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Overview
Zion National Park’s red rock and limestone cliffs and spires tower above sculpted canyons, grottoes, and waterways, forming a unique and awe-inspiring landscape at the convergence of the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert. Autumn’s arrival brings comfortably cool temperatures and fall colors in the maples and cottonwoods. Zion is quite simply one of the gems of the National Park system, a highlight of the American Southwest, and one of our favorite outdoor photographic “classrooms.”
Charles Cramer is a masterful artist renowned for landscape photographs that derive their power from their elegant and gentle calm. He has returned again and again to Zion over the years to draw inspiration from its astonishing interplay of canyon light, color contrasts, and dramatic forms. Garnering rave reviews whenever he teaches, Charlie enjoys nothing more than sharing his insights, creativity, and craftsmanship with other passionate photographers in an effort to help them refine their own vision. Assistant instructor Justin Black has led four prior workshops at Zion and is always struck by the way this landscape reveals its secrets like the layers of an onion being peeled back – every visit yields a new discovery and new qualities of light.
This all-inclusive workshop will be based at Flanigan’s Inn of Springdale, Utah, just outside the western entrance of Zion National Park, providing excellent access to field locations. Along with eight field sessions, Charlie and Justin will present projected lectures on composition, light, exposure control, anticipating and working through changing conditions, and essentials of digital workflow. Three critique sessions will provide essential constructive feedback on images created during the workshop.
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This Creative Core workshop deals heavily with developing creativity and visualizing compositions, with a great deal of photography in the field. Creative Core workshops are general outdoor photography workshops designed to expose participants to the full creative toolbox, but the emphasis of individual participants’ work is up to them. Whether they wish to focus on classic landscape, abstraction, color, black and white, HDR, panoramics, multiple exposures, or all of the above, any enthusiastic photographer will feel right at home in this workshop. Charlie and Justin have decades of experience successfully accommodating a range of experience levels within the context of a workshop.
In advance of the session, we supply materials to get everyone up to speed with fundamentals of digital camera set-up and technique, as well as essential equipment recommendations, recommended packing list, and other guidelines to ensure that everyone is ready to make the most of the experience.
Note: This workshop is operated under National Park Service Commercial Use Authorization.
Instructors
Charles Cramer
- After spending seven years of college studying classical piano, Charles Cramer visited Yosemite National Park, and soon realized he wanted out of those tiny practice rooms! Realizing the similarities ...
Justin Black
- JUSTIN BLACK is a photographer, writer, editor, expedition leader, photo workshops instructor, a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers (ILCW), a former executive director of the International ...
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Highlights
- Eight field photography sessions, maximizing opportunities during “magic hour” and in the warm glow of reflected canyon light.
- Composition and creativity
- Working the scene through changing conditions and light
- Understanding and using various qualities of light to best effect
- Exposure and tonal control
- Essentials of digital workflow
- Three projected group critique sessions
Accommodations
Package includes single-occupancy lodging, all meals, snacks and beverages, including adult beverages with dinner. Prorated fees are available for double occupancy and for those who do not require lodging. Flanigan’s Inn in Springdale, Utah is an up-scale, comfortable, quiet, and welcoming lodge-style accommodation just outside the western entrance of the park. It provides easy access to both Zion Canyon and the high country and features an excellent restaurant on its premises, the casual but elegant Spotted Dog Cafe.
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Expectations
Participants in this workshop should expect inspiring, enthusiastic, effective, and generous instruction from Charlie and Justin, both in the classroom and hands-on in the field. Photography in the field will make the most of our familiarity with the phenomenal opportunities available in the area, and we will work with each participant to ensure their goals for the workshop are met. Three constructive group critique sessions will do wonders to refine your composition and techniques in the field, while allowing you to learn from the unique eye of each of your fellow participants. Most of all, this will be a fun, positive, and inspiring workshop that will exceed your expectations, provide new understanding and the keys to continue your development, and will leave you energized and excited to apply what you learned.
Praise for Charlie Cramer’s teaching style:
Charlie couldn’t have been better. He’s a gifted teacher – gentle – helpful – makes subject matter clear –Tom U., California
Charles is a brilliant instructor. He is organized, precise and thoughtful in approach. –Woody S., Colorado
Everything exceeded my expectations, exponentially! –Julie J., Oregon
Charlie is a national treasure as a photographer and an instructor. –Kerby S., California
That Charlie Cramer is a superb teacher is well known and firmly established. What is less well known perhaps is a crucial and distinguishing core element in Charlie’s teaching: he makes it possible for people to make their own pictures, however differing in style and subject from his own work, and to make those pictures better. –Jed W., California
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