iPhone Artistry: New Approaches and Techniques for Mobile Photography

with Dan Burkholder

July 14 – 18, 2025

Tuition $2195.00

(includes meal plan, see below)

Location and Materials Fee $175.00

Standard Deposit $400.00

Course Description

The way we use our iPhones to photograph is constantly changing and improving. This workshop brings you up to speed with new ways to photograph, edit, and stylize your images, taking you from casual captures to serious artwork. During our week together, your every iPhone Artistry urge has time to flex and stretch as you learn the latest skills that empower you to craft images that you are proud to share, exhibit, and sell.

No longer limited to working with jpegs, we plunge into the flexible world of Raw files from our iPhones and iPads. Learn how your iPhone excels at photo assignments that only a heavy DSLR could tackle in the days of old. And, yes, learn when it is time to pick up a larger camera for specific tasks.

From perfectly straight landscapes to painterly effects, learn how to steer your iPhone images in a direction that mirrors your personal vision.
Learn the benefits of creating both Jpegs and Raw files. There is no right or wrong in this workshop, but you need to know which is right for you!
If you like to photograph with a “bigger” camera, learn how easy it is to move your images to your iPhone/iPad for editing and sharing. Your travel photography will never be the same!
Discover the best way to convert color images to tonally rich black and white.
Explore advanced editing techniques that help you develop your personal iPhoneography style.
Learn how to delve into those family history projects you’ve been putting off for years. Finally, turn that shoebox of tiny prints into meaningful (and shareable) memories.
Explore exciting and affordable hardware options like auxiliary lenses and pocket-size light sources!

With exciting locations in and around Santa Fe and informative lectures and demonstrations in the classroom, you learn how to take your iPhone Photography in new, creative directions. You leave this class with a virtual bandolier of techniques that elevate your iPhone images above the ocean of filter effects and borders.

Additional Information

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

The workshop is open to iPhone users of all experience levels.

What You Should Know:

Participants should bring their iPhone, equipped with enough storage to create new images during the workshop. While not required, participants with iPhones able to shoot RAW images (iPhone 12 and up) will enjoy the best experience and full benefit of this program.

Activity Level:

To get the most from your workshop experience, participants should be in good physical (mobility, stamina) and mental health. Come prepared for the high elevation of Santa Fe, long days, and seasonal weather including high temperatures. You must be able to carry your own photographic and personal gear at all times, both on campus and on location. You are responsible for being open and honest about your physical fitness, and we reserve the right to remove you from the workshop if we find your fitness to be less than that which you have described.

Participants should be able to engage in moderate outdoor exercise for up to an hour or more at a time including off-trail walking on uneven terrain including sand, dirt, and loose rock. Location work is likely to include early morning and/or late evening shoots.

Policies:

View Payment, Refund, Withdrawal, and Transfer Policies for domestic workshops.

Accommodations:

Participants are responsible for making their own housing arrangements in Santa Fe. On-campus accommodations are not currently available.

Meals:

Lunch Monday through Friday, dinner before the Friday evening Image Presentations, and daily beverage service are included.

about

Dan Burkholder

Dan Burkholder has a long history of looking beyond the photographic horizon to see, explore, teach, and exhibit the next great thing in imaging. His book, iPhone Artistry (Pixiq Press, 2012), is the universe’s most comprehensive and fun how-to book for iPhone photographers. His poignant monograph, The Color of Loss (University of Texas Press, 2008), intimately documented the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first coffee-table book shot entirely using HDR (high dynamic range) methods. Dan’s award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource in the fine-art photography community.

Dan earned his B.A. and master’s degrees in photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. His platinum/palladium and inkjet prints are included in private and public collections internationally.

Website: DanBurkholder.com