Did you know that the iPhone is the most popular camera used on Flickr? Not only does the camera create stunning photographs, there are hundreds of inexpensive photo applications that you can quickly install. These apps are easy to learn, and allow for fun and creativity. Most importantly the iPhone is with you all the time so you can easily shoot, edit and share with the world!

In this intensive hands-on class, you will learn how to use the camera on your iPhone or iPad to the best of its ability using photo applications to edit and turn photos into pieces of art!

Students will learn the best settings for their phone camera, how to create a web gallery and how to share photos and web galleries from their device. With the introduction of each photo app, the menus, settings and tools will be discussed. You will also complete photo and editing assignments to ensure proficiency with each app. Students attending this workshop will improve their photography skills by learning better composition tools and editing techniques and take away a few prints of their best work.

Schedule:

Day One: Overview of camera capabilities and 3 apps, practical exercises and basic editing

Day Two: Emphasis on enhanced editing techniques, overview of 3 additional editing apps and iPhone accessories

Workshop Instructor: Nancy Barasch

Date: July 27-28th, 2013

Time: Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 10am-4pm

Location: Mason Campus, Santa Barbara, CA

Cost: $199 (includes daily lunch)

Materials needed for workshop:  iPhone or iPad with specified apps and charger

Required apps: Camera+, Snapseed, King Camera, Popsicolor, Distressfx, Tangledfx, Pro HDR, Diptic

Nancy Barasch (also known as the Digital Diva) has been a photographer and photography instructor for the past 30 years. In 2005 she started Clik and Go, a school for learning digital photography, and continues giving private lessons in photography, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Elements.

In 2011, she bought her first iPhone, and quickly embraced the photographic possibilities through her exploration of photo apps. In 2012, with her teaching background, love of photography and travel, she created the “iPhone Walking Tours” in Santa Barbara, California.

From 2008 – 2012 she taught digital photography classes (using all cameras: SLR, point and shoot, and smartphones) to foreign students attending English as a Second language classes at Kaplan International.

Nancy has worked with all ages and skill-levels to help them gain a better understanding of how to create better photographs. View her website here

If you’ve ever wondered how to work with, and photograph people— pro photographer Frederick Van Johnson will teach you exactly how in this one-day intensive workshop. This course is great for beginners, intermediates, and advanced photographers.

In the first half of the workshop, you will not only learn how to conceptualize a shoot, but you’ll also learn how to shoot anyone from your family to a model.

During the second half of the workshop you will work with Frederick during a live portrait shoot. Frederick will explain the basics of lighting, composition, posing, and communication with the model. EVERYONE will get a chance to work with, and shoot the model! So everyone will go home with great images!

And to top it all off, Frederick will demonstrate a retouch session with images captured during the photo shoot. You’ll learn some powerful techniques for quickly making  quality images using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

You’ll leave this workshop with the excitement of knowing how to photograph and retouch your subjects like never before.

Frederick Van Johnson has been a professional photographer for almost 25 years. Along with being a photographer, he has managed photography marketing for companies such as Adobe and Apple. Frederick is also host of the wildly popular podcast This Week in Photo and is Vice Chairman of the Brooks Institute Board of Trustees. He also founded the company Mediabytes to provide inexpensive “byte sized” training for photographers and creative professionals.

Workshop Instructor: Frederick Van Johnson

Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013

Time: 10am-5pm

Location: Ventura Campus, Ventura, CA

Cost: $199 (includes daily lunch)

Materials needed for workshop:

DSLR Camera (with hot-shoe), lenses, memory card

Paul Meyer will be teaching a one-day weekend workshop that will take the photographing of people beyond just small flash and available light.

This class is for the intermediate to advanced amateur who wishes to learn to “sculpt” with studio lighting for people photography. There is so much more to lighting than just getting enough light for a correct exposure. Lighting can be used to accentuate or reduce certain facial features, slim a body and create a mood. You will learn to control light to say what YOU want to say about your subject.

