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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 Will Van Beckum
February 22 – March 29, 2025
Join Will Van Beckum and learn all about your camera and lenses, the creative photographic principles, and image manipulation/workflow in Adobe Lightroom.
with Sofía Jaramillo
February 25 and 27, 2025
This online course is designed for photographers eager to expand their business and adopt industry best practices, equipping participants with the tools needed to secure exciting new opportunities in the commercial and editorial worlds.
with Josh Withers
February 27 and March 6, 2025
Join longtime Photoshop power user Josh Withers for a two-session webinar this winter to learn the new AI tools in step-by-step demonstrations to solve the practical challenges we face editing our photographs using the modern AI tools that can make our editing job easier, and quicker.
with Ryn Clarke
February 27 – March 17, 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 Fritz Liedtke
March 3 – 20, 2025
Fine-art and commercial photographer Fritz Liedtke leads you first through the “why” of portraiture and then through the “how to” as we explore—and learn from—the work of master artists.
with Molly Wizenberg
March 4 – 21, 2025
Tap into your memories, rebuild scenes from the past, and write vividly from within them.
with Brendan Hall
March 4 – April 1, 2025
This course with documentary filmmaker and photographer Brendan Hall, balances artistic reflection with technical guidance, providing each participant with a personalized toolkit to deepen their understanding of their own creative purpose.
with Kelly Webeck
March 8 – April 12, 2025
Get comfortable writing with courage and conviction as you discover how a sketchbook practice can support your image-making.
with Cotton Miller
March 12 – April 9, 2025
Conceive, customize, and ultimately control your own website by designing it yourself in five weeks, with the expert advice and guidance of Cotton Miller.
with Aline Smithson
March 22 and 29, 2025
Aline Smithson explains, uncovers, and helps demystify the current fine-art photography landscape as well as addresses print editioning, pricing, presentation, and installation while providing a road map to taking charge of your career.
with Sonia Goydenko
March 22 and 29, 2025
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 Renee Lynn
March 27 – April 17, 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 Leanne Trivett S.
April 1 – 29, 2025
Join Leanne for a deep dive into the ephemeral world of flowers, combining camera techniques, color, abstraction, writing, and collage can bring a unique, contemporary twist to your imagery.
with Carlan Tapp
April 5 – 23, 2025
In this new online workshop, which serves as a broad introduction to filmmaking for photographers, we take the time to understand the creative process of visual storytelling concepts, story structure, visual sequence, and timing in filmmaking.
with Roberto Valenzuela
April 5 and 12, 2025
Join photographer Roberto Valenzuela for this new online seminar as he shares his experiences, insights, techniques, stories, and expert advice on what he has learned about being a wedding storyteller.
with Thibault Roland
April 8 – May 6, 2025
This online workshop with Thibault Roland goes beyond a perspective shift, offering a unique educational opportunity tailored for individuals eager to enhance their skills and delve into the realm of creative photography.
with Pedro Correa
April 9 – 28, 2025
In this new online workshop with Pedro Correa he shares with you a panoramic view of the different principles, techniques, implicit and explicit rules that are needed in order to create an impactful artistic project and open new dimensions to help you explore street photography like never before.
with Alice Sachs Zimet
April 15 – May 13, 2025
Explore the most critical topics in collecting including: questions to ask before buying, the do’s and don’ts of navigating auctions, and the best places to acquire photographs—whether at photo fairs, galleries, online platforms, or directly from the artist.
with Ann Cutting
April 16 – May 14, 2025
In this new online workshop with Ann Cutting, experiment with creating prompts, style generation, enhancing images with Topaz Gigapixel, and image manipulation through Adobe Generative Fill to craft a cohesive, long-term project using the latest generative AI tools.
with Andrew Southam
April 24 – May 22, 2025
In this six-session online workshop, Andrew Southam engages participants in discussion, presentations, and specifically designed post-class assignments, through an experience to grow their artistry and create truly empathetic portraits.
with Cotton Miller
April 26 – May 17, 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 Marcy Palmer
April 29 – May 20, 2025
Open-up a world of creative possibilities by exploring the beautiful processes of applying silver and gold leaf to photo-based artworks, which allows photographers to incorporate unusual materials with distinct properties into their images.
with Lev L. Spiro
April 29 – May 16, 2025
Discover the techniques that result in more unusual, compelling, and delightful garden photography.
with Sarah Hadley
April 30 – May 21, 2025
Fine-art photographer and collage artist Sarah Hadley guides participants through innovative techniques to blend imagery, textures, and materials in fresh and unexpected ways in this online workshop.
with Leanne Trivett S.
May 5 – 22, 2025
This new online workshop with Leanne Trivett S. invites participants to explore how the structural elements found in both music and photography—dynamics, balance, harmony, lyric, improvisation, and rhythm.
with Lindsay Silverman
May 6 and 8, 2025
Build a solid foundation and refine your ongoing love of birds by learning the techniques essential for capturing memorable bird photos as well as the aesthetic, fine-art aspects of this popular niche in photography.
with Kristi Odom
May 7 – 28, 2025
This online workshop offers an exciting exploration of techniques that transform video into art, uncovering the enchanting beauty of nature through slow motion, capturing its intricate details and rhythms.
with Shelley Vandegrift
May 10, 2025
Shelley Vandegrift guides students through the unique features of Adobe Lightroom Mobile to adjust lighting, contrast, and color as well as exploring Superimpose, Distressed FX+, and other apps that offer simple, effective tools to modify and combine content into unique artistic images.