Pixel Photo Fest

Lee Varis guides you through a new creative process for still life lighting and shooting. Explore different classic still life genres for small objects using continuous light sources, and flash lighting. The basic strategy is to make several exposures with different lighting directions, and then blend these exposures together in Photoshop layers. Learn different approaches for glassware, sculptural items, flowers, musical instruments, and translucent materials.

Taking Your Wedding Photography from 0 to 100 will focus on the challenges and hardships photographers face when starting a wedding business and how to proactively avoid and overcome them. It will include real world examples, marketing strategy, best practices, and more so you too can build up your wedding business.

Heather will talk about portrait photography and interaction with children. The lecture will cover portrait photography composition, kid interaction for best expressions, gear options, easy-to-learn tips on finding good light, and simple post-processing.

Overview: Looking to up-level your services? Give Personal Brand Photography a try! There is a huge need in the digital world for businesses to market what they do in just about every capacity. Many businesses do not even know they need this! Come join Sarah Beirne Photography and you will learn her mission and approach to finding entrepreneurs and businesses to photograph. Learn techniques, processes, and hands on techniques from Sarah on how she gets her clients to shine and be their true selves behind her camera. This class will allow participants to leave feeling confident to go out and find a few small businesses that might be in need of photography. Utilizing what is learned in this workshop, participants can take their style of photography and start attracting their ideal personal brand clients.

From planning to post processing, this talk will dive in to everything you need to get started with astrophotography.
This is for all levels of photographers looking to learn how to take photos of the night sky.
What You Will Learn in this Lecture

Basic and Advanced Camera Settings for Shooting the Stars

How to get the best night sky images for different camera setups and situations

Focusing your camera in the dark

Tips and tricks for nailing your focus at night

Selecting the right exposure time to keep your stars sharp

How to find and shoot the Milky Way

How to shoot star trails

Different techniques for shooting at night including: single exposure, tracked images, stacked images for noise reduction