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Hudson Valley :: Composition in the field

Name: Hudson Valley
Item: Hudson Valley
Author: Digital Photo Academy

Storm King State Park

January 12,2019 (12:30 PM – 5:00 PM )

Storm King, 500 acres of luxurious landscapes and spectacular views of the Hudson Valley mountains, surreally accented by gigantic colorful neo-expressionistic sculptures. The sculptures will provide scale and enable a lesson on environmental portraits with the subject dwarfed by the earth.Afterwards, we will have a photo session at The LOFTS AT BEACON, a post apocalyptic setting of old factory worker housing that is now luxury artist condos. Within a 3 minute walking from the luxury lofts that sit by a waterfall are stark brick walls from the 1800’s with colorful graffiti and abandoned construction machinery that pose a dramatic photo set to be enhanced by models who will be provided by the DPA staff.

All Hudson Valley shoots begin at Digital Photo Academy at 15 Powder Mill Rd., Newburgh, NY 12550 with a lecture to prepare you for an in-the-field shoot. If there’s any time, we can all cross the street to photograph the park which is featured on the National Historic Register as a tribute to it’s former existence from 1815 to 1901 as a gun powder mill that in it’s peak had an annual production load of 49 tons of gun powder. (Coincidentally, historical records report 49 powder explosions during the life of the mill. Be sure to take a look by the fireplace in the Digital Photo Academy Head Quarters of Mr. Smith’s tombstone who was killed in one of the explosions.)

The Brotherhood Winery

February 9,2019 ( 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Gomez Mill House

March 9,2019 (12:30 PM -5:00 PM)

The Gomez Mill dates back to the 1700’s and is restored to its original condition including a waterfall and spinning paddle wheel that used to power the printing house. No matter what the season, the scene is epitomized with brilliance ranging from fall colors to lush winter snow or spring blossoms.

Algonquin Park

April 13,2019 (12:30 PM -5:00 PM)

Algonquin Park now listed on the National Historic Registry is a photographer’s dream no matter what season. In April, one can’t guess these days if there will be spring blossoms or a blanket of snow on the ground, but either are worth showing up with a camera, as epitomized from the images in the slideshow, shot by Mary Ann Glass (with a cellphone), Justin P. Goodhart, Mark Rosengarten, and Joe Santacroce.

Your DPA instructor will advise you on composing landscape scenery of small cascading waterfalls, which once was the power source since the park was formerly a gun powder mill, complete with now with time-torm tracks on which large metal containers transported tons of raw materials from one stone housing unit to another. These bins held loads of sulfur, sodium nitrate and charcoal in the process of making the gun powder. The sulfur imported from Iran back as early as the 1800’s had quite a stench and you can photograph the old round stone structure which served as the wash-up quarters where workers went after finishing a hard day of labor. (In peak production years, perhaps during the American Civil War, the mill blended 49 tons of gun powder.)

Bear Mountain

May 11,2019 (12:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Hudson Valley

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NOTE: For an additional $70 we also offer a personalized Master Your Camera Controls class (prior to each Composition in the Field event between 9:30 an – 10:45 am).
This class is for you if you:

Just purchased a digital SLR camera/point and shoot camera
Want to learn to make simple and creative changes to your pictures using the functions of your camera
Want to learn all the base knowledge about your camera before taking a more advanced class

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Private All Day or Half Day Classes Available Too!

E-mail: DPAbooking@digitalphotoacademy.com
Call: 1 (877) 372-2231

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