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Learn the basics of photography, including exposure, composition, and camera settings, in this beginner photography class in Los Angeles. Participants will gain hands-on experience and develop their skills through practical exercises and assignments.

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Lighting 101: Light Anything, Anytime, Anywhere

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Every camera manual tells you how to use a camera but none show you how to use light – the single most important element in photography. This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of lighting, allowing you to pre-visualize light and empowering you to light anything, anytime, anywhere. How do we use softboxes, grids, snoots, umbrellas or the light of a window or skylight to make our photos compelling? Why does open shade make some portraits...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$300
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Actor Headshots: A One-Day Workshop

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 820 N Hollywood Way, Los Angeles, CA

Actors would rather visit the dentist than shoot new headshots, yet their first stop in Hollywood is getting new professional pictures. In this one-day workshop, students will learn how to create striking photographs that will help their clients get to work, and consequently help grow their photography business. Much more than just a picture of someone’s face, the headshot must work to capture an essence of the performer, as well as the casting...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$345
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Portfolio Photo Shoot

Chic Studios - School of Makeup @ 833 S Spring St, Los Angeles, CA

Our Professional Photo Shoot in NYC is fantastic for someone who wants to create or elaborate a portfolio. This is a great experience that consists of 3-4 total hours. About the Photo Shoot You will receive quality photos to help set yourself apart with your portfolio, or social media. Don’t wait to book your photoshoot with Chic Studios School of Makeup in NYC. The Process One of our lead instructors will be available to you on-set...

(15) All levels 18 and older
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$250
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Creating Worlds and Stories with Photomontage

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Do you have hundreds of everyday photos just sitting on your device? Why not turn even your most mundane photos into unique works of art? Learn how, through the art of photomontage. With photomontage you can combine your everyday photos of family, friends, and travel into surreal stories and worlds without having to be a Photoshop expert. Through this class you will: Learn to build your own visual narrative as we discuss concepts, such as composition,...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$315
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The Steps to Success: Workshop in Advancing Your Career

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 3015 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA

Full Course Name:  The Steps to Success: A Practical Workshop in Advancing Your Career Designed for all levels of photographers seeking to advance their careers, this class provides the necessary insights, tools and resources for achieving a higher level of success. Student challenges will be addressed, both as a group and in one 20-minute private session per student (to be scheduled individually.) Are you stuck, overwhelmed or on a plateau?...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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The Art of the 4x5 View Camera

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Through classroom demonstration and hands-on experimentation, this course will instruct students on the use of the 4×5 view camera and help them become proficient in every aspect of image creation. Assignments within genres will be given, including natural light portraiture, still life, architecture and landscape. Examples of view camera work (books, negatives, prints) and its history will be touched upon. Students will have time to work on their...

(41) Intermediate 18 and older
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$495

2 sessions

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On the Streets Around the World (Online Learning)

Los Angeles Center of Photography

This five-month class is intended to teach students how to shoot candidly on the street, not only from practical experience, but also from studying historic and contemporary street photographers.  Topics covered in class include:  how to see light how to find great backgrounds the laws and ethics of shooting on the street how to shoot candidly how to capture the “decisive moment” how to anticipate the future how to approach...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Still Life Photography (Online)

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA

This six-session workshop will explore and create the many genres of still life photography through concept, lighting, styling and editing. The topics covered include product, white on white, black on black, chrome, nature and botanical, narrative, and an introduction to food photography. We will look at planning a successful shoot from idea to sketch to production and final edit. Lighting with tungsten hot lights, strobes and natural light will...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$395

6 sessions

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How to Look Like a Business: Photo Session + Marketing

Makers Mess @ 602 N Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA

Join Academy of Handmade and Makers Mess to check off two essentials for every indie business owner: great photos and a great online presence! Good photos are no longer an optional luxury. They are a MUST in our highly visual social media and online experiences. You will have the opportunity to be photographed by TWO professional photographers (one studio shoot and one outdoor "lifestyle" shoot), work on your flatlays under the direction of marketing...

(62) All levels 18 and older
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$289
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Flash Photography

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Find out how to work with various flash lighting techniques to blend daylight, on-camera flash, reflector, and diffusion into your lighting procedures. Learn how to use off-camera flash techniques, including basic ambient-to-flash ratios, dragging the shutter, how to control the light quality of the flash, how to use flash as the main light source and as a fill light, and how to use remote triggers to sync multiflashes.

