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Los Angeles Center of Photography
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The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is a nonprofit organization providing photography education and enrichment for photographers of all levels. With a wide range of classes, workshops, exhibitions, and community events, LACP offers a comprehensive experience for photographers to learn, connect, and grow in their practice.
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Bringing Ideas to Life: Crafting Personal Projects
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Personal projects are essential to defining your identity as a photographer. Whether portrait series, photojournalism, or conceptual pieces, they express your passion and, if done well, inspire that same passion in others. Maybe you’ve just started a new project. Maybe you’re stranded in the middle of one. Or maybe you’ve been working on something for years and just need that last push. Regardless of where you are in your process, Brandon...
Beginning and Intermediate Photoshop
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
This 12-session class combines all material covered in Beginning Photoshop and then pushes forward into an in-depth exploration of masking – the heart and soul of Photoshop – and the key to complete mastery of image quality. Topics include: Photoshop Selections & Masks A. Selection tools B. Creating selections with multiple techniques C. Quick mask mode D. Refine edge E. Transform selections F. Layer masks G. Refining mask properties...
4x5 Crash Course for Artists
Los Angeles Center of Photography
An Introduction to Large Format Camera Techniques Swing! Shift! Tilt! The view camera remains one of the most thoughtful ways to create artistic imagery in a world of frames per second, zoom lenses and WiFi tethering. In this new hybrid lecture and mentorship/private lesson online workshop, we will slow down the image making rhythm and explore the artistic control that can be achieved using large format cameras. This class is designed for those...
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The Interpretive Portrait
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This course investigates historical and contemporary fine art as well as editorial portraiture, with an emphasis on creating a sense of personal vision. The class addresses use of narrative, aesthetics and form, covering topics such as approaching subjects, establishing a rapport, and forming a collaboration between subject and photographer that is both intuitive and spontaneous. The Interpretive Portrait will begin with Andrea sharing her work...
The Big Bang: Creating Your Place
Los Angeles Center of Photography
The Big Bang: Creating Your Place and Finding Your Tribe in the New World of Fine Art Lori Vrba leads this workshop with big ideas for expanding how we think about and pursue viable careers in the photographic arts. Examine her radical shift from the traditional notions of fine art success to what is now considered a game-changing movement in the exhibition, curatorial, and marketing arenas. The workshop begins with a film to inspire the conversation...
Street Photography Around the World
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This 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 people, how to work a situation,...
The Flash Clash
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Confused about your flash? Then this is the class for you. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn how to control and modify their portable flash units. Portable flash is a wonderful and sometimes intimidating tool and it will be explained step by step on how to choose the correct settings and modifiers. We will do demos using TTL and Manual settings and explain why to choose each, and give easy instructions for making beautiful Fill Flash....
Encaustic with Photographs
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Encaustic in its most basic interpretation means hot melted wax applied to an absorbent surface. Encaustic is typically bees wax mixed with damar resin and pigments. It has been used as a painting medium since Greek and Roman times. It was used to decorate warships, marble statues and eventually as a fine art medium for painting portraits on wooden panels. Painting with encaustic has continued through the ages and has relatively recently been discovered...
Creating the Digital Montage
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Just as a photograph can record fragments of reality, it can also be created out of fragments. This is what a photo montage does. It juxtaposes and melds seemingly disparate objects into a cohesive whole, fragments from many sources, to present a different reality, in the way a dream might present fragments from different times and places. Blurring the line between photography and painting, a composited photo can invite the viewer to enter into...
Crafting Compelling Visual Stories
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
There is a true craft to creating and editing photographic projects, and then translating them into meaningful and powerful expressions. Strong stories must be clearly conceptualized, effectively captured and astutely edited. In this hands-on workshop, designed to provide a broad overview of multimedia techniques, we move through the full course of crafting compelling visual stories. To illustrate the possibilities of photography as a source...
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 1
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop is a core fundamental class for photographers. Using Adobe Photoshop CC 2022, the course teaches the most important tools for retouching, precise image adjustments, combining multiple images using layers, and helping students to understand the process behind color correction. Josh emphasizes a ‘non destructive’ workflow using layers so the original image is unharmed. Many of the new “Artificial Intelligence”...
Owning Your Truth: Experiments in Creativity
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This highly-experimental class encourages participants to use images and text to spontaneously channel a unique, authentic voice. Using a series of unconventional, quick, prompt assignments, the work is fast, intuitive and helpful for anyone interested in deepening and enhancing the sources of their creative expression. Students will use improvisation and mindfulness techniques in a supportive group atmosphere and will explore what inspires them...
Creative Lighting
Los Angeles Center of Photography
In this experimental workshop we’ll play with many lighting styles, from the basics like soft boxes and umbrellas, to more alternative methods such as using ordinary desk lamps, flashlights and portable LED panels. We’ll discuss the reasons for choosing one lighting approach over another, both as it pertains to a specific subject and environment, and also how those choices will begin to define your own personal style. In addition, students...
Introduction to Adobe Lightroom Classic
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
This workshop focuses on the most essential workflow and developing features of Adobe Lightroom Classic with the needs of the photographer in mind. Students will learn how to import, sort, organize and enhance their digital images, as well as batch process groups of images, quickly and efficiently. In addition to the software’s new developing capabilities, participants will learn how to take advantage of Lightroom Classic’s local adjustment...
$40
Street Photography in Los Angeles with Craig Semetko
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This week-long workshop is intended to teach students how to shoot candidly, while learning some valuable technical information about photographing on the street. Each day will be divided among field sessions, lectures, discussions, and critiques. Craig Semetko will share why he loves street photography, and what it takes to be good, quick, and committed. Topics covered include: how to see light, how to find great backgrounds, how to capture the...
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....
Product Lighting Fundamentals
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Having confidence with studio lighting skills is important for any product photographer. The Product Lighting Fundamentals course will give students the knowledge and techniques required to photograph a variety of products in the studio using strobe lighting with the appropriate light modifiers. Through the various assignment types, this course will focus on the fine points of lighting a basic variety of consumer goods likely to be encountered by...
The Allure of Photography
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5481 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Photography is more than just visual, it shifts how we understand the world and ourselves. Photography doesn’t show us the world as we see rather it is a way to describe, its mode now widely accepted as how we see. Yet, even our sight is not passive or neutral rather it is learned and conditioned, much like language. And, like the word, the photograph is used for a myriad of purposes including as to document, inform, illustrate, convince, seduce,...
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