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 - FREE Trek Tech Trek

It's called the Trek-Tech-Trek because it has all been made possible by the makers of Trek-Tech Tripods, the uniquely light-weight, fully integrated tripods with a special, quick mount-demount system. But there is a lot more to sweeten the deal, starting with 6 free cupcakes by Baked By Melissa. The day will begin around 9 am, at Digital Photo Academy Headquarters at 211 E 18th Street #2R (between 2nd and 3rd), where you will mix and mingle with our 5 New York Digital Photo Academy instructors. For our 1st Trek-Tech-Trek stop, we will travel down to Soho, to pick up our cupcakes and pose for some colorful photo ops at Baked By Melissa. We will be catching this all on video so don't be surprised if you end up on NY1 or some other local broadcasting. Can't eat 'em right away though, they will be your props for the photos that may win you $500. After we have picked up our tasty treats, everyone will break up into groups, led by our 5 instructors. Each group will have their own photo assistant and models, some legit fashion and others way out (believe it, you'll know them when you see them, and all have signed releases - don't worry you can mix and match them). The New York instructors will lead you through Soho and Lower Manhattan, directing the models for your lens work as you compete for the cash prizes and other rewards. Then its back to DPA Headquarters for you and the cupcakes, where we will have a studio set up with professional lighting equipment, to learn lighting techniques and macro photography. (Free food to eat too, not just cupcakes). And don't miss out on the old world architecture in the surrounding areas of DPA Headquarters as well as the vibrant energy of nearby Union Square. After lunch and the studio shoot, the event continues at Adorama. Here there will be special product demos and sales, while you fill out your entry forms for the photo contest which will be judged on July 15th. Check out the July Digital Photo Academy newsletter, to see who won and whether or not it was you.

New Jersey - Fashion Story

New Digital Photo Academy instructor Frank Veronsky led our students on an Advanced shoot on his 10 acre property in Skillman, New Jersey. As part of the workshop, students worked with professional hair and makeup artist Victoria Jones and professional stylist. Our model Sydney, donned several looks and utilized various locations on the 10 acre property. Students learned how to shoot in various lighting conditions such as overcast, back lighting and harsh mid day sun. They worked with flash fill light and reflectors to compensate for the light. At the end of the day, Frank taught the students about post capture work flow and manipulation in photoshop.


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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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