California Photography Workshops

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Nikon D800 D-SLR Camera | High Dynamic Range Camera

Nikon has created an amazing camera. The D800

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Angelo Musco‘s work just can’t be absorbed in a glance. The photographer-slash-artist’s pieces are composed of thousands of human figures intricately and densely packed on panels as large as 8 x 20 feet, Forming shapes that look almost like outer space bone MRI scans. Angelo, with almost 10 intense visual projects already under his belt, and over a decade of exhibiting, is a Graphic Design and Fine Art graduate from Italy now based in New York.

Monday, February 6, 2012

FOTO/GRÁFICA « Le Bal

"The idea of seeking and presenting the best photobooks of Latin America was born during the 2007 Latin-American forum on photography in São Paulo. On this occasion we observed the critical lack of a cartography of the books published in the 20th century on the continent."

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SANTA BARBARA / SANTA YNEZ PHOTO WORKSHOP - July 2012

SANTA BARBARA / SANTA YNEZ PHOTO WORKSHOP

JULY 21 AND 22, 2012

Santa Barbara Harbor

Keith Skelton is leading a two-day photo workshop in beautiful Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley.

Over the last five years, Keith has led dozens of groups on walking photo tours throughout Santa Barbara.

Recently, the trip has been expanded to spend a second day photographing the bucolic Santa Ynez Valley. Famous for its wineries, the symmetrical rows of grapevines make for wonderful backdrops to its rolling caramel-colored hills and dark green Valley Oak trees. We will also spend time photographing La Purisima Mission. Founded in 1787, it’s one of California’s oldest Spanish missions.

Santa Barbara County Courthouse

While in downtown Santa Barbara, we will photograph the “Queen of Missions”—the famed and still in-use Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara County Courthouse with its pictorial Mural Room, El Presidio de Santa Barbara, and more. We will be photographing iconic historic images of Santa Barbara’s architecture, street life, and scenes.

Santa Ynez Valley

Some of the photography topics we will cover include:
-Simplifying subject matter
-Photographing people. 
-Using motion to your advantage. 
-Seeing monochromic color. 
-Using harmonious colors. 
-Proper outdoor and indoor exposure. 
-Working in low light. 
-Deciding between black-and-white or color. 
-Time exposure. 
-Composition. 
-Depth-of-field and Sense of Depth. 
-Camera techniques.

La Purisima Mission

Keith Skelton has over 30 years of experience as an educator. He is best known for his commercial and landscape work, which appears in New Space Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and, most recently, in BBC Focus Magazine. He also is a portraiture photographer, having shot portraits of United States Presidents, Santa Barbara community philanthropists, and Hollywood executives.

Keith earned his Bachelor of Arts in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara California.

Santa Ynez Valley