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Ghost Towns of the Southwest Workshop
Denali and the Grizzlies of Hallo Bay Workshop
Denali and the Grizzlies of Hallo Bay Workshop
Featured Partner
Sightseeing This Summer? Don't Miss...
The Arizona Highways Travel Show features the latest information on Arizona destinations, including Tucson, Sedona, Grand Canyon and Lake Powell, as well as photography demonstrations and hiking workshops. Get the lowdown on lodging, dining, scenic attractions and more!
May 30–31, 2009; 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Phoenix Convention Center Hall F
For more information, call 480.838.9123 or visit arizonahighwaystravelshow.com.
Would your organization consider being a partner? Please call us toll free at 1.888.790.7042.
What Our Participants Say About...
Ghost Towns of the Southwest Workshop
with Kerrick James, April 2009
“I was a first time attendee and the workshop far exceeded my expectations. The instructor, destinations, and participants were friendly, helpful and inviting. I would do an Arizona Highways Photo workshop again.”
— Scott Seyler
Photography Made Simple II Workshop
with J Peter Mortimer, April 2009
“Excellent session, learned many techniques that I can put to work.”
— Todd Karberg
“The instructor was attentive, he went to great lengths to see that the participants 'get it'.”
— Randy Weiss
Visit our Calendar page for a complete list of 2009 workshops...
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High Country Summer Workshops
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Summer in Flagstaff Photo Workshop
with Chuck Lawsen
August 21 – 23, 2009
by Alan Brown
Join Arizona Highways magazine contributing photographer Chuck Lawsen for a “Summer in Flagstaff” photography workshop amongst the cool pines and grand peaks of northern Arizona. This two-day plus workshop will include photo shoots in the Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano National Monuments, the Weatherford Trailhead area and other locations where Chuck will have scouted to find the best summer wildflowers and have you there for the best light.
The workshop begins on Friday night in Flagstaff and includes instruction, box lunches on Saturday and Sunday, admission to the national park and a critique session. A two night stay at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Flagstaff is also included in the $445 cost of this great photo workshop experience.
Call now to reserve your space as the group size is limited to fifteen students to afford everyone the benefit of some individual time with the instructor.
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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.
Your 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.
Don't miss your chance to escape the summer heat while experiencing and photographing this high-country paradise! Call now to reserve your space!
Featured Workshops: Alaska, Summer 2009
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with Kerrick James
June 14-21, 2009
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Explore the wild lands of south-central Alaska on this one-of-a-kind workshop combining landscape and wildlife photography along with boat trips, scenic flights and wilderness hikes. Kerrick James will be your instructor on this Alaskan journey, an adventure, travel, and destination photographer with over 200 book and magazine covers to his credit. His passion is traveling the world’s wild places to create compelling images and he has led many Arizona Highways photo workshops
Among the many places to be visited are Glacier Bay, Point Adolphus, Prince William Sound and Resurrection Bay. Expect to find tidewater glaciers, icebergs, marine life, bald eagles and many more amazing photographic opportunities. You'll also visit Kennecott National Historic Landmark—now a ghost town, but once the site where one of the richest copper ore deposits has ever been found in the United States. This amazing week concludes by riding the Alaska Railroad Coastal Classic on its most scenic run from Anchorage to Seward and spending the afternoon whale watching and photographing the numerous glaciers and inlets of Kenai Fjords National Park.
Plan on bringing long glass and expect an active week of adventure in Wild Alaska! This workshop involves the option of a number of moderate to strenuous hikes. Please see our trip itinerary for the full daily schedule and more of Kerrick's terrific photos of the areas you'll be visiting.
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with Ralph Lee Hopkins
August 23-September 3, 2009
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This workshop is the trip of a lifetime, with top-notch photography instruction and guided tours to the best scenery and wildlife Alaska has to offer. As one of the best photo workshop leaders in the world, Ralph Lee Hopkins puts his in-depth knowledge of these locations into making your experience unforgettable. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Alaska with the experts!
There will be chances to photograph unparalleled views of nearby Mt. McKinley from your lodging at Camp Denali, which lies deep in the heart of Denali National Park. The area is also abundant with wildlife—which, besides bears—includes moose, wolves, foxes, beavers, otters, harbor seals, eagles, puffins and much more.
