New York - Sailing Trip

On Sunday July 26 John Bentham will lead a special Advanced Workshop aboard the historic wooden sailing vessel, The Ventura. Departing from The World Financial Center in lower Manhattan, we will cruise New York Harbor for 3 hours. Following the cruise, a break for lunch, and the workshop continues to 5pm. This special workshop is open to students, AND the cruise is open to their family, or friends. With a maximum of 15 students, and a total maximum of 35 passengers, this workshop will sell out fast. The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Nautica, Good Morning America, J. Crew and the NY Post have all staged location shoots on Ventura, and scenes from the major motion picture, Hitch, starring Will Smith were filmed aboard Ventura. This is a great looking boat, not to mention the backdrop of NY City. Sunday July 26, boarding begins at 8:15am SHARP, followed by a 3 hour morning cruise. 8:30 to 11:30am. Open to 15 workshop students AND their families or guests.

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New York - Gradisca Restaurant

Join DPA instructor John Bentham on Sunday July 12, 2009 10am to 7pm for a day of shooting at Gradisca Italian Restaurant. The focus of the workshop will be location lighting, portraits, environmental portraits and food shooting. John will give lessons on how to walk into a room and find the shot. How to position your subjects and light quickly but effectively. We will shoot the chef and staff prepping in the kitchen, knives, sage and parmesan flying. Strobe lighting will be provided. Workshop begins at 10am, restaurant location shoot begins at 2pm. We will then eat the food we shoot. Following a highly successful restaurant photo workshop on the Lower East Side, John Bentham once again provides Advanced Digital Photo Academy photography students with an opportunity to Shoot it and Eat it. This time in historic Greenwich Village shooting at Gradisca, an authentic Italian restaurant (and one of Johns favorite restaurants). Named after the convivial character in the Fellini movie, Aamaracord, Gradisca first opened in 2000. Using only the freshest ingredients and serving only homemade pastas, owner Massimo Gateano, and chef Matteo Boglione, ensure that every meal that leaves their kitchen expresses the soul of authentic Italian cooking. You can often see Mama making the pasta by hand before, and during dinner, she never stops.

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New York - Night Time in Times Square

Have you always wanted to know how to properly expose night photos? How to use rear curtain sync? Or how to subtly mix fill flash with ambient light? This workshop is your opportunity. Saturday May 16, 2009 @ 4pm - Midnight, the class will meet in the late afternoon to view samples and discuss the basics of night photography and long exposure. Pre-dusk we travel to Times Square to scout the location before magic hour, at the end of day when you get good sunset light and when the lights of Broadway and Times Square really start to pop against a darkening sky. We’ll shoot the hustle and bustle, the illuminated billboards, and those classic NYC Taxi photographs with trailing tail lights. Following the shoot we’ll catch a late dinner along with an ad hoc critique of your photos. Don’t miss this opportunity to join award–winning photographer John Bentham as he leads a class into the jaws of one of the best photography locations in the world.

This special location photography workshop is limited to TEN students.
NOTE: Rain Date: Saturday May 23, 2009

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