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Beginner Photography Classes
Los Angeles
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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Preserving Your Photographic Archive
Los Angeles Center of Photography
If you love and take photographs, are a professional photographer or the self-appointed family archivist , you probably still have film, negatives, transparencies and silver gelatin prints in your collection. In addition, you may be producing images using alternative processes such as cyanotypes or platinum-palladium prints and making digital prints from your own born-digital or scanned files. This is your photographic archive and it needs care...
1-Day Digital Photography Basics Workshop
El Camino College @ 16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Torrance, CA
Explore the world of digital photography in this fast-track 1-day fun-day hands-on workshop! Bring your digital camera to class and instructor Morrison will show you how to optimally use your equipment. By then end of the class, you'll learn to understand the basics of what your camera has to offer.
$45
Photography for Social Media
Craft Sierra Madre @ 49 W Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, CA
Are you ready to up your social media game? In this workshop we will work on how to take photos specifically for your social media channels. Indoor, outdoor, flatlays, product photos, and overall content. Whether your launching a small business or just want to have a more appealing feed this class can help in your journey.
$20
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Cyanotype Photography
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
In this class, students will apply the simple chemistry of photo-sensitive iron-salts to create images on both paper and fabric. Through examples and technical guidance, Miles will point in the direction of this medium's tremendous experimental potential on other surfaces and with different kinds of photo-negatives. Cyanotype is an alternative, analog photographic process. It also goes by the names of "blueprint" and "sun print", producing images...
$50
Street Photography
Atwater Photo Workshops @ 3015 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Take your street photography to the next level, and join us for this workshop. The expedition winds through downtown LA, where you’ll practice your timing and develop a balance between quick reflexes and patience, a critical awareness when shooting in Magic Hour. You’ll overcome fear about approaching people, and we’ll go over valuable tips and techniques to produce striking images. You’ll have a great time capturing light on this urban...
$125
Travel Photography
Creative Photography Workshops @ 3325 Shelby Dr, Los Angeles, CA
Learn key techniques in taking great travel images Learning to think like a photographer begins by seeing the world in a whole new way. Instead of just looking at our surroundings, we must really learn to see. So stop taking the same boring pictures when you travel and start learning the art of taking great photographs. The following will be covered: Camera basics. Understanding: Framing, Composition and Good Light. Simple tips to creative...
$50
Teen Workshop: Photography
SPACE South Pasadena Arts Center
Explore the ways photography can help you discover your own unique view of the world. This hands-on class will take field trips via the metro to LA landmarks where you will use the landscape of the city to capture mood, feeling and compelling compositions. Students will learn how to control aperture, shutter speeds and ISOs and create an online portfolio of their best work. Students must supply their own digital camera, both DSLR and point &...
All levels
12 and older
Open Show LA
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
OPEN SHOW LA provides a forum for our local community of visual storytellers to share their projects. Several times a year photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers of Los Angeles gather at different venues around town for an evening of live presentations and lively conversations.
Free
Photo Book Pre-Visualization
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Discuss the pathway and steps of getting from a photographic project to published photo book. Douglas Stockdale will have copies of his Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book for sale as well a couple of other books.
$40
Introduction to the Documentary World
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Learn the difference between photojournalism, reportage, documentary and street photography in this direct and informative mini course. The seminar will focus on documentary photography and discuss how the in-depth, intimate approach holds power to educate and inform the public and connects us all to each other. Other topics will include authenticity, objectivity and how to maintain those key aspects while creating compelling imagery in realtime...
$40
Crash Flash
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
This is a crash course on how to use your flash in a low light situation such as a gallery opening, a birthday party at McDonalds, or an indoor wedding reception. You will not only learn the most important dials on your flash, but you will also learn how to expose properly. You will be amazed at what you will learn in an hour!
$40
Portraiture: An Artistic Journey
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Join photographer Ken Merfeld for a conversation about shooting people and the thread that links portraiture from 1860’s to the Iphone.
$40
The Crash Flash Class
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
This is a crash course on how to use your flash in a low light situation such as a gallery opening, a birthday party at McDonalds, or an indoor wedding reception. You will not only learn the most important dials on your flash, but you will also learn how to expose properly. You will be amazed at what you will learn in an hour!
$40
An Evening with Greg Gorman
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
A glimpse of Greg Gorman’s upcoming new Retrospective being published by teNeues, followed by a conversation with Gary Johns, Designer and Creative Director of the project. Q&A from the audience closes the event.
$10
Contracts
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This webinar will cover the following topics: Basic contract language for a wide variety of specialties. Meanings of terminology, importance of layout and design, category descriptions for usage, general clauses in all kinds of contracts that apply to photographers, clauses that apply only to photographers. Layout and design for clarity. Contract language broken down line-by-line. Using proposals and contracts as negotiating tools. A link for...
Connecting with Your Subject
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Distance Learning Class via Zoom Great portraits are made with an equally strong connection to your subject. It’s a collaboration between you and your subject. Join Westcott top pro Ian Spanier for this webinar all about nailing those portrait assignments. Participants will push past the simple act of raising the camera to the eye and discover the skills needed to connect with subjects for award-winning portraits. A link for the Zoom class...
$45
The Singular Vision (Ways of Seeing)
Los Angeles Center of Photography
In today’s ultra competitive photography market, the working photographer must express a way of seeing distinctly their own. With over thirty years of experience in editorial portrait and fashion, photographer, director and teacher Andrew Southam leads a discussion about defining and refining a vision all your own.
From Shutter Release to Paycheck
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Striving for excellence in your photography work and showing the world the results. Being a professional photographer isn’t necessarily about being paid, it’s about the mindset and attitude that makes excellence your consistent goal, as well as the habits and process that are required for you to achieve it. When you understand and practice what is necessary, achieving excellence is not an occasional result; it becomes something you expect of...
What Sells and Where?
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
A brief overview of the art/photo market and photo collecting today. The Art Market today is rapidly changing. With so may fairs, festivals and online platforms, the old gallery model is becoming obsolete. Where should artists go to sell their work? In this webinar, Sarah Hadley will discuss what work is commercially viable and how photo collectors and other buyers are finding work today. We will talk about why it is important to attend art fairs,...
$45
How to Get Your Photographs Out into the World
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 755 Seward St, Los Angeles, CA
This workshop is for Fine Art and Documentary photographers who are interested in learning strategies for getting their work noticed by curators, gallery owners and collectors. Topics will include how to present yourself and your work to museums, galleries, and other venues, how to create effective newsletters, how to use social media to your advantage, as well as general networking and professional practices. We will also discuss the merits of juried...
$40
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