For more advanced night photographers, we can offer a portfolio review, specific challenges and goals, and will offer guidance in the field if you mainly want to concentrate on creating portfolio images or learning more advanced techniques.
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Participants must have at least basic photo skills, know their cameras well, and be comfortable shooting RAW in manual mode with a DSLR or high-end mirrorless camera.Įxpert-level night photography experience is not necessary, but even folks with extensive experience shooting at night will find this class challenging, stimulating and inspiring. Milky Way photography is possible in the first nights of the workshop for those willing to stay up very late. The moonlight increases in intensity over the duration of the workshop. This workshop begins during the waxing crescent moon (the day before the first quarter), and will appeal to photographers interested in using gentle moonlight to bring out landscape details with some light painting closer to the camera. Riddled with ruins of houses and cars and more, El Dorado is a light painter’s dream. The group will also visit El Dorado Canyon, site of the oldest gold mine in southern Nevada. This desert scenery appears to catch on fire during sunset light, and then serves as dramatic foreground under the beautiful night skies of the Southwest.
The workshop will explore the surreal landscape of the Valley of Fire, a Nevada state park famous for its otherworldly Aztec sandstone rock formations colored in a mix of red, tan and gray. Valley of Fire & Nelson Ghost Town 2019.Post-Processing Intensive–Catskill 2020.Post-Processing Intensive-Catskill 2019.Centennial Valley, J Bar L Ranch & Solar Eclipse 2017.