(513) All levels 18 and older
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GoPro and Time Lapse Photography with Cirina Catania

Los Angeles Center of Photography

This one-day class will serve as an introduction to the GoPro (settings, capabilities, strengths and challenges) and explore its capability for creating amazing time lapse photography. Other topics covered include outfitting for the field, capturing, ingesting and organizing media, editing into a timeline, and outputting for "sharing" on various platforms. Students will get a chance to work in groups, capture footage and create a timeline.

(41) All levels 18 and older
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On the Front Lines: A Day with a Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Center of Photography

This newly created series offers students a hands-on “in the field” opportunity to photograph an event with a photojournalist from the Los Angeles Times. Students will enjoy working closely with each photojournalist as he or she discusses techniques and approaches to capturing memorable moments. The guest photojournalist will talk about his or her general approaches to photojournalism, as well as specific photojournalistic strategies including...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Photography as a Business

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Join photographer Manuello Paganelli in this highly informative and practical one-day workshop on the business side of photography. Manuello will discuss the tools required for negotiating, understanding contracts, copyrights and model releases, what is involved in a photo production, and more. Students will learn how and where to place the value of their images and to incorporate that knowledge into marketing their talent and connecting with the...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$275
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The Business of Photography: Everything You Need

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

This class is designed to help photographers understand the business and marketing end of the photo industry, an area often overlooked when a photographer is building his or her career. The course offers a great opportunity to learn what “you don’t know that you don’t know”, in other words how to create yourself (the photographer) as a brand, and how to effectively market that brand to clients appropriate to your work and skill level. Regardless...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$295
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Conceptual Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

What is the meaning behind your imagery? Can the viewer connect to your photograph in a conceptual way? Is it an emotional connection, or a clever idea, or does the viewer feel the "aha" experience when viewing your work? Do you share a narrative or tell a story with your work? In this course students will learn to develop their ideas and think before shooting. Concepts will be discussed, critiqued and communicated among class members to brainstorm...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$295
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Intermediate Lightroom Classic

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA

This Intermediate Lightroom Classic course continues where the Beginning Lightroom Classic class left off. Using Adobe Lightroom Classic, we will explore, in depth, some of the topics we already covered and learn new techniques as well. In the first sessions we will review importing and how to make metadata presets to add personalized contact, copyright, and shoot session subject info to photos as they are imported. We will...

(41) Intermediate 18 and older
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$415

6 sessions

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Macro Photography Outdoors

Los Angeles Center of Photography

What’s going on around us in nature? If you stop and look closely at what’s right under your nose, you would be amazed at the beauty that’s there every day. This one-day workshop will introduce students to the intimate world of macro photography outdoors with discussions of technique, aesthetics, hardware and a brief, local field trip. The instructor will cover the tools for macro photography – traditional macro lenses, extension tubes...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Environmental Portraiture

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Photographing people in their natural environment can produce images that evoke a true sense of their character. But to properly capture and convey this information, the photographer must have both the technical skills and the flexibility to work in ever-changing environments. This one-day online workshop on environmental portraiture in the context of photo essays as well as in stand alone images will give participants the necessary confidence...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$295
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Mastering the Co-Star: 2-Day Intensive

L.A. On-Camera Training Center @ 2000 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA

Ask any casting director and they will say that Co-Star roles are the hardest to book. The role could be just about anyone, so who are they looking for? And because it's only a line or two, what can you do with it? There are so many choices you could make, often many actors make no choice at all. Co-Stars require opinion and characterization, but they also require an understanding of your role within the story. How do you make strong choices, blend...

(8) Advanced 18 and older
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$250

4 sessions

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Composition & Creativity

Santa Monica College @ 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

Sign up for an intensive workshop that examines compositional principles, image psychology, and artistic viewpoints relevant to photographers as they develop their personal visual identity. You will have weekly hands-on assignments and shooting exercises that explore a variety of concepts in a class that will be fiercely analytical of your images along with iconic works of Irving Penn, Hiro, Horst, and others.  This is a great class for photographers...

(513) All levels 18 and older
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$129

3 sessions

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