NPy (Night Photography) workshops

I just started looking into this. Here's what I have found so far..

REI class in Fremont (does not look very detailed)

Tim Baskerville & The Nocturnes classes (this looks comprehensive)

Lance Keimig class in Big Bend Texas next week (I think that this is advanced)

Baskerville and Keimig class at Rayko Photo (this past summer)

Regards..

Big Sur workshops in Fall and Winter

There are apparently several of these as well.

I was originally interested in the workshop offered by Sea-to-Summit based on my excellent experience in their Costal Photography workshop.

Then I noticed that Nikonians also offers a workshop to this location early next year. This is lead by the same guy who does the Eastern Sierra workshop.

Then a colleague told me about a famous guy who gives workshops to this location.

Finally the last offering also has a guidebook. I also found several web sites desribing the area. Maybe I could navigate it myself. I am not sure.

One thing is for sure: there are lots of good landscape photography sites within a few hours drive of my current location.

Finally, my guess is that all of these are good workshops.

Regards..

Ref:

Sea-to-Summit

Nikonians

Don Smith

Guide Book

everyone is heading to the Eastern Sierra around the same timeframe (late Oct)

I had previously looked at and I have been interested in the Eastern Sierra photography workshop offerred by Nikonians.org (see references below).

The pictures that I saw taken from that area are amazing. It is possible that I will still attend this workshop.

While looking around, I have come across another workshop held during this same period. It is somewhat cheaper and this guy Ken Rockwell is one of the workshop leaders. I am not sure about this guy but I know many photogs have strong opinions of him.

Sinally there is this yearly series from the Sacramento Bee newspaper that chronicles the changing leaves in the area

I cannot figure out if I could navigate this place on my own yet.

Regards..

Ref:

Nikonians trip
Wyman/Rockwell trip
Sacremento Bee Leaves Info

someone who is mentoring me

Her name is Sandra Yagi. She is in the same building as the studio I shoot at a lot.

She knows AlanB very well (another mentor) and she often comes to have lunch during our Saturday shoots. So she is very used to 18-year old girls walking around in their panties and (presumably older) guys talking technical about their cameras and lenses.

I called her work maudlin, but she corrected me that it was macabre.

She is a real artist in that:

- she makes pencil drawings of her subjects
- she makes clay figurines
- she paints oil on canvas
- she sells her work for $4000+

She saw my stuff at the Open Studios in the spring and has been encouraging me to exhibit again in the fall. I just signed up for the event which is October 1st-3rd at the studio on Bryant (and about 10 other venues).

She was there this past Saturday and we talked about the upcoming event. She told me to go to artspan.org and register. Then she went to get some dessert and when she came back she gave me the following advice:

- be aware of "presentation"...make sure your work is mounted in some good frames
- come to the opening night reception and "hob nob"...some people might just be interested in you and that can drive traffic to your exhibit
- galleries watch the "scene" and when they see you are consistent, they consider contacting you when you might fit into their plans
- 99% of the people "out there" will not like her art, but when she is in the right gallery, her work sells very well...some gallery owners told her she sells well

This is all excellent advice!

Here is her site.