The seminars below will be held in our Melrose store location
Quick links to seminars:
Friday:
Fujifilm Color! — An Intro to Birding — Wonderful Waterfall Photography — Time-Lapse Photography with Shiv Verma — Let’s Play Tourist in Your Own City: A guide to Street Photography close to home — Travel Photography with Sony — Shoot, Process, and Print your Landscape Photos
Saturday:
From Fear to Flash: 3 Steps to Better Lighting — Astro and Night Photography with Shiv Verma — The Canon R-Series Lineup — Unique Lenses with Laowa — Zeiss Optics- Binoculars and Scopes — Cool Effects in Photography Using Filters with Nisi and Hunt’s Photo Education
Sunday:
Wildlife Photography in Your Own Backyard — Long Exposure Modes-Featuring Live Comp. — Let’s Go to The Botanical Garden: A guide to better Flower Photography
Friday November 5th
10-11am: Fujifilm Color: One of the most endearing qualities of Fujifilm cameras is their dedication to beautiful color and their color profiles and simulations. Join Fujifilm rep John Haggerty as he talks about some of the best advantages of Fuji cameras–their color! From film simulations and profiles to the X-Raw Studio Software, John will go in-depth on how to get the most out of your Fuji!
11am-12pm: An Intro to Birding: Join Olympus’ Mike Amico as he shares tips to help you get started with bird photography! In this class, Mike will go over gear selection and settings, as well as some of the special Olympus features that will help you on your journey. Don’t currently have an Olympus camera? Many of his tips will help you no matter which camera you’re using! Come join the class and begin your journey to Birding!
12-1pm: Wonderful Waterfall Photography: Do you want to photograph waterfalls, but you’re not sure how to set everything up? Come learn the ins and outs of photographing waterfalls and moving water. Photographer and Sigma tech rep, Brett Wells will talk about the necessary equipment, accessories and settings to help you master this fun and rewarding subject.
1-2pm: Time-Lapse Photography with Shiv Verma:
A time-lapse video essentially compresses time into a smaller space, creating some exceptional and evocative results.
In theory, time-lapse videos are easy to create – after all, you simply take a few hundred photos, one after another, line them up in a video application and you are done. Not true, if you want to create a stunning, seamless, flicker-free time-lapse video. There is a lot more involved than setting up a camera and capturing the sequence.
With digital cameras, we have infinite possibilities to capture time-lapse sequences and create an exceptional video with even the simplest digital point and shoots to DSLR’s. This session will provide the basics necessary to create time-lapse videos.
We will cover the following topics:
• Equipment
• Camera settings
• Intervalometer settings
• Settings based on the speed of activity
• Creating a quick video using Lightroom
• Creating a video using LR Timelapse
Shiv Verma, FPSA, MNEC is a published author, photographer, educator and technologist. He is a Panasonic Lumix Global Ambassador, Wacom Pro-Artist and an X-Rite Coloratti. He has been photographing for over 50 years and has evolved his photography to express his intense devotion to wildlife and nature. Over the years has earned numerous awards and recognition both nationally and internationally. Shiv devotes a great deal of his time formally reviewing photography related products, to education in digital photography and is a speaker and competition judge.
Shiv’s book Time-Lapse Imagery was published in February 2014.
2-3pm: Let’s Play Tourist in Your Own City: A guide to Street Photography close to home: Grab your camera and head out the door because we’re going to satisfy that inner wanderlust with Tamron Tech Rep, Armando Flores, in a local fashion. This class will serve as a practical guide to venturing out and exploring your city like a tourist. So go ahead and venture into downtown where photographic scenes are made up of shapes, lines, and reflections. And yes, foodie pics allowed!
3-4pm: Travel Photography with Sony: Travel photography can mean very different things to different people. Some like to travel as more of a relaxation experience, some like to experience new cultures, some like to see nature in other places. Because of all of those variations, the best way to look at travel photography is through the concept of storytelling – travel photography transports the viewer somewhere else.
4-5pm: Shoot, Process, and Print your Landscape Photos: Join Rob Sylvan for a landscape photography capture to print demonstration. We’ll cover Canon camera gear and settings, basic post processing, and printing from Lightroom Classic to a Canon printer.
Saturday November 6th
9-10:30am: From Fear to Flash: 3 Steps to Better Lighting:
Do you want to make photos or just take them? Have you been frustrated with your flashes or strobes? Do you have a headache when adding artificial light to a scene? Have you been stuck creatively with your photography? If you’ve always wanted to get better results with your lighting but were fearful of the process then join JC Carey as he demystifies lighting into the simplest steps possible so that anyone with a basic understanding of camera functions can start producing more dynamic images immediately. With tips and tricks that can be used with any lights you add to your creative arsenal JC will talk about the basics and dive into some more advanced concepts. In three easy steps JC will take you from Fear to flash.
