George Lepp returns to the Lepp Institute to give his favorite workshop, The Best of Lepp!

Monday will start the week with your free breakfast meeting, then on to the Institute for lecture on all the techniques that will be employed during the week so each participant will be knowledgeable before the photography begins. Some time will be spent on the important basics of image editing in Adobe Lightroom and optimizing images in Photoshop.

In addition to the following scheduled events, we’ll use the beauty of the Central Coast area at opportune times to learn landscape techniques that include panoramas, slow shutter speeds on water, and the capturing of beautiful sunsets.

Tuesday we’ll be photographing a bevy of critters at the Institute where macro techniques, lighting, and a special emphasis on extreme depth of field using Helicon Focus will be the order of the day. We’ll have a number of setups for the reptiles, insects, and other fun creatures from biologist/photographer Dennis Sheridan’s menagerie. Dennis and his assistant Sherry will be on hand to help. Part of the day will be spent at the computers editing our images and learning the basics of image editing in Photoshop

Wednesday morning we’ll be photographing three women models in an outdoor setting using simple flash fill with the ambient light. The models will have highly colored costumes and white-face makeup for an unusual exotic look. The emphasis will be on learning to use fill flash and photographing people in a natural setting. Time will again be spent editing the images at the Institute.

Thursday is for the dogs! The afternoon is scheduled with
some of the area’s group of agility dogs. These dogs compete
in agility training where they jump hurdles, run through tunnels, and weave around poles at great speed. A few portraits will again be taken to re-emphasize the use of flash fill. There is a lot to learn from the dogs in action photography. Timing, positioning, and the use of the features on our cameras that facilitate this type of photography will all help in our future photographic sessions.
George will have the new Canon EOS 1D MKIII, with its 10 frames per second, to demonstrate the best in action-capturing cameras.

During the week you’ll be editing and optimizing the images captured, and in the evenings and Friday there will be time to make prints of your best efforts. Friday afternoon George will do a group critique so we can all learn from each other.

Who Should Attend?
This course is for digital photographers who want to expand their horizons and work alongside George Lepp to learn some of the new tecniques he has perfected over the years. Here is your chance to get "The Best of Lepp" in just five short days. George guarantees to keep you so immersed in photography, the days will seem to fly by. We reiterate, this is NOT a class to learn basic Photoshop. You will be applying Photoshop principles to all the projects throughout the week, so participants should already have a good grasp of how to optimize images in Photoshop. An understanding of the fundamentals is essential for you to be able to absorb all the new Photoshop techniques George will be demonstrating.