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Essential Street Photography
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Street photography is all about accepting challenges: change your perspective, look closer, dig deeper, and express the world around you in a fresh and unique way. In this class, we'll challenge you each week to develop ideas and explore framing and techniques used by classic street photographers like Garry Winogrand, Gordon Parks and Helen Levitt, as well as contemporary shooters like Zack Arias and Daniel Arnold. We'll analyze the...
1 Day Workout: Color Calisthenics
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This one-day class invites you to think critically about color in your photographs. We'll briefly overview the history of color photography, from early trials in 3-color process by Thomas Sutton to the digital pixel palettes of today's Photoshop world. Then we'll go hands-on, making photographic stories that challenge our interpretation of color. You'll discover what makes a great color vs black & white photograph, and become familiar...
$120
Quick Start for VariCam
AbelCine Training @ 609 Greenwich St, New York, NY
AbelCine’s Quick Start for VariCam gets attendees ready to use these cameras on their next project. Class Highlights: The class teaches the fundamentals of prepping and operating the VariCam and is designed for ACs or anyone already familiar with basic camera operation. This half-day, hands-on class covers what to look out for during a rental prep, such as back focus, firmware, and lens mount options, as well as common methods for...
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Crash Course: Quick and Dirty Portraits
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
ATTENTION: This class will be offered as scheduled, but we will start the class using an online, live-streaming platform. This will allow us to do full LIVE teaching, with realtime interaction and a thru-the-lens camera view for demonstrations. We are excited to offer this class at a discount in response to challenges faced by the health emergency. Making a great portrait doesn't necessarily require expensive gear. Take for...
$85
Street Photography of W. Eugene Smith
Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
Some of the more notable photographic essays of Life Magazine were produced by master photo journalist W. Eugene Smith. He photographed the battle at Iwo Jima and Leyte, where fighting was so fierce that medics were ordered to wear side arms. After the war he photographed, Country Doctor, Nurse Midwife and Welsh Miners. Smith drove himself hard and after an emotional crisis receded into his loft. The loft sponsored Jazz rehearsals and famous people...
Free
The Effect of Photography Upon Painting
Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
“With the invention of photography, a new bewildering view of the natural world unfolded. It changed the way we viewed everything. We will uncover a hidden history of photography and its often dismissed impact on art.”
$10
1 Day Workout: Composition Tune-Up
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photography is all about making decisions, some as simple as deciding where to stand, which way to point your camera, and when to click the shutter. As the director of your viewer's attention, it's up to you to decide how the various elements of your image work together (or not). In this 1-Day Workout, we're going to put your decision-making to the test. First we'll begin with a quick diagnostic exercise, and follow that with a critical...
$120
Essential Lighting and Studio (6 weeks)
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This methodical approach to learning studio photography begins with analyzing lighting in well-known photographs and breaking down the setups, tools and techniques required to accomplish these images. Each week we'll tackle one essential factor of lighting, from single-light setups to complex multiple-light setups, using modifiers, backgrounds, and various light sources to deliver precise and amazing results. Through a combination...
Analog Darkroom Basics: Black & White Printing
BKC @ Gowanus Darkroom 119 8th St , Brooklyn, NY
In three hours, we’ll show you how to take a 35mm black-and-white film negative and print it using an enlarger and traditional chemistry. You’ll learn how to make test strips, contact prints, enlargement prints and how to properly develop, fix, wash and dry your print. This is a very basic introduction to the darkroom, covering only the printing phase. For a more detailed workshop covering the full process from capture to print, try...
$95
Crash Course: Night Vision
BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
In this workshop, you’ll make fast friends with your tripod and the B (bulb) setting on your camera, pushing your idea of “available light” to its limits. After learning basic tips on the right settings to use when shooting in low light, you'll get out and shoot under the stars, exploring the beautifully strange territory of New York at night. When darkness falls, you don’t have to put your camera away and go home. In fact, some of our favorite...
