WORKSHOPS

Creative Flower Photography on Madeline Island - 06/16/2025 to 06/20/2025

Creative Flower Photography on Madeline Island Instructor: This Course has 4 Instructors Mike Moats, Jackie Kramer, Kathleen Clemons, Andrea Gulickx. About This Workshop In this five-day photography retreat, you will learn a wide variety of significant techniques from four master macro and floral photographers utilizing the environs of Madeline Island and the historic port town of Bayfield. Your creative muse will include lupines, wild flowers, boatyard gardens, and beach vegetation. This summer immersion retreat offers a unique macro and intimate landscape scene photography adventure. Capture over 50,000 blossoming florals, woodland flowers and plant life and other abstract subjects. Your retreat experience will include a combination of shooting in the field, classroom lectures, and unique post-processing training utilizing specialized software. Enjoy a ferry ride from Madeline Island to Bayfield,

My Image Post Processing with Smart Photo Editor

Attend this zoom meeting where I will show how I process my images using the amazing creative filters in this simple to use and inexpensive Smart Photo Editor program. I will process 20 images using various creative filters. Q&A at the end of the program.

The Four Seasons of Macro Photography Zoom

Are you stuck on always shooting flowers and bugs with no imagination on what else there is to shoot. I will cover each season of the year and show the life cycles of the plants and open the macro photographers' eyes to the amazing variety of subject matter beyond flowers and bugs. This will inspire you to get out and shoot more. Meeting online through zoom. February 15th, 2025 Time: 12pm eastern time zone Run time: 90 minutes

Macro Boot Camp Zoom Program

Macro Boot Camp Zoom Program September 28th, 2024, Eastern Time Zone 12pm to 4pm Cost $59

Is Your Flower Photography Boring, Let Me Show You Some Creative Ways to Help Out

This live zoom program is the most extensive flower program I have ever offered. Covering, equipment, soft focus, everything in focus, filling the frame, water drop flower refraction, shooting through subjects, creating and working with backgrounds, natural backgrounds, finding character, flower backsides, backlighting, focus stacking, diffraction, photographing silk flowers, composition, dead flowers.

Getting it All in Focus Without Focus Stacking

When I ask macro photographers what they are struggling with, the answer is always depth of field and not understanding the f/stops and how they affect the focus. You will hear photographers say that you have to focus stack in order to get more depth of field, but not true and in this program, you will learn the easy methods to getting all the depth of you want without focus stacking.

Macro/Close-Up Composition - Zoom Program

Macro Composition Zoom Program. In this program I will cover, subject placement, contrast, lines, backgrounds, natural backgrounds, textures, cropping, leave space at the edges, rule of threes, vertical and horizontal framing.