Our Classes
| CLASS DATES | AVAILABILITY | PRICE | SPACE LEFT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2025 - July 19, 2025 | Available | $ 3,899 |
7 Available
|
The rugged beauty of Badlands National Park draws visitors from all over the world. These striking geologic formations contain some of the world’s richest fossil beds. The park’s 244,000 acres protect an expanse of fertile mixed-grass prairies that provide ample opportunity for some ‘Get Out There Adventure’. This land of light and stone where ancient horses and rhinos once roamed is now home to one of North America’s largest herd of wild bison. Elk, deer, and prairie dog also call this place home. The Badlands will inspire and rejuvenate your creative spirit and help you find the artistic voice that lives in us all.
You will capture light, shadow, line, form, texture, and more from the ‘Big Bandlands Overlook’, Pinnacles Overlook, Prairie Wind Preserve, The Yellow Mounds, and the Bentonite Hills. All just a short distance from our basecamp in Wall, South Dakota. Our hotel accommodation is to be determined and we will post notice long before our class start date.
The Badlands National Park Masterclass Photography Workshop is a 5-day full immersion program that teaches a capture to post-production workflow to create fine art landscape photography. We are not a photography tour provider; we are a visual arts, photography education program. Thus, you will spend significant time at each location with your instructor to develop a deep understanding of your subject and theme and learn to complete your vision in post-production.
You will work in selected backcountry locations and learn landscape art visualization, creative approaches to sky and ground compositions, light atmospherics, and our’ work the scene-work the camera’ methods to capture and express your subjective thoughts and feelings. We provide lectures and instructions for the application of documentary, narrative, and navigation landscape art approaches. Masterclass students capture grand scenic, intermediate, and detail compositions with professional methods such as Stack Focus, Dynamic Range Capture, Lens Choice, ND Filter applications, ETTR, Landscape Gear Management, and more.
In the class conference room, you will learn an end-to-end post-production workflow with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to increase your work’s emotional range. You will learn foolproof methods with an instructor by your side to develop raw images, image segmentation, Lightroom luminosity and color techniques, color grading, tone principles, insights into landscape thematics, and how to create images that are ‘beyond the lens.’
Upon your return home, you will receive three hours of online post-production training. This is a one-on-one program to help you complete selected images from the Field and expand your ability to visualize the final image. You may also extend your one-on-one training for two additional hours as part of your Masterclass package for an extra $100.00 fee.
Our Masterclass Photography Workshops are small, intimate, collegial, and instruction is hands-on. Within your class, you will share ideas and experiences with fellow photographers who will become lifelong friends. We know that you will benefit tremendously from our guidance, advice, lectures, demonstrations, and reviews as we help you take your photography to the next level.
- Driving: We reach most of our remote locations with 4×4 vehicles, which we provide.
- Hiking: The longest hike is 2 miles over a moderate elevation gain.
- All Local Ground Transportation from Base Camp to Site Locations
- Training Documentation
- In Class Post-Production Instruction
- 3 Hours Personal Online Tutoring
- Meals
- Lodging
- Transportation to and from Basecamp
Our Basecamp is The Days Inn in Wall, South Dakota. Or, call (605) 279-2000 to book. A group rate has been established at this hotel.
Our Classes
| CLASS DATES | AVAILABILITY | PRICE | SPACE LEFT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2025 - July 19, 2025 | Available | $ 3,899 |
7 Available
|
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