Stop with the excuses, grab your film camera and get out there and make amazing images! If you’re comfortable with your DSLR and post processing, then learning to use your film camera is easier than you think! In this beginner course, Sandra Coan walks through how to shoot with film so that you feel comfortable, confident, and excited to take the best pictures! She’ll talk about choosing your film and how to find and work with a lab to process your images.

This course will cover:

- The differences and similarities between film and digital

- How a camera meter works and how to meter for film

- The different film options and how they affect your photo

- How to find the right lab to process your images

Don’t be intimidated by the idea of using film. Sandra will show you how to slow down during your photoshoot, focus on what you’re trying to capture, and ultimately get a great image straight out of the camera.

Do you want to learn how to draw but don't know where to start? In this class, professional painter and artist, Amy Wynne, shares fun, beginner-friendly drawing techniques that can turn anyone into an artist.

This class will help you overcome your fear of the blank page and focus on putting pencil to paper.

In this class, Amy will cover: 

- Different materials for drawing

- Using a viewfinder

- Establishing your composition

- Exploring varied mark-making and textural effects

- Practice measurement and proportions in your work

- A drawing challenge to help develop your skills

Amy has been teaching painting and drawing for over 20 years at colleges across New England including the Rhode Island School of Design. In this class, she’ll help you embrace your ability to see and connect to our world through drawing. Join Amy and get started drawing today! 

Get an inside look at how things run in the studio with Tommy Rogers & Jamie King in this Studio Pass.

Tommy is the vocalist for the progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me and has worked with Jamie to produce most of the band’s albums. In this class, they’ll share their signature approach to production and detail the process they used to record Tommy’s latest solo album “Modern Noise”.

Both Tommy and Jamie aim to track songs that sound organic and real. In Studio Pass: Tommy Rogers & Jamie King, they’ll show you how things should run in a studio to get a final track that sounds like the band on their best day, but not over-produced.

You’ll learn about the role good pre-production plays in getting the best sound and what you should do before you ever set foot inside the studio. You’ll learn about the recording process as Tommy and Jamie track drums, bass, vocals, and guitar for a song from Tommy’s solo album. They’ll also deconstruct Pro Tools sessions and talk about how performance impacts the final arrangement.

If you want to learn how these guys work in the studio, don’t miss your chance to hang out for two days with Tommy and Jamie and get a behind-the-scenes look at their process.

Create dramatic images anywhere by mastering on-location scouting, planning, lighting, and composition. Join professional photographer Dan Brouillette in a start-to-finish course on the art of environmental portraits. From planning and scouting to post-processing and portfolio building, gain the skills to shoot high-end portraits, anywhere. While designed for environmental portrait work, this class is also for any photographer that wants to create better light, on location.

In this light-intensive course, learn how to craft environmental portraits using photographic lighting techniques working with both natural light and studio lighting equipment. Work with multi-light strobe set-ups and natural window light to turn difficult lighting conditions into beautiful light. Then, learn how to mix natural light and studio lights for dramatic effects that complement the scene. By incorporating light in new and inventive ways, Dan will help you push the boundaries of your portraits and improve your workflow.

Finally, work with culling and post-processing. Learn how to polish images using a combination of Capture One, Photoshop, and Alien Skin software. Then, gain insight into building a portfolio and marketing your work to work in editorial and commercial areas for environmental portraiture.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Budding portrait photographers

- On-location portrait photographers

- Photographers eager to learn on-location lighting

- Photographers branching into commercial and editorial work

SOFTWARE USED:

Capture One 11, Adobe Photoshop CC 2018, Alien Skin 2018

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Dan Brouillette's high-end editorial style has to lead to work with celebrities from Anne Hathaway to Scarlett Johansson. A commercial, editorial, and senior photographer based in Nebraska, he's known for giving everyday people the Hollywood look. His previous work as a lighting technician helped him build his signature style using dramatic lighting techniques typically used for commercial work. With an insightful and easy listening teaching style, he helps photographers learn to craft with light.

