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ATLANTA
PHOTOGRAPHY
CLUB

Upcoming Events

Portrait Photography Meetup

Portrait Photography Meetup

Saturday the 2nd of July
East Atlanta Village - 5:00 pm - 2 Hours
Portraits and Street Portraiture are a great way to document the city you live in or the city you are visiting. On a warm summer evening in East Atlanta Village, there will be no shortage of fun characters to photograph.
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$39pp     only 4 places left
Intro to High Speed Sync Photography Class

Intro to High Speed Sync Photography Class

Saturday the 9th of July
Piedmont Park - 11:00am - 3 hours
Learn how to use your TTL flash (speedlite) to do High Speed Sync. This technique can be used to darken a day time sky while your subject is exposed properly or to capture rapid moving subjects with the light from your flash creating dramatic images.
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$76pp     only 6 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed
Off Camera Flash and Metering Photography Class

Off Camera Flash and Metering Photography Class

Saturday the 16th of July
Beltline - 3:00 pm - 3 Hours
Off camera flash is one of the strongest tools to improve your portraiture. It can take a standard portrait and turn it into a professional editorial photograph. In this class, we will practice metering off camera flash with a sekonic light meter, illustrate the difference between 1,2, and 3 stops over ambient light, and using modifiers to control and your light.
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$76pp     only 5 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed
Intro to Lightroom Classic Photography Class

Intro to Lightroom Classic Photography Class

Saturday the 23rd of July
Sunday House Studio - 11:00am - 3 hours
Learn how to use Adobe Lightroom Classic. Instructor will go over everything from importing photos, file management, culling bad photos, organizing images, global adjustments, localized adjustments, exporting from Lightroom and/or transferring into Adobe Photoshop for heavier visual edits. This class will be held locally in the Sunday House Studio photography studio for comfort in the July heat. Take advantage of air conditioning and learn how to edit like a pro. This will be a lot of information, some come ready to soak up some knowledge.
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$76pp     only 6 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed
Digital Pinhole Photography Meetup

Digital Pinhole Photography Meetup

Saturday the 30th of July
Little Five Points - 1:00 pm - 2 hours
It's always good to stay creative when shooting photography. Walking around and taking images is always fun, but after a while can leave you with the same images over and over again. For this meetup, we will create digital pinhole cameras using just some every day items. Digital Pinhole Cameras are a fun way to create images you wouldn't normally shoot. There is a big focus on contrast and you get to experience what the world of photography was like in the late 1800s.
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$39pp     12 places left - requires 3 bookings to proceed
ABOUT ATLANTA
PHOTOGRAPHY
CLUB
Come along to our photo sessions to dust off your camera and get snap-happy with a professional photography instructor.
Brush up on your camera skills and learn new photography techniques whilst on a photo walk class with other local keen photographers!

We run two hour photography sessions based on a photography theme/technique/style and they take place in various locations across the region.

New to photography? We also run a popular 3 hour Beginners Guide to Photography Class once a month.

And once in a while we will run special niche 3 hour classes, for example, Astrophotography - so do subscribe to our newsletter to know when the next on is!

Who can attend? Open to all skill levels, from beginners to keen amateurs. The photography instructor is there to help you with camera settings and provide any advice you need.

What to bring? We recommend bringing a camera that has full manual mode or semi-manual modes (Aperture or Shutter Priority). Compact cameras and smartphones also welcome!

The meeting point and full details for the day are sent in the booking confirmation email to the email address you provide at time of booking.

Join the Atlanta Photography Facebook Group to share your photos after the session.


COVID Precautions

Stay home if you have any symptoms of COVID.
Keep 6 feet away from others.
Wear a suitable face mask or show a valid vaccination card indicating that you are vaccinated.
Don't make unnecessary physical contact with others.
Wash your hands regularly with alcohol-based sanitizer.
REVIEWS
5/5
Kara Hunter
June 26th 2022
Fantastic! Lots of great information, one-on-one instruction, and equipment to try. I would definitely take another class with Helen.
5/5
Jason Fisher
June 25th 2022
The Intro to Speedlight class far exceeded my expectations. Helen covered all the topics listed concisely and well-organized. I now have a much better understanding of Speedlights on and off camera, from the past to the present
5/5
Meetup - mark kevin
June 14th 2022
Heather was a really good teacher. Very friendly, informative.
5/5
Ivan Schustak
June 11th 2022
Helen have a great as usual! Up to point, stats on topic, provides great explanation, has clear agenda she follow the topic, while understanding the level of the group and let?s everyone practice skills. Great workshop!
5/5
Melanie Pais
May 30th 2022
I learned a ton, especially with some of the gear I've purchased but haven't had a chance to use (reflectors and OCF). This is my second meet up and its been great! Helen is an outstanding instructor!
5/5
Richard Brodowski
May 4th 2022
10 outta 10, I recommend! Austin was very informative willing to help give us tips the whole time. I felt that I got my money?s worth for sure. He even stepped in let me borrow his camera when my battery died unexpectedly! I would definitely do a class with him again! I thoroughly have enjoyed each class I have taken through you all!
5/5
Bryttany Mack
April 24th 2022
5/5
Kevin Moore
April 2nd 2022
Great fun and I learned quite a bit. Austin does a great job and is very energetic.
5/5
Braxton Greer
March 28th 2022
This was an amazing class. Austin took his time with each and every one of us. I learned so much. He looked at our photos and offered suggestions to make them better. He even showed us things not included in the class. I highly recommend any class he does. I will be enrolling in future classes.
5/5
Lisa Carthern
March 7th 2022
Lots of fun and Austin very personable
4/5
Mitzi Hill
March 5th 2022
5/5
Kevin Moore
February 20th 2022
INSTRUCTORS
Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas is a photography instructor who teaches a broad range from beginning levels to advance studio photography. She has taught college level photography in Georgia for the past 7 years. Her background includes a Masters of Photography degree from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. There she specialized in fine art photography. She also enjoys landscape, nature, animal, infrared, underwater, portraits, and every other imaginable photography theme. She is a self proclaimed photography geek who is passionate about photography and helping others on their photographic journey.
Austin Gill
Austin is a photographer and stuntman from southern California. He attained his Bachelor of Arts in film production from Arizona State University and a post-graduate certificate in still photography from the New York Film Academy in Manhattan. After, he went on to intern for Annie Leibovitz where he assisted on shoots for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Disney. Austin has worked as a wedding photographer, product photographer, and event photographer, and creates narrative environmental portraits for his fine art series. He has worked on films such as Fate of the Furious, Kong: Skull Island, and even acted in NCIS: New Orleans and Black Panther 2. Austin shoots digital and film photography from small to large format and loves to brag about his thirty-two vintage cameras he's collected over the years.