Topics covered:
The Simplest Most Straight forward recipe to adding artificial light to your work
Lens selection and how it relates to lighting
TTL vs Manual
Camera modes
High Speed Sync/Rear Curtain Sync
Getting the flash off your camera
Modifying the light
Joseph “JC” Carey is a lifetime image maker that like so many photographers was terrified of lighting until he was gifted with a lighting class in 2007. The class wasn’t very good but it lit a fire. That gift changed everything. It transformed him from someone that barely took pictures of people and knew nothing about lighting into someone still trying to figure out how to light everything.
11am-12pm: Astro and Night Photography with Shiv Verma:
This program includes photographing the night skies, milky way and star trails but also techniques for creating star stacks, start trails and time lapse capture.
You will learn
• Camera settings — Shutter speed, aperture, BULB, ISO, white balance for optimum nighttime exposures
• Using the histogram in RGB mode
• Taking High ISO test shots for calculation and composition
• Combining ambient light for exceptional astro landscapes
• Shooting base exposures and flat frame, dark frame exposures and combining these for noise free images
• Post processing techniques
• Shooting and creating time-lapse sequences and videos
• Light painting
• Also covered is Live Composite shooting available is some Lumix Cameras.
Shiv Verma, FPSA, MNEC is a published author, photographer, educator and technologist. He is a Panasonic Lumix Global Ambassador, Wacom Pro-Artist and an X-Rite Coloratti. He has been photographing for over 50 years and has evolved his photography to express his intense devotion to wildlife and nature. Over the years has earned numerous awards and recognition both nationally and internationally. Shiv devotes a great deal of his time formally reviewing photography related products, to education in digital photography and is a speaker and competition judge.
Shiv’s book Time-Lapse Imagery was published in February 2014.
12:30-1pm: The Canon R-Series Lineup: Come learn about the latest offerings from Jeff Leimbach at Canon with a focus on the EOS R system including their brand-new EOS R3 and the rest of the lineup!
1:15-1:45pm: Unique Lenses with Laowa: Join Stephen Neff from Laowa as he breaks down what makes them so unique and stand out from the crowd. Stepehen will be doing a live demo showing off how the lenses work and their unique capabilities!
2-2:30pm: Zeiss Optics- Binoculars and Scopes:
Join William Graham from Zeiss optics as he goes through their optics lineup from Binoculars to Scopes and everything in between! Bill will also be showing off several products live and talking about their benefits!
3-3:45pm: Cool Effects in Photography Using Filters with Nisi and Hunt’s Photo Education:
Join Hunt’s Photo Educator Emily Hojnowski as she explains the essential filters to use in the field and why to use them! We’ll have sample filters for you to check out, courtesy of our friends at Nisi, and we’ll help you understand why you need them!
Sunday November 7th
11am-12pm: Nikon Z9 Touch and Try: Join Nikon’s Mike Corrado, Kristi Odom, and Alex Podstawski for a very special in-person event to celebrate the launch of Nikon’s mirrorless flagship, the Z9. During this hour session, we will have product and ambassador experience presentations followed by a hands-on demo with the Z9! Come to Melrose and see the highly-anticipated Z9.
12-1pm: Wildlife Photography in Your Own Backyard: Learn the basics of photographing animals, whether that’s in your backyard, the skies over your head or the other side of the world. Photographer and Sigma tech rep, Brett Wells will cover all the necessary equipment you need, as well as the camera settings that will help you get the shot.
1-2pm: Long Exposure Modes-Featuring Live Comp.: Join Olympus’ Mike Amico as he helps you get started using the long exposure modes found in your Olympus camera! In this class, Mike will showcase different long exposure modes, focusing on Live Composite Mode with a live demonstration. Grab your Olympus camera and get ready for some fun! Don’t have an Olympus camera but love long exposure? Come grab a few long exposure tips and see what magic Olympus has in store!
2-3pm: Let’s Go to The Botanical Garden: A guide to better Flower Photography: Stop and smell the roses with Tamron Tech Rep, Armando Flores. Whether you’re visiting your local botanical garden or wanting to capture the alien plant that finally grew from that mysterious envelope you received in early summer, then this seminar is for you! This informative class will discuss the best time of day to visit your local botanical garden, finding subjects other than plants or flowers, and helpful hints on how to best capture them.