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Capital Photography Center
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Capital Photography Center is a photography school founded by Marie Joabar, offering a wide variety of classes taught by skilled and passionate instructors. With single-session classes and small class sizes, the school provides a flexible and enjoyable learning experience for photographers of all skill levels.

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Capital Photography Center

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Capturing the Holiday Spirit on The National Mall

Capital Photography Center

People come from far and wide at all times of the year to take iconic photos on the National Mall. The holidays are a particularly great time to capture Washington, D.C. in its most festive spirit. Explore landscape photography in a way that will give you an entirely new perspective of our nation’s capital. You’ll learn pro-level tips and techniques that turn the ordinary into the sublime and enable you to get the most out of your holiday photos....

(10) All levels 16 and older
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Composition in Nature at Lake Roland Park

Capital Photography Center

The composition of a photograph is the single most important element a photographer uses to convey an artistic statement.  What’s included, excluded and the arrangement of elements within the frame is all part of composition.  In this field shoot class, you will learn techniques to improve a photograph’s composition in Baltimore’s Lake Roland Park. We’ll have panoramic views of a stone dam built early in the 1860’s and its reservoir....

(10) All levels 16 and older
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Waterfalls in the Patapsco

Capital Photography Center

Patapsco Park offers over 16,000 acres over 32 miles along the Patapsco River and includes eight different recreational areas for a variety of outdoor activities. This adventure will bring us to a small section of this beautiful park and we’ll explore the hiking trails for some of the best highlights in the area. This class will focus on learning how using filters can lead to slow exposures that create silky water effects at Cascade Falls and...

(10) All levels 16 and older
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Painting With Light at National Arboretum

Capital Photography Center

Painting with light is an exciting and artistic way to portray your subject in a completely unique manner. Using the darkness as the backdrop, the photographer works like a painter using a flashlight to illuminate, highlight, and emphasize their subject. Using your own light source to illuminate the scene provides creativity in rendering your final image.  Experimenting with color, intensity, and angle of the light source creates limitless...

(10) All levels 16 and older
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Lightroom Classic Library Module

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

The Lightroom Classic Library Module - Getting Organized Lightroom is the industry standard for amateurs and professional photographers alike, for organizing and editing our images. At the heart of this powerful program lies the Library Module where we import, organize, sort, rate and tag our images. Spend an afternoon with Marie Joabar learning the Lightroom Classic Library Module covering the various options for importing images into your catalog,...

(10) All levels 16 and older
No upcoming schedules
$160

4 sessions

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Seeing Pink: The Queer Perspective in Photography

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

In this six-week workshop, students will be challenged to approach their image-making with an LGBTQ oriented theme in mind. Topics include but are not limited to: interior emotional content, upheaval and personal events, gender identity, politics, and desire — all as they relate to our queer lives. The instructor will make suggestions and provide tools to help build a strong final body of work. The class will be composed of critiques, slide presentations...

(10) All levels 16 and older
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$575

6 sessions

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Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text & Image Part 2

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

A collaborative Workshop for previous students This workshop is Part 2 of the workshop “Writing Pictures,” offered at LACP in 2020. This all-new class will build on the previously-presented material, encouraging students to go even deeper with the text/image form to express their authentic voice. Once again, we will spend focused time making photographs about words and writing words about photographs, using our own work as prompts, as well as...

(10) Intermediate 16 and older
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$775

5 sessions

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Beginning Photography Using Your Phone

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

In this class, students will learn about the cameras in their phones or tablets and about basic camera operation, including image enhancements on their devices. Discussions include the technical side of how to use the camera apps and settings. Photographic concepts including composition, light and controlling focus and exposure will be stressed. We’ll study capture apps and why/how they differ from our built-in, native cameras. Other topics covered...

(10) Beginner 16 and older
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$415

12 sessions

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Experimental Projects

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

“The enemy of photography is convention, the fixed rules of how-to-do. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.” Join educator and photographer Ken Merfeld in a course structured to enable students to go beyond technique and into personal expression and creativity. This class provides a foundation to develop confidence in one’s ability to “create”, to discover the inherent artist in each of us, and to expand our abilities...

(10) All levels 16 and older
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$415

6 sessions

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Collaborating with Nonprofits

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

Learn how to collaborate with nonprofit organizations and institutions to raise the funds needed to present exhibitions, classes, and special projects. Artists will learn the steps nonprofit organizations use in applying for grants and how to become a “member of the team” to raise funds for new programs and projects. Artists will also learn how to communicate with and develop positive collaborative relationships with nonprofit organizations....

(10) All levels 16 and older
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$295

2 sessions

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Getting Started with Photoshop

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

Join a five-week introduction to the wonders of Photoshop. Even the most beginner level participants will finish the course with a solid understanding and usable set of skills in the program. No previous experience in Photoshop is required. Participants will be introduced to the potential workflow, a workflow common among some of the best photographers in the world. If you are primarily a Lightroom Classic user, you can travel between Lightroom...

(10) Beginner 16 and older
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$175

4 sessions

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Meet and Critique

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

Join Professional Photographer and Judge, Roy Sewall for a meet and critique photo session. Roy will critique the photos using the same criteria he uses as a frequent photography judge, but will go into much greater depth than a competition would allow. This course is designed for the intermediate level photographer. Knowledge of editing software (Lightroom, Photoshop, On-One, etc) is recommended.

(10) Intermediate 16 and older
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$110
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Getting Started in Street Photography

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

In this webinar, Julia Dean will talk about the laws and ethics of street photography, as well as what it takes to become comfortable on the street. She will discuss what makes a good street photograph, how to work quickly, and how to approach people. Julia will show you a variety of styles of street photography, including her own photojournalistic candid style.

(10) All levels 16 and older
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Process as a Search for Serenity

Capital Photography Center @ Online, Washington, DC

In this webinar, Wendi Schneider will discuss her artistic process, which fuses digital techniques with hand-gilding. Schneider’s process is heart-driven by a search for grace and the elusive ‘glow of flow,’ when the awareness of time and space disappear. Using her own work as reference, Wendi will showcase a series of images at several points in the production process to tell the story of an image from capture to completion. Rather...

(10) All levels 16 and older
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