Photography Workshops. Mike’s Camera offers Photography Workshops that are catered to specific types of shooting styles, including macro photography, landscape photography, portrait photography, lighting, and flash photography. These workshops are held at various times throughout the year, at different venues around the Denver-Boulder Metro area, and even in the beautiful mountain parks and forests bordering our communities. Please check our website often for workshop schedules.

Things to Bring to Your Workshop. Be sure that when you come to class, you bring the following items with you: your camera (with a fully charged battery), a clean memory card (so none of your important images get accidentally erased), paper and pen to take notes, your prepaid workshop coupon or payment, and your camera manual. Depending on the workshop subject, location, duration, and season, other items may be necessary. We will list those either in the online workshop description, or individually in other communications with participants.

How to Register for a Workshop. Workshops often enlist supplemental instructors or resources, and are usually held off-site, so Perfect Picture Pak class certificates cannot be used towards the purchase of a workshop.

The cost of each workshop varies with its curriculum, location and other associated costs. As a workshop participant, you're encouraged to bring along your camera as well as any photos you've taken that you'd like to have critiqued, both for composition and technical execution. However, we ask you to limit such photographs to the subject of the workshop, to keep the group on task.

To register for a workshop, please follow the instructions for registration detailed in the specific workshop outline below. Through our photography workshops, we look forward to doing whatever we can to help you enjoy the world’s greatest hobby to its absolute fullest extent!

This extensive, hands-on three day workshop presents an opportunity to experience the joys and benefits of Macro/ Close-Up digital SLR photography, in the unique setting of the Butterfly Pavilion. You’ll go through a class classroom setting with how-to instruction followed by exclusive one-on-one instructor time in the Butterfly Pavilion’s 7,000 square-foot tropical rainforest, home to more than 1,200 live butterflies and 350 plant species from around the world. Witness and photograph butterflies emerging from their chrysalides and as they fly about throughout the rainforest habitat.

Topics Covered in Workshop:

• Seeing Macro Opportunities in Everyday Scenes
• Understanding the Basics Macro Photography
• Accessories to Enhance your Photographs
• Lighting
• Printing and Creative Output Options
• Macro and Creative Photography

Date: Coming Soon

Hours: 9:00am-3:00pm

Location: Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster

Club Legacy Member: $99.00

Non-Member: $129.00

Space is limited! Call today to register, contact Morgan at 303-443-1715

This hands-on, beginner, all day Photoshop Elements workshop is for people who own a digital camera, have already taken lots if pictures, and now want to learn how to improve their images in the digital darkroom. You’ll work on your own PC and go through the exercises right along with the instructors and learn the basics of the Photoshop program, overview of selections and how they are utilized, and the function of creating layers and their purpose. Then, you’ll work on actual photos that will be provided and go through various manipulation exercises.

Topics Covered in Workshop:

• Understanding the Basics of Photoshop
• Selections and How they Work
• Manipulating your Photos
• Understanding Layers

Date: Coming Soon

Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm

Location: Denver University Campus

Club Legacy Member: $99.00

Non-Member: $129.00

Space is limited! Call today to register, contact Morgan at 303-443-1715

This extensive, hands-on full day workshop presents an opportunity to experience the joys and benefits of Wildlife and Nature digital SLR photography, in the unique setting of the Denver Zoo. You’ll go through a class classroom setting with how-to instruction followed by exclusive one-on-one instructor time at the Denver Zoo. Various manufacturers will be providing equipment for you to test drive during the day to try out different lenses and other photographic equipment. Learn how to get the best results in the fantastic setting of the Denver Zoo taking pictures of all kinds of wildlife.

Topics Covered in Workshop:

• Understanding the Basics of Wildlife Photography
• Using wildlife photography in everyday situations
• Accessories to Enhance your Photographs
• Telephoto and Creative Photography
• Lighting
• Printing and Creative Output Options

Date: Coming Soon

Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm

Location: Denver Zoo

Club Legacy Member: $99.00

Non-Member: $129.00

Space is limited! Call today to register, contact Morgan at 303-443-1715

This extensive hands-on two day workshop presents a unique opportunity to experience Digital SLR photography instruction in the beautiful setting of Eldorado Canyon State Park. Topics covered will include experimenting with exposure techniques, depth of field as it relates to composition, and general maintenance of your photographic equipment.

If you are looking to in refine your skills in nature, landscape and outdoor photography, this is the workshop for you!

This workshop is ideal for intermediate to advanced Digital SLR photographers and hobbyists.

Included in the Program:

50 - 4x6 prints

1 - 12x18 Mounted Big Print

1 - Day park pass • Box lunch

Date: Coming Soon

Cost: $150 per person $250 per couple

Taking Stunning Nature Photographs with Martin Mosko and Alxe Noden

Clean the lens of your perception as we explore a contemplative approach to outdoor photography. In this program, we will learn to open our eyes and minds so that we can better see, appreciate and communicate through the medium of photography. This workshop will include a brief history of fine art photography to hone our perceptions, understanding how the camera and eyes see differently, and principles of composition.

After spending several days taking pictures under the direction of Martin and Alxe, Mike Dobson from Mike's Camera will demonstrate various output alternatives available today for turning your images into extraordinary works of art for display and cover options for archiving and backing up of digital files.

Please bring a digital camera and memory card and an open mind. No previous experience with photography is required other than a working knowledge of your camera in manual mode.

Date: Coming Soon

CLICK HERE for more information and to REGISTER!

This rigorous hands-on five-session workshop presents a unique opportunity to experience photography instruction and critique. A class designed to help the student see subject, composition and light better and achieve advanced picture taking. Each class will assign homework and a weekly commitment of 3-4 hours outside the classroom. Classes will be broken down in two parts. Each class will begin with a lecture followed a critique of the students work. Each week students will bring 3-8x10 inch prints to class for critique.

Dates: 

October 9th, 2008: Thursday 6:00 – 9:00 Aperture, Shutter Speed and Film Speed, Composition, Seeing Light.

October 30th, 2008: Thursday 6:00 – 9:00 Looking through and understanding different lenses: wide angle, normal and telephoto.

November 6th, 2008: Thursday 6:00 – 9:00 Macro photography, understanding depth of field, the importance of background in your subject.

November 13th, 2008: Thursday 6:00 – 9:00 The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson

December 5, 2008: Thursday 6:00 – 9:00 Presentation of final images and critique

Cost: $200 per person

This class is Limited to 10 people.

To register, contact Morgan DeForge at reception@mikescamera.com or 303-443-1715.

For more information contact Brian Rabin at 303-443-1715.

Learn How to Take Great Images at Tamron’s In-The-Field Photo Workshop

Hosted by Mike’s Camera Led by Sandra Nykerk

Workshop includes:

• Friday Evening Photography Seminar
• Saturday In-the-Field Workshop
• Loaner lenses, cameras and tripods
• $20 Gift Card
• Exclusive Bonus Rebates
• Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner &/or Snacks
• Raffle Prizes & Give-aways

Date: Coming Soon

Cost: $119 per person

Space is limited! Call today to register, contact Morgan at 303-443-1715