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Beginner Photography Classes
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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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Finding Your Voice on the Street
Los Angeles Center of Photography
At whatever stage you are at with your street photography, this workshop will help you to evolve. Starting not with “how” but with “why” you take street photographs, Nick will help you to understand your own motivations for making candid photographs in public places. We will start by discussing your current relationship with street photography, explore how street photographs are constructed, and study the difference between taking a photograph...
Practices for the Analog Photographer
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
For those who still love and embrace analog photography, converting your analog negatives to a digital file has become an increasingly popular workflow. But how to get the best possible print out of an analog negative, from 35mm to 8×10, can still be quite frustrating. Scanning negatives the right way allows you move to a digital workflow and have complete control over your image using the full range of tools available in Photoshop. All of this...
$475
Seeing Like a Camera, Editing Like a Master
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Despite what the camera manufacturers claim, gear doesn’t make you a better photographer. To become a better photographer, you need to take a lot of pictures and select the best few. The two hardest things about photography are learning to see like a camera and learning how to select which are the best images after you have been photographing. These two skills are ones that the best photographers consciously (or unconsciously) have already mastered....
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The Work of Art
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5481 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Lori Vrba and Tobia Makover lead this workshop with big ideas for expanding how we consider and pursue a viable career in the photographic arts. Examine the radical shift from the traditional notions of fine art success to what is now a game-changing movement in the exhibition, curatorial, and marketing arenas. Vrba and Makover walk you through an avant-garde world of exhibition, production, and curation and take a deep dive into the current...
Crash Flash Weekend: Speedlight Essentials
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 312 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA USA, 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 weekend intensive, two-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...
Transforming Your Photographs
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
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 introduced to some digital techniques using Lightroom and Photoshop and output images on a variety...
The Long-Term Project from Start to Finish
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Learn from award-winning photographer Louie Palu as he shares his expert knowledge on successfully completing long-term photography projects. Gain valuable insights on grant writing, fundraising, and revenue streams, as well as editing and sequencing images for books and exhibitions. Develop the skills needed to execute and complete your own projects, regardless of location or subject matter.
Exploring the Nocturnal Landscape
Los Angeles Center of Photography
When the sun sets and the street lights slowly start to glow, a whole world of light, shadow, color and mystery awakens. When others pack up their gear and go home, the more adventurous know this a time to explore, to seek images that are not so evident, not so visible, but there to be captured and made into beautiful and dramatic photographs. Critical to successful night shooting is training the eye to see in an environment it is not used to photographing...
Studio Lighting and Photo Montage with Richard Tuschman
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 252 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA
Learn how to seamlessly integrate studio-lit figures with pre-existing backgrounds in this hands-on workshop. Discover the practical and creative advantages of this approach and master techniques for creating hard and soft light using various modifiers. Take your photography skills to the next level with Studio Lighting and Photo Montage.
The Photo Book as Art
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 252 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the fusion of tradition and innovation as lens-based artist Susan Kae Grant guides you through an immersive workshop on crafting handmade photographic artists’ books. Explore personal narratives, intuitive design, and diverse techniques to create stunning, tactile creations that transcend conventional storytelling. Join us for a weekend of inspiration, creativity, and hands-on exploration into the artistry of the photo book.
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.
Resolve 101 Plus
AbelCine has partnered with the International Colorist Academy (ICA) to offer this Resolve 101 Plus workshop. This three-day, hands-on workshop is an excellent introduction to DaVinci Resolve 12. It is ideal for first time users, and you do not need to be a Colorist to attend. The workshop mixes the operational side of Resolve with some practical real world training on workflows, basic color theory, grading approaches and techniques. In this course,...
An Introduction to Virtual Reality
This two-day, introductory workshop will cover the artistry and storytelling of VR. The workshop will start by covering the history of VR and will take attendees through existing VR content. Different types of VR filmmaking and VR cameras will be discussed. The second day will allow attendees to get more hands-on with a VR shoot. At the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to view this VR footage in Samsung Gear VR headsets.
Intermediate Adobe After Effects
Moviola Education Center @ 1015 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA
Building on the topics covered in the Level 1 After Effects course, this course focuses on working with 3:2 pulldown, alpha channels and rendering. Topics include 3:2 vs interlaced materials, mattes, masking, rotoscoping, paint tools, and keying. Additional topics include precomposing single and multiple layers, nesting layers and understanding the rendering pipeline.
Take Better Photos
Los Angeles City College @ 855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Learn to develop your creative eye and take interesting photos with any camera, even your phone. We’ll focus on visual composition to improve your photography and express your unique vision. This workshop will include practicing the concepts discussed in class. “Cameras don’t take pictures, people (photographers) do.” -Anonymous
$49
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...
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.
Creating a Photo Essay
Santa Monica College @ SMC Bundy Campus, Santa Monica, CA
Learn visual storytelling as you develop a personal photo project. Discover how grouping your photos together in creative ways can tell a more engaging story and take your photography to a greater level of communication. Whether you have travel photos to organize, want to create a cohesive body of images, or just enjoy visual storytelling, find out how to define your project with an artist’s statement and produce strong images that work together....
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...
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