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• Summer Workshops
• Featured Workshops: Arizona High Country
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Featured Participant/Volunteer Images
Hunt's Mesa Workshop, May 2009
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What Our Participants Say About...
Slot Canyons Workshop
with Jerry Sieve, April 2009
“This was a great workshop with a lot of information, food-for-thought and wonderful & dramatic photographic locations.”
— Don Close
“The workshop surpassed my expectations with a good mix of photo ops, critique and exercise.”
— Thomas Barnwell
Rails and Tales of the Verde Valley
with Colleen Miniuk-Sperry, May 2009
“This was great! I learned more in a single weekend than I ever would have spending hours reading photography books, magazines & owners manuals.”
— Marni Patterson
“This was a great weekend! The train ride was a blast! The Blazing M was fun and the people were great!”
— Denise Carson
“Although the Verde Canyon train ride was not a new adventure to me, having the workshop on the train ride opened up a lot of new photo ideas & opportunities for both color & black and white film.”
— Nancy Burgess
“Colleen did a terrific job in motivating everyone. Her enthusiasm is contagious. Jon did a great job making things happen on time. The workshop moved along flawlessly. Outstanding organization.”
— David Burris
Horses & Cowboys Workshop
with Jeff Kida, May 2009
“This was an excellent location, very well-run, the workshop gave a lot of hands on instruction and help with some great photographic subjects.”
— Angela Arenal
“This was my 1st workshop & I had not much experience using my camera. Jeff, Art, Jack and Ashley made us feel comfortable & extended their knowledge with terms I could understand. I can’t wait until my next workshop w/AZ Highways. Thanks so much!”
— Lynn Marcus
Monument Valley/Canyon de Chelly
with Chuck Lawsen, May 2009
“I learned more about my equipment and photography in 5 days, than I could have in a year of school.”
— Chuck McCarty
“Never disappointed. Looking forward to coming back for another workshop, it will be hard to pick one as there are so many great destinations to choose from, very reliable shooting locations and have always left a town with some great photographs. This is also possible given the guidance from the professional photographer.”
— Jean Kaufmann
“To quote a famous governor 'I’ll be back'.”
— George Kelly
Visit our Calendar page for a complete list of 2009 workshops...
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Summer Workshops Outside of Arizona
Offer You the Opportunity to Cool Off and Enjoy the View
High Peaks of Coloradowith Jim Steinberg
July 6-12, 2009
Join Arizona Highways contributing photographer, Jim Steinberg for a trip to the High Peaks of Colorado. From the unsurpassed alpine wildflowers of the Crested Butte area to the highest alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park, you’ll experience the best of Colorado's high country and the most spectacular scenic byways on this unique workshop.
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with Kerrick James
July 20-24, 2009
Montana’s Glacier National Park is full of scenic wonder and astonishing beauty. It contains more than a million acres of lakes, alpine meadows and forest, and shelters remnant glaciers that helped carve its rugged peaks, deep valleys and extraordinary terrain. Due to the nature of the hikes on this workshop we request that active photographers who can hike up to several miles round-trip attend.
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with George Stocking
July 26-August 1, 2009
Join Arizona Highways contributing photographer and workshop instructor George Stocking on a breathtaking and inspiring tour of the magnificent Sierra Nevada of eastern California. You’ll visit the Alabama Hills, where unusually shaped boulders and arches line the foothills of the Eastern Sierras, framing the grandeur of the highest peak in the contiguous United States, Mt. Whitney.
This workshop is the perfect primer on the highlights and hidden gems of the eastern Sierra Nevada. It covers lots of territory, and with George Stocking serving as your expert guide and instructor you’re sure to bring home great images of a memorable trip.
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with Kerrick James
August 3-7, 2009
There's a unique landscape of painterly beauty reminiscent of Tuscany located in the eastern plains of Washington state. It's known as the Palouse region, and it's a spacious land of rolling hills and sculpted fields of wheat. One of the peak times to visit this national treasure is in August, when the fields are brown as the greens of spring and summer turn to the gold and tans of the fall harvest.
This is an environment built to stretch your vision. Barns, farmhouses, and narrow dirt roads are set off by undulating hills in one of Washington's most scenic and unusual regions. This is a land of gentle design with curving lines to every horizon, offering opportunities to explore monochromes, panoramas, and details.
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We're Looking for Our Next Cover!