$75
Photography Crash Course: Urban Landscapes
BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY
This live shooting workshop is a window into the inspired way of looking at the city, and is available to photography students of all experience levels. First we’ll examine some work by a few noteworthy photographers of the Urban Landscape, and discuss how they sought and achieved their iconic imagery. Then we’ll hit the streets, focusing on dynamic framing and composition, analyzing lighting conditions, assessing color and contrast, and exploring...
$75
Photography Workshop: Capture Autumn
BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY
This fall-themed photography class teaches the principles of outdoor, natural light photography using the rich hues of autumn. Meeting at the Audubon Center at the Boathouse in Prospect Park, this 3-hr workshop covers elements of composition, using creative color palettes, and some basic technical demonstrations for getting great images. This is for beginner and intermediate photographers who are looking for an outdoor challenge. Important Things...
$65
Field Guide III: On-Location
BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY
This is not a how-to, step-by-step kind of workshop. It's designed to provide stimulus and fresh challenges to the emerging shooter, as well as critical feedback and group discussion on concept and execution while on location. Who should take this class: Those who have an interest in documentary photography, photojournalism, travel photography, street style blogs or environmental portraits What you will learn: Whether the location...
$99
Digital Photography Live In-the-Field @ Sacred Heart
Digital Photo Academy @ 89 Ridge Street, Newark, NJ
Each Composition in the Field class begins with a talk with one of our experienced instructors, and then you and your fellow students take a stroll through one of a variety of photogenic locales (in any of the 20+ cities the DPA encapsulates). There is street photography, magnificent interiors, farmers markets, zoos, landscapes, and more, photos of which are included within. These photos are a mix of student and instructor images in many different...
$99
5 Dollar Fridays: Composition
BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY
In this 90 minute seminar, you’ll learn through a comprehensive slideshow what it is that made the great photographers so great, and how to apply those same methods to your own photographs. Learn the basics of two-dimensional design and composition using techniques like the frame-within-a-frame and the rule of thirds, as well as creative ideas for using color and lines to shape your vision. Important Things to Note: Cameras are encouraged but...
$5
In-Depth: Sony Venice
AbelCine Training @ 88 35th St, Brooklyn, NY
This in-depth, hands-on workshop teaches you the skills needed to operate the Sony VENICE camera. Designed for working professionals, as well as those who are looking to enter the field, this course gives detailed instruction on camera set up, operation and workflows. By the end of the course, you will have gained a comprehensive knowledge of the Sony VENICE and the confidence to operate the camera in a variety of production scenarios. In this very...
Color Science Masterclass
AbelCine Training @ 88 35th St, Brooklyn, NY
This long-awaited masterclass on Color Science has finally arrived! We have created a comprehensive, practical training on the subject of Digital Imaging for modern motion picture productions, from the camera to the end-user display device. In this course, you will learn how to get the most out of modern digital camera sensors and how to take full control of your image. We will teach you the difference between the Scene Referred and Display Referred...
Sony VENICE Bootcamp
AbelCine Training @ 88 35th St, Brooklyn, NY
Our exclusive Sony VENICE Bootcamp is a practical, hands-on workshop focused on real-world applications of the camera. It is designed for working professionals, as well as those who are looking to enter the field. By the end of the workshop, you will have gained the knowledge, confidence, and experience needed to shoot with the Sony VENICE on a wide range of projects. Topics include menus, specialty uses, accessories, exposure dynamics, Dual ISO...
Photography: Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This fall, in celebration of its centenary, a selection of Isamu Noguchi sculptures will also be installed at the Garden. Weekly photographic assignments will guide you in capturing the intensity and beauty of this exceptional garden and installation. Visualizing a garden can be a form of autobiography: Let's see what stories we can tell. While advanced beginners are welcome, this class will focus more on composition than on technique.
Composition in Photography - Blended
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
The Garden is a wonderful place to explore a wide variety of plant species, open spaces, even architecture. Sometimes, more is not better. In this class we will narrow our focus. Looking at and photographing one or two subjects in depth will allow us to explore the infinite ways of seeing through the camera. We will meet at BBG and online—one week photographing, the next week reviewing and critiquing the work and exploring more, if there’s time....
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