Learn how to take great pictures BEFORE you go on that expensive trip! Join our standard Monuments and Memorials workshop, offered every Wednesday and Saturday, in which Paris-trained architectural photographer E. David Luria takes you to some of the most popular monuments and historic buildings in Washington.

Learn how to take great pictures BEFORE you go on that expensive trip! Join our standard Monuments and Memorials workshop, offered every Wednesday and Saturday, in which Paris-trained architectural photographer E. David Luria takes you to some of the most popular monuments and historic buildings in Washington.

Learn how to take great pictures BEFORE you go on that expensive trip! Join our standard Monuments and Memorials workshop, offered every Wednesday and Saturday, in which Paris-trained architectural photographer E. David Luria takes you to some of the most popular monuments and historic buildings in Washington.

With its high-megapixel sensor and attractive pricing, the Canon Digital Rebel SLR digital camera and its successors (the Rebel XT, the XTi, XSi and the new T1i) have become very popular items among digital photographers. This Safari will help Digital Rebel users put their cameras through the paces of ISO settings, flash settings, variable white balance settings, file compression, aperture and shutter priorities, focus settings, custom settings, menu navigation tricks, exposure tricks, use of the histogram, video techniques, and menu shortcuts inside and outside of the new National Museum of the American Indian.

Many photographers, frustrated with the limitations of their point and shoot cameras, are now making the switch to versatile entry-level DSLR’s, such as Nikon’s new D3000 and the D5000 cameras. This photo Safari, taught by our always popular instructor Melanie Otto, will make it much easier for you to make the transition to the world of DSLR cameras.

This Safari will help 60D users and 7D users put their cameras through the paces of ISO settings, flash settings, variable white balance settings, file compression, aperture and shutter priorities, focus settings, custom settings, menu navigation tricks, exposure tricks, use of the histogram etc. menu shortcuts inside and outside of the National Museum of the American Indian.

If you don’t mind getting up REAL early and tromping around the Tidal Basin on a COLD April morning, this photo Safari’s for you. The early sun filtering through the blossoms gives them a lovely, golden light, much nicer than the harsh white light of mid-day.

OK, so you have your fancy digital camera. Have you tried using it in the brisk cold of an early spring morning on the beautiful cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin BEFORE the sun comes up? If not, here is your chance to do it under the direction of professional digital photographer Melanie Otto.

A Floating Photo Flotilla By Paddleboat!  As we prepare for the BIG Centennial of the Cherry Blossoms in 2012, we want you to see and photograph the cherry blossom trees from ALL sides, from the land AND from the water!

You will learn how YOU—not the camera—can control the final image. We conduct a special therapeutic intervention to get you OFF of the Ugly Green Automatic Thing! In short, we will make YOU the boss of your camera, not the other way around!

Cameras are magic machines that can move us to tears, to joy, and to wonder, all with the click of a button. To become a photographer, you must know HOW to make these things happen by learning how to use ALL the features of your camera. THAT is what we will help you do on this advanced refresher Safari.

This three hour hands-on workshop provides the background to achieve simple pleasing portraits using window light and affordable studio lighting equipment.

Have you ever wondered how portrait photographers achieve that flattering look around the eyes and how they manage to have one side of the face slightly darker than the other? Also, how do they manage to achieve a pose and an expression that brings out the subject’s personality?

Annapolis is a little city with a long history - the capital of Maryland, and, according to its residents, the Sailing Capital of the World. Since it was first settled in 1649, the commercial and social life of this beautiful little town has been centered on its picturesque harbor, which is also a major tourist attraction.

Good pictures sell houses and condominiums via the web, or in brochures and publications. This workshop is designed for people wishing to photograph their own homes and for real state agents shooting listed properties.

Photography is a profession that can NOT be easily outsourced to other countries. Why? Because you have to be HERE to take the picture! With careful planning while you keep your day job, you CAN turn your hobby and your love of photography into a lucrative profession.

This Safari will help D90 and D7000 users put their cameras through the paces of ISO settings, flash settings,  white balance settings, file compression, aperture and shutter priorities, focus settings, custom settings, menu navigation tricks, exposure tricks, use of the histogram etc. menu shortcuts inside and outside of the new National Museum of the American Indian.

Want to take a stab at making your own fine art? Well, don’t hesitate! Creating fine art of any kind is not just for the masters - anyone with a creative eye (everyone has one!) and a good understanding of how to use a camera can take beautiful and unique photos.

The main lesson that we try to convey on the Safari is that great pictures are taken by photographers, not by cameras. We also stress that your worst pictures are your best teachers!

This Safari is especially designed for clients wishing to improve their photojournalism skills, taking pictures of people in ways that tell a story. This National Museum of American History offers several exhibits with life-size figures in unique historical situations, such as the history of transportation in America gallery entitled “America On The Move.” and the large exhibit that highlights US military history. 

For those of us who love to take pictures, it is VERY hard to be confronted with a visual culinary delight in a fancy restaurant and not take a picture! In this Safari, you’ll learn how to photograph food, and then, you’ll get to EAT it!

Each March as many as 100,000 snow geese will gather at Middle Creek before heading north to their arctic breading grounds. Join nature photographer and instructor Sean Quintilian to learn techniques to capture frames of hundreds of geese taking off to that elusive single bird in flight shot.

Woof! Meow! Want to learn how to take better pictures of your pet or other animals?  Professional pet photographer Judy Reisman will show you how.

New York City is one of the most vibrant and photogenic cities in the world There’s so much to photograph,  where do you begin?  On this New York City Photo Safari, we’ll share our experience with you by taking you to the best photo locations and showing you the best picture angles in Midtown.

Springtime in Washington DC means cherry blossoms! And one of the best places to shoot them is at the FDR Memorial along the Tidal Basin, where we begin our Safari with an orientation on travel photography and camera use. We then give you an EXCLUSIVE-for-Washington-Photo-Safari-clients-ONLY peek at our secret spot!

Like to get REAL close to your subject?  Let nature photographer Judy Reisman show you how to create striking and unusual macro images, using everyday materials such as glass paperweights, leaves, tissue paper and ribbon.

Participants will work with professional lighting equipment to achieve the classic portraiture lighting techniques to replicate the great master portrait artists.

Washington DC’s National Mall is the showcase of the nation’s capital, home to its most famous and historic monuments. One of the best ways to see it is through the viewfinder of your own tripod-mounted camera at twilight and at night, guided by a professional architectural photographer.

A hidden treasure in northeast Washington, this Byzantine-style church modeled after Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia is a photographer’s dream.

This 5-day workshop will get you up close to alligators and at least 7 species of wading birds as well as many other wildlife possibilities. There will also be sweeping landscapes of the Everglades, (south Florida’s river of grass) ancient cypress swamps, sunrise over the ocean as well as sunset over the gulf.

On this New York City Safari, we’ll share our experience with you by taking you to the best photo locations and showing you the best picture angles of New York’s City Hall district as well as the Brooklyn Bridge.

If you’d like to travel back in time, join us on this unique day-long photo experience led by Frederick photographer Judy Reisman to shoot the farms, barns and covered bridges of Frederick County, MD.

On this New York City Safari, we’ll share our experience with you by taking you to the best photo locations and showing you the best picture angles of Central Park.

See that wrinkled red leaf on the sidewalk? It’s a picture. See the cross-hatched shadows on the wall made by the fire escape railing? It’s a picture. If you want to develop your eye for the weird and unusual close-up, come join us in the colorful Adams-Morgan entertainment neighborhood for a walking Safari that will sharpen your eyes for pictures you never knew were there!