Upcoming Workshops
FirstLight Workshop is proud to host the following upcoming workshops:
Dubois, Wyoming 2010
The heart of cowboy country and the Wind River Range
Welcome to FirstLight Workshop in Dubois, Wyoming
Choose from two sessions:
July 12 – July 17-culminating in the traditional FirstLight Print Gallery Show
July 20 – July 25-multimedia workshop culminating in Soundslide show presentations
One of our favorite locations, located in the stunningly beautiful Wind River Range, Dubois IS the heart of “Cowboy Country”. You’ll spend 5 days photographing subjects ranging from working cowboys to rounding up herds of horses, fly-fishing in a pristine mountain stream, artists, and the local rodeo. These are just a few of the photographic possibilities you’ll be provided with in the FirstLight Dubois digital photography workshops.
Two sessions, each a 5-day digital photography workshop that will allow you to immerse yourself in a subject, nurture your photographic instincts and guide you in digital workflow, editing and professional response to your work. Week one participants will have their work displayed in the traditional FirstLight gallery show, to which the community will be invited. Those choosing week 2 will also be gathering sound (we provide the recording equipment: high end Olympus LS-10 PCM recorders) and build a “Soundslides” show, to also be presented on the final night.
Through our relationship with Dubois, you will enjoy unprecedented access to the area. You’ll spend mornings and afternoons surveying, studying and shooting your subjects and the amazing landscapes. At a pre-assigned time photographers will return to the workshop headquarters to download images and discuss the morning shoot with your photo editor. You will then have the afternoon to further explore the area or go back to your assignment to take advantage of the “golden-hour” of photography. Each evening the instructors will host projection sessions and critiques of the days work while sharing in the camaraderie for which FirstLight is famous.
FirstLight photographers and our guests will also enjoy a gallery show of the week’s “best of” work. Held at the photographer’s headquarters where you will enjoy wine and cheese along with the company of friends and the locals that you spent the week photographing.
Bring your own equipment, or use one of the Olympus E system digital SLR outfits, which will be available for your use at the workshop.
Space is extremely limited; so don’t delay in signing up for this incredible photographic opportunity.
Your Instructors: Week One:
Your Instructors: Week Two:
Workshop Cost
Cost for the Dubois workshop is $1850.00. *FirstLight alumni receive a discount.
Your FirstLight Dubois Workshop fees include: workshop fees and instruction from our experts, access to Olympus E-system state-of-the-art digital cameras and lenses, Opening & Closing Night Receptions, Opening and Closing Night Dinners, a 16×20” print, and a copy of FirstLight Dubois Magazine which will arrive at your home after the workshop (please note, the inception, development, editing, writing and layout of the magazine takes a considerable amount of time).
Please call our offices Toll Free 1 877 448 0411 to register with a $250.00 USD deposit, fully refundable before April 30. After April 30, the deposit is non-refundable. The balance of the fee is due by June 1, 2010 and there are no refunds for cancellations on or after June 1, 2010. FirstLight Workshops has the right to cancel the workshop up to and including June 1, 2010 and any and all monies received will be fully refunded. Please note, this workshop will fill up quickly, so register soon as this is a first-come, first-reserved offer.
After June 1, 2010, no refunds will be made!! Cancellations after April 30, 2010 and up to and including June 1, 2010 will forfeit the $250.00 deposit
Checks should be payable to: FirstLight Workshop LLC
Send checks to: FirstLight Workshops P.O. Box 582 Littleton, CO 80160-0582
FirstLight Workshops is also proud to announce that we accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express as payment for your Dubois, Wyoming experience!
What is not included: 1. Airfare 2. Lodging (we have special prices arranged through the Twin Pines Lodge in Dubois, here’s their toll free phone: 1 800 550 6332. You must call soon to reserve this special price 3. Transportation-you WILL need a car 4. Meals – Except the opening and closing night dinners which are provided by FirstLight (The Twin Pines provides a very nice continental breakfast as part of your room cost)
What you must bring:
1. For this workshop you MUST bring a laptop on which you will work. We will primarily be working in Adobe Lightroom, if you don’t own this software, you can download a 30-day trial version from Adobe immediately prior to the workshop. 2. Digital SLR camera and knowledge of how to work the equipment. If interested, we can provide an Olympus DLSR and lenses, but we MUST know your needs prior to the workshop 3. For those in week two: We will primarily be using Adobe Soundbooth. There is a trial version of this software available through Adobe.
If you have any additional questions, or for more information, call us Toll Free 1-877-448-0411, email us or write to us at the address above.
Please fill out the form on the “Registration” page as completely as possible and a FirstLight Workshops representative will follow up with you regarding your registration. We also require you to sign a waiver that will be sent to you. Please note that all fields marked with an * are required, but the more information you give us, the better we will be able to answer any questions you may have.
What you will do when you are there
July 12, or the second session, July 20: Travel/Arrival Day, and opening-night wine and cheese party where you will meet your fellow participants and instructors.
July 13, or the second session, July 21: FirstLight Dubois you’ll meet at the workshop HQ, where you’ll meet the instructors, listen to an overview of Dubois from our resident photographer and FirstLight instructor, Jeff Vanuga, and discuss the available assignments. A workflow seminar will occur prior to your heading out on your shoot, and we’ll also discuss how professional photographers approach an assignment and how we make the “entre” into our subjects’ lives.
Daily, you’ll come back to the workshop HQ mid-morning to download your images and have your work critiqued. Either prior to-or immediately after-you head off to lunch, we’ll have a group projection and critique session. These are great, as you’ll get a reaction to your work and provide your insights to other’s work. After lunch, we’ll provide a seminar on shooting, workflow or editing in Lightroom and in the July 20 workshop, seminars on Soundbooth and Soundslides will be presented, our software for blending the images and sounds captured.
We’ll host an instructor’s show, where we’ll also invite the public. We heavily encourage our students to bring in digital files of their own work, 5-10 images, to share with the group at this time.
After that you’ll head back out on your assignments, utilizing the “golden hour” light.
July 17, or second session, July 25, FirstLight will host the final evenings’ print show, week two will culminate in that evening’s projection sessions of the multimedia shows, where our photographic subjects and the town will be invited in to view our students work.
The entire process comes to life with our own FirstLight Dubois; we will develop, design and complete the magazine, each student will receive a printed version, which will arrive at your home after the workshop.
How to get there
The most convenient airport in which to fly is the Jackson Hole, Wyoming (JAC). This is about an hour and a half drive to Dubois. Most car rental agencies have facilities there, so reserve your car in plenty of time. Salt Lake City (SLC) is another airport to consider, about a 4-5 hour drive. Dubois is located near the southern entrance to Yellowstone, and if you’ve not been to this spectacular park, you may want to think about extending your stay AFTER the workshop, when you are “thinking and seeing photographically”
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