In addition to softboxes and umbrellas, a number of non-traditional lighting methods will be explored. You will be introduced to a number of studio electronic flash systems and light modifiers that fit a number of budgets.

Workshop Instructor: Paul Meyer

Date: Saturday, August 10, 2013

Time: 9:00 am – 5:00pm

Location: Brooks Institute, Mason Street Campus, Santa Barbara CA 93101

Cost:  $150.00 (includes lunch)

Materials Needed: DSLR with full manual capabilities, a hot shoe and flash meter.

Paul Meyer won his first photo contest when he was only nine. After graduating with honors from Brooks Institute he worked with some of the top commercial photographers in New York and Los Angeles for nearly 10 years before he returning to his alma mater to teach people photography over 23 years ago. Paul’s former students are industry leaders in fashion, wedding, glamour and editorial portraiture. Paul’s current photographic passion involves travel, nature and his family. His personal work can be seen on his website at www.paulmeyerphoto.com

This workshop will focus on capturing the storytelling moments of organized competitive sports events. Topics covered will include research and preparing for event coverage, planning equipment needs for a specific sport, pre and post game workflow, shooting the events editing under deadline pressure and working as a team for complete coverage of the sports event.

Workshop participants will:

• Gain understanding of strategies involved with covering sporting events as an individual photographer or as part of a team of photographers

• Capture and understand the distinction between sports action, sports feature, dejection photos, jubilation photos and sports picture stories

• Gain knowledge in processes involved with shooting, editing and submitting storytelling photographs on deadline from sporting events

• Understand the process and equipment needed to set up and use remote cameras

• Add more in-depth and quality sports photos that will help improve their portfolio

Workshop Instructor: Anacleto Rapping

Date: June 28th -30th, 2013

Time: Friday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Saturday: 9:00am – 6:00pm

Sunday: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Location: Ventura Campus, Ventura, CA

Cost: $299.00 (Lunch Included)

Required Equipment:  Digital camera(s) with wide angle 24 – 35 mm, normal lens (50mm) and telephoto lens (200 – 400mm) or telephoto zoom lens (70-200mm)

This workshop is for advanced amateur photographers. Workshop is limited to 15 participants.

Anacleto Rapping has placed his passion for storytelling at the heart of every picture he has taken over a more than three-decade professional career.

As a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times for over two decades, Rapping brought us four Presidential campaigns, five Olympic Games, three World Cup Soccer tournaments, three Academy Award shows and countless breaking news stories and sporting events. His gift for visually capturing historic moments broadened his understanding of world and national events and afforded him the chance to chronicle news events as they unfolded throughout the United States as well as in foreign locales such as South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Guatemala, Mexico and Canada.

While at the Los Angeles Times, Rapping shared three Pulitzer Prizes for team coverage in news, and individually he received a Pulitzer nomination for his photography at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Rapping is an award-winning photojournalist who began teaching at Brooks Institute as a full-time faculty member in 2005.

Currently, Rapping teaches across the Visual Journalism curriculum including International Documentary, Portraiture, Sports Photography, Picture Story and Advanced Lighting. He also shoots freelance for editorial and commercial clients. Rapping continues to tell life’s stories, using his camera to portray the profound relationships between people and their environments. “Every time a photograph is taken, that moment becomes part of our history,” Rapping says. View his work at www.arapping.com.

Join Rich for the next Time-lapse photography Workshop coming up July 12-14, 2013.

2012 Time-lapse Collection Showreel from Rich Reid on Vimeo.

See more of his work at richreidphotography.com and check out his blog to follow his adventure and pick up some tips: richreidphoto.wordpress.com/.

If you are a photographer or blogger interested in taking your food photography to the next level or just want to further understand food photography markets, this workshop is for you!

Bill Robbins, award winning advertising photographer and Brooks Institute faculty, will be teaching this unique workshop.