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We are currently looking for the cover of our 2010 brochure! Please submit your photos to be considered right away. We don't pay for the use of photographs, but will always do our best to include a photographic credit.
We're constantly looking for great photos for our Web site, brochure, newsletter and itineraries. Submissions are welcome at any time, but please send your photos NOW to be considered for the 2010 brochure.
We ask for the following when sending a digital submission:
- Please send no more than eight (8) images per workshop you've attended.
- Acceptable file formats are TIF or JPG.
- File size should be 300 dpi sized for 8.5 x 11. This equates to a file that is about 8MB. Files that are larger than 24-30 MB may be returned to sender, as they take too long to load on our computers.
- Please submit 8-bit photos rather than 16-bit.
- Enhance your photos before submitting them if they need it. What you submit should be a final product, not one that still requires a lot of level or color adjustment.
Do not submit photos with layers, as it will increase the file size. If you do some enhancing work, flatten the layers before submitting the image.
- Name your photos appropriately so that they can be distinguished from those of your fellow students. The preferred format is:
First_last_workshopname.jpg. Here is an example: JOHN_DOE_monumentvalley.jpg
- Download, fill out and submit an Image Submission Form to accompany your photos. View/Download Image Submission Form...
- Please email your submissions to one of our volunteer trip leaders, Suzanne Mathia at smathia@cox.net. Submissions sent to us on CDs or DVDs will also be accepted, but the disks will not be returned. (See Image Submission Form for mailing address.)
For more information on the image submission process or if you have any other questions, please call 602.712.2004 or toll-free, 1.888.790.7042.
Featured Workshop: Summer in the White Mountains
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with Peter Ensenberger
August 7-10, 2009
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Arizona’s White Mountains are a special summer retreat from the heat. The locals call it “God’s Country.” Cool temperatures, clean mountain air and afternoon showers are part of daily life in this high country getaway.
Workshop instructor, Arizona Highways Director of Photography Peter Ensenberger, knows the secrets of this country from many days spent traveling the back roads and hiking the trails. You’ll discover the natural wonders of the White Mountains, where shooting locations might include the Mt. Baldy Wilderness, Little Colorado River, Three Forks of the Black River, Bear Wallow Wilderness and more. If Mother Nature cooperates with an active monsoon season, you’ll see dramatic towering thunderheads accentuating deep blue skies.
The welcoming caretakers at Hannagan Meadow Lodge will be hosting this photo workshop. The historical lodge and cabins will be your base of operations for exploring the pine and aspen forests, lush meadows, babbling streams and placid high-country lakes of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. Expect to see plenty of wildlife, and if the summer storms are active, you could see plenty of colorful mountain wildflowers in bloom. Beautiful Hannagan Meadow is just across the road from the lodge, where most evenings elk and deer come out into the meadow to graze and play. And, the rustic pole fence around the meadow creates a perfect foreground for pastoral scenes on foggy mornings.
Call now to beat the heat and reserve your space in this high-country paradise workshop!
Photography Tip
Excerpted from
Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How & Where to Make Great Photographs
Motion: Blurring
by Peter Ensenberger, Arizona Highways Director of Photography
By stabilizing the camera on a tripod and using slow shutter speeds, moving objects become impressionistic blurs in front of your lens, conveying action in a different way than panning does. Motion itself becomes the subject of blurred photographs. Blurring effects usually occur with shutter speeds of 1/30 second or slower, depending on how fast your subject is moving. Just as with panning, it helps to work in low light or use a neutral density filter.
You can create a pan-blur combination with a small on-camera flash. Either pan with the subject or hold the camera steady on a tripod while utilizing a slow shutter speed to record the movement, and trigger the flash to freeze the subject as it moves past the camera position. This works best in dimly lit situations with shutter speeds of 1/15 or slower and with the subject within 5 to 15 feet of the flash.
Take a meter reading of the scene with the shutter speed at 1/15 (slower if you want more blur) and set the appropriate aperture. You may try slightly underexposing the scene to emphasize the subject being illuminated by the flash. For a panning shot, begin your pan as the subject approaches and release the shutter, triggering the flash.
Then continue the panning motion for the duration of the exposure. For a blurring shot, brace the camera or mount it on a tripod and release the shutter as the subject moves past. A slow shutter speed will create a blur of the subject’s movement and the flash will freeze it in mid-motion as it passes by, creating a unique effect.
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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