location workshops - online courses - private instruction
Visual Artistry
Photography Workshops
with instructors Tony Sweet and Susan Milestone
"Getting you to the right place at the right time
to help you get the images that you imagine"
2008 Workshop Schedule
Workshop Details at bottom of page
 April 6-10 - Charleston, SC
$795, limit 10
This is a wonderful historic city with numerous photo venues. We'll be spending our time photographing historic Charleston architecture and the famous Batterie Park, full of red azalea along the waterfront, to Magnolia Gardens, where the explosions of colorful flowers, huge magnolia trees, and bald cyprus swamps signal the beginning of spring time. We'll also visit Cypress Gardens,where the movie "The Patriot" was made!
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Charleston Image Gallery
April 20-24 - Great Smoky Mountains, TN
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This is the first of two consecutive workshops in the Smokies. This time frame should place us in the Smokies when dogwood are in bloom and the streams are beginning to run fully. Also, early spring skies can be quite dramatic. Spring wildflowers are beginning to bloom, and we wouldn't be surprised if there is spring snow and hoar frost covering the mountain tops! There are layered mountain ridges and photogenic old historic settlements. |
Smoky Mountains Image Gallery FULL
 April 27-May 1 - Great Smoky Mountains, TN
$795, limit 12
During this time frame, the dogwood is beginning to fade, but wildflowers are more prolific. The streams are running a bit stronger. Warmer days and cool nights create low lying crisp ground fog in Cades Cove and Roaring Fork. The trees are beginning to fill with early spring lime green colored leaves. This is the best time for digital infrared and for colorful spring reflections! |
Smoky Mountains Image Gallery FULL
 May 12-16
- Image Capture to Final Print
with master printer Jim White
$1000, limit 12 Great Smoky Mtns., TN
The class will go out at dawn and dusk to make pictures, as in our Visual Artistry workshops. During extended class time, Jim White will conduct seminars on scanning (film), image processing and editing (film and digital), profiling, and digital print making. We will have a Nikon 9000 film scanner and Epson small and medium format printers on hand for print output. |
Jim will demonstrate how to set-up a color-managed workflow, how to generate and print from an icc profile, and discuss and demonstrate printing with a RIP.
There will be daily critique sessions and each student will leave with at least 2 fine art prints printed on fine art paper. You will also receive a one-on-one session with Jim to address specific color management, editing, and printing issues.
Late spring in the Smokies is lush with flowing streams and rivers. The spring greens and wildflowers are coming in nicely and there are deer throughout Cades Cove.
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 June 1-5 - St. Michael's, MD
$795, limit 12
St. Michael's is a historic city on Maryland's eastern shore. Wildflowers are up and Hooper Island light is a tremendous sunrise and sunset venue. Tilghman's Island is full of working fishing boats. We are close to Blackwater wildlife preserve and historic Oxford is a fertile photo venue with very old homes, great reflections, and sunset light.
St.Michael's Image Gallery 1 space available!
 August 3 - Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
$60, limit 20 Vienna, VA
Join Nikon Legend Behind the Lens, Tony Sweet, and Susan Milestone for this special two hour class at the beautiful Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. Following a 1 hour presentation and Q&A session, Tony and Susan will offer hands-on instruction in the field. Bring your usual gear, including a macro lens or macro capability, tripod, and reflector/diffusion discs if you have them.
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 August 25-29 - Exploring Your Personal Vision
$1100, limit 15 Sundance, UT
Something catches your eye—you know that something's there, but you may not recognize the picture immediately. So you start looking harder.The whole process up to the point of taking the picture is in your imagination. Hit the shutter and you make it real. Further presentations, will be on many topics including subject selection, using and managing natural light, glass and digital filters, creative techniques and various compositional techniques. There is one guiding principle: Every single thing in the picture space either helps or hurts the image; there's nothing neutral.
