Crash Flash Weekend: Speedlight Essentials

This workshop will offer instruction for people who want to learn the ins and outs of their cameras. Improve your skills no matter which camera model you own! Take this Course if you: Just purchased a Digital SLR Camera/Point and shoot camera Want to learn to make simple and creative changes to your pictures using the functions of your camera...

Digital Photo Academy instructors are available to accommodate personal schedules and provide a half day, 3 hours of instruction to suit the needs of individual parties. Typically the session will last approximately, beginning with a discussion about the student’s specific camera equipment and photographic needs, then leading into an in-the-field...

Photographs of floral designs can often be the only record of a beautiful design or concept. In this introductory workshop students will learn the basics of floral photography & content marketing. Students will learn the essential skills to improve their photography practice and  how to better market, generate a brand and reach out to your...

Enhance your way of seeing and take your photographic vision to the next level. Through field trips, interesting assignments and critiques, students will advance their technical photographic skills with the primary emphasis on advanced creative camera work, metering and lighting. Student furnishes fully manual DSLR camera & printing. Prerequisites...

Pushing you to meet your unique photographic goals technically and creatively. Working towards developing a strong portfolio & gallery quality work. Prerequisites: Intermediate Photography or Portfolio review

This workshop offers advances techniques beyond beginning photography. We will be working towards a deeper understanding of composition, lighting (natural and artificial) including flash.  Exploring diverse imagery i.e. portraiture, still life, landscape and street photography, all to help you develop a strong point of view and to integrate camera...

Digital Photo Academy instructors are available to accommodate personal schedules and provide a full day, 6 hours of instruction to suit the needs of individual parties. Typically the session will last approximately, beginning with a discussion about the student’s specific camera equipment and photographic needs, then leading into an in-the-field...

Mastering the tools of lighting is the key to mastering studio photography. In this workshop, students will gain a solid foundation of studio lighting and practical knowledge of light. Working hands-on with the equipment, participants will learn how to select the proper light source for their subjects whether shooting portraits, still life or product. ...

Get going on your dream of understanding your camera and improve your images! This workshop offers the basics of photography and manual camera skills. In class we bring you up to speed on camera technology and teach you how to visually explore and experience your surroundings from behind the lens and much more. Creative practical assignments will...

This workshop offers advances techniques beyond beginning photography. We will be working towards a deeper understanding of composition, lighting (natural and artificial) including flash.  Exploring diverse imagery i.e. portraiture, still life, landscape and street photography, all to help you develop a strong point of view and to integrate camera...

Strolling along Venice Beach, you can encounter local artists selling their paintings, skateboarders practicing new moves, and musclemen showing off their guns.  Join your DPA instructor to photograph and enjoy the thrills and intriguing characters that Venice Beach has to offer. Shooting in such a diverse area full of nature and culture creates...

This one-day studio lighting course is designed as a basic introduction to lighting portraits in a controlled studio environment. In addition to learning technical use of equipment, participants will explore why great lighting, composition and styling are important elements in the creation of a successful portrait, as well as delving into other techniques...

In this beginning workshop, students will learn all the controls and functions on their digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, basic camera operation (including f-stop, shutter speed and ISO), fundamental concepts of photography, and how to control the photograph’s final look. Discussions include composition and light, how to get the background...

Lighting without Lights: Naturalistic Lighting for Beginners This two-session technical workshop focuses on methods of naturalistic lighting. Designed for beginners, we will discuss making use of natural light as well as interior available light. The history of naturalistic lighting in paintings, cinema and photography will be explored and used for...

The Los Angeles Center of Photography welcomes special guest artist Christian Patterson for a hybrid, longer-form workshop experience, including four days of in-person instruction and two subsequent online sessions.  This workshop is best suited to photographers with a complete or nearly complete body of work that they hope to publish. It will...

Learn the concepts and techniques to consistently create powerful and compelling travel images. Whether you enjoy shooting wildlife, landscape, people or any other kind of travel photography, instructor Mark Edward Harris will explain what goes into making great travel pictures – from a complete digital workflow solution to finding and shaping your...

Developing one’s own lighting style is the key to creating truly dynamic photographic images. Designed for students having completed Introduction to Studio Lighting – Part 1, this workshop will help students create their own sense of lighting design using advanced lighting techniques and specialized equipment. Further, students will progress towards...

Composition in the Field: Long Beach Sunset Shoot Any photographer who has been to Long Beach knows that there is a lot to love, even more the case at sunset.The Queen Mary takes on a magical illumination at this hour and your DPA instructor will help you capture it with demonstrations and supervision on composition and camera setting expertise....

Beginning in the 19th century, the earliest photographs were often tinted with paint, to make them more ‘life-like’. After the advent of color film in the 1950’s this was no longer necessary, so hand-coloring photographs became an interpretive, expressive art form, to make photographs more compelling and unique. In this workshop, you will be...