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—Photo workshops taught by Skip Schiel in the 2015 fall term—

Fall Light Photographic Workshop: Three Places in New England
To better understand how to work photographically with fall light, we'll visually explore three sites, a mountain (Blue Hills), meadow (Ipswich Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary in Ipswich), and river (the Charles in Watertown). We'll learn to see and feel widely, interpret and portray earth-oriented experiences, and reveal truths about this land and ourselves. We will accomplish this through a combination of examples, exercises, coaching, reviews, and writing. Be prepared to walk in possibly inclement weather, which is often better for photography. Basic experience with a digital or film camera (preferably one with manual override of controls) is required. The Center will arrange car-pooling. Limited to 12. Please reserve the Sundays following the Saturdays for rain dates.
 

Oct. 24, 12-4, Oct. 31, 630-1030 am, Nov. 7, 1-5 pm; reviews, 6-8:30 pm, Oct. 30, Nov 6
, Nov. 13

Adobe Lightroom
An in-depth exploration of this powerful, relatively easy to learn photographic software. With it you can organize files, develop, print, and make them into a slide show, web page or book—and post to social media sites like Flickr and Facebook. This workshop requires laptops (not tablets) with the latest version of Adobe Lightroom (6) installed (Adobe provides a free downloadable trial copy. Purchase price is $150.)

Four Wednesdays, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM. Begins Oct 14


Although I enjoy taking photographs on my own, Skip Schiel's classes give structure and direction, which adds another dimension to the experience. He also does these wonderful awareness exercises that help me look at things differently. It's an experience I take into other areas of my life. (Sy Friedland, Fall Light 2013)

I have owned a Lightroom tutorial video for 3 years—but the class was orders of magnitude more useful. (Adobe Lightroom Essentials, 2014)

Skip gave us ideas to think about while we were shooting. Shooting objects from different perspectives instead of just blasting away. One of the best things was that Skip was out there shooting with us. We could see after what he was looking at and what he was thinking. I have never had an instructor do that. (Winter Light, 2012)

Skip challenged us, gave thoughtful feedback and facilitated great discussions. The format of the class offered a mix of feedback, learning new techniques, seeing the work of other artists, and field trips to practice what we learned. The class flew by and I would have enjoyed a couple more sessions. (student in Night & Low Light Photography, summer 2011)

More testimonials

Mystic River, Medford MA, Fall Light, October 2014, photo by Skip Schiel

Writing by Laura Kitchings for the Fall Light—Three places in New England photographic workshop 2014

Grateful for Now

Push Forward

(Laura's blog)

Photos from the Fall Light workshop

Mystic River

Blue Hills

Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary

Contact Skip Schiel

View his photographs

His teaching philosophy

Along the Mediterranean Coast: To learn photography (teaching in Gaza, Occupied Palestine)