You’ll travel on to the Hallo Bay Wilderness, which boasts the highest concentration of brown bears in Alaska, and arrive at the best time to photograph them in their natural habitat—during the salmon spawn. Grizzlies in the area feed on a variety of foodstuffs, including shellfish, sweet grasses, fish and berries, so there will be many opportunities to see these magnificent creatures in a variety of habitats.
The price of this 12-day workshop is all-inclusive, and covers motor coach, train, bush plane and van travel, meals, outfitters, nature specialists and accommodations once the workshop begins.
Group size is limited to 9 students, so call now to reserve your space in this exclusive workshop!
SPECIAL OFFER: If you book by May 31, we’ll offer you a one time 10% discount on the Denali/Hallo Bay workshop. Please mention this offer when booking your reservation.
Submit Your Photos!
We're always looking for photos for our Web site, brochure, newsletter and itineraries. We do not pay for the use of photographs, but we will do our best to include a photographic credit. You can either send us a CD or a DVD with your photos. Please send no more than eight (8) images per workshop you've attended. We do not return CDs or DVDs and ask for the following when sending a digital submission:
- Acceptable file formats are TIF or JPG.
- File size should be 300 dpi with the long dimension about 7 inches long. This equates to a file that is about 8MB. Files that are larger 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. 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:
- FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME_description.extension. Here is an example: JOHN_DOE_monumentvalley.jpg
- Download, fill out and submit an Image submission form to accompany your photos.
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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.
Photography Tip
Excerpted from
Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How & Where to Make Great Photographs
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Matching shutter speed with the pace of a moving subject produces images with proper amounts of sharpness and blur. Panning with running baseball players at 1/15 second records the motion without losing the subject’s identity. For more photography tips and ideas, order your copy of Arizona Highways Photography Guide: How & Where to make Great Photographs at arizonahighways.com. |
Motion: Panning
by Peter Ensenberger, Arizona Highways Director of Photography
A well-executed panning shot of a moving subject can yield a dynamic image that has an abstract, almost painterly quality. Panning pushes the bounds of conventional photographic methods, accelerating a still medium to the speed of life. Panning with speeding race cars, for example, blurs the background, capturing the illusion of velocity. While shutter speeds of 1/1000 second or faster will freeze cars speeding around a track, it will likewise freeze the background, making them appear as though they are parked on the track. A slow shutter speed works much better for telling the story of a race—whether it’s cars, horses, or a desert bobcat in hot pursuit of a rabbit.
Using a slow shutter speed while panning the camera at a rate matching your subject’s speed, you can maintain fairly sharp focuson the subject and blur the background with the camera’s horizontal movement. Panning often works best in low light, with a slow ISO or with the use of a neutral density filter if shooting in bright light conditions.
Since some autofocus cameras don’t react quickly to fast-moving subjects, you may have to switch off the autofocus feature. Set the exposure program for shutter priority or manual operation so you can select the appropriate shutter speed. The shutter speed you choose and the speed of your panning motion depend on the amount of available light and the speed of your subject, but generally a range from 1/4 to 1/30 second works best.
Scrutinize the background and determine where you want your subject to be when you make the exposure and manually prefocus on that spot. Pick up your subject in the viewfinder and pace your panning motion with its speed by pivoting at the waist as you track it to the desired spot. Don’t stop the motion when you release the shutter. Continue to pan for the duration of the exposure. Effective panning requires practice, so make several exposures at various shutter speeds and compare your results until you develop a feel for it. Race cars obviously require a faster shutter speed, whereas slower shutter speeds work better for sprinting baseball players and thoroughbreds breaking from the starting gate.
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Photography Made Simple: Field Session Workshop
by Alan Brown
with J Peter Mortimer
May 29-30, 2009
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Our Photography Made Simple II workshop is a two session program designed to help you improve your photography by demonstrating the use of your histogram, lens openings, and depth of field.
Whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a sophisticated D-SLR for photographing your family vacations, or simply want to create art for the walls of your home, our instructor will teach you how to understand your camera and its functions better and how to apply them for photographing moving objects such as animals and people.
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