I’m very happy to be returning to Maine again this summer, to teach another workshop at Maine Media Workshops. I’ll be teaching a unique workshop called “Lightroom Photo Project Workshop“, which I think will prove to provide a fun learning experience.
I’ve taught many workshops at many locations around the country and even around the world, but my experience at Maine Media Workshops (MMW) stands out. Allow me to explain…
When I first agreed to teach a workshop at MMW last year, I didn’t exactly know what to expect. The Workshops are located in the small town of Rockport, and I learned that we’d be eating all of our meals “cafeteria-style” as a group. I was skeptical. I shouldn’t have been.
It turns out the food at MMW is quite remarkable. And the group dining experience actually turned out to be one of the best aspects of the week. There are several (sometimes many!) workshops going on at one time at MMW in the summer. To be sure, there’s a tendency for each class to sit together as a group. But there’s also plenty of cross-pollination among the groups. This invariably leads to conversations with students and instructors in other workshops, and that proves both enjoyable and inspiring. You get to find out what everyone else is working on, and that can help feed into what you’re working on in your own workshop.
My class even had a little bit of “extra” fun, capturing images of ourselves against a green screen so we could assemble a cool group photo to include in our end-of-the-week class presentation to all of the other attendees that week. It was loads of fun, and had me jumping for joy!
Before my workshop was even over last year I was already asking the staff about coming back. And I also started thinking about a workshop experience that would best benefit from the unique environment at MMW. So I created a course where the workshop participants will help define a real-world project we’ll work on together. Then we’ll all head out to capture new photographic images for that project, and will work both individually and in groups to sort, organize, optimize, and share those images.
In the process, workshop participants will get a chance to work on their photography, and will also learn to make the most of Lightroom in the context of a real-world project. The result will be a greater confidence using Lightroom, along with lots of new skills and knowledge.
I’m very excited about this new workshop offering, and hope you’ll consider joining me for a great week at Maine Media Workshops. You can get more details about this workshop through the Maine Media Workshops website here:
http://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/photography/lightroom-photo-project-workshop-tim-grey
