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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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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?...
Creative Survival in Coronavirus Times
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This class is designed to give students a path into creative thinking and to produce art under our current unusual circumstances. Weekly conceptual assignments/challenges will be provided, based on our current crisis and living conditions. All work will be done within the student’s living environment. Their homes, apartments, and rooms are now their working studio environments as well. The limitations of this environment will be considered an “invitation”,...
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...
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The Unguarded Moment: Photographing Friends and Family
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Photographers have always had interest in the interactions between people who know each other well. Brassai worked in bars and bistros in Paris in the 20s, while Dorothea Lange shot working people at home in the 1930s and Helen Levitt photographed children at play in New York’s tenement neighborhoods in the 1940s. With few exceptions, however, the intimate sanctity of everyday family life has resisted most intrusions by outside, “professional”...
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...
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...
Shooting Film 101 (Online)
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Ever wanted to try photographing with film? Get started the right way with this in-depth workshop. We will learn the advantages/disadvantages of different camera formats including: 35mm, medium format, and large format. Then we will dive into the different film types: black and white vs. color, and negative vs. slide film. After learning about the equipment and terminology, we will then discuss the importance of metering, as well as options for developing...
Portrait Location Lighting: A Two-Day Workshop
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Join photographer Ian Spanier in this two-day workshop as he teaches students how to effectively light portraits on location using natural and artificial light. The workshop meets on Saturday, directly on location (TBD). We discuss equipment and the basics of light control in an outdoor environment. We will learn how to combine strobes with daylight, using them both as key and fill light. Working with models and the instructor, students will utilize...
iPhone Photography
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
The capabilities of the iPhone to take great photographs are largely unknown to most. While DSLR cameras are technically superior, the quality of a photo mostly depends on the photographer’s intent and creative vision. The iPhone, like any other type of camera, is simply another tool for your photographic vision. This class will teach you how to realize your vision by making quality photographs with the iPhone. The class will entail getting started...
Masking in Photoshop
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Simply put, masking is the heart and soul of Photoshop. Masking allows you to make incredibly subtle and complex selections with ease, which in turn opens up a world of image correction, retouching and compositing. One of the principle functions of Photoshop is to adjust images. Adjustments are relatively easy to learn; knowing where and how to apply them is a function of masking. Compositing is a technique that is basic to Photoshop; the way...
Intermediate Digital Photography for Teens (12-18)
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
In this sequential class to Basic Digital Photography for Teens, students will receive reinforcement in the concepts from the previous class and push toward the next level of photographic expression. Using the camera to interpret the world around them, students will work toward mastering technical skills while engaging in creative and thought-provoking assignments. Participants will explore the major genres of photography, including but not...
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.
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...
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 2
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Learn the fundamentals of adobe photoshop. This course builds on the basic foundation created in Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 1. With core knowledge of the software, students will build a wider skill set for image creativity and correction. Students will be introduced to some of the software's more advanced tools and features. Topics include: Photoshop Selections and Masks Selection tools Adding to and subtracting from selections Quick...
Silver Effects Pro and the Beauty of Black-and-White
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Learn how to easily incorporate this creative and powerful software into their workflow. Discover the beauty of black-and-white photography with Silver Efex Pro, the world's leading software for creating stunning black and white images. Silver Efex Pro allows you to master the art of black-and-white photography with a powerful set of darkroom-inspired features, including the revolutionary technology that enables you to fine-tune your images with...
From Capture to Archive: Workflow Made Easy
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
In this course students will learn an easy and proven professional workflow that will improve the quality of their images and help them work more efficiently. Based on a discipline of standard file organization, participants will learn to use Camera Raw and Adobe Bridge (no Lightroom needed) to develop healthy habits that keep them organized and also secure the future of their images. Broken down into five sections with alternating demonstrations...
$275
ATypical Self-Publishing with Blurb
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
The past few years have seen profound change in the publishing industry. Economic realities, new technologies and the changing face of digital media have all rocked the long established traditional print avenues. Photographers are being asked to do more and more, and often times are asked to foot not only the bulk of the publishing bill but most of the marketing and advertising as well. With these challenging realities emerged the first real face...
$275
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...
$275
One Day of Street Photography
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This workshop will explore the many practices that can live under the umbrella of “street photography” with an emphasis on both the physicality and intentionality of the work. We will discuss “taking” and “making” pictures; hunting and gathering, visual communication, poetic storytelling, and other themes as we move from making singular strong images towards creating a body of work. Beginning with a overview of each students history...
The Los Angeles Street Collective
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles Street Collective with Julia Dean (Online Learning + On the Street - Six Months) The Los Angeles Street Collective is a collective group of people who are serious about photographing on the streets of LA, rather than a photography class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. The group is sponsored by LACP and offers several outstanding opportunities for Los Angeles street photographers to show their work. The idea behind the...
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