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Discover your passion for photography with a wide range of classes in Los Angeles. From beginner courses to advanced workshops that delve into specific techniques, these classes will equip you with the skills to capture the world through your lens.

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Turning Ideas into Pictures

Los Angeles Center of Photography

In this fun and creative workshop, students will learn how to enhance their current portfolio or begin a new project by discovering fresh ways of creating unique and singular work. Friday evening will be spent discussing what is a portfolio and how to begin a new body of work or continue a deeper exploration of a current one. We will have an optional showing of a small selection of past work but the emphasis will be on new and future images and how...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Flash in LA! On-Location and In-Studio

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Join Joe McNally for a complete weekend of flash photography! Participants will be involved with camera and flash techniques that are both basic and advanced, the use of color and light to tell a story, the overall management of light on location and notions of how to choose a quality of light that is appropriate to the subject. After Friday evening's orientation session, students will spend Saturday learning lighting fast and well on location....

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Digital Infrared

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Infrared photography is a way of creating images using the invisible infrared light that strikes your subject. Long-time infrared experimenter Nevada Wier calls it “invisible poetry,” because in the process of studying this technique, you move beyond your usual methods of photographing and discover a new way of seeing the world. Infrared is not only ideal for creating unusual, surreal landscapes, but it’s also startling for portrait and still...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$975

3 sessions

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Street Shooting 2

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Street Shooting 2 is meant for serious shooters who want to continue shooting together and looking at each others’ work. Not only will we continue to shoot on the streets, but we will also shoot specific events such as the Day of the Dead festivities on Olvera Street and at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Chinese New Year, the May Day Parade, and/or the Gay Pride Parade. In this class, you will not only improve your street photography through continual...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$535

9 sessions

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Finding Your Visual Voice

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

This is a workshop about the emotional and sub-conscious content of photos and how to make photos that come from that place, helping you to truly define your own voice as a photographer. It is not a workshop about making “good” photos. It’s about setting aside technical know-how (and the obstacles that often come with that) and accessing intuitive, reflective ways of working that will lead you to make photos that only you can make.  Rather...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$545

7 sessions

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Finding Intimacy: A Personal Approach

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

This workshop is about bringing intimacy and a personal approach to any subject you wish to photograph. Whether you are currently making portraits, creative dramas, documentary, editorial, or even fashion – this is a class about making art from inside your life and creating work that is intimate and personal. On Friday night, Elinor Carucci will introduce her own approach to storytelling in both her personal and editorial work. On Saturday and...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$1,075

3 sessions

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The Engaging Portrait

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

This class is designed for photographers who want to make portraits that engage on a deeper level. Meaningful work comes from your own experience. Portraiture is about intimacy and connecting. When the photographer allows his or her own emotions, questions, and fears to take over and makes space for the subject as well the complexity of being together becomes fertile ground for a moving experience that reflects in the work. Through slideshows, lectures...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$875

3 sessions

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Music Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

A picture should be more than just an image. It should capture the face, character, and history of the subject. Performers like B.B. King or Tom Petty are excellent examples of strong expressions. Now, in this new workshop experience, you can try your hand at capturing the essence of a performance in a single picture. Join celebrated photographer Jérôme Brunet for a weekend of music and photography. Jérôme will take you “on assignment”...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$1,075

3 sessions

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The Fine Art Project (Weekend-Intensive)

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

The Fine Art Project with Elinor Carucci (Weekend-Intensive) Developing, Achieving and Finalizing Your Fine Art Project. This workshop will help you fulfill and finish your fine art project, prepare it for presentation to a broader audience, and find avenues for potential exhibitions or book publishing. Through out the weekend we will have critiques and discussions to help students learn how to consider and apply all the critical decision-making...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$975

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Photography is Communication

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Join acclaimed photographer Nigel Parry in this hands-on, weekend workshop as he shares his portrait lighting techniques both in the studio and on location. On Friday night, Nigel will introduce himself through a presentation of photographs, experiences, and his mythology toward portraiture. Nigel will also field questions from the students in effort to learn more about the participants, their backgrounds, and workshop expectations. Saturday will...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$1,475

