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Unlock your creativity and sharpen your photography skills with a wide range of online art classes. Learn the fundamentals, master advanced techniques, and gain the confidence to capture stunning photographs in various genres such as landscape, portrait, and street photography.

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Travel Photography: Your Story of Place

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

Discover the art of storytelling through travel photography. Beyond picturesque snapshots, delve into capturing the essence of a place—the sights, sounds, and emotions—with expert strategies and tools. Elevate your travel photography to narrate compelling tales of your journeys.

(41) All levels 18 and older

The Business of Wedding Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

Learn from National Geographic Photojournalist and Veteran International Wedding Photographer, Laura Grier, as she shares her real-life tips on branding, marketing, shooting, and editing in the world of wedding photography. Don't miss this inspiring class and the opportunity to join Laura's future photography and travel workshops.

(41) All levels 18 and older

Samsung Galaxy Owners of the World, Unite

Washington Photo Safari @ Virtual Classroom

Discover the hidden power of your Samsung Galaxy smartphone with a virtual photo safari. Learn how to maximize your device's features and capture stunning photos without the need for additional apps. Join us on Zoom for an immersive experience led by an experienced Samsung Galaxy user and photography expert.

(7) All levels 18 and older
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Shooting with Intention

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 3015 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA

Today’s fine art photography market asks for more than beautifully, well crafted images. Curators, gallerists and editors are looking for work created with intention and/or work focused around an idea or concept. In addition, they are looking for photographers who can not only articulate their images, but interpret the world with intelligence and thoughtful analysis, whether it be work made close to home or in regions undiscovered. Join Aline Smithson...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$465

6 sessions

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Basic Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

Master the art of digital photography and unleash your creative potential with this comprehensive workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Learn the fundamental concepts, controls, and functions of your DSLR camera, and gain the confidence to shoot consistently in manual mode. Develop your composition skills, understand lighting techniques, and explore the different effects achieved with lenses. Join us and take your photography to the next level.

(41) Beginner 18 and older
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$475

12 sessions

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Intermediate Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 5566 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

In this sequential class to Beginning Photography, students will receive reinforcement in the concepts learned from the previous class and push toward the next level of photographic expression. Emphasis will be on image capture while practicing sound technical fundamentals, including camera settings, metering techniques, and white balance selection. While learning proper use of their camera, students will be exposed to the major genres of photography,...

(41) Intermediate 18 and older
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$465

6 sessions

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iPhone Photography

PhotoUno Photography School

Do you want to learn to take amazing pictures with your iPhone and create colorful, breathtaking photos? Join us for this 2-hour iPhone photography class and make the most of your iOS device. You will no longer have to worry about blurry or boring photos. Everyone will be asking you to take theirs! In this class you will learn: Focusing How to take photographs in low light situations Create more interesting photographs and understand composition...

(322) All levels 18 and older
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Self-portraiture and Creative Expression

Penumbra Foundation

Self-portraiture offers an inexhaustible source of creative expression. It is an especially rich medium to take up during the pandemic when you may not be able to travel freely in search of new connections and/or projects outside of the home.  This online course provides an overview of the history and uses of self-portraiture so that students can incorporate this mode of photography into their ongoing creative practice. Over six sessions attendees...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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The Photographer's Legacy

Penumbra Foundation @ Online Class, New York, NY

A photographer's work can be a precarious, unreliable barometer for their legacy. Photographs made today are inevitably responses to ones made prior, such that photographers live on through the continually evolving practice of making pictures. In this six-week course, students of all experience levels will be invited to learn about the myriad of ways photographers throughout history have manifested their creative practices and how these practices...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$690

6 sessions

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Cinema and the Photobook

Penumbra Foundation @ Virtual Classroom

In 8 classes over 16 weeks, this course will investigate the shared language between photobooks and cinema, and explore what one form can teach us about the other. A handful of films (fiction and non-fiction, features and shorts) will be assigned to watch outside of class, and then sessions will be used to further dissect these films in terms of their narrative structure, editing techniques and directorial approach. Through analyses, readings, conversations...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$882

