Horse Shoes

Yesterday I was playing around with the camera to start collecting images for July's Montana Ranch Photographers Retreat being put on by Montana Photography Workshops. (Details for the Retreat should be posted in about 10 days). One of the models for the Retreat is this Bozeman cowboy.

We've been friends for a long time and his face gets more Western as the years go by. He'll have one of his horses at the retreat and we'll be able to use him for a 5 hour session of posed and unposed scenic and portrait images at the Montana Ranch Photographers Retreat.

I took this photo in three minutes of shooting, so I know the extended session with him as a model will be chalked full of some great photos for photographers attending the Retreat.

Montana Ranch Photography Workshop

We just began the early phase of planning for a photography workshop on a remote Montana ranch for late July. We'll send out more details as the planning progresses this month. So check here or on the Montana Photography Workshops blog

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2010 Line Up

Today Montana Photography Workshops announced its line up (thus far) for 2010.  It's going to be a great way for amateurs and professionals to get instruction in a laid-back supportive atmosphere with two of Montana's more recognized photojournalists: Thomas Lee and Doug Loneman.

Class size is limited and Workshops will fill up quickly.

Contact Montana Photography Workshops for more info: montanaworkshops@gmail.com

We're getting closer and closer to nailing down the classes and subjects for the Montana Photography Workshops this winter, spring and summer. Recently I played with a friends point and shoot image from Monet's garden outside Paris. The original image was flat and dull and not at all what she saw in person. After a little photoshop the image came to life, somewhat in the way Monet may have seen the scene. (see below)

We think our Workshop students will be empowered to create their own works of art after learning some easy and simplified photoshop toning techniques, editing and capturing images correctly when they are taken.

You can follow the workshops on Face Book or on the Montana Photography Workshops blog. Classes will be available for amateurs who just took a digital camera out of the box at Christmas and also for emerging and professional photographers who want to learn secrets to making images that sell.

New Piece to the Puzzle

The new year marks a new and different direction for us. Now, in addition to taking photos, we are teaming with Thomas Lee Photography to teach others how to take photos at the Montana Photography Workshops.

Workshops and classes will cater to professionals, emerging professionals and amateurs.

The first classes will start in late February or early March and will cater to amateurs who want to take the mystery out of digital photography. Students will be taken through a step by step processs of taking photos, editing and toning on their computers, and then producing a book of their own work. Classes will take place at the loneman photography studio in Bozeman.

The next class in April is designed for professionals and upper end amateurs who want to hone their skills photographing people and place in a journalistic  style.  The three-day workshop takes place in Uptown Butte, recently named by USA Today as one of the top ten cities in the United States for photographers to discover.

After that we are planning a two-day urban photography workshop on photographing high school seniors. This class is for professionals who want to learn how to use urban environments to produce beautiful and edgy senior photos

To learn more about the workshops; send all your questons to:

montanaworkshops@gmail.com

or call 406.587.7111