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Explore the art of street photography and improve your composition skills in the heart of New York City's bustling streets, or take a deep dive into portrait photography and master the techniques for capturing stunning portraits in this photography class series in NYC.

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Importing & Organizing Photos in iPhoto

Tekserve @ 119 W 23rd St, New York, NY

Learn how to organize and edit your photo collection using iPhoto for Mac. iPhoto is included with all new Macs. It makes it easy to import photos from your camera or smartphone. Make your photos look great with ease using it’s intuitive editing tools. Then share them with family and friends, or with the world. Classes with us are small group sessions tailored to specific aspects of the Apple ecosystem. One of our knowledgeable trainers will take...

All levels 18 and older
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5 Dollar Fridays: Controlling Contrast

BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY

So much of a photographer's toolkit revolves around controlling contrast.  How do we use contrast for more effective photography? Explore different ways to create and harness contrast, so you can enhance separation, emphasize detail or just make your photos pop.   Cameras are not required.

(325) All levels 13 and older
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Fashion on Location

Photo Retreat @ 4020 22nd St, Long Island City, NY

Shooting on location poses many challenges. In this class, we will learn: available light translucent softeners reflectors portable strobes filter One has to be fast and react quickly to ever changing lighting situations. One has to be able to know what to look for, how to find good light, recognize it, and capture the moment on film. We will cover various techniques of shooting models with available light, using reflectors and translucent...

All levels 18 and older
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$495

2 sessions

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Camera Phone Photography: Beyond the Snapshot

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

We all have one, and we all take too many pictures! Learn all about the bells and whistles of your camera phone. After a walk in the Garden to take photos, we will return to the class for an in-phone editing demonstration.  Please let registration know what type of phone you have. If you can, download the free version of Photoshop or Lightroom before coming to class. Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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iPhone Photography - Beyond the Selfie

York College CPE @ 94 - 20 Guy R Brewer Blvd, New York, NY

Cameras built into smartphones have completely changed the way that we record and create images over the past decade. In some cases, smartphones have replaced point-and-shoot cameras. Technological advances in recent years have allowed people who have never picked up a camera before to go out and create spectacular images. This is where the, mobile photographer, was born. This course will immerse you into the world of mobile photography using only...

(64) Beginner 18 and older
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$85

2 sessions

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Summer Camp: Photo Editing (Grades 6-12)

One River School @ 319 Franklin Turnpike , Allendale, NJ

Students will strengthen their ability to think about how to see the world in a new creative way. These emerging photographers will develop photo editing skills through the use of advanced filters, color & level adjustments, along with image recombination techniques.  Instructors will guide students through the understandings of point of view, the rule of thirds, juxtaposition and other photographic procedures.

(13) All levels 11 - 17 years old
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$410

5 sessions

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Photography Day Trip: Storm King Art Center

PhotoUno Photography School

Come and join us on this wonderful one-day getaway to the beautiful Storm King Art Center! Storm king art center is home to one of the most prestigious sculpture parks in the world! It is a great place to get away from the city, enjoy the beautiful autumn colors and best of all take some great photographs! During the visit we will work on elements of photography such as composition, exposure, light modification and portraits. We will use everything...

(322) All levels 18 and older
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Wet Plate Collodion Course

Penumbra Foundation

Wet plate collodion was the leading method of photography during the 1850’s and 1860’s. This course is designed for students who want to learn the techniques behind the wet plate collodion process, as well as those who strive to develop a body of work in this unique process. The wet plate process is most commonly known in its three forms – tintypes (positives on tin), ambrotypes (positives on glass), and glass negatives (negatives on glass)....

(8) Beginner 18 and older
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Now Landscape, Now a Room: Photography and the Art

Penumbra Foundation

Full Course Name: Now Landscape, Now a Room: Photography and the Art of Walking This four-week workshop will consider walking as a mode of artistic practice and a means of generating photographic work. Alongside various creative exercises and informal critiques, participants will engage with works of photography, conceptual art, film, cultural theory, and more. The workshop will culminate in individual projects that build upon our group discussions...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Introductory Seven Weeks of Wet Plate

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Attendees will take a comprehensive approach to the collodion process and its effective practice by the modern-day photographer. Its practitioners effectively make their own film through the coating of a metal plate with the collodion substrate, sensitizing it in a solution of silver nitrate, and exposing this plate in-camera while still wet. Hence its commonly known name “wet plate”. This seven week course is designed for those who want to...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$800

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Gum Oil

Penumbra Foundation

The Gumoil process is a relatively new photographic printing process developed in the 90's by Karl Koenig. The process has similarities in different ways from physical application to visual asthetics such as bromoil, gum bichromate, lith, liquid emulsion and photo etching creating a matrix of light sensitive gum arabic which is hand applied to printmaking paper, exposed, dried, then 'inked' with oil paints, washed and brightened. The process is...

