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Through a facilitated experience in our Zoom classrooms, we offer a stimulating and creative learning environment. Our online writing and photography workshops offer a rich and rewarding immersive experience to advance your skills and inspire your creativity. Join us for SFW Online!
with Sonia Goydenko
November 9 and 16, 2024
In this two-week immersive online workshop, Sonia initially reviews the opportunities in the three arenas most photographers choose to get their work seen—competitions, festivals, and galleries.
with Jari Poulin
November 12 – December 17, 2024
Join artist Jari Poulin for an online workshop for those excited to learn the language of Polaroid from a long-time lover of Polaroid’s delightful allure. Meeting once a week, classes are dedicated to igniting inspiration and learning the art of capturing images with Polaroid NOW+ or i2 cameras.
with Shelley Vandegrift
November 12 – 22, 2024
Expand the creative possibilities of Lightroom and Photoshop by becoming proficient using NIK and Luminar with Shelley as your guide.
with Lev L. Spiro
November 18 – December 9, 2024
Fine-art photographer and filmmaker Lev L. Spiro helps move your images beyond mere representation of the natural world to evoke deep emotional responses and tell compelling stories, creating meaning and connection with viewers.
with Lindsay Silverman
December 2 – 12, 2024
Achieve maximum results for your creative image-making with the Nikon Z8 and Z9.
with Paulette Tavormina
December 3 and 5, 2024
Join Paulette Tavormina over two evenings and four hours in early December for, “Seizing Beauty” as she reveals the unfolding of her artistic path as she follows her passion for fine-art photography in pursuit of an unexpected but never-the-less extraordinary career.
with Rick Berk
December 5 – 16, 2024
Rick Berk demystifies the exposure settings and understand the autofocus modes for mastering manual focus techniques for Fujifilm X Series cameras allowing you to capture beautifully balanced and dynamically exposed images in any lighting condition.
with Rick Berk
December 6 – 17, 2024
Veteran photographer and tech guru Rick Berk guides you through correctly setting up the menus and understanding the focus and exposure systems of the Nikon Z5, Zf, Z6, and Z7 cameras as well as the creative tools and customization options.
with Nathan Bett
December 6 – 18, 2024
This tech-centric online workshop covers a wide range of topics including a thorough review of all the basic user settings and menus for stills and video; customizing the camera to suit your personal needs; and getting creative with picture styles, multiple exposures, HDR mode, and focus bracketing.
with Victor Moriyama, Nichole Sobecki, Kiliii Yuyan, and moderator Carlan Tapp
December 7, 2024
Join us on Saturday, December 7, for a unique opportunity to hear directly from world-renowned photographers and photojournalists who have dedicated their careers to documenting the environmental, political, and spiritual upheavals of our time.
with Shelley Vandegrift
December 10 and 12, 2024
In the two-session webinar format offering, you learn how to transform everyday moments into stunning visual art using a variety of powerful apps available right at your fingertips to perfect your post-processing techniques or just experiment with creative effects.
with Carlan Tapp
January 4 – 22, 2025
Explore the spirit of black-and-white landscapes while building your aesthetic and technical skills.
with M. H. Rubin
January 6 – 23, 2025
Discover how the ideas from the Zen arts can help us make better pictures, measure our successes, and enjoy photography more.
with Thomas Alleman
January 6 – 23, 2025
Develop a photographer’s eye and with it an awareness of what the camera sees, or doesn’t, and how and what the photograph can reveal.
with Shelley Vandegrift
January 7 – January 17, 2025
Gain Shelley’s insights into the art of editing, discovering how it can amplify your vision and express emotions through simple techniques.
with Renee Lynn
January 7 – 28, 2025
This workshop focuses on the five key factors that contribute to impactful image making: creating an emotional connection with the subject, building a solid compositional foundation, utilizing expressive techniques, exploring tools to nurture skills, and discovering your inner artist.
with Diana Markosian
January 11 – February 1, 2025
Join Diana Markosian for this inspiring online workshop emphasizing the importance of personal projects in driving creative growth and exploring the deep connection between personal experiences and artistic output.
with Don Werthmann
January 11 – February 1, 2025
In this online workshop Don Werthmann reveals the evolution of a project idea that spans fifteen years including Lightroom workflows, self-imposed editing rules & rationales, and ideas for adapting a collection of images for different presentations, without forfeiting intentions.
with Cotton Miller
January 11 – February 1, 2025
This interactive online workshop meets for two hours on four consecutive Saturdays this winter, learning how to creating digital negatives and transforming your digital images into a format suitable for contact printing in the cyanotype process.
with Jean Miele
January 20 – February 6, 2025
In this workshop participants learn what to say (and not say) when presenting a portfolio, with a body of writing that forms a foundation for artist statements and other documents, plus an array of great responses to the question, “What do you photograph?”
with Marco Serventi
January 21 – February 25, 2025
Over the course of six online sessions, Marco Serventi introduces participants to the core techniques of video production. Together you and Marco explore important technical aspects of filming, including in-camera settings, framing, camera movements, and capturing sound.
with Stephanie Johnson
January 22 – February 26, 2025
Join expert ICM instructor Stephanie Johnson in this six week online course exploring the possibilities of multiple exposure ICMs (using ICM for all exposures of the ME sequence) to create wonderfully abstract and artistic images.
with Drew Leventhal
January 25, 2025
Join Drew Leventhal in this three-hour interactive seminar exploring the nuanced connections between photography and language, exploring approaches you can use to find the best possible sequence for your images.
with Ryn Clarke
January 27 – February 13, 2025
In this three-week workshop, Ryn shows participants how to create composites that give the illusion of a new reality using Photoshop and images created from their iPhone or digital camera.
with Thomas Werner
February 1 and 8, 2025
Thomas Werner guides participants in this two-session online workshop in unraveling the complexities of social media as a photographer, addressing Meta and other social platforms’ algorithms, classifiers, and processes.
with Cotton Miller
February 5 – March 5, 2025
In this advanced workshop, Cotton Miller guides participants as they explore sophisticated web design techniques and tools to enhance the functionality and aesthetic of their site.
with Maggie Taylor
February 12 and 15, 2025
This workshop is for those who are new to Midjourney, as well as those who have already started to explore its quirky and amazing visual options. Maggie guides participants through her basic workflow and then launches into “the beyond”—covering this new and ever-changing technology as it feeds her creative work.
with Leanne Trivett S.
February 18 – March 7, 2025
Embrace your successes and failures as you connect more deeply to your artistic voice in this online workshop with Leanne Trivett S.
with Gina Rae La Cerva
February 19 – March 19, 2025
Join Gina Rae La Cerva as she covers the foundational aspects of good writing and the many overlaps between the craft of photography and the craft of writing.