During the informative class, you'll gain tips to improve your digital photos at each step in the process. By the time you leave, you'll be talking digital photography well enough to understand your local photo store technician or that article you've been planning to re-read in your favorite magazine. You'll know what questions to ask, you'll know if you're getting the right answers, and you'll be ready to make more satisfying photographs....More details...

This workshop is for all photographers who want to create more evocative images in the natural world—from serious beginners to advanced amateurs working in all film and digital formats. The instructor, Robert Turner, is a large-format, fine-art landscape photographer who has exhibited in galleries and museums around the country. During three intensive days, the workshop will alternate between shooting sessions in the field and image editing, optimizing, and printing sessions in Calypso’s photo/digital teaching facility. By Sunday afternoon each participant will select an image, crop and retouch it, make aesthetic adjustments in Photoshop, and prepare the file for printing. He or she will then print a proof, make further adjustments, and finally make a 16x20 or 20x24 Lightjet print. More details...

This extremely popular 3-day workshop provides everything you need to know to make the finest digital prints from your color transparencies, negatives or digital files. Conducted by two of the most accomplished photographers and technical minds in the country this three day workshop is a wealth of information and experience. The student will come away from this workshop with a 20x24 Lightjet print of their own work and a raft of new skills...More details and dates... or see New Alumni session of this workshop...

Alumni Print-Making “Intensive” Session! June 20-22, 2008· Fee: $1195 plus Lab fee of $75 · Limited to 14 · Same meeting times as above · Includes discussions and demonstrations of handling problem images, with majority of class time devoted to helping students optimize and fine-tune their own images, with extra time on the Lightjet. Prerequisite: Having attended any of Charlie and Bill’s, or Charlie’s previous classes.

This class provides practical advice on selecting the correct Lightroom and/or Photoshop package for your life, provides a basic introduction to the features available in Lightroom, and aids you in getting started in this program that Adobe has created specifically for photographers. Unlike Photoshop, which grew piece by piece during the digital revolution, Lightroom has been designed with photographers in mind, and its features are designed to enhance our productivity, so we can spend more time looking through the viewfinder of our cameras, instead of looking at a computer monitor...More details...

This three day workshop is designed around the basics of photography. Suitable for the beginning photographer who is just learning as well as the the seasoned photographer wanting to refresh the basics. The workshop contains both in classroom lecture where the "how-to" of photography is explained in no nonsense terms and in-field photography sessions. The classroom portion is covered in two 4-hour sessions and covers such topics as: Camera Systems, Exposure, Metering, Lenses (how they work and which to use for what), Other Support Equipment, Capture Media (Film and Digital), Lighting, and Composition. The in-field photography sessions are spread over 1 and 1/2 days and will include exercises at regular intervals that directly illustrate the topics covered in the lecture.

During this three-day, hands-on course, you will learn the fundamentals of a digital workflow. RAW capture, importing and cataloging with Lightroom/Bridge, RAW adjustments, editing in Photoshop, and digital printing and web publishing. This course is aimed at the serious hobbyists and serious amateur photographers who want to learn “best practices” for editing and managing their digital photography libraries....More details...

This three day workshop is designed around the basics of photography. Suitable for the beginning photographer who is just learning as well as the the seasoned photographer wanting to refresh the basics. The workshop contains both in classroom lecture where the "how-to" of photography is explained in no nonsense terms and in-field photography sessions. The classroom portion is covered in two 4-hour sessions and covers such topics as: Camera Systems, Exposure, Metering, Lenses (how they work and which to use for what), Other Support Equipment, Capture Media (Film and Digital), Lighting, and Composition. The in-field photography sessions are spread over 1 and 1/2 days and will include exercises at regular intervals that directly illustrate the topics covered in the lecture. The majority of the time during the in-field sessions is reserved for participants to photograph and to have technical as well as artistic questions answered on the spot. Working side by side with the participants will allow for examples to be shown and questions to be answered promptly as they come up. Finally a minimum of 4 hours will be spent on image review and critique in the classroom setting again. Nothing improves ones photography better than sharing images and receiving sincere and thoughtful critic of ones work.

Travel and Stock Photography go hand in hand. If you're into travel, you need to build your stock photo business. If you're into stock photography, you need to apply the business development skills used by assignment photographers. But today's world isn't like it was, where the supply of images was controlled in large part by photographers and agencies. Today, more semi-pros and amateurs alike are contributing an infinite supply of images into the marketplace, turning the photo industry into a free-for-all. We'll cover the of highly competitive real-world of the photography business where your competition or your clients may not necessarily play nice or fair. Whether you're a beginner looking to enter the business and compete with the pros, or a veteran looking to protect yourself from the hungry newbies coming fast and furious, this workshop will help you adapt well to the 21st century..

Workshop participants will be involved in a real-life travel assignment for the city of Santa Cruz, who will be using selected images for their 2008 set of promotional materials. The class will cover all aspects of managing this assignment, from initial pitch to the client, all the way to final delivery of product...More details...

This class teaches the essential Photoshop Techniques for all photographers. During the 8 hours course, students will be learning how to correct common problems with their images, learn techniques like burning and dodging, failsafe sharpening, getting control over your shadows, using camera raw and bridge and a whole lot more. More details...

• Improve your photographic skills, from capture to print-making
• Work professionally in the field to get beautiful landscape and wildlife photographs
• Develop your personal style
• Access remote and photogenic natural landmarks
• Streamline your photo editing workflow by improving Color Management understanding and implementation
• Learn how to hand craft beautiful and vibrant fine-art prints

This class provides practical advice on selecting equipment, deciding what to bring and how to prepare, and choosing how to share your images once you return home. You don't need to own a digital camera to benefit from this class. In fact, you will see a variety of cameras during the class, so you'll also have more information about the different models and features of these cameras, which can make the purchase of your next camera easier.More details...