Smart Objects and Color
Unleash the power of using Smart Objects and then expand your understanding of color in your creative work.
Workshop Categories: Fine Art
Fine Art workshops focus on teaching the artist how to express one’s creative vision through the discipline of photography. Where Storytelling workshops teach students how to convey a visual narrative through an artistic lens, fine art workshops are foremost about the artist’s creative vision. If you have mastered the foundations of digital photography and want to use these skills to express your idea, come learn with the best fine art photographers on the planet here at Santa Fe Workshops.
Fantastical Botanical Landscapes
Discover the techniques for creating magical and otherworldly multilayered composite images in this “how-to” workshop.
The Fine-Art Photographic Project: Private and Public Investigations
Photography can be a tool for investigating inner and outer phenomena, especially when combined with research and writing.
Take Two: Double Exposures and Diptychs
Add depth, layers, and otherworldly storytelling elements to your photographs by doubling-up with multiple exposures and diptychs.
Theatre of Botanicals
Join Leanne Trivett S. and discover how to give dramatic voice to your botanical images with the flower as the actor, you as the director, and the world as your stage in creating unique images that utilize different techniques to take your art to new heights.
Experimental Digital and Alternative Photographic Processes
Push the boundaries of what photography can be by exploring hand-made prints using the most beautiful of the historic photographic processes.
Wet Plate Collodion
Create both tintypes on aluminum and ambrotypes on glass, use natural and studio lighting, and experience a mobile setup for taking wet-plate collodion on the road.
The Beauty of Mordançage
Discover and explore one of the rarest and most beautiful of the alternative photographic processes with a modern-day master of the medium.
Mixing It Up: Paint and Photography
Engage in exploration, investigation, and risk, as you combine—and recombine—disparate media: photographs, paint, text, and any other material you want to use with Holly by your side for five days.
The Fine Art of Hand Coloring: Traditionally and Digitally
Jump into the child-like joy of hand coloring by learning the materials and techniques of coloring black-and-white prints with Laurie and guest presenter Shelley Vandegrift as your guides and creative co-conspirators.