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One on one remote learning: These Zoom sessions will fully reflect the same content as with the on-ground workshops offered by the FMoPA institute.

You asked for it. We listened! Based on YOUR feedback, FMoPA instructor and award-winning fine art photographer Scott Bolendz has designed a new workshop that will offer students constructive critiques of their own travel/vacation-related images (taken by both smartphone and DSLR/Mirrorless cameras).

Students will first review – with several examples – some of the core technical and aesthetic elements that make an image strong and engaging. Then, as a group, students will have their own images evaluated by the instructor (as well as by the class) using an identifiable set of objective and subjective criteria. The goal will be to highlight areas of strength, and opportunities for improvement, in the images reviewed. The instructor will also do live photo editing demonstrations on selected student images to illustrate easy ways to make a good photo look even better!

Finally, the instructor will personally choose a single best image submitted by each student, and then at the end of the workshop, the entire class will vote on the overall best image. The winner will receive a voucher to attend a future Scott Bolendz Photography workshop at FMoPA for free (with some restrictions*). Students should submit up to 10 of their best/favorite images prior to the class (submission details will be provided at the time of workshop registration).

These days we don’t leave the house without a camera in our hand. Honestly, we don’t leave our bed without grabbing the camera first. Our children are the most photographed in history, but we still sometimes struggle with taking great photos with our cell phone. This class will go over your phone camera’s basic functions, some simple photography rules to help you see and use light to take better images, and some simple yet very useful editing tools and techniques. Come join us in learning how to master your camera.

Instructor Bio: Kelly has been a family photographer for over 10 years. She grew up here in rural Florida, where she still loves to spend most of her time. As an artistic storyteller, Kelly documents real family life in a way that takes the ordinary and reminds you that it is extraordinary.