With the lights, energy and creativity behind each concert- it’s no wonder that music photography continues to be a dream career. In this course, created in partnership with Red Bull Photography, Todd Owyoung walks through how to get into the music photography business by working with bands, venues and albums. He talks about licensing and pricing your time and your images to publicists, venues, magazines and more.

This course goes in the field with Todd and three different bands to walk through how to capture a variety of images in a small amount of time. He teaches how to set up and direct portraits with the band in green rooms and between sound checks. Todd explains how to make even the smallest and grungiest venue make a band look mainstream. This course will teach you composition, working with flash and natural light, directing the band and performers and things to never forget when photographing a live event.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Music Photographers

- Event Photographers

- Beginners

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Todd Owyoung is a music photographer with over a decade of experience specializing in music lifestyle, musician/celebrity portraits, and concert photography. If it rocks, he shoots it. Based in New York City.

He’s obsessed with nailing those rockstar moments, the images that fans love to see of their favorite bands. Whether the venue is a 200-capacity club or Madison Square Garden, shooting for a major brand or on tour, his images place you in the front row.

His clients range from bands and festivals to magazines, lifestyle brands and ad agencies. In 2012, Complex Magazine named him #3 in their list of the "Greatest Music Photographers Right Now".

He’s a Nikon Ambassador for Nikon Camera

Get ready to master the hottest new Adobe® Photoshop® image-editing tool. Join award-winning photographer and Adobe Photoshop expert Jack Davis for an introduction to Adobe Camera Raw.

Drawing on his Adobe Photoshop expertise Jack will demystify Adobe Camera Raw (available both as a filter within Adobe Photosho® and an application within the Bridge application). You’ll learn about using Adobe Camera Raw as a flexible image-polishing tool that enhances your photographs in less time.

You’ll also learn about sophisticated retouching techniques from eye and teeth enhancement to skin color unifying. Jack will also cover creating special effects like high key black and whites, selective hand-tinting, cross-processing, and changing the depth of field.

Whether you’re an Adobe Photoshop beginner or a long-time user, you’ll leave this course with the tools needed to easily create jaw-dropping images with less effort.

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 14.1

It takes the perfect combination of gear, exposure, and creative thinking to produce travel images that stand out from the rest. Learn how to bring the critical ingredients together in Travel Photography: The Complete Guide with Ben Willmore.

Fresh off a seven-country, two-month international trip, Ben will share everything it takes to create exciting and memorable travel images. 

You’ll learn how to:
- Deal with everyday tourists in your shots 

- Select the best lens for each situation 

- Organize the chaos of a scene into a compelling image

Ben will cover everything you want to know about selecting, packing, and protecting gear. You’ll also develop an efficient digital workflow that fits the fast-paced lifestyle of travel shooting.

Don’t go on your next travel adventure without the insights and skills you need to capture high-quality images, fast processing – join Ben Willmore for Travel Photography: The Complete Guide.

You know what you want: money, freedom and adventure. But sometimes it feels like you're on a treadmill-- you're working hard, but your goals don't seem any closer. Why? Because you don't have a plan. You're trying piecemeal tactics without strategy. You're mimicking what gurus and "influencers" do, even when it doesn't mesh with your strengths. If you're tired of working hard and getting nowhere, it's time to hit reset. Stop, take a breath and rethink your strategy.

Peter found himself in exactly that place. He was hustling but was still so broke that he couldn't even afford the drive-thru. He went back to the drawing board, took a hard look in the mirror, and realized that he needed to rethink everything. After retooling every piece of his life, Peter went from broke to a 6-figure income and a best-selling book under his belt. But you don't have to learn things the hard way-- Peter's pain can be your gain.