8 sessions

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Anthotypes & Other Organic Processes I

Penumbra Foundation @ Virtual Classroom

This class is an introduction to plant-based photographic processes! It will cover anthotypes, chlorophyll printing, lumens, and phytograms. We will meet via online platform once a week for demos and students will then take what they have learned and complete that week’s assignment, returning for critique and a new demo each week.  Anthotypes date back to the 19th century and that intrepid gentleman scientist, Sir John Herschel. An...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$570

4 sessions

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The Contemporary Landscape

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

How do we see and perceive the contemporary landscape beyond the marks that humanity has left on it? What can the landscape, in all its forms and iterations, teach us about ourselves? Under Brad Temkin’s expert guidance, we examine these questions in depth while learning to create pictures that are poetic and beautiful. With the help of exercises, classroom discussions, portfolio reviews and critiques, as well as informal artist talks with professional...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$675

5 sessions

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Creative Still Life

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA

Join photographer Kimberly Witham for a weekend workshop developing and refining your still life photography skills. The weekend will begin with a discussion of historical and contemporary still life. From there, Kimberly will explain her studio process from arrangement to final print. The workshop will include demonstrations and hands-on assignments as well as feedback on work produced. Topics will include the use of both manipulated daylight and...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$575

4 sessions

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Photography as Language: The Art of Visual Storytelling

Los Angeles Center of Photography

This workshop explores photography as a universal storytelling language. From its inception, the photographic medium has been expected to prove, explain, or entertain; it’s very mechanical nature asks it to be precise. We concentrate on storytelling and finding clarity within what you make and how you speak about it. Your stories may be fact or fiction, staged or found, poems or novels. This workshop will ask you to think about, shoot, and edit...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Breaking from Convention: Crafting Compelling Narrative

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Breaking from Convention: Crafting Compelling Narratives from Your Personal Photographic Archive We have all made thousands upon thousands of photos—we store them on our mobile devices, save them on hard-drives, and many are gathering dust in family albums.  Some of you may have outstanding singular images that just don’t seem to fit within a larger cohesive project.  These types of photographs are often shelved, never to be experienced...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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The Photo Book as Art

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Blending traditional and contemporary practice, this virtual masterclass introduces participants to the art of handmade photographic artists’ books that are as diverse in style and direction as they are in technique. Through brainstorming techniques and guided writing exercises, we concentrate on memory, experience and imagination to inspire the content, design and execution of personal photo book-works. Each class day includes lectures, hands-on...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Market

Los Angeles Center of Photography

The Next Step: Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Market Equally important to creating a stellar and deeply considered body of work are all the elements that surround it: your bio, project statement, website and the understanding where and how to place the work. This workshop will help demystify the fine art market with lectures on editions and pricing to presentation and installation. It will also be an honest look at how the roadmap to success...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Poetry of Abstraction

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

Viewing the world indirectly offers us a unique opportunity to communicate ideas and emotions in ways that move beyond the usual representation of a subject. Whether our inspiration takes root in grand landscapes or the smallest of microscopic organisms, the possibilities are endless when we examine the world from diverse perspectives. This online workshop gives participants the skills to identify key abstract elements and skills to create compositions...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$875

4 sessions

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Cyanotype: Wet and Traditional

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

One of the early photographic processes, invented in 1842 by Sir John Hirschel, was the cyanotype. It is based on sunlight causing a change in a light sensitive emulsion brushed onto paper or fabric. Many of the early photographic images were called “sun prints” because they had to be exposed using UV lights, or sunlight. This is a contact print process, and you will need negatives the size you would like your final image to be. We will start...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$675

3 sessions

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Keeping the Channels Open: Infusing Your Practice

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom

Keeping the Channels Open: Infusing Your Practice with Mindfulness Recent advances in technology and social media make photography accessible to everyone. There are overwhelming numbers of images that bombard us on a daily basis, distracting us from our own voice. Yet meaningful art making is often a more slow and solitary practice, made while gently reflecting on our own unique life path and interests. In this new class you will use mindfulness...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$675

5 sessions

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