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—Photographic workshops taught by Skip Schiel in the winter 2016 term—

Winter Light Photographic Workshop: Metro Boston's South Shore
To better understand how to work photographically with winter light, we'll visually explore the region between Harbor Point in Dorchester and Hingham, possibly including the Quincy and Weymouth waterfronts and Hingham’s World's End. 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, and writing.  Be prepared to walk in possibly inclement weather and during difficult times of the day, which are 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. PLEASE RESERVE THE SUNDAYS FOLLOWING THE SATURDAYS AS RAIN/SNOW DAYS.

Four field trips, Saturdays: Jan 30, noon-3, Feb. 6, 9-noon, Feb 13, 2:30-5:30 pm, Feb 20, 6:30-9:30 am
Review sessions, Fridays, 6 -830 pm: Feb. 5, 12, 19, and 26

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 or smart phones) with the latest version of Adobe Lightroom installed (Adobe provides a free downloadable trial copy. Purchase price is $150.)

Five Wednesdays, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM. Begins Jan 27

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

Awareness exercise (blind faith walk), Rock Meadow in Belmont Massachusetts, October 31, 2015, photo by Harish Reddy

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, 2015

Charles River

Rock Meadow & Beaver Brook Reservation

Blue Hills

Contact Skip Schiel

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His teaching philosophy

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