Upcoming Viewpoint Workshops

Welcome to another season of exciting photography workshops at Viewpoint. Our schedule includes one-day and two-day workshops, as well as several convenient and compact half-day classes. All of our workshops are taught by experienced Viewpoint photographers who have mastered their craft and want to pass on their skills and insights to Viewpoint members. We expect these small, inexpensive workshops to fill rapidly, so register soon to reserve your space!

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Workshop Start Date

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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Saturday, Mar, 3 - 2012

Introduction to Lightroom

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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Saturday, Mar, 10 - 2012

Processing Images in Lightroom

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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Saturday, Mar, 17 - 2012

Fine Art Digital Printing

The purpose of this workshop is to show different techniques in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and third-party plug-ins for bringing out the very best qualities of an image.

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Sunday, Mar, 25 - 2012

A History of Night Photography

Formerly part of The Nocturnes Full Moon Night Photography Workshops, this expanded History of Night Photography is now a stand-alone course, bringing new light on some of the seldom seen innovators/pioneers of the genre, as well as current practitioners of Night Photography in the digital era.

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Sunday, Apr, 1 - 2012

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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Saturday, Apr, 7 - 2012

Compositing Images

Local commercial photographer, Donald Satterlee, will explore ways to select, mask, overlay, and seamlessly blend two or more pictures into a final image viewers will appreciate.

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Saturday, Apr, 21 - 2012

HDR: Solution or Sorcery

This workshop will focus on the HDR methodology and the expansion that can be gained by its use.

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Sunday, Apr, 29 - 2012

Increasing Your Presence as a Photographer

A full-day workshop with Huntington Witherill

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Saturday, May, 19 - 2012

Making Great Digital Slideshows with ProShow Gold

Make great slideshows from your photos (and videos) utilizing the best slideshow program available for consumers (and professionals) – Photodex’s “ProShow Gold”. Learn how to share your slideshows as a computer file or a movie DVD.

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Saturday, Jun, 23 - 2012

PERU: LAND OF THE SUN - A Viewpoint photographic journey hosted by Rick Murai

Lima, Cuzco, Sacred Valley (featuring the Virgen del Carmen festival), Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca. With optional Nazca extension.

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center and Northern California photographer & educator, Rick Murai, invite you on an exciting two-week adventure photographing the stunning landscape, colorful people and rich cultural traditions of the Peruvian Andes.

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Monday, Jul, 9 - 2012

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