Photography Canoe Retreat
A Digital Photography Education partnership with Matt Lit
Photography educator Matt Lit and The River’s Path offer a unique approach to learning photography while connecting with the River by canoe. Join guide Lauren Bond Kovsky and Matt for a guided canoe trip and learn photography!
June 2-10, 2018
Pricing:
$1,495 per person
Early Bird (before April 15):
$1295 per person
Payment Plan
Available upon request
Deposit
50% nonrefundable deposit is due upon signup.
Your Dynamic Guides
Canoe guide Lauren Bond Kovsky
& Photography Educator Matt Lit
On a Photography Canoe Retreat
You Can Expect
- Floating Green River, Utah ~ Ruby Ranch to Mineral Bottom
- Understanding of why you’re picking up the camera in the first place
- How Aperture & Shutter work in concert for creative outcomes and correct exposure
- Understanding digital ISO and how to use
- Passion and inspiration for photography
- Learning to previsualize in your mind and when you’re “in the viewfinder”
- Discovering your personal style
- Continued inspirations for your vision & style
- Digital Asset Management…DAM!
- Storing & Backing Up your images
- Basics of Adobe Bridge, Photoshop & Lightroom
- Tweaks, techniques & actions
- Tripods available FREE!
Limited to 12 people!
Learn Photography on The River
- Gear handling and packaging for the River/Outdoors.
- Technical tools for Creative Outcomes.
- Finding, exploring and expanding your creative vision
- Scenics
- Seeing the details around you
- Photographing the people around you
- Photography EDU materials are included.
- Matt’s Basic Digital Photography Powerpoint
- Wonders of Photography Text featuring Matt’s work
- Follow-up accessibility
Topic 1: What are the Creative Controls and Why they Matter & Exposure
- Why are we picking up the camera in the first place? Taking the mystery out of the numbers.
- Taking the mystery out of Shutter Speeds, F-stops and ISO. Learn how they work together.
Topic 2: Nature, People, Night Photography, Wildlife
- Different areas of photography explored…from Nature to People & Wildlife and capturing night photography and stars with the vision of creating timelapses.
Post Trip: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom Online Critique
- Online critique of your images after the trip ends! Join Matt online and watch him post-process your photos and learn how to make them shine!
- Some trips will have a follow-up show and critique
Basic Digital Photography topics covered:
- Basic Camera layout & menus
- Aperture & Shutter as Creative Controls
- F-stop & Shutter as Exposure Controls
- Exposure meters, Zone System, Histogram
- Inside the Digital Camera
Vision & Seeing topics covered:
- Compositional guidelines & the math behind the beauty
- Adapting your vision & Seeing how the camera sees
- Focal length to capture your vision
- Getting it right IN the camera, not fixing it in Photoshop
- Seeing light & learning to meter to capture what you see
- Metering, the Zone System & your Histogram
Adobe Bridge/Photoshop/Lightroom:
- What’s the difference?
- Which program is right for me?
- Basics of Workflow
- Digital Asset Management
All the lessons include continued access to Matt’s videos, plenty of follow-up time for additional questions & photo review (within reason…full portfolio reviews and private tutoring available for a nominal fee.)
Before the course starts:
- Get out your instruction manual. Learn your camera:
• Where the buttons are, what they do and where is the information presented to you. I’m going to teach you about photography but you need to learn your specific camera! - Need help finding your instruction manual? Contact me and I’ll help you find online.
Includes:
the Wonders of Photography by Dennis Curtain
* This is the textbook Matt reviewed the manuscript for and is a featured photographer.
Camera Equipment needed:
- D-SLR, mirrorless or “bridge” camera capable of:
• Manual Exposure
• Display of Histogram
- Multiple memory cards
Computer Equipment needed:
- External Hard Drives (recommend 2 – 1TB)
- USB thumb drives
- Laptop with Photoshop or Lightroom