May 2, 2012 | WRP Ed Zone
May is going to be a great month! I’m going coast to coast to teach and hope I get to meet you. It starts this weekend with our Photoshop for Shooters in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Then I’m heading to NY for two classes at B&H 10 May, Critiquing Your Images & Essential Gear. The on the 11th I’m in NJ at Unique University talkin photography and then on the 12th, doing two photowalks at the Meadowlands. But we ain’t done yet!
Then on 16 May, K&M Adventures heads to SD and the Black Hills. Bison calves and big skies, I can’t wait! We finish up the month back home in the Sierra for our first Mono Lake Weekend 25-27 May. This huge variety is meant to help as many folks as I can in as many ways as I can at as many locations I can at every possible price. I sure hope I get to shake your hand and help you and your photography move forward!
Apr 25, 2012 | WRP Ed Zone
oh yeah baby, we’re rockin bigtime! We basically filled our original 7-8 July course so added an additional weekend 18-19 August. We’ll be holding our Short Lens Wildlife Photography Course twice this summer. Just what kind of “stuff” might you be learning at the Course? Well, did you see this video? Will we have snow like you see in these photos? That’s a darn good question after this last week but we have had snow every month in the Sierra so you just never know. These photos of a Cassin’s Finch and Evening Grosbeak were taken right out my office window. How did I make that happen? Well, come to the course and I’ll teach you how to do the same thing. The price is only $395, gear is minimum at best and the possibilities are endless. Give us a call at 661.204.1506.
Apr 24, 2012 | WRP Ed Zone
The response to our Short Lens Wildlife Photography Course has been so amazing we’re working on setting up another weekend in August. Give Sharon a call 661.204.1506 if interested and we’ll put you on an email list when we have locked in the dates. Don’t know what the Short Lens Wildlife Photography Course is, click on the link :-)
Apr 2, 2012 | Moose Adventures
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Apr 2, 2012 | WRP Ed Zone
Going outside your comfort zone is so important in ones photographic growth. Working with “models” is something that isn’t in my bag of tricks so when Craig suggested doing a precon with 20 models, to say it made me nervous is an understatement. Then stepped in the amazing Rosie, what a doll! For those of your who have not attended one of NAPP Safari Precons, it’s an all day event where with my pal Joe McNally, we start in the classroom talking photography and then head out into the field to put it into practice. We’ve shot red rocks and dead cowboys, aircraft and models in art museums and now, civil war reinactors. We go out with 60 amazing folks with giant smiles and big hearts wanting to simply enjoy shooting with other like minded folks and laugh a little. It really is a grand day!
Along with the fellowship and teaching, it was my first “shoot” with the D4. What you see here are photos right out of the camera (except the top image). Processing was no more then opening up Mini Bridge, selecting all the files, holding down the shift key and double clicking. I am very pleased with the results! The images I selected are two fold, they are images I like and they are all images that the compensation on the D4 was set to 0. It’s a pretty wide range of light with the new 91,000 pixel system doing a really good job faithfully recording what I saw. Now that’s now the same as I felt but I need to get that first part down before I make the camera do the second.
The very last photo is my Ms. Rosie, the sweetest southern bell whose ankle I ever did photograph (I know Craig will report this to you). I simply can’t thank her enough! Her very unselfish and cheery nature made this day possible for all of us, opening the minds and hearts of us all. Thank you for all you did!
Mar 29, 2012 | WRP Ed Zone
Ya, now that they’re both public, I can say that Photoshop for Shooters includes Photoshop CS6 and the Nikon D4 instruction. Even more exciting, our newest sponsor Wacom will be giving away ONE of their new Intuos 5s during the workshop (Thanks Wacom!). This two day workshop which, thanks to you, has become very popular because it’s all about YOUR photography! We are pleased we can offer two Photoshop for Shooters 5-6 May, 22-23 Sept, 2012 held in gorgeous Mammoth Lakes, CA (that’s up in the Sierras). While some come for the instruction, we’re finding the giant PDF we send out of my favorite shooting locations a huge draw since it explains when and where to be to get those shots that I love to post here.
The title for this workshop might not be the best at describing what the weekend is all about, but it’s short and sweet. It we had to come up with a workshop name that described the workshop, it would be something like this. Learn to get the most from yourself every time you put that incredible tool to your eye to get the most from it and then finish that with the knowledge of the digital darkroom workshop. See, that workshop name just doesn’t sing. We start off with the most important thing, camera settings and not just which ones to set but how they effect YOUR photography. From there we head into the digital darkroom. I want to help folks with their photography and the vehicle we’re going to use in this class is Photoshop to help improve your captures! Did you know you can use Curves in Photoshop to learn about Exposure Compensation in the camera? And I want you to be able to share your images which is why I go through printing so you can share your adventures. The camera and the computer, they go hand in hand and knowledge of both is so important I feel to get what you see and feel reaching the heartstrings you’re sharing your photography with. And that’s the end game to all of this, grabbing heartstrings.
Wanna learn more, you might wanna read what those who have attended have to say….click here…or simply call WRP @760.924.8632 or 661.204.1506 to register. We are very honored to be sponsored by NAPP, Nik Software and OnOne Software and we have more dates coming in 2013.
