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The NikoniansAcademy is a photography training institution specialized in a small class size environment -typically of 10 to 15 students- to provide high quality personalized photography training in all topics related to modern photography in North America. If you are interested in our European workshops, please visit our European site. Powered by nikonians.org, the largest community of Nikon photographers in the world, the NikoniansAcademy is celebrating its 6th anniversary. Since 2005 our workshops are led by the best instructors who teach on the most advanced topics. We aim to shorten your learning curve and help you to master your camera, your tools, your workflow and your vision. Toward that aim, we also offer field photography travel workshops and photo safaris. Designed as a service to Nikonians community members,
we nevertheless welcome students who may not want to become Nikonians community members.
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Below you can find the latest news. Scrolling further down this page you will find all the current classes offered which still have seats left, or you can use the menu at left to see what is available as of this moment by topic, by city area or by date
NEWSFLASH
Deadlines near on Nikonians Academy NJ workshop and Double-Park Special (May 15, 2012)
Continue reading "Deadlines near on Nikonians Academy NJ workshop and Double-Park Special" ANPAT 12 details announced (May 8, 2012)
Continue reading "ANPAT 12 details announced" Last Call for this week's Urban Photography Workshop in Canada (April 29, 2012)Nikonians Academy Director Mike Hagen has received more accolades from members attending the new Urban Photography workshop led by Rick Hulbert. The Seattle session was the first time this workshop got a full test in the field and from the enthusiastic response sent to Mike, it looks like there�s another new �must attend� workshop on the Academy curriculum. Continue reading "Last Call for this week's Urban Photography Workshop in Canada" Workshop feedback delivers thumbs up for new course (April 22, 2012)
Continue reading "Workshop feedback delivers thumbs up for new course"
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Moab, UT Photo Adventure
Join us for a photographic adventure in the Four Corners. The Gateway to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
Moab attracts photography enthusiasts to the Four Corners Utah area. Located in southeastern Utah along the banks of the Colorado River between soaring red sandstone cliffs, Moab is the gateway to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dead Horse Point State Park, the Colorado River and the beautiful La Sal Mountains. There are more National Parks, State Parks and other major attractions within a 200-mile radius of Moab than any other location in Utah. And Nikonians Academy is going for a series of workshops and field shooting to both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks....
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| Moab, UT | 18-SEP-2012 | $895 | $1020 |  |
Eastern Sierra & The Owens Valley
Come with us to one of the hidden photographer's gems in California
Workshop Dates: Thursday, August 9 to Sunday, August 12, 2012
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| Bishop, CA | 09-AUG-2012 | $895 | $925 |  |
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Galapagos Photography Adventure
Join us for the photo trip of a lifetime on a custom expedition yacht to one of Earth's most treasured locations
Trip Dates...
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| Galapagos Islands | 14-SEP-2012 | $1000 | $1030 | Only 2 seats left! | |
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Yellowstone Wildlife Adventure - Fall 2012
Fall Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park in our own private expedition vehicles - all Inclusive trip.
Fall in Yellowstone NP is an exciting time. Bison and Elk are looking their best with new winter coats. The elk have huge antlers and are in rut. Hearing the bugle of a bull elk is one of the wilderness sounds you will never forget. Grizzly Bears also have their winter coats and have entered hyperphagia, gorging themselves in preparation for the long winter hibernation....
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| Yellowstone, WY | 29-SEP-2012 | $2195 | $2225 | |
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Acadia NP Photography Adventure
Stunning sunrises and rugged coastlines await.
Some call it the most beautiful National Park in the country, a tiny gem compared to its larger siblings. Whether or not you agree, Maine’s Acadia National Park is most definitely a sparkling jewel for its combination of geology, flora, fauna… and weather....
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| Acadia NP | 18-OCT-2012 | $895 | $995 | |
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Wildlife Adventure in Grand Teton NP - Fall 2012
Join one of North America's most successful wildlife photographers as he leads you to the amazing wildlife and scenics of Grand Teton National Park.
Join Nikonians Academy Instructor Jim Stamates for 4 wild days to learn, shoot, and experience Grand Teton National Park in the Fall....
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| Grand Teton NP | 03-OCT-2012 | $995 | $1025 | |
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Yellowstone Wildlife Adventure - Spring 2012
Spring Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park in our own private expedition vehicles - all Inclusive trip.
Springtime in Yellowstone NP is an exciting time. Bison and Elk have dropped their young. This is the best time to see Wolves and Grizzly Bears as they are actively hunting to feed themselves and their young after a long winter....
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| Yellowstone, WY | 02-JUN-2012 | $2195 | $2295 | |
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Wildlife Adventure in Grand Teton NP - Spring 2012
Join one of North America's most successful wildlife photographers as he leads you to the amazing wildlife and scenics of Grand Teton National Park.
Join Nikonians Academy Instructor Jim Stamates for 4 wild days to learn, shoot, and experience Grand Teton National Park in the Spring....
