Monday, August 2nd - 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Basic Lightroom 3 - Mel Carll instructor $69

Adobe Lightroom is a program that is a dream for digital photographers. This workshop will cover the 5 modules of Lightroom, with the main focus on the Library and Develop modules. Mel will cover importing and managing your files, photo editing and color correcting, using and creating presets, synchronizing between images, exporting and finishing in Photoshop, creating a slideshow, printing and if time permits, creating a webpage. You may bring a laptop but it is not required.
Workshop Enrollment

Wednesday, August 4th - 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Lighting for Product Shots - David Green instructor $69

Whether you are taking pictures of your eBay treasures, or shooting cool new electronics for a major corporation, control of the lighting is essential. In this hands-on workshop, we will review methods for taking quality product shots, including the necessary tools to get it right. We will work with strobes, reflectors, hot lights and cool lights. Bring your digital SLR with a PC connector or hot shoe (if you have one) to participate. Small products are also welcome if you want to practice on something. Workshop Enrollment

Thursday, August 5th – 6:30pm to 9pm
Intermediate DSLR Camera – Mel Carll instructor $129
for all 3 sessions (Part 1 of a 3 part workshop)

This 3 session workshop will take what you have learned in Basic Camera and focus behind the camera. We will start session 1 with composition, camera setting, usage of a tripod and preparing for a photowalk in session 2. This is a hands-on class, please bring your DSLR camera to class. (Part 2 will take place on location on 8/7 and Part 3 on 8/12/2010 in the classroom) Workshop Enrollment

Wednesday, August 11th - 6:30pm to 9:30pm
( LIMITED TO 5 STUDENTS)
Picture Paramedic - David Saffir instructor $69

Are some your pictures flat lining? Do you have some images that you know would look great with a little TLC, but you’re unsure what to do? Are your images bland, flat, tired, or just yearning to breathe free? Well come visit the picture paramedic, David Saffir. In this workshop we’ll go through a series of student’s selected images where we will fix, patch, retouch and resuscitate. Each student will submit 2-3 images in advance of class and David will pick an image or 2 from each student and restore to vibrant health! We will limit the number of images so that each image gets the attention it deserves, and then at the end, you will receive the revived Photoshop image with all the layers for their use. You will also benefit by seeing how each image is brought back to life, which will broaden your Photoshop skills. So rescue those photos now with the picture paramedic. Workshop Enrollment

One-on-one Workshops

Too busy to schedule a class? Do you learn better one-on-one? Do you have a lot of specific questions and don't want to disrupt a classroom full of students? Then one-on-one training may be for you. Learn Photoshop, general photography and DSLR skills, composition, or flash and strobe techniques in individual workshops, custom-tailored to your needs. Available at the Center, or on-site at your corporate location. Prices start at $75/hour.

We are located at:
28368 Constellation Rd., Suite 340
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

(661)904-2092
info@scvphotocenter.com

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Summer has finally arrived! The instructors here at the SCV Center for Photography have cooked up some hot new workshops to finish off the month.

Join us on Thursday July 22nd as David Green gets us started with 50 Quick Tips for Photoshop. This new workshop continues our 50 Tips series and for the first time we head into Photoshop. How many tips can you handle in a night? In this workshop, we'll go hard and fast with 50 quick tips that will make your Photoshop life better! We promise not to make your head explode, but strap on your helmet and hold on tight as we learn powerful secrets to removing color casts from your images, selecting complex areas quickly and easily, changing the color of anything you want, making your landscapes really sing, and much, much more. We'll include powerful tips from Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW to make sure to keep your toes tingling. This class is for experienced Photoshop users of any skill level, but you must know the basics.

On Tuesday July 27th Ted Dayton takes us a broader perspective with Panorama Photography. Learn the essentials of multi-frame panorama photography for maximum sharpness and detail in your landscape photographs in this hands-on workshop with Ted Dayton. We will start by photographing a scene using the proper techniques and then go into the studio to process and assemble those images in Photoshop. You will learn the skills needed for amazing images that can be printed at least twice as large as you thought possible from your camera. Then learn a few of Ted's techniques for high-quality, stylized results for photos of all kinds – not just panoramas. You will need your camera, tripod and computer for this action packed workshop.

Wednesday July 28th brings us the brand new workshop Self-portraiture: the ultimate in self-expression! Come join David Green in this fun, hands-on workshop as we look at Self-portraiture. If your family is starting to resent your photography because you take so many pictures of them, maybe it's time to work with the world's best model: Yourself. This hands-on workshop will reveal the tools, techniques and sources of inspiration you need to take great self-portraits, whether you want to send them home to your parents or grandparents, or to post on your Facebook page. We'll work with off-camera flash and super-inexpensive hot lights. You will need your camera, tripod and shutter release and flash if you have one for this workshop.

Finally we end July with our next installment to off-camera flash. On Thursday July 29th, our flash guru Ron Brewer brings us Off-Camera Flash – Dramatic Portraits with your Flash Outdoors. We know that taking good portraits outdoors can be very difficult unless you know the simple steps to get your flash off-camera and move from bad to good light. Many people don’t like to use flash because it looks so bad, but you will learn how to set up and control your flash so that it looks like you didn’t use a flash at all. You will be amazed at how beautiful your portraits will look. You will learn how to use your flash outdoors in the mid-day sun as well as at sunset and still get professional looking portraits. This is a hands-on workshop starting in the studio and quickly moving outdoors where the instructor will demonstrate the surprisingly easy techniques and help you try it for yourself.

So get out of the heat and check our website July Workshops for additional details, workshops and registration information. We look forward to seeing you here in the studio.