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The Photographer’s Edge: Posing & Lighting Secrets of World-Class Portraits

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This is a 5-day, hands-on class where you’ll master the art of posing and lighting at a level that will set your work apart. No more memorizing stiff poses or endlessly copying others, here, you’ll learn the posing system that works for every genre: weddings, portraits, fashion, families, seniors, and more. Posing is a language not a set of rules. We will learn the language of posing together so you never how to never run out of things to "say" during a shoot.

The Photographer’s Edge: Posing & Lighting Secrets of World-Class Portraitsstevekozak2026-01-29T16:30:03-06:00

Travel Photography – Leveraging Your Camera and Creativity Wherever You Go

SOLD OUT! Travel offers unique opportunities to express your photographic creativity. Knowing what to capture, when to show up, and how to compose and shoot the scene before leaving home, helps maximize limited travel time to capture photographic gold. This class will explore envisioning the travel photographic process from beginning to end through discussion and hands-on-experiences designed to cultivate compositional inspiration, identify APPS & tools for locating subjects that tell the stories of time, place & people, and planning the best time to shoot.

Travel Photography – Leveraging Your Camera and Creativity Wherever You Gostevekozak2026-01-29T16:25:14-06:00

Movie Magic: Lighting & Storytelling Inspired by Film

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Learn how to draw inspiration from iconic movies and translate those looks and moods into still photography. You’ll get tons of hands-on experience trying new tools and techniques — things you may not have had the chance to play with before. From classic items like gels, grids, and reflectors to more advanced tools like gobos, flags, nets, and scrims, you’ll discover how each shapes and motivates light in unique ways.

Movie Magic: Lighting & Storytelling Inspired by Filmstevekozak2026-03-07T21:00:19-06:00

Photoshop Painting with Sandra Pearce

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Unlock the full potential of Photoshop as your digital paintbrush. In this immersive, hands-on class, I will guide you through the tools, techniques, and creative processes behind turning photographs into painterly works of art. Whether you're brand new to digital painting or ready to refine your skills, you'll gain confidence using brushes, textures, layers and blending modes to transform images into expressive, painterly pieces.

Photoshop Painting with Sandra Pearcestevekozak2026-01-31T10:58:43-06:00

Like a Fairytale – Natural and Artificial Light Photography

SOLD OUT! Step into a space where photography becomes more than a technical act — where portraits breathe emotion, color sets the tone, and each frame tells a quiet story. This class is a journey into visual storytelling through portraiture. Together, we’ll explore the poetic side of photography - how to craft atmosphere, evoke feeling, and use subtle tools like light, composition, wardrobe, color, and posing to create images that resonate.

Like a Fairytale – Natural and Artificial Light Photographystevekozak2026-01-29T16:28:35-06:00

Photoshop Zero-Sixty in a Week

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Learn the basics (and not so basics) of Photoshop in a week-long program. You’ll work Hands-On learning the tools, actions, other techniques for speeding up your images snap, crackle and pop. Camera Raw, retouching, cloning, healing brush, keyboard shortcuts and many more ways to help build your skills. Learn the easiest ways to remove people and objects from your image. How to composite, change colors of various things.

Photoshop Zero-Sixty in a Weekstevekozak2026-04-17T14:10:35-05:00

Harness Flash: From Fearful to Fearless in One Week

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If flash feels frustrating, confusing, or like it’s holding your work back — this class is for you. You’ll learn how to control your light instead of letting it control you — and more importantly, how to use it with purpose. This class is built for photographers who understand the exposure triangle, sync speed, and the difference between flash and continuous light.

Harness Flash: From Fearful to Fearless in One Weekstevekozak2026-02-06T10:54:39-06:00

Learning to See and use Light to Tell Stories

SOLD OUT! This class will transform you as a photographer. It does not matter where you are in your career; each participant will receive specialized instruction from concept to print. Learn to see differently before you even put the camera to your face. Carl will cover; the psychology of the portrait, the right light for the situation, the power of seeing shape, form, and lines, and learning how to harness whatever light you have. This class will open your eyes to the world of natural light and artificial light portraits in an all encompassing learning experience.

Learning to See and use Light to Tell Storiesstevekozak2026-04-17T14:17:54-05:00