Join Peter for this class, and you’ll learn how to:
 

- Achieve clarity on what activities yield the highest results for your business

- Gain confidence in your decision making, knowing and trusting they are the right decisions

- Design a compelling future for yourself

- Create a circle of influence

- Develop a one-page game-changing productivity plan 

- Calculate the real value of your time, shatter the myth that you are too busy 

Peter has used his formula for success as a serial entrepreneur in 7 different industries, trained over 4500 entrepreneurs and built an 8 million dollar sales organization. His best-selling book 6 Months to 6 Figures documents his personal journey from dead broke to a 6-figure income. Peter’s strategies have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and Time.com. 

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

- Come up with brilliant video ideas.

- Plan your videos with a professional pre-production process.

- Know exactly which equipment to use to shoot exceptional quality videos.

- Understand the fundamentals of using your DSLR or Mirrorless camera to create compelling videos.

- Shoot high-quality video content on your smartphone and webcam.

- Set up and shoot videos in your own home office.

- Record great screencast videos.

- Record audio with your computer.

- Know best practices for editing your videos and understand the post-production process and add basic graphics to your video.

- Add Use high-converting calls to action in your videos.

- Export the best quality videos for online viewing.

ABOUT THIS CLASS:

Creating high-quality, compelling video content is a great way to grow your brand online. However, it does require in-depth knowledge on elements such as planning, navigating equipment choices, setting up a studio, being comfortable in front of the camera, editing your video and exporting with the best settings for online viewing.

This class covers the entire video creation process from pre-production and shooting your own videos to editing, adding title cards, adding basic graphics and finding success on YouTube.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

- All about the different types of video content that exist

- How to set up your own home “studio.”

- Cinematography basics like lenses, composition, exposure, framing, focus, stabilization, and lighting

- How to navigate sound and microphone options and record excellent sound in any environment

- How to be comfortable with filming yourself

- How to choose the best background for your videos

- How to use editing tools to cut a professional YouTube video

- How to create and design title cards for your videos

- Find and add engaging music for your videos

- Tips to grow your YouTube channel

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Brands and business owners who want to boost their online presence

- Entrepreneurs and e-commerce businesses who are looking to elevate their online content with high-quality video

- Marketing managers who want to diversify their skillset

- Content creators who want to brush up on their shooting and editing theory

- Brand strategists who want to add video to their clients’ marketing strategy

- Freelancers interested in creating brand videos for clients

- Digital nomads looking for work that they can do from anywhere

- Beginner to Intermediate.

Meet Joe McNally, known world-wide as one of the top, technically excellent photographers of his generation. His clients have included FedEx, Sony, ESPN, Adidas, and Land’s End; and his work has been featured in publications such as National Geographic, LIFE, and Sports Illustrated.

The legendary and down-to-earth Joe will show you how to create stories with light and harness the skills every photographer needs for success.

Capture pictures that resonate

Getting clients to trust your creative vision and technical skill takes hard work and time to develop. You need to prove that you're not only passionate but that you've got the skills to pull off an amazing photo, no matter the scenario with your mastery of tools and control of light.

Create a life in photography

You know deep down that you want to work for yourself and grow your client roster. Don’t let the fear of making photography your full-time gig stop you from making progress. Joe McNally knows firsthand that you can’t settle for nice pictures to make it in this business. Commit to learning the technical elements as well as the contractual lingo so you can focus on creating images that resonate while growing a business that is built for a career and life in photography.

From this exclusive on-location and in-studio shoot:

- See how you can work with light to capture the story of your subject and surroundings

- Learn to use multiple flash units to create various moods and looks

- Gain confidence by understanding contracts and relationship management with clients

- Learn posing and communication techniques when working with a model, client or even a large group of people.

What students are saying:
“Joe is an incredible instructor and an even more amazing person. After taking this class, I've shifted my entire perspective on what I want to do with my life in photography and I am ready to advance to the next level. Joe and his team opened the doors to their business to us and answered so many questions about the nuts and bolts of their inner workings. This class is a must-have for every photographer.”
Tania

Don’t settle for good enough.
Grow your confidence by gaining the knowledge and skills to create or style photos that resonate. With the technical know-how and professionalism, you CAN shoot in any scenario for any client, and make the leap to becoming a full time photographer.