3 sessions

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Figure/Ground: Environmental Portrait Workshop

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

Every portrait is made in a space and in a place. After considerations of choice of subject, pose and gaze, this is what is left over. What do these spaces say about the figures occupying them? How does the color, light and depth of field amplify the psychological presence of the sitter? How does the ethnicity, class and materiality of the things that surround the sitter say about who they are? In this workshop, participants will select locations...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$775

3 sessions

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Scene + Herd

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

Finding your place and tribe in the new landscape of a sustainable creative life. Lori Vrba leads this workshop with big ideas for expanding how we think about and pursue viable careers in the photographic arts. Examine her radical shift from the traditional notions of fine art success to what is now considered a guerrilla movement in the exhibition, curatorial, and marketing arenas. The workshop begins with a film to inspire the conversation...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$775

3 sessions

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On the Streets in LA

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

This six-month class is intended to teach students how to shoot candidly on the street, not only from practical experience, but also from studying historic and contemporary street photographers. We will meet once a month on Monday evenings, for lecture and critique, and once a month on Saturdays for a shooting session. (As a bonus, Julia also offers extra shooting dates each month, advocating the more you shoot, the better you will get.) Topics...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$795

11 sessions

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Bringing Ideas to Life: Crafting Personal Projects

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

Personal projects are essential to defining your identity as a photographer. Whether portrait series, photojournalism, or conceptual pieces, they express your passion and, if done well, inspire that same passion in others. Maybe you’ve just started a new project. Maybe you’re stranded in the middle of one. Or maybe you’ve been working on something for years and just need that last push. Regardless of where you are in your process, Brandon...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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$575

4 sessions

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4x5 Crash Course for Artists

Los Angeles Center of Photography

An Introduction to Large Format Camera Techniques Swing! Shift! Tilt! The view camera remains one of the most thoughtful ways to create artistic imagery in a world of frames per second, zoom lenses and WiFi tethering. In this new hybrid lecture and mentorship/private lesson online workshop, we will slow down the image making rhythm and explore the artistic control that can be achieved using large format cameras. This class is designed for those...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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The Flash Clash

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Confused about your flash? Then this is the class for you. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn how to control and modify their portable flash units. Portable flash is a wonderful and sometimes intimidating tool and it will be explained step by step on how to choose the correct settings and modifiers. We will do demos using TTL and Manual settings and explain why to choose each, and give easy instructions for making beautiful Fill Flash....

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Street Photography in Los Angeles with Craig Semetko

Los Angeles Center of Photography

This week-long workshop is intended to teach students how to shoot candidly, while learning some valuable technical information about photographing on the street. Each day will be divided among field sessions, lectures, discussions, and critiques. Craig Semetko will share why he loves street photography, and what it takes to be good, quick, and committed. Topics covered include: how to see light, how to find great backgrounds, how to capture the...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Finding Your Voice on the Street

Los Angeles Center of Photography

At whatever stage you are at with your street photography, this workshop will help you to evolve. Starting not with “how” but with “why” you take street photographs, Nick will help you to understand your own motivations for making candid photographs in public places. We will start by discussing your current relationship with street photography, explore how street photographs are constructed, and study the difference between taking a photograph...

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Practices for the Analog Photographer

Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 1515 Wilcox Ave, Los Angeles, CA

For those who still love and embrace analog photography, converting your analog negatives to a digital file has become an increasingly popular workflow. But how to get the best possible print out of an analog negative, from 35mm to 8×10, can still be quite frustrating. Scanning negatives the right way allows you move to a digital workflow and have complete control over your image using the full range of tools available in Photoshop. All of this...

(41) Beginner 18 and older
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$475
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Seeing Like a Camera, Editing Like a Master

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Despite what the camera manufacturers claim, gear doesn’t make you a better photographer. To become a better photographer, you need to take a lot of pictures and select the best few. The two hardest things about photography are learning to see like a camera and learning how to select which are the best images after you have been photographing. These two skills are ones that the best photographers consciously (or unconsciously) have already mastered....

(41) All levels 18 and older
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