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Olympic Peninsula
with Jim Steinberg, July 2010
“I’m still using film: It is ok with this workshop.”
— George Collier
“I felt comfortable around professionals.”
— Marilyn Collier
“I have learned more about photographic composition this week than all the books & other workshops I’ve attended.”
— Michael Waxman
“Great workshop & great scenery, Steinberg’s knowledge and helpful approach and an outstanding team from AZ Highways: What more can you want?”
— Jack Arrington
dSLR: Photons to Pixels
with Jeff Kida & Rick Burress, July 2010
“The workshop was excellent! Instructors made learning fun, were constructive, helpful and not intimidating. Format of classroom and photo assignments with roving instructors made this workshop first class, a winner. Highly recommended.”
— Eddie Trayler
“This workshop exceeded my expectations and took my photography skill to the next level! I want the advanced version. The instruction was phenomenal and the individual attention meant that I got my questions answered.”
— Carol Freshley
“Best learning experience ever! Teachers are experts in their field, knowledgeable & friendly.”
— Chrys Gakopoulos
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Arizona Highways Photo Workshops Newsletter: August, 2010
Featured 3 or More Day Workshop
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Autumn at the North Rim
with Peter Ensenberger
Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2010
Cost: $2,095
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Displays of spectacular fall color mark the change of seasons along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim every year. This workshop gives you the cance to photograph colorful aspens, scrub oak and evergreens clinging to the Canyon's precipitous walls, which frame its awesome depths in vibrant green, yellow and red.
You'll visit the best spots in Grand Canyon National Park and Kaibab National Forest to photograph golden aspens, yellow oaks and rich evergreens. There will also be opportunities to capture sculptured temples, buttes and curving layers of sandstone poised 5,000 feet and more above the canyon bottom.
Peter Ensenberger, Arizona Highways Director of Photography for nearly 25 years, will guide you around this captivating setting to capture some of the most spectacular views Mother Nature has to offer!
Register now to capture the colors of the Canyon!
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Featured Weekend Workshops
dSLR: Photons to Pixels
with Jeff Kida & Rick Burress
August 21-22, 2010
Cost: $295
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Learn how to optimize your photographs during an in-depth weekend workshop led by self-described photo geek Jeff Kida and computer nerd Rick Burress. This class covers digital photography in a way that will make your images stand out.
Five different photo types will be addressed: scenic, close-up, portrait, low-light and high-contrast light. Jeff will cover the aesthetics of creating compelling images. Rick will then explain how Photoshop can help enhance your images. Participants will use their new-found skills to shoot in the field at Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix.
This workshop includes discussion and critique sessions, as well as admission to the gardens and lunch both days.
Spend two days with Jeff & Rick and you'll come away with the skills and photos to prove it! Register today.
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Shoot-N-Photoshop Weekend
with J. Peter Mortimer and Steve Burger
September 18-19, 2010
Cost $295
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Photoshop guru Steve Burger and former Arizona Highways picture editor J. Peter Mortimer have teamed up to offer this two day digital boot camp.
You’ll learn shooting techniques and five Photoshop power moves that will make a night and day difference in your photography: Cropping, Levels, Saturation, Image Size, and Sharpening. We'll also cover Workflow and File Prep.
Saturday morning will be spent at the Phoenix Zoo where participants will concentrate on photographic techniques inluding composition, exposure and shooting modes. During the afternoon critique session, each participant will select several images to be projected and discussed. These will also become the pictures that you will work on during the lab session on Sunday.
Register now to hone your photographic skills!
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Photography Tip
Excerpted from
Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How & Where to Make Great Photographs
Grand Canyon Destinations: Where to Make Great Photographs
by Gary Ladd
The Colorado River Photographically, the river corridor is the richest area of the Grand Canyon. The horizontal sweep of the river juxtaposed against the vertical cliff profiles, the rapids, the shoreline intricacies, the sculptured boulders, all form fertile photographic subjects. Some river boats, beautiful in their own right, offer still other possibilities.
Cape Royal North Rim’s Cape Royal offers a great range of possibilities. I made this image near the picnic area where the blooming buckwheat provided a fine foreground subject. Out on the point of the cape, the views are stupendous in almost every direction. Accordingly, countless photographs have been made there, most of them looking southeast, southwest (toward nearby Wotan’s Throne) and west in both morning and evening light. Views eastward are tougher—the sun angle is difficult at both sunrise and sunset, and the Canyon terrain to the east is not as complex. There’s one view to the east, however, that offers great promise, though I’ve yet to make or yet to see a really fine image. That’s the Angels Window viewpoint, passed on the trail to the tip of Cape Royal. Too many photographers (myself included) are drawn out to land’s end where the obvious opportunities await. Some future sunrise, somebody will make a glorious image of Angels Window. We shouldn’t automatically gravitate to the easy or obvious.
Grandview Point Grandview Point offers one unique advantage—a trail that drops into the Canyon directly from the overlook. While waiting for better light I sometimes hike down a bit and return to the Rim for sunset. The Grandview Trail also leads down a short distance to several informal view locations, an important plus when the Rim becomes crowded at sundown. I usually prefer other locations for sunrise images.
For more photography tips and ideas, order your copy of Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How & Where to make Great Photographs at arizonahighways.com.
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