Modeling

• These weekend sessions are offered to build your modeling skills. Many things are discussed to hone your modeling skills such as posing, etiquette, how to get work, what is expected from an agent. Some local agents will come and speak and offer tips for you and your career.

• Class limited to 10

The Beginning Photographer  

• These sessions are offered over a weekend to focus on camera skills (SLR Cameras) including the mechanics of a camera, an F-Stop in relationship to light, film vs. digital, the basic characteristics of light, lighting basics, the basics of composition, personal pictures, shooting pictures for fun, understanding style.

• Field trip to park to shoot basic portraits using class mates and two models as examples for your own friends and family, even pets.

• Class limited to 7, level of photography>beginner. Needed is a 35mm camera or digital slr camera. If you have more of a point and shoot digital that is acceptable as long as you understand how it works. We know a lot about cameras but not every one.

The Intermediate Hobbyist Photographer  

• These sessions are offered over two weekends to focus on camera skills including the taking into account that this level shooter knows the mechanics of a camera. this is a more in depth look at light, the characteristics of light, studio lighting basics, composition, the rule of thirds, personal portraits, finding your art, film vs. digital, exploring your style.

• Field trip to French Quarter and Local Grave Yards to practice what is learned on the first weekend with guide keeping with style and light and shadow.

• Class limited to 7, level of photography is intermediate

The Bayou Workshop Weekend

• This weekend is spent with a guide in the swamps, including the Honey Island Swamps and the swamps in Lafitte.

• The time is spent looking at gators (if they are out) and local sights along the Bayou - it's a different world!

•  Both days with a guide.

• We go over safety, packing your camera bag, what you will need in the swamp to take great pictures.

• Film vs. digital

• Class limited to 5, level of photography should be experienced armature

The New Orleans Weekend

• Get ready for fun.  This weekend are for those who know how to use there cameras and are looking to see the sights. Be a tourist in your own town.

• We start off with a talk in the studio about using the sun in relationship to your subject while on location.

• We talk about what you will need in your camera bag and how to pack for travel photos

• The first day we go off to sites such as the garden district, the Lafayette cemetery, walk through some of the uptown sites and discover how to bring urban photography into your photos using different mediums like black and white, infra red and color.

• Use different tools to get different effects like wide angle lenses, telephoto lenses, flash vs. available light etc.

• The second day we are tired from the first day (LOL) only kidding... we start early... we go off to the French Quarter and cover Jackson Square, the church, the river, Waldenburg park, walk through some streets in the quarter and look for local color including locals, buildings and the things that make the French Quarter so unique. We break for lunch and after lunch we venture off to the Orleans grave site off of Rampart Street to shoot some of the ruins of that very interesting place including Marie Laveus grave sight - the Voodoo Priestess. Then we venture through the Faugberg Marigny to create photos with a more artistic viewpoint as there are many colorful urban landscapes that have much history in the architecture playing with light, color and texture.

• Must be a hobbyist with a working knowledge of the camera and have the lenses that you are used to and that you are comfortable working with to create a lot of what we will cover in  these two intensive days.