Workshops & Classes

[ August 5, 2011 to August 8, 2011. ] Pinhole cameras are very simple tools that can be used to create beautiful, oddly compelling images of a range of subjects, including still lifes, landscapes and people. Workshop participants will each build a pinhole camera from a light-tight container (such as a lunch box or cookie tin: bring your own, or use one of [...]

[ May 26, 2011 to May 28, 2011. ]

Learn the history of the daguerreotype (the world’s first viable photographic process) and the techniques required to make one yourself. This three-day hands-on workshop will be taught by modern daguerreotypist, Rob McElroy, who will demonstrate all of the steps necessary to create a modern mercury-developed daguerreotype. Each participant will perform all the steps themselves (plate [...]

[ August 28, 2010; 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] WET PLATE COLLODION ONE-DAY FIELD WORKSHOP: MARIN HEADLANDS (Summer | Intermediate/Advanced)
A one day workshop in the glorious Marin Headlands, starring the RayKo Photo Center Tintype Trailer. Come off-site with us, and choose to photograph vast ocean views, rolling hills, or hunt and find the hidden military bunkers and silos peppered throughout the Headlands. Feel free [...]

[ June 17, 2010 to June 21, 2010. August 14, 2010 to August 16, 2010. ] Two 5 day intensive workshops in photogravure with Jon Goodman in his studio.

Location: Jon Goodman studio, Florence, Massachusetts
For information contact Jon@jgoodgravure.com

Jon Goodman Is one of the foremost practitioners of the photogravure process and is offering this in depth workshop.

http://www.jgoodgravure.com/index.html

More info about the workshop:: http://www.jgoodgravure.com/Curriculum%20page%20b.html

[ July 19, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 20, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 21, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 22, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 23, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 26, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 27, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 28, 2010; 2:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 29, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. July 30, 2010; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] http://www.cabrillo.edu/academics/artstudio/cabrilloarts/class.htm

Pinhole/Zone Plate/Camera Obscura Workshop for Film and Digital
Workshop presenter: Spencer & Renner
Cost: $400 – plus materials fee at class

Class #01VAP1-01
Mon. – Fri., 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., room V2022

Transcend photography through the pinhole and zone plate. In this fun workshop we’ll make images with our own film-based and digital cameras or cameras built in the [...]

[ June 27, 2010 to July 2, 2010. ] Montana

Carbon Transfer
Cost: $ 725.00
June 27-July 2, 2010 With Sandy King

In this workshop, the student can expect to learn:

What materials, including light sources, are necessary for printing with alternative processes, and how to use them? Learn how to make necessary materials which are no longer available commercially, including carbon tissue. Learn to expose and develop [...]

[ June 6, 2010 to June 11, 2010. ] Montana

The Gum-Platinum Print & Making Dig Negs with QTR
Cost: $ 725.00
June 6- 11, 2010 With Kerik Kouklis

During this intensive 5-day workshop you will begin by learning to make high quality digital negatives using the Quad Tone RIP (QTR) program and Epson printers. You will learn how to calibrate and control this powerful tool in an [...]

[ May 22, 2010 to May 23, 2010. ] San Francisco, CA

DAGUERREOTYPE (Spring | Beginning)
Even after more than 170 years since its invention, the Daguerreotype remains arguably the most beautiful photographic process. During this two-day workshop, we’ll take you through the entire process – from bare copper plate to silvery, jewel-like Daguerreotype – and explain the tools and techniques necessary to make these images [...]

[ May 14, 2010 to May 16, 2010. ] Pittsburgh, PA

Three Day Hands-on Daguerreotype Workshop
Instructor: Jerry Spagnoli

This exciting three day workshop will introduce you to the daguerreotype -the first photographic process presented to the public in 1839. A daguerreotype is a photographic image, produced on a sheet of polished silver, unique for its clarity and presence when held in your hand. The process has [...]

[ April 25, 2010; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] http://www.artintheopenphila.org/events/2010/apr/25/workshop-pinhole-cameras-everyone/

Sunday April 25, 2010 – 1 to 3 p.m.

Construct a pinhole camera, take a picture outside, and post it online as part of Worldwide Pinhole Camera Day.

Open to adults and children ages 6 & up accompanied by an adult
$15 adults, $10 children.

In conjunction with the exhibitions: The Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y: Mapping: Outside/Inside
Four [...]

[ April 25, 2010; ] Classes and workshops to learn and photograph with pinhole cameras.

Location: All over.

Find a class near you: http://pinholeday.org/events/

[ April 17, 2010 to April 18, 2010. ] Pittsburgh, PA

Calotype Workshop
Instructor: Dan Estabrook

This two-day workshop will cover Talbot’s original Calotype paper negative process. Although the original formula was notoriously difficult, even at its beginning, it still works beautifully with a little care and patience. Students will prepare the iodised paper and shoot their own negatives in camera. We will also discuss later advancements [...]