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Santa Barbara International Film Festival Event At Samy’s Camera Santa Barbara
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Photographing the Gardens at Huntington Library
Join Art Ramirez for a brush up photo class followed by a field trip to photograph the beautiful gardens at the Huntington Library. This class was sold out last year and everyone had a ball. There are still some seats left so register soon if you are interested in this fun photo outing. The fee is $75 and includes admission to the gardens. Register here.
This Week at Samy’s EDU Oct 3-9, 2011
This week Samy’s Camera EDU starts of big with a sold out free Speedliter seminar on Wednesday evening at the Fairfax EDU. Syl Arena will be sharing his flash secrets from his new best selling Speedliters handbook. This class filled up quickly with over 60 people. Syl follows this up on Saturday with an all day intensive seminar that still has a few seats in it.
On Saturday in Santa Ana Art Rameriz has two classes: Basic Digital Two and Photoshop CS5 Level One. Keep an eye out for some cool new classes coming down the pipeline from Art like How to Buy a Digital Camera and a sequel to his very popular class Understanding Your Digital Camera 2.
At the Fairfax location on Saturday, George Simian is teaching his also popular and sold out Photographing Children in Natural Light. Parents love taking this class to learn about using open shade and fill light to get a great portrait of their kids.
George will be pulling double duty this weekend with Sunday’s Bodies in Motion which is also sold out. Last time he took the class to the Santa Monica Pier for a mixed light high speed strobe at sunset action class. This time around he is photographing my favorite dancers the Invertigo Dance Theatre in the Los Angeles Theater Center downtown LA.
Also on Sunday we are launching Plug in & Shoot with Barry Druxman – Shooting Magazine Cover Images with One Light out of the Culver City location. Barry will show lighting techniques that anyone can use to capture magazine quality images using minimal lighting gear.
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Bodies in Motion – Invertigo Dance Theatre
George Simian’s Bodies in Motion series continues Saturday October 9th. Last time George took the class to the Santa Monica Pier for a mixed lighting, flash at sunset shoot of the Trapeze School instructors. The class drew lots of onlookers wondering what all the excitement was about as we shot the private performance.
This time, George is taking the class to shoot to my favorite Los Angeles dancers, Invertigo Dance Theatre. They are sensual athletic dancers who perform movement based theater – often with live music.
The class will meet at the Los Angeles Theater Center on Spring Street in Historic Downtown Los Angeles. George will instruct students on how to capture the movement of dancers using extreme-high-power and ultra-short-flash-duration Profoto lights. This will be a workshop packed with information and practice on photographing the split-second, unique motion of bodies flying through space! Register Here.
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Better Photos Now Testimonial
Instructor Gregg Cobarr received this great testimonial about the class he taught last weekend here at Samy’s EDU. Gregg teaches Better Photos Now on a regular rotation and his next class is in Santa Ana on Sept 27th and in Los Angeles on October 15th. He is also leading a great travel workshop in Solvang on Sept 24th.
I just wanted to reach out and say thanks for your Better Photos Now class on Saturday morning at Samy’s. I am a banker by experience and now with an insurance services group but over the past three or four years have got more and more involved and have taken photography much more seriously, taking a lot of family photos and even a couple of Quinceañera’s.
With encouragement from Natasha Calzatti, whom I did a Samy’s Photoshop Class with in May and now just finished Lightroom too, I have ventured into taking Raw images regularly and making much more use of the “M’ (manual) setting – almost ALL the time. Before your class, I was getting it slowly but you explained the whole correlation between Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO so well, with the f stops I think I’m gonna take much Better Photos NOW!
The session outside with Nadia will help me consider light a lot more in everyday situations and how a slight change will affect the feel to the resulting image. I was able to bring away some nice shots from that session too. It’s not everyday I get the chance to shoot a model! I look forward to coming back for Better Photos 2 and taking my images to another new level - Ian Hopkinson
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Digital Black and White Course with Frank Jackson
I’m very excited to announce this new 4 week course that focuses on black and white photography called Fine Art Digital Black and White: In and Out. This class is designed to help you get the most out of your digital black and white images. Instructor Frank Jackson will take you through the technical and artistic process that he uses as a successful fine art photographer works and sees in B&W.
