Previous Viewpoint Workshops

The Art of Doing: The Environmental Portrait

The moment a photographer depresses the shutter button, the art of seeing condenses into the art of doing.

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Adobe Lightroom - Class 3 - The Sharing Modules

Lewis Kemper, ad designated Canon Explorer of Light, explains and illustrates Lightroom's Sharing modules.

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Adobe Lightroom - Class 2 - The Develop Module

Lewis Kemper, a designated Canon Explorer of Light, details Lightroom's Develop module.

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Adobe Lightroom - Class 1 - The Lightroom Workflow

Lewis Kemper, a designated Canon Explorer of Light, introduces the Lightroom workflow.

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The Art of Seeing with Laszlo Bencze

Laszlo lays no claim to being able to teach you anything. Rather he proposes to coach you to become your own teacher. The class will begin by looking at and discussing great photographs of the past, the sources of imagination. Then participants will explore the neighborhood in dusk light with eyes alone. Low angled light and interesting shadows reveal form and texture in ways that reward alertness, hence the choice of dusk for this class.

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Table Mountain Wildflower Field Class

Come join award winning nature photographer Josh Miller at Northern California’s premier wildflower location, just a couple hours north of Sacramento.

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Introduction to Night Photography on Mare Island

This workshop is for photographers who would like to learn how to make proper exposures (either film and/or digital) after dark, both by the light of the moon, and by existing artificial light.

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Building With Light

In this hands-on workshop, Old Sacramento will serve as an outdoor studio for learning about lighting and the making—not taking—of photographs.

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Photoshop Elements - Layers, Masks and More!

Come to this exciting 3.5 hour class with Andy Pischalnikoff AKA "Doctor Legacy."

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Indoor Photography Lighting with local commercial advertising photographer Donald Satterlee

In this indoor photography lighting workshop we will explore lighting for both portrait and still life applications.

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Critiquing Photographs

In this workshop we will learn how to critique photographs. In so doing, we will heighten our understanding and appreciation of photography by analyzing photographs that span the history of the medium.

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Principles Of Composition

UC Davis Professor Terry Nathan will address such topics as frame dynamics and shape; graphic and photographic elements; composing with light and color; visual design basics—including contrast, rhythm, balance, weight, and energy.

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Photographing Birds in the Delta

This two-day event starts with a Saturday morning "Introduction to Bird Photography" class conducted by William G. Miller, followed by a Sunday morning field trip to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

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Critiquing Photographs

In this workshop we will learn how to critique photographs. In so doing, we will heighten our understanding and appreciation of photography by analyzing photographs that span the history of the medium.

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Introduction to Night Photography on Mare Island

This workshop is for photographers who would like to learn how to make proper exposures (either film or digital) after dark, both my the light of the moon and by existing light.

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B&W Digital Conversion

This workshop will demonstrate the most effective methods available to digital photographers for converting a color image into a black & white image, using the tools available in Adobe Lightroom 4, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, and George DeWolfe's PercepTool plug-in for Photoshop. We will also discuss the best approaches to preparing the original color image for conversion to a black & white image.

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Landscape Photography - Following Your Inner Vision

Come and hone your landscape photography skills with award winning nature and adventure photographer Josh Miller.

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Principles Of Composition

UC Davis Professor Terry Nathan will address such topics as frame dynamics and shape; graphic and photographic elements; composing with light and color; visual design basics—including contrast, rhythm, balance, weight, and energy.

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Post-Processing Techniques for Digital Images

Often, photographers become frustrated in being unable to make adjustments to their images that allow the final product to fully reflect their vision.

In this workshop, each participant submits an image that has created this level of frustration.

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Fine Art Printing Fundamentals

By the end of the workshop, you should be comfortable in printing your own images and understanding why certain choices need to be made in order to have the image on your monitor match the print.

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Building With Light

In this hands-on workshop, Old Sacramento will serve as an outdoor studio for learning about lighting and the making—not taking—of photographs.

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Processing Images in Lightroom 4

The purpose of this workshop is to show attendees all of the tools available in Lightroom for improving the original digital capture. In other words, we concentrate on Lightroom's powerful Develop Module.

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The Art of Seeing with Laszlo Bencze

Laszlo lays no claim to being able to teach you anything. Rather he proposes to coach you to become your own teacher. The class will begin by looking at and discussing great photographs of the past, the sources of imagination. Then participants will explore the neighborhood in dusk light with eyes alone. Low angled light and interesting shadows reveal form and texture in ways that reward alertness, hence the choice of dusk for this class.

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Introduction to Lightroom 4

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce attendees to the basic components of Lightroom, explain how Lightroom can be integrated into the digital image workflow, and compare the attributes of Lightroom and Photoshop.

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What's New in Photoshop CS6

Lewis Kemper, a Viewpoint member and one of Canon's Explorers of Light, presents a workshop introducing the new and exciting changes in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

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