing out in the competitive world of acting with the perfect head shot. Create impactful images that will leave a lasting impression on casting directors and agents.
The Alternative Processes
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
In this unique, hands-on workshop we will experience the beauty and joy of interpreting our images through 19th-century photographic printing processes of Cyanotype, Salted Paper, and Platinum & Palladium. Students will learn the techniques and gain the skills needed to make enlarged digital negatives from digital files for each alt-process, coat the alt-process solutions onto fine art papers used for each process, and gain valuable experience...
Mastering Your Flash
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
If you feel confident with a camera but less so with a flash and would like to master external speedlight-flash technology, this class is for you. The goal of this six-session class is to learn how to use a flash so well that the outcome looks like professional lighting utilizing TTL/SB flash units on and off camera. Students will work in various lighting situations, using the flash as both the main source of light and as a fill light. For each...
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Gum Bichromate over Platinum with Digital Negatives
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the elegant practice concerning gum bichromate washes applied over platinum / palladium prints. Platinum palladium and gum bichromate are two of the most revered of the alternative processes. The 19th century technique combining these processes has the effect of enhancing the print by slightly increasing the contrast as well as using color to build depth and chroma. The intrinsic qualities of the platinum / palladium print make...
Studio Lighting: The Next Steps
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 252 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA
Take your studio lighting skills to the next level with this advanced course at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Learn how to create drama, mood, and your unique lighting design using specialized equipment and techniques. Develop your own style and enhance your imagery as you progress through hands-on exercises and receive expert guidance.
Mastering Adobe Lightroom
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Learn how to create a photo book directly from within Lightroom, as well as track shooting locations on a map using GPS coordinates. This workshop focuses on the most essential features of Adobe Lightroom with the needs of the photographer in mind. Students will learn how to import, sort, organize and enhance their digital images quickly and efficiently. Using their own images, students will learn how to make slideshows, web galleries, as well...
Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
It is really easy to make your own flyers, brochures, business cards, marketing postcards and photo books using Adobe InDesign. This hands-on workshop will show you the basics in creating compelling designs that you can print yourself or send to a professional printer. Specifically designed for photographers with little to no experience working with InDesign, students will learn everything from page layout to typography. Learn how to: • Create...
Making Big Pictures with Little Cameras
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Ninety years ago, the first 35mm camera was produced: the Leica 1. A revolution! Photographers were no longer statues, tied to their large, heavy view cameras, prisoners to one position. Now photographers could wander anywhere they chose, making pictures of anything observed. With the camera held to the eye, a photographer could kneel, lean, stoop, or crouch to make an exposure in an instant. Equally exhilarating are today’s miniature...
Visual Storytelling through Portraiture for Teens
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Learn how to get the most out of their subject and create portraits that can be read like biographies. A photographic portrait is not simply a headshot or an image of a pretty face. One can create a portrait of a person that expresses something, that teaches the viewer something new about the subject and tells a story. Using other members of the class as models, as well as family and friends at home, students will work on getting to know their...
Discovering the Artist Within
Los Angeles Center of Photography
What makes your photographs distinctly yours? How do you express ideas, emotions and artistry through your images? How do you bring greater depth and soul to your photos? Whether one’s interest is in portraiture, landscapes, or urban street shooting, working professionally or simply for one’s own personal enjoyment, this course is a powerhouse of knowledge and insight designed to further develop one’s photo eye, inherent style and effective...
The Wet Plate Collodion Workshop 2
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 755 Seward St, Los Angeles, CA
This course serves as a continuation to The Wet Plate Collodion Workshop. Armed with skills learned from the prior class, students will be encouraged to produce new and interesting work using the three sub-fields of WPC (Glass Positive, Tintype, Glass Negative). The focus of the course is on creating work, rather than lecture and demonstration. Close instructor supervision and guidance will ensure that each student walks away as the proud owner of...
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Stop, Drop and Shoot: The Magazine Assignment
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
This weekend course will provide you with the fundamental skills necessary to take the next step in becoming a successful magazine photographer. Magazine images come in all shapes and sizes. Kevin Scanlon, a freelance portrait photographer, will cover many aspects of what it takes to be a successful magazine shooter and what comes with the territory. From newsworthy, everyday people to the most powerful of celebrities, learn what to expect when...
Light, Shadow, Night and Twilight
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Light, shadow, night and twilight are the building blocks of photography, a term that literally means, "to write with light.” These are the tools award-winning photographer David H. Wells uses to make photo-essays exploring the light and atmosphere of places such as train stations, religious shrines and city centers. In this fun and explorative workshop, David will teach students the most effective way of incorporating light, shadow, night and...
Introduction to Photo Book Design
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Intended for photographers preparing to transition their images to book form, this two-day workshop will teach students creative and practical approaches to photo book design. After a morning of studying limited edition artists’ books, trade books and zines, the remainder of the first session will be spent understanding students’ publishing objectives and how that translates to a book object. This will include time discussing the elements...
Never Stop Learning with Sandro Miller
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
In this new workshop experience, Sandro Miller will talk about his lighting techniques, why and when he uses certain light, and how to pack for the long trip into the jungle and not be bogged down with excessive gear. We will talk about directing and how to get that special “little secret” from the eyes and the souls of your sitters (models), how to stay on top of your game and branding yourself, and the importance of style and specialization...
Fashion Fun for Teens (Ages 12-18)
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
We love photography and we love fashion! Explore the world of fashion photography with photographer Gina Valona as she takes students through the process of shooting vintage fashion and current trends. Surveying some of the fashion industries most iconic photographers from classics like Avedon to contemporary duos like JUCO, students will be exposed to a variety of styles and players in the world of fashion photography. Topics and assignments...
DSLR Video Basics
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
In today’s ever-demanding world, it’s important that still photographers are equipped with the knowledge of shooting video. Video promos for websites, YouTube, Facebook and other media are now the norm. In this six-session class, students will learn all the technical elements on their video-enabled DSLR cameras to shoot motion properly. From philosophy of motion picture to practical insight, participants will receive hands-on experience using...
Fresh Approaches to Documentary Projects
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
In an increasingly visually saturated society how can photographers create and disseminate their documentary projects in a thoughtful and effective way? How can we sustain meaningful work creatively and financially over a long period of time? Join photographer Matt Eich for a weekend workshop focused on fresh approaches to the development of long-term documentary projects. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, critique and making pictures,...
A Practical Guide to Designing a Self-Published Book
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
This six-session workshop will guide you through the process of designing your own self-published book from start to finish. The course begins discussing and sequencing each student’s work. (Students will bring 5×7 prints for this process.) Students will learn to navigate through the book-making program while designing a 10-picture practice book. Topics discussed include fonts, font sizes, and text layout, followed by time spent in LACP’s library...
How Do You Think Like That
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
A Class About Creativity. This class is an invitation to the creative thought process – how we obtain ideas, how we think differently, and how we produce work out of the norm. The course will allow us to tap in our “inner artist,” listen to our “crazy” side (or do we?), and explore what separates us from everyone else. What are we bringing to our work? What is our “‘process” to create? Spend six weeks with an extremely creative, passionate...
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