Having recently returned from a fantastic location workshop given by Teri Lou Dantzler (iPhoneography with Teri Lou) and Harry Sandler (iPhone-Antics with Harry Sandler) in Napa, California, I thought folks might like to know what a wonderful time it was. Teri Lou and Harry are wonderful teachers and make a great team teaching others from the benefit of their experience with both photography and iPhone/iPad apps. We also were shown some techniques for post processing our images for printing using Lightroom and Photoshop and each of us went home with one or two prints of our best image(s).
Some of the many highlights of the workshop included…
- Shooting at great locations that had been scouted before the workshop began.
- Staying at a clean, convenient location with an in-house restaurant where we could get freshly prepared hot meals for breakfast before our morning classroom sessions… and even dinner if we were too tired to go out for dinner.
- Dining at a couple of REALLY fine restaurants, Celadon in downtown Napa and Brix near where we finished our afternoon shoot.
- Socializing with interesting instructors and fellow photographers attending the workshop, both in the field and in the classroom, as well as over dinner and drinks and other shared meals.
- Did I mention shooting at great locations? Part of that experience included hands on instruction in using camera apps with which we were previously unfamiliar.
- A perfect mix of classroom instruction with shooting in the field.
- An opportunity (which I took advantage of) to do an early morning shoot with Teri Lou at one of the nearby locations where balloon rides over the Napa Valley were launched… one of my images from that shoot is included in this post.
- An experience that will not be forgotten… Check out upcoming location workshops with Harry and Teri Lou… You will not be disappointed should you decide to attend one, or more, of them!
The images below shot and processed using techniques learned in the Napa, CA location workshop. Tutorials explaining the post-processing techniques for the first two images are on my iPhone photography blog.
Love the hot air balloon picture! Is Teri and Harry on creativelive?The workshop sounds real fun!
To the best of my knowledge, neither Harry nor Teri Lou participate on creativelive. If I find out differently, I will post an update in this comment thread.
it sounds like a great learning experience! I hope such events exist for Android photography…
I really like the Balloon over Napa and McClure’s Beach =D
I agree with you, Charlotte! Since there are lots of Android phone users, there will be thousands of people who will be joining this workshop… like me.
Yeah it sounds like a great workshop! I’d love to join too if only I live in that area! Wish you guys have online workshop.
Yes. Like a webinar. I want to join too.
For online workshops, check Teri Lou’s offerings at http://iphoneographywithterilou.blogspot.com – I’m in the midst of her second course, iCreativity, now and am thoroughly enjoying her guidance and the over-all learning experience.
Great! Thanks a lot, Victoria! I know I’ll learn a lot as well through Teri Lou’s workshops. I’m a newbie in this field but I believe soon I’ll become an expert like you.
Thank you for sharing, Victoria. I can’t wait to learn more about iPhoneography. Do they conduct online seminars as well?
I can’t wait till I can take this workshop myself – I have learned so much from just reading through this article already, I can’t even imagine what I will learn from the workshop itself!
Thanks, Victoria. I think attending workshops is better than just reading and doing self study for iPhoneography. Sharing experience is the best way to learn
Thanks Victoria. I hope I can attend that workshop.
Can’t wait for your next post. I really wanted to know how your processed the “balloon image”.