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Join us for a fun walk with your camera or phone through DC’s Downtown City Center holiday time, all beautifully illuminated and decorated – a visual feast for your camera!
Led by architectural photographer and Washington Photo Safari director E. David Luria, this is an opportunity to practice low light hand-held nighttime cityscape photography, utilizing the correct white balance menus of your camera, and creating the most interesting and colorful compositions of the gaily decorated passageways, the Christmas tree, the fountains, and the store windows. The pictures you get will make great holiday cards and gifts for friends and family!
Here samples of the images you will achieve: City Center at Holiday Time | Flickr
If your camera is equipped with the Kelvin color temperature scale, Mr. Luria will show you how to achieve the correct color balance in your photos without having to do later adjustments in post-production software.
If your camera is a late model smartphone, Mr. Luria will help you navigate the phone’s editing functions to achieve more dramatic images.
Bring phone or camera with wide and/or medium lenses – No tripods on this safari!
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- Camera
- Lenses
- Extra memory cards
- Extra charged battery
- Accessories such as filters
- Weather appropriate clothing
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Meet at 825 10th Street NW. There is limited street parking available; closest METRO is Gallery Place
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Architectural photographer E. David Luria is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari, which has provided over 6,700 photo safaris for 46,000 amateur photographers – an average of 5 people every day, 365 days a year, since it was founded in 1999.
“You taught me several important points and helped me better understand not only photography but also my own camera. I’ve taken photo classes at the Smithsonian, Glen Echo, and the Washington School of Photography. You’ve been the best among all the teachers I’ve had.“ David Lassiter, Olney, MD
Trained in Paris by a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Luria is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Society of Photographic Educators and has had his images of DC appear in over 100 publications, calendars, and postcards and on 30 magazine covers.