Each week Frank will cover a new topic and critique the previous weeks assignments. He will show you how to shoot raw and pre-visualize in B&W as well as how to achieve the highest quality B&W conversion using Adobe Camera Raw and Nik Silver EFX Pro. He will also demonstrate how different inkjet papers affect the final print and how to get the most out of an Epson printer.
Frank Jackson was last seen at Samy’s for the Leica Street Photography workshop. You can read more about him on the Rangefinder Magazine interview or check out his blog. Register here.
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Sony Backlot Filmmaking Event
The recent Sony Backlot filmmaking event focused on using Sony Alpha HDSLRs, the NEX VG10 large chip video camera and the NEX 5 compact cameras to make professional looking films. The Sony lineup is rapidly improving especially in the HDSLR filmmaking realm. The biggest advantage Sony cameras have is the amazing autofocus which works while shooting video. This is mostly due to the see through or pellicle mirror system. Take a look at this video of the event which was shot by Cris Dupont using a VG10 camera.
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Watts Tower Photo Excursion
It’s time for another fun Samy’s EDU photo excursion. This time we are taking the train down to Watts Towers to tour and photograph this amazing man made structures which are one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
The sculptures’ armatures are constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh and coated with mortar. The main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass. They are decorated with found objects, including bed frames, bottles, ceramic tiles, scrap metal and sea shells. Rodia called the towers Nuestro Pueblo (which means “our town” in Spanish). He built them with no special equipment or predetermined design, working alone with hand tools and window-washer’s equipment. Neighborhood children brought pieces of broken glass and pottery to Rodia, some of which were added, but the majority of his material consisted of damaged pieces from the Malibu Pottery or CALCO (California Clay Products Company), located nearby. Green glass includes recognizable soft drink bottles from the 1930s through 1950s, some still bearing the former logos of 7 Up, Squirt, Bubble Up, and Canada Dry; blue glass appears to be from milk of magnesia bottles.
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Rodia bent much of the Towers’ framework from scrap rebar, using nearby railroad tracks as a makeshift vise. Other items came from alongside the Pacific Electric Railway right of way between Watts and Wilmington. Rodia often walked the right of way all the way to Wilmington in search of material, a distance of nearly 20 miles.
The Watts Towers are located near the 103rd Street-Kenneth Hahn Station of the Metro Rail LACMTA Blue Line so the group will be taking the train down for this workshop. Don’t miss this chance to visit this amazing structure while hanging out with other like minded photographers. Register Here.
Photographing Birds in their Natural Habitat
Photographing Birds in their Natural Habitat is on again with Hartmut Walter and Frank Schlegel. This class was full last time and everyone had a blast. Hartmut is an expert at finding and photographing birds and Frank is an expert instructor and nature photographer and as a team they provide a great photographic experience.
The class meets for a slideshow and orientation on Thursday September 29th 7-9PM at Samy’s EDU near the Fairfax store. Hartmut will prep students on what to expect and how to get the most out of the day and Frank will give a photo lesson on how to capture great bird photos. The workshop moves to Malibu Lagoon on Saturday morning for the field portion of the workshop.Students are encouraged to bring Continue reading
Pro EDU Launches with Helms Creative Workshops
Samy’s Camera EDU and Helms Creative Workshops are combining forces to offer Pro EDU classes and workshops. Pro EDU is a place for the more advanced photographer to take a wide range of workshops designed for the working professional.
The workshops will take place in Culver City in the Helms Bakery Complex. Helms Creative Workshops is headed up by Mark Mercier, Jim Wimberg and Anthony Nex.
Click here for more information and a list of upcoming classes.
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