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Sonata in Blue III

 

Maine Islands

Dates June 25- 28 Next Date  
Tuition $1250 (no lab fee!) Discounts Policies
Registration Register Online or call 207-354-0578 How to Prepare

Class Size

Limited to 12
Limited class size and selective enrollment ensures that topics covered may be adjusted for the needs of the group and participants receive individual attention.

Workshop Overview

Breathtaking is the word for the destinations visited during this week. This is a tour of jewels along the dramatic Maine seacoast. We'll visit Acadia National Park, Reid State Park, Popham Beach, Monhegan Island and many tucked away treasures along the the St. George River Valley (including some spots only the locals know about). Atlantic waves crash into rocky seashores, sending ripples up estuaries and rivers and seaspray into the nearby pine forests.

My private studio will be our home base where demonstrations will take place and from which we will make daily excursions. Reviews of participant's work during the week are conducted in studio, in transit, and on location.

Digital imaging has been revolutionizing photography and liberating photographers for over a decade. Today the possibilities for photographic image-making appear limitless. The new potentials of digital imaging aren't unlocked in the lab alone.

Once an optimal workflow is detailed, I'll demonstrate and you'll learn techniques like expanding format, extending depth of field, increasing dynamic range, making HDR merges, painting with light, using creative focus effects and much more. When you fully understand the possibilities and begin to integrate them into your practice, you will start making photographs in new lighting situations and in new ways.

Daily readings, discussions, demonstrations, and assignments will guide inpidual explorations. Experiential exercises are performed, each designed to help you leverage skills you already possess but might not have seemed applicable to your image making process. You'll be encouraged to explore your uniquely personal relationship with photography. Your creativity will be set on fire.

Freeman Patterson offers excellent advice. List all of the rules of photography. And break them. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding of the medium. I recommend you take this advice one step further. List all of your rules of photography. And break them. You’ll either find confirmation that what you’re doing is right for you or you’ll make new breakthroughs.

"By far JP Caponigro's workshops excel in content, practice and information (knowledge) an artist would desire, above any other workshop offered in the medium."

-Barbara Myriam DeAngulo

Get ready for a non-stop image making adventure.

Photographic skills and an open mind are the primary requirements for this week. Students are required to know the basics about downloading, ranking / sorting, and Raw conversions.

This workshop is right for you if

You want to explore the full potential of photography and your personal vision while making photographs at inspiring locations, receiving feedback on your images as you make them.

DVDs

My DVD series R/Evolution offers excellent resources to help you prepare for my workshops and review core material presented long afterwards.  Find out more about my DVDs.  Click Here

 

Discover

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust 

Find more Creativity quotes on Twitter.

 

It's a R/Evolution

Think Different, Shoot Different

We're living through a R/Evolution. There's been more change in photography in the last 10 years than in its entire history. Today the possibilities for photographic image-making appear limitless. You can make photographs in new ways and energize your creative process. Put it all together and gain the perspective you need to gain maximum benefit from these recent advances in this digital photography workshop.

Learn more now! Read my free Technique Lessons.

 

Free Yourself

Break the Rules, Break Your Rules


Free yourself. List all of the rules of photography. And break them - systematically. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding of the medium. Then, list all of your rules of photography. And break them - systematically. You’ll find either confirmation that what you’re doing is right for you or you’ll make new breakthroughs. Awareness brings choice. More choices leads to better choices. Better choices leads to better results.

Start breaking the rules now! Read my free PDF Breaking the Rules.

 

Be Versatile

Try New Things, Learn New Skills

 

Learn new digital imaging skills - merges, hdr merges, painting with light, panoramic stitches, extending depth of field, creative focus effects, and more.

Learn new ways of interacting with your subject - select the scene from an unfolding event, set the stage for an impending drama, or create a new drama.

Learn to see in new ways - previsualize, postvisualize, or visualize.

Learn to see your work in new ways - valuable editing skills will help you find your best work and organize it to create a roadmap for successful presentation and identifying your next steps.

Try them now! Read my free PDFs on Editing.

 

Use All of You

Use Skills You Already Have in New Ways


Everyone is creative. And everyone can learn to be even more creative. You can write. You can draw. You can move. You may not think you can. You may be comparing yourself to professional writers, painters, and dancers/actors. But, you can do all of these things. You'll experience powerful results when you put them all together. Did you know you already possess all of these skills and they can be used to energize your creative process and help you find your unique vision? Find out how in this digital photography workshop.

Start using these skills now! Try these free Creativity Exercises.

 

Tell Your Story

Uncover Your Authentic Voice


This week is about uncovering and empowering your authentic voice. You're unique. This time in the world is unique. These things have never happened before. So, to make unique work, all you have to do is tell your story. No one knows what that story is until you discover it. There are many kinds of stories and lots of ways to tell them. You'll find an optimum balance for you. You can do this guided by a master in a supportive community of like-minded but diverse creative people. It will be a complete immersion for everyone. The most important thing to bring is an open mind.

Find many ways to tell your story! Read my free PDF Artist's Statements.

 

You're Different

Every Workshop is Different

Reviews of your work begin, focus and guide during, and conclude the week.

Readings, demonstrations, and exercises will inspire your individual explorations.

Specific assignments are customized for individuals.

See work from workshop participants on my blog. Your work could be featured there too!

 

Get Ready

Find Out What You Need

An open mind, and curiosity are the primary requirements for this week.

Participants need a digital camera, portable computer, and Photoshop or Lightroom.

A basic comfort level with Photoshop or Lightroom is required.

More advanced photography and digital imaging software skills are a plus.

The more you bring to the event, the more you'll take away.

 

Connect

Become a Part of a Community


When you take a workshop you become a part of a community. You discover how much you have to learn from others - and how important that is. You also discover how much you have to give to others - and how good that feels. You can stay in touch with people who have similar shared experiences and interests.

Find them on Facebook, Flickr, and my Alumni blog.

 

Learn From Others

Share the Experience

 

"The people, the places, the fun, the enrichment, the experience, the growth, the eating together, the getting to know each other..." Barbara Myriam Ventura

"I learned more about how to move my photography forward in 5 days at JPs workshop than I learned in the previous 5 years." Kieron Monahan

"... in 4 days you turned me into an artist ... I've gone from being a writer with a photography hobby to a photographer with a writing hobby." Sam Kirsch

Read more alumni experiences here.

 

Register today!

Reserve your own unique experience!