Improve your photographic skills with guidance from Nevada Wier at this National Geographic On Assignment Photography Workshop. Learn how to take National Geographic-quality photographs through critiques of your images, examples of the instructor's work, and expert guidance on field trips.

Santa Fe provides an ideal setting, with its stunning scenery, vibrant cultures, rich history, and radiant light. Daily critique sessions, assignments, and location shoots are designed to help you learn to create great photographs. These workshops are geared for digital photography and include additional instruction on downloading, saving, organizing, and archiving images, and on cropping, sizing, and manipulating images on the computer. Digital photographers should bring their own SLR digital camera, laptop computer, and editing software.

Additional Details

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Photographing on the move requires the combination of technical expertise, culture competence, intuitive awareness, curiosity and a dash of panache. Nevada Wier, a specialist in adventure and travel photography, will discuss how to combine these technical, practical and creative aspects of travel photography in order to get an image that elevates itself above the usual travel clichés.

This intensive weekend workshop is a lively and intense blend of lectures, discussions, and an assignment during the fabulous Carnivale at Venice Beach. The emphasis is on expanding your creative vision in the realm of outdoor and travel photography. We discuss ways to approach and photograph people, cross-cultural considerations in foreign countries, tips on equipment and digital concerns in different travel and outdoor environments, and using natural light, as well as fill-flash. By the end of the weekend you will gain the confidence and the tools necessary to create unique and impacting travel images.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for avid immediate to advanced photographers who use a digital SLR camera, photograph in RAW, and have a solid understanding of RAW processing and editing.

Enrollment Limit

15 students

Photographing on the move requires the combination of technical expertise, culture competence, intuitive awareness, curiosity and a dash of panache. Nevada Wier, a specialist in adventure and travel photography, will discuss how to combine these technical, practical and creative aspects of travel photography in order to get an image that elevates itself above the usual travel clichés.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for avid immediate to advanced photographers who use a digital SLR camera, photograph in RAW, and have a solid understanding of RAW processing and editing.