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| Grand Teton NP | 06-JUN-2012 | $995 | $1095 | |
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Alaska! - Whales, Bears, and Ice Fields Wildlife Photography Adventure
Join Jim and Kathy Stamates as they return to one of their favorite places, Southeast Alaska! This is not just a photo workshop, this is an Adventure!
Trip Dates: July 22 - July 28, 2012....
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| Alaska - Double Occupancy | 22-JUL-2012 | $3495 | $3595 | |
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| Alaska - Single Occupancy | 22-JUL-2012 | $4195 | $4295 | |
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Giant Redwoods of Northern California
Giant redwood forests, breathtaking scenery and fog shrouded trees make for an incomparable photographic journey. 2012 dates: Thursday, June 21 to Sunday, June 24
The towering, giant redwoods of Northern California are the stuff legends are made of. Trees so wide at the base, it takes 20 grown men, linked hand-to-hand, to circle the circumference. Tree tops lost in the clouds as single redwood trees that rise to heights greater then a 40-story building. Foot trails cut through the dense understory of vibrant green ferns as sunlight streams through the fog-shrouded trees, fingers of light illuminating the branches and trunks of these old-growth behemoths. With thousands of redwood trees clustered in hundreds of groves tucked away in Northern California, this workshop brings you to the perfect and ideal redwood groves, at times and locations predetermined to be the best photographic opportunity....
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| Eureka/Arcata CA | 21-JUN-2012 | $895 | $925 | |
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Video & Cinematography with your DSLR
Unlock the power of the high-definition video features in your DSLR!
Dates: Thursday July 12 to Sunday July 15, 2012
When Nikon announced the D90 in late 2008, it heralded a bold new direction for DSLR cameras, as it was the very first to include high definition video capabilities. The video function was seen by many as an added feature, eliminating the need to have both a still camera and a video camera, but retaining the camera's primary role as a still camera. But in the cinematography world, a game-changer had been introduced...
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| Santa Barbara, CA | 12-JUL-2012 | $895 | $925 | |
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Master the Nikon D7000 D90 and D80
For Nikon D7000, D90 and D80 owners who want to move beyond Auto mode and learn their cameras in depth with our completely reworked curriculum for 2011.
We really go into a lot of detail with these impressive cameras. We start the day with an indoors tutorial and Power Point Presentation. We cover the camera's main dial operations, menu controls and custom function screens....
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| Woodlands, TX | 18-OCT-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| Phoenix, AZ | 10-NOV-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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Monument Valley and Slot Canyons - Page, AZ - Sept 2012
Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend and Glen Canyon. It'll be an amazing week of adventure.
Travel Schedule...
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| Page, AZ | 10-SEP-2012 | $895 | $1020 | |
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Hill Country Flyer Train Photo Adventure
Take a train ride and photograph a wild-west shootout.
Like trains? Want to see the Texas hill country during a unique half-day train ride while learning how to use your camera and flash in a dynamic, in-motion environment? If so, join Winston Hall and a small group of Nikonians Photographers for a ride on the Hill Country Flyer. The adventure begins when we depart from the Austin Steam Train Association location in Cedar Park, TX at 10:00 am for a two-hour ride through the Texas hill country before arriving Burnet, Texas....
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| Austin, TX | 27-OCT-2012 | $199 | $229 | |
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Master Adobe Lightroom 3 & 4 Essentials
Our Day 1 Lightroom workshop designed to teach importing, rating, color correcting and quick image enhancements.
During this workshop you’ll learn how to integrate Lightroom 4 into your digital life. We’ll help you understand how to use Lightroom 4 to import, sort, rate, edit, color correct, and make quick enhancements to your images. Then you’ll learn how to export your digital images for print, email or uploading. Learn how to set up Lightroom as your digital hub....
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12th ANPAT - New Mexico
New Mexico is a photographer's paradise - Join us as we explore White Sands National Monument, Taos, Sante Fe, and the famous Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.
New Mexico is a photographer's paradise with crystal clear skies, dramatic landscapes, and amazing cultural heritage. Join us as we explore this beautiful state and follow in the footsteps of renowned artists such as Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe....
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| Albuquerque, NM - Double Occupancy | 13-OCT-2012 | $2485 | $2515 | |
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| Albuquerque, NM - Single Occupancy | 13-OCT-2012 | $2930 | $2960 | |
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Master Nikon Capture NX 2
Learn how to use Nikon's premier photo processing software to get the very most out of your images in this one-day workshop with completely reworked curriculum for 2012.
Learn how to use Nikon's premier photo processing software to get the very most out of your images in this one-day workshop. Capture is an impressive program, but it can be a bit daunting to most users. We'll use Capture and learn how to utilize it to its full capacity. We'll also learn how it should be integrated with Photoshop and where Capture fits in your digital workflow. Note that we are fully converted to cover only Nikon Capture NX 2....
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| San Francisco, CA | 08-JUN-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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Master Studio Lighting with Profoto - One Day Workshop
Learn how to use continuous lighting and strobe lights to create beautiful family, portrait, and still-life photographs.
Join us for this exciting