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September 10-15 - Art Wolfe Digital Photography Center
La Push, WA |
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For more information, contact Keron Psillas
 October 5-9 - Fall Photo Tour
$795, limit 10 White Mountains, NH
The White Mountains of NH are one of the best fall venues in the country featuring brilliant reds and golds, colorful flowing streams, overlooks, birch forests, and numerous macro opportunities.This is a tour where class instruction will be plentiful, but field instruction will be minimal. We will be visiting my favorite locations, some very specific and generally not well known. The color window is very short and I'll be shooting along with the class, but will always be available for field help when needed. This class is geared towards the advanced amateur photographer. |
White Mountains Image Gallery FULL
 October 15-19 - Delaware Water Gap, PA
$795, limit 12
The Delaware Water Gap is one of the best fall venues on the east coast. There is often a thin layer of mist on the mirror lakes at dawn, and the fall color and reflections opportunites are ample. Child's Park is the crown jewel of the park and has waterfalls and streams nestled within brilliant fall color. The New Jersey side is very different and offers a crator lake, forests, and old structures.
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Delaware Water Gap Image Gallery FULL Click here to register
 October 28-Nov 2 - Capture to Print: Southwest Art Wolfe Digital Photography Center
Sedona, AZ
Join us in October for an inspiring and educational week-long workshop that combines wonderful location shooting with informative lectures, critiques, and hands-on digital darkroom skill-building sessions.
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image by Keron Psillas
November 7-10 - 6th Annual Photography & Fine Art Printing Summit $975, limit 45  Bryce Canyon, UT
Announcing an exciting, photographic-instruction oriented Southern Utah workshop with professional photographer and instructors Alain Briot and Uwe Steinmueller, Guest instructor Tony Sweet, joined by art instructor Natalie Briot and photographic artist Bettina Steinmueller.
During this feature packed, one of a kind event, we will not only take you to some of the most photogenic locations in the world but also teach you how to best process and print your photographs to create fine art prints that you will be proud to display. You will return from this workshop with photographs ready to mat and frame, many photographs to process, and great memories of this unique experience.
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The 2009 workshop schedule will be released in September or October. Please sign up for the mailing list to be notified.
Details
Prerequisites: Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of exposure (f/stop and shutterspeed) and should know how to operate their equipment.
It's a good idea to have a laptop computer with image editing software in order to prepare images for critique.
Any film shooters are encouraged to own or borrow a digital SLR to make images for critique sessions in order to maximize the workshop learning experience.
The Program:
Sunday night 5 pm - Opening night presentation, Q&A's, orientation
(Please note that it would be a good idea to have dinner on your own before the opening meeting)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - Photograph at sunrise and sunset and whenever the light is right.
There will be presentations and critiques all three days.
Thursday - Photograph in the morning, discussion and final thoughts over breakfast. We should be finished by checkout time.
Field Mentorship Option:
All participants have the option to add 3 months of personal critiquing for an addtional charge of $300. This service includes a professional verbal critique (delivered on CD) of up to 20 images a month for 3 months for a total of 60 images and liberal email support for questions and advice.
Frequent Attendee Discount for more than one workshop taken in the same workshop year
2nd workshop - 10% discount
3 or more workshops - 15% discount
Rain refund policy: (only if rained in for a full workshop day, not including the opening night presentation or the final half day of each workshop).
Presentations and critiques will continue as usual
NO discount for one rain day.
Two rain days during workshop - 10% discount on next workshop
Three rain days during workshop - 15% discount on next workshop
NOTE: Only ONE discount per workshop
Questions and problems will be addressed in the field whenever possible, which is the most effective way to learn nature photography.
Payment Policy: A $200 deposit is required to hold your place. The balance is due 30 days prior to the start of the workshop.
Cancellation Policy: Full refunds will be given if cancellation is made prior to 30 days before the workshop date.
No refunds will be given if cancellation is made less than 30 days before the workshop date.
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