- Day Safari
- 2 Hours
Photograph one of the most excitingly beautiful venues in Washington: the East Building of the National Gallery of Art.
Quick Details
You could spend a day in here and not see all of the spectacular exhibits this museum has to offer. Renovated and reopened in 2006, the National Portrait Gallery/ American Museum of Art is a photographer’s delight, and most of the exhibits are open to photography.
Our safari, led by Paris-trained professional architectural photographer and Washington Photo Safari Director E. David Luria helps you photograph the incredible works of art on display, including the portraits of the Presidents, the spectacular 3rd Floor mezzanine, the gallery of contemporary art and sculpture and the new 28,000 sq. ft. Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, with its soft light and undulating glass and steel roof designed by world-renowned architect Norman Foster.
On this safari you will learn how to use your smartphone to photograph works of art in a museum without flash or tripod. Properly done under Mr, Luria’s guidance, your images will be so good that they can be enlarged, matted, printed on canvas, framed, and hung in your home to look as good as the original signed artwork! If you would like to decorate your home with art from the great masters, this safari will teach you how to do that at a MUCH lower cost than bidding at a Sotheby’s auction!
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- Late Model smartphone is preferred, but a Camera is ok
- Digital cameras users: Should have adjustable shutter speeds and Manual settings and ISO ratings of 1600 or 3200 and should be familiar with setting Tungsten/Incandescent White Balance
- Smartphone users: Will need to find the exposure compensation adjustment control in their settings menu.
- Lenses: Normal 18-55 mm lenses are fine for this safari, but 35mm or 50mm F1.8 or f1.4 lenses are even better!
- Extra charged battery
- Extra memory cards
- NO tripods or backpacks permitted
- Weather appropriate clothing
- Late Model smartphone is preferred, but a Camera is ok
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Meet inside the National Portrait Gallery 8th and F Street NW entrance, by Information Desk. One block from gallery Place Metro exit on Yellow/Green/Red Lines.
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E. David Luria is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari, which has trained 40,000 amateur photographers – an average of 5 people every day, 365 days a year, since it was founded in 1999. 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.