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Declutter Your Photo Life Online Course with Adam Pratt

ARE YOU OVERWHELMED WITH TRYING TO ORGANIZE YOUR PHOTOS?  NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

Now more than ever, we hold our photo collections dear. They are some of our most prized possessions. But when those priceless memories are unorganized and scattered every which way – on a smart phone, on a laptop, on memory cards and flash drives, on two or three photo sharing websites, in photo albums, and in shoeboxes in the attic – the joy of photography becomes an overwhelming burden!

In this five-part live online course running every Tuesday from May 28th until June 25th, professional photo organizer, photographer, and author Adam Pratt will provide a deep dive into his straightforward, step-by-step approach to decluttering your photo life.

The course will consist of five highly interactive, live 2-hour online masterclasses and will mirror Adam’s acclaimed five-step workflow, which includes “gathering” “preserving,” “organizing,” “sharing” and “maintaining.”

Can’t make a particular date? Don’t worry, all sessions will be recorded and available On Demand

Session 1 – Gathering Your Memories – May 28th, 10am-12pm*
Session 2 – Seven Secrets to Scanning Your Photos – June 4th, 10am-12pm*
Session 3 – Organizing Your Photos – June 11th, 10am-12pm*
Session 4 – Sharing Your Photos – June 18th, 10am-12pm*
Session 5 – Maintaining Your Photo Archive – June 25th, 10am-12pm*

*Pacific Time

Purchase individual sessions for $50 or the whole course 5-session bundle for $175 (30% off)

About the Presenter

Adam Pratt loves people, photography, and a good story! He spent the last twenty-five years at the intersection of creativity and technology, including twenty-two years at Adobe, where he worked on the Creative Cloud team. He’s a professional photo organizer, software trainer, and photographer. He’s also the founder of Chaos to Memories, where he helps people enjoy their photos again by turning their photo chaos into precious memories they can enjoy and share.

20 Street Photography Lessons: What I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Professional Street Shooting with Brian Lloyd Duckett

Type of Event: Online Masterclass and Q&A

When: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Time: 10am-12pm Pacific / 1.00pm-3.00pm Eastern

 

Summary 

In over 20 years of street shooting Brian has learnt some hard lessons – all of which have enriched him as a street photographer – and left him with a compelling story to tell.

In this 2-hour talk and Q&A, Brian will share his unique insights from over 20 years of shooting the streets. He will illustrate his experiences in the form of practical tips and insights, all brought to life with a wide selection of his images.

 

Sign up before 11.59pm on Wednesday, May 8th (Pacific Time) to get the “early bird” ticket price of $50 (standard price $75)

 

**This event will be recorded and can be watched at your own convenience**

 

Why Attend?

  • Understand some of the classic street photography mistakes and how to avoid them
  • See the world through the eyes of a pro street photographer
  • Pick up lots of tips to help elevate your own street photography

 

About the Presenter

Brian Lloyd Duckett a professional documentary and street photographer, and he runs the London-based StreetSnappers organisation. He runs street and documentary photography workshops around the world and he lectures extensively at camera clubs and photography societies and is a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. His passion for educating street photographers continues through his YouTube channel (@streetsnappers) and he writes about street and documentary photography for travel, lifestyle, and photographic magazines. You can see Brian’s personal work at www.brianduckett.com and the StreetSnappers organisation at www.streetsnappers.com. Brian is the author of the recently published Rocky Nook book: Street Photography Pocket Guide (ISBN: 978-1-68198-919-8)

 

 

 

Create Trophy Nightscapes with Planit Pro by Mike Shaw

Type of Event: Online Masterclass and Q&A

When: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Time: 10am-12pm Pacific / 1.00pm-3.00pm Eastern

 

Summary

Are you just starting your adventure in night photography? Do you want to take stunning nightscape images? Mastering the Planit Pro photo planning app will be a great first step!

In this 2-hour live online masterclass and Q&A, photographer Mike Shaw will show you how to design and capture the perfect nightscape image with Planit Pro so you are always at the right place, at the right time, with the right gear to capture your image right – the FIRST time!

And know you’re in good hands – Mike Shaw is the co-creator of the video tutorials embedded in the Planit Pro app!

 

Sign up before 11.59pm on Wednesday, May 22nd (Pacific Time) to get “Early Bird” ticket price of $50! Regular price $75

 

What you will learn:

  • Planit’s powerful Virtual Camera – how to simulate the exact image you’ll capture
  • How to plan images with the Milky Way core, panoramas, time-lapses, solar andlunar eclipses, star trails, moonrises / moonsets, & much, much more
  • Design deep-sky astrophotography images with Planit’s full Messier Catalog of nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters
  • Create custom simulations of objects of interest to include in your Virtual Camera compositions, e.g., buildings, lighthouses, rock arches & people
  • How to search the next 100 years for the precise dates & times when the sun or moon is at the exact spot you wish in your Virtual Camera compositions

 

Hands-on examples will include:

  • Milky Way
  • Panoramas
  • Time-lapses
  • Solar and lunar eclipses
  • Star trails
  • Deep-sky astrophotography of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies
  • Sunrises/sunsets
  • Moonrises and moonsets
  • Meteor showers

About the Presenter

Mike Shaw is an astrophotographer, teacher, and author of The Beginner’s Guide to Astrophotography (2023), Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses (2018), and The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography (2017). Mike’s field workshops take him and his students around the globe, searching for the darkest, clearest skies. He began teaching photography classes in 2010 while working as a physics professor and soon succumbed to the lure of the open road. He quit his job in 2014 and has been enthusiastically teaching night photography ever since. He especially loves being present when people experience, often for the first time in their lives, that human connection with the night sky and the universe that transcends international borders.Mike offers interactive online lessons with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and helped create the video tutorials for the Planit Pro app. In addition, he provides astronomy training to the US National Park Service, taught night photography and time-lapse classes in the Bryan Peterson School of Photography, and led an interactive Nightscapes Star Party Live! weekly on Slooh.com. He licenses his work through Science Photo Library in London. He is a Delegate to the International Dark Sky Association and an active member of the Minnesota Astronomical Society and the Astronomical League.

STAY TUNED! More events listed soon:

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