The Summer Photography Workshop Information

The Summer Photography Workshop is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of photography techniques and workflows specific to summer environments.

Alex has always let his lens be his guide, capturing intentional, yet authentic storylines and photo sets as events unfold, rather than orchestrating scenes. Join him for over 2.5 hours as he takes you through the cerulean waters of Mexico, shooting in harsh light and underwater, and then as you head to the mountains of Montana to perfect your experiential photography. Through it all, he’ll walk you through organizing your photo catalog, creating and using a preset, editing and building a consistent body of work, and curating an incredible photo set.

What You’ll Learn In The Summer Photography Workshop?

1. Alex’s Travel Kit

Discover what Alex can’t leave home without when he hops on the plane, including photography gear, travel & tech gear, and accessories.

2. The Beach: Sunrise & Sunset

Alex walks you through setting yourself up for a productive shoot in a remote location with limited resources; including reading a histogram, framing, triple exposures, and drone photography.

3. The River: Kayak, Underwater, & Drone

Alex shows you his approach for a solo sunset shoot, without any subjects. Learn how taking your time and following your instincts will lead to a sense of enhanced awareness.

4. The Ruins: Light, Lenses, & Composition

Explore techniques for shooting through trees, finding the right angles, and using the people you’re with to tell a story. You’ll learn more about composition, using natural lens distortion to your advantage, and giving scale.

5. Cenotes: Concepts

For this shoot, Alex uses high noon to his advantage and explores what he can do with light beams shooting directly into the underground pools. This section expands on underwater photographer and action shots in unique light, including how to find the best angles and shooting in harsh light.

6. Editing 1: Sunset at the Beach

Alex gives you an exclusive look into his post production and how he builds a consistent body of work that is instantly recognizable.

7. Editing 2: Sunrise in the Jungle

In this second editing tutorial Alex shows you how he color grades a drone photo in Lightroom followed by an in-depth tutorial on removing objects from your pictures in Adobe Photoshop.

8. Experiential Photography

Learn and watch how Alex executes a shoot with friends, keeping in mind the importance of approaching everything in a casual manner to allow organic moments to unfold in front of the lens.

9. What Makes a Good Set?

Alex walks us through what makes an incredible set of photos in his eyes. We dissect two very different sets from legendary photographers.

10. Editing: Summer Storm

Before making your own set, Alex creates a preset that he will apply to all the photos while making selects.

11. The Art of Making Photo Sets

Alex walks us through his approach to telling a story in photo sets. We see how he labels images into different categories, uses the website Exposure, and carefully orders his photos.

12. Researching Locations

Alex shows you his detailed process for scouting locations, all via the internet. This helps him save an incredible amount of time on location, and it helps him focus where he wants to shoot before he travels.

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