Available Seats
CLASS DATES | AVAILABILITY | PRICE | SPACE LEFT | |
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June 9, 2025 - June 13, 2025 | Available | $ 3,499 |
4 Available
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The Redwoods North Coast
A National Park Photography Expedition
Look up and create as you explore the tallest trees on earth with the Redwood State (Jedi Smith) and National Park Masterclass. But there is more— learn the art of landscape art photography as you capture California’s North Coast atmospherics among the vast prairies, oak woodlands, wild rivers, and 40 miles of rugged coastline. Seven percent of all the old-growth redwoods left in the world can be found here but no roads or trails mark “Jed Smith’s” core—just pure, primeval majesty.
Redwood National Park is home to the tallest trees on Earth, but it is also a generator of creative landscape ideas and expressive notions, and so mesmerizing to visiting photographers that it unlocks unique landscape art sensibilities. Northern California Coast atmospherics create watery shadows, dapple sunlight among feathery branches, and heart-stopping light streaks that encourage photographers to capture an emotional range that is like no other park.
While the towering Redwoods will make us rethink vertical compositions, there is more. Vast prairies, gnarly oak woodlands, wild rivers, and a rugged coastline that snaps with white waves and jagged sea stacks are on the Masterclass schedule too. People have lived in this verdant landscape since time immemorial, and in this Masterclass, we will capture and produce images from these lands of secluded inspiration.
The Redwood 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.
Our Masterclass Photography Workshops consist of three parts:
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: Light hiking required.
- 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
This class starts on Monday, June 9, 2025 at 5:00 pm for Safety and Orientation and runs through Friday, June 13, 2025 at 5:00 pm. Class departs on June 14, 2025.
Our basecamp is:
270 US Highway 101 South, Crescent City, CA 95531
(707) 456-1111
oceanviewinncrescentcity@gmail.com

Available Seats
CLASS DATES | AVAILABILITY | PRICE | SPACE LEFT | |
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June 9, 2025 - June 13, 2025 | Available | $ 3,499 |
4 Available
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