Digital Photography Live In-the-Field @ Golden Gate Park

Whether your photographic pursuits lie in landscape, architecture, environmental portraiture or making artwork out of the everyday, the Conservatory of Flowers provides a wealth of photo ops, beyond the obvious of beautiful floral imagery. Your DPA instructor will be with you adding insight of basic compositional techniques that help turn an ordinary snapshot into a portfolio worthy image. You will discuss the art of shadows, leading lines, patterns within patterns and much more.

We meet at the Conservatory of Flowers entrance in Golden Gate Park. We will do are introductions there and begin the lessons in the extensive gardens around the conservatory. Then we will go across the street to the de Young Museum and go to the tower where we will get a grand view of the park and San Francisco. Next we will play in the sculpture garden of the museum. When we are finished we will have coffee at the de Young museum and maybe even play with the shadows of the chairs.

Each Composition in the Field class begins with a talk with one of our experienced instructors, and then you and your fellow students take a stroll through one of a variety of photogenic locales (in any of the 20+ cities the DPA encapsulates). 

There is street photography, magnificent interiors, farmers markets, zoos, landscapes, and more, photos of which are included within. These photos are a mix of student and instructor images in many different venues and cities across the United States and Canada. 

You will have fun in the three hour session, learn to shoot strategically, get more interesting photos of the event, and walk away with a foundation to improve your photographs in the future, whether you’re traveling, or at a birthday party and everywhere in between. 

Please note – if a class must be cancelled due to weather or other circumstances beyond our control we will be happy to work with you to reschedule.  If you should need to cancel and require a new class date, contact us. A $25 transfer fee will be imposed without a 3 day notice before the scheduled class.