Yosemite Photography Workshops

23/12/2024

Commercial filming in Yosemite no longer needs a permit as long as... (see link) This is HUGE!

Text for H.R.6492 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): EXPLORE Act

02/12/2024

Photo workshops in Yosemite National Park! See https://yosemitephotoworkshops.com/ for more details!

01/12/2024

The Yosemite Winter Weeklong Photo 2025 workshop is February 24-28, 2025. No crowds, possibility for a snowy valley, and Horsetail Fall! Plus, a 7-hour post-processing course included! See https://yosemitephotoworkshops.com/ for details!

YOSEMITE PHOTO WORKSHOPS Learn Landscape Photography from a 38 year veteran of Yosemite National Park Our 16th YearNamed one of "The 50 Awesome Worksho ...

09/09/2024

Join us for an intensive, 3-day photo workshop in Yosemite National Park. Thursday, Oct. 31 to Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. We'll spend 3 full days shooting the familiar vistas, but also locations in Yosemite only the local photo community knows, not listed in the guidebooks. You'll learn polarizing filters, shooting techniques to maximize the quality of your results, the value of patience, and much, much more! $895 per person.
See https://yosemitephotoworkshops.com/

Schedule "Phil, I want to thank you so very much for the incredible workshop. I learned so much about enhancing landscape photography. Being able to implement techniques immediately and see the results is very rewarding. Your teaching style works so well; you are very specific and explain things cle...

16/08/2024

I've been going through some of my earlier work and re-processing the images through updated software and the results are incredible.

This 2-panel, pano image was one of the first I shot after going digital. Captured with a 6mp Canon Digital Rebel (300D) with the horrible 18-55mm kit lens in June of 2004, I had no tripod, so balancing on my knee which was braced on a rock, I shot hand-held. I think it went better than I was anticipating!

It was a raw file, so I reconverted through DxO Photolab leaning heavily on the noise reduction and sharpening. Converted to a 16-bit TIFF file in ProPhoto, I reduced the very bad chromatic aberration in this image and boosted the relatively pale color from the Digital Rebel.

08/08/2024

Join us for an intensive, 3-day photo workshop in Yosemite National Park. We'll spend 3 full days shooting the familiar vistas, but also locations in Yosemite only the local photo community knows, not listed in the guidebooks. You'll learn polarizing filters, shooting techniques to maximize the quality of your results, the value of patience, and much, much more!
See https://yosemitephotoworkshops.com/

All workshops are conducted by me. I do not use “workshop leaders”. I offer help and guidance to all who ask. Some people know their equipment and only want to know where to go. Others are new to digital photography and have many questions. I give my attention to anyone and all. There is no such...

08/05/2024

I'm with my workshop class this week; Yosemite waterfalls are raging right now... Here's a tight shot of Upper Yosemite Fall shot from Cook's Meadow.

12/04/2024

The 2024 Solar Eclipse from Lampasas, Texas. We had a thin cloud cover, but it was awesome nonetheless.

25/03/2024

Join us for this very special photo workshop in Yosemite National Park for the fall colors. Plus, by popular demand, I'm doing a 7-hour, intensive post-processing class during the workshop.

Mon - Fri, November 4 - 8, 2024

All the details are here:

The Yosemite Fall Colors Week Long Photo Workshop 5 days in Yosemite National Park for the Fall Colors! Mon - Fri, November 4 - 8, 2024 We’ll shoot extensively in Yosemite Valley, accessing vistas that are not in the guidebooks.We’ll go up to Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, Washburn Point and poss...

19/03/2024

26/02/2024

Join us for the 2024 Yosemite National Park Early Spring Photo Workshop. This year has seen exceptional snowfall and the runoff is anticipated to be epic! It will be an o**y of full-bore waterfalls and moving water for motion blur lessons, lots of green color and smaller-than-summer crowds!

Your guide and teacher has 37 years experience in Yosemite!

3 days of expert instruction and shooting from vistas not in the guidebooks.

See https://yosemitephotoworkshops.com for details and registration!

Learn landscape photography with a 38-year veteran of Yosemite National Park.Reduce the amount of time thinking about your camera and increase the amount if time thinking about your subject matter and still get mind-boggling shots.

15/12/2023

Join us for the 2024 Winter Photo Workshop! 3 days of seldom-experienced winter in Yosemite! Feb. 23-25, and Feb. 27-29, 2024! We could get snow, maybe a storm or two. Plus, shooting Horsetail Fall while avoiding the crowds in a secret location.

Your leader has 37 years experience in the park and will take you to places not even the park service knows about.

Learn landscape photography with a 38-year veteran of Yosemite National Park.Reduce the amount of time thinking about your camera and increase the amount if time thinking about your subject matter and still get mind-boggling shots.