(8) Beginner 18 and older
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Sacred Texts: a History of the Photobook

Penumbra Foundation

Sacred Texts: a History of the Photobook, From Bible Cloth to the Holy Bible The photobook is an increasingly diverse and versatile artistic medium. The book form, engaging the linguistic, allegorical and narrative potential of photography, provides a uniquely intimate viewing experience, and when compared to an exhibition, has a lasting wide-ranging ability to reach audiences. As a result, the photobook, has become in recent years, an integral...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Five Days of Alternative Process

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Are you seeking a hands-on photographic experience using historic 19th-century processes? Each day, students will engage with the chemistry and the materials.  Among the processes you’ll learn in this class are: Cyanotype Albumen Collodio-Chloride Kallitype & others! Different toning options and techniques will be demonstrated and discussed. Students will be contact printing, which requires a large format or digital negative. Digital...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$1,125

5 sessions

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The B&W Fine Print in Silver Gelatin

Penumbra Foundation

Analog black and white printing is a tango dance between the negative and the printer, the intimacy of a partnership to create an object of beauty based on understanding and execution, and lastly, the satisfaction of your achievement in the print.  This two-weekend workshop is intended for intermediate to advanced-level students who wish to deepen their knowledge of analog B&W printing on fiber-based paper. It is a practical, hands-on darkroom...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Eight Weeks of Alternative Process

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Want to learn a range of new and fun photo processes, but you are unsure which one you want to learn and explore? Do you have a project in mind but are unsure how to manifest it in print or capture? During this eight-week workshop, students will learn the basics of a range of alternative photographic print and lens-based techniques. The course typically covers four to eight processes with many variations. Processes covered in previous sessions...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$1,275

8 sessions

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Intro to Wet Plate with Em White

Penumbra Foundation

In this weekend workshop, students will learn one of the earliest photographic processes, wet-plate collodion. This process enables one to make images start to finish completely by hand— students will learn to prep plates, mix chemistry, properly expose and process images. While many instructors emphasize the technical potential of this process, White's approach values experimentation and physical interventions in the creation of an image. This...

(8) Beginner 18 and older
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On Camera Flash

PhotoUno Photography School

How many of you haven't been blinded by your camera flash? And when you see your photos your subject is too bright, even pale? Even though it might not always seem so On Camera Flash is a very useful tool to have, but only if you know how to use it. In this workshop you will learn how to use your flash properly so that it helps you and not work against you. You will learn how to use flash indoors and outdoors, how to strengthen and weaken your...

(322) Beginner 19 and older
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Cyanotype Filmmaking on 16mm Motion Picture Film

Penumbra Foundation

Learn how to adopt the traditional cyanotype process to adhere to motion picture film base to set your photograms and contact prints in motion! In this 2 day workshop, participants will mix their own cyanotype solution, prep a BW print stock and coat 16mm film with the solution in order to create short 16mm cyanotype films. The first session we’ll mix, prep and coat the material. Then, while the material is drying, each participant will have...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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The Death of Analog: Life Cycles of Photography

Penumbra Foundation

The much-heralded death of analog has not actually taken place; instead, a remarkable process of reinvention has occurred, in which the threat of extinction itself has led to new avenues of exploration. Rather than engaging in the old “analog vs. digital” debate, in which one is found to be superior to the other; we will take a more holistic approach and consider the ever-present forces of fluidity and transformation that have characterized...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction To Holography

Holographic Studios @ 240 East 26th St, New York, NY

You’ll learn the basic concepts of holography in a fun and interesting manner. The focus of this hands on class is on understanding and not memorization. Best of all, you actually make a single beam reflection hologram of your own in our midtown Manhattan subterranean laser holography laboratory. And when its all done, you get to take it home to show to your friends and family. This is a hologram that can been seen in normal light, so you won’t...

(2) Beginner 18 and older
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$199
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