The morning classroom lecture session will include specific examples on camera choices, lenses, lighting examples, composition, post production choices, and styling choices.

The afternoon session will be conducted in the studio with demos exploring lighting both with natural and artificial light sources, use of reflector cards, creating ice cream for photography, shooting coffee/tea, how to photograph and style salads along with creating a simple and inexpensive food photographers tool box.

Claire Stancer professional food stylist will be working with Bill to share her knowledge and techniques in styling food for photography.

The afternoon session will allow for you to shoot with the set ups of hero food under the guidance of Bill and Clarie.

Workshop Instructor: Bill Robbins

Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013

Time: 9:00am-5:00PM

Location: Mason Campus, Santa Barbara, CA

Cost: $199 (includes lunch)

Required Equipment:  Digital SLR Camera, Tripod, Laptop (optional)

This workshop is limited to 16 participants.

Bill Robbins is an educator, award winning advertising photographer and commercial film director. He is a faculty member at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California where he teaches classes in advanced advertising, food photography, and also serves as Program Chairman for the Professional Photography Program. Prior to coming to Brooks Institute, Bill was based in the Los Angeles, California area where he had a studio that worked with advertising clients nationally and internationally. Along with running a successful studio he was a founding board member of the Advertising Photographers of America and served as the President of the Los Angeles Chapter for two years. Mr. Robbins was honored by Advertising Age with a show of his work “The Art of Advertising”, and has been featured in editorial articles in Photo District News, PhotoPro, and Rangefinder Magazine. His work was also featured in “American Photographers Today” a traveling show and book published by the Tokyo Designers Gakuin College. He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design.

View his work at www.winefoodphotography.com and  www.billrobbinsstudio.com.

The workshop participants learned how to use the available light at all times of the day and created some amazing photos. They had a blast shooting at the beach and on the streets of Santa Barbara.

Check out David and the participants in the photos below!

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Do you love photography?  Take a million pictures with your cell phone? Wish you knew how to take it a step further and use a more advanced camera?

This workshop is for you!

In this 3-day workshop you will learn the basics of digital photography, how to control your exposure and tricks for capturing creative and awesome images. We’ll talk about composition, how to look for great light, freezing and blurring motion and how to shoot in low light situations. Learn some simple and easy tricks for taking so-so images and making them amazing! We will talk about posing and do a location photo shoot to test out our new skills. We’ll finish up the workshop with some post production and Photoshop lessons including simple ways to retouch faces and add a little pop and life to our already fantastic images.

Participants will be instructed by Farrah Braniff, a professional photographer from Houston, Texas. Farrah has taught at the Grammy award winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. View her website: www.farrahbraniff.com

Instructor: Farrah Braniff

Dates: July 26-28 2013

Time: 9:00-5:00pm Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Location: Brooks Institute, Cota Campus, 27 East Cota Street, Santa Barbara, CA

Cost: $450 (includes lunch daily)

Materials needed: DSLR camera , memory cards for camera, charger, batteries and manual

Brooks Institute is proud to invite you to attend a four-day photography and visual artists teachers’ workshop in Santa Barbara. Courses in photo, video, and graphic design will be taught by Brooks’ faculty. All participants will receive a Brooks Teacher Scholarship to cover workshop fees!

View the Save the Date here:  BRK_WorkshopSTD_FINAL

Learn more about this scholarship workshop at http://extension.brooks.edu

Learn more about this scholarship workshop at http://extension.brooks.edu

View the updated schedule here.

David H. Wells is a freelance editorial photographer who specializes in producing photo-essays on location, across the globe. His finished “Light Studies” have been published in general interest magazines as well as photography magazines, and have been displayed in numerous exhibitions. See his work at: http://www.davidhwells.com/.

Join David as he teaches two upcoming workshops here at Brooks!!

Light, Shadow, Night, Twilight April 5-7, 2013 and Photo- Essay Old and New April 12-14, 2013