Whether you are a seasoned wedding photographer looking for a career change or want to expand your client base with a new skill set, Corporate Photography may be for you. Simply put, there are corporations-large and small-that need timely cost effective photography on an on-going basis. This two day workshop is designed to expose the advanced amateur or working professional to the business of corporate photography.
We'll cover executive portraiture, and product photography both on location and in the studio. Students will be following real life examples from estimate to invoice. The workshop includes classroom lectures and hands on location and studio work. Students will learn about equipment, estimating, negotiating, image capture, prep, delivery, invoicing, and studio/location set up. A group critique will be held to wrap things up.

Students are expected to provide their own film or digital cameras and pocket wizard or PC cord to connect to the studio lights.

Stacy Geiken, B.A. Stanford University (Journalism), M.A. University of Michigan (Studio Art, Photography). He owns and operates his own photography business in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in corporate and editorial photography.

Stacy Geiken has been serving the imaging needs of magazines, corporations and universities across the country for thirty years. He has been hired to photograph George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, John McCain and Rudy Guiliani for various foundations and publications. His corporate client list includes Bay Partners, Encover, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, SAP Labs Inc., Stanford University and Symantec Corporation. His editorial clients include: Forbes Magazine, Audio Magazine, Runner's World, California Magazine, Diversity Journal, Taunton Press and Chronicle Books.

Geiken's largest photographic book project, Bay Area Backroads by Doug McConnel with Jerry Emory (published by Chronicle Books in February 1999) was a regional best seller. Geiken traveled over 10,000 miles criss-crossing California, Oregon and Nevada to gather the images for the book.

Geiken has twice visited the Galapagos Islands where he is at work on a book of portraits on the people of the Galapagos Islands. Writer Jerry Emory has interviewed a small group of people who represent first, second and third generation settlers on the islands.

In 1991, Geiken traveled to Central Siberia to photograph people and places that no American had seen for over fifty years. In 1987, Geiken went to Kenya, Africa to teach a two week course in wildlife photography.

Geiken is co-founder and has been co-director of The Palo Alto Photographic Workshops since 1988. In 1991, he served as Chair of the Peninsula Advertising Photographers Association. 1984-1988, Geiken served on the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography. He taught view camera techniques, advanced black and white printing and mass communication. He has also served on the faculty of U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, Lansing Community College, West Valley College and San Jose City College. His fine art work has been exhibited throughout the United States. His collotypes are in permanent collections at University of Wisconsin, and U.C. Davis.

Stacy Geiken lives with his wife and three children in Los Gatos, California. For more Info: geiken@comcast.net

$375 Santa Barbara