About the Course
Photo Adventure – Maui!
Spend 6 full days photographing and exploring all that Maui has to offer! Join Hal “Bull” Schmitt of LIGHT and Randy Hufford of the Institute of Visual Arts as they uncover Maui’s amazing photographic opportunities and show you how to capture images with drama, impact, and WOW factor.
January in Maui is incredible, offering the photographer almost too many choices.
-Beautiful beaches with perfect sand (from white to black,) the deepest blue-green water and waves, amazing skies, coconut palms, and crashing waves.
-The stark, alpine landscape of the island’s volcanoes. Prepare for the wonder of the almost lunar experience.
-Deep bamboo forests hiding amazing streams, pools, cliffs, waterfalls and more.
-Whales, whales, whales! Humpback whales favor the warm waters of Maui in winter!
-Dramatic land and seascapes of tropical paradise, dramatic cliffs, plunging waterfalls, huge waves, and more.
-An incredibly diverse flora
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Hal and Randy will lead you to Maui’s best shooting locations and demonstrate the tips, techniques, and tricks to photograph it all. You will experience and learn so many different types of photography. This trip will change your shooting life.
-Slow shutter speed work to blur waves and waterfalls
-Action
-Macro
-Landscape
-Panoramas
-High Dynamic Range (HDR)
-Flash
The 6 days also include in-lab processing time at The Institute of Visual Arts. Hal and Randy will demonstrate their image optimization workflow and help you create amazing images using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photomatix Pro, Topaz filters, and more! You will also receive a personalized review of your shooting to help refine your techniques to create more impressive photos and art!
Come to the islands and experience this amazing Photo Adventure.
There is also a two day add-on course after the shooting session – Canvas Printing and Gallery Wrap Techniques. During this course each participant will learn the fundamentals of working with canvas, printing, and finishing incredible pieces. You will print, coat, stretch, and finish an 18 x 24” gallery wrapped canvas of one of your images! Canvas is a wonderful media to work with and you will learn all the secrets, tips, tricks, and techniques in only two days!
See you in January.
Aloha!
Prerequisites
A desire to learn the fundamentals of shooting and processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. Emphasis will be placed on the most efficient method of HDR generation concentrating on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photomatix Pro. Adobe Photoshop and Elements techniques will also be covered.
There is no need to own Photomatix Pro. A free, never-expiring trial version is available for both Windows and Mac at www.HDRSoft.com.
If you want to purchase the program please contact LIGHT Workshops for a 15% discount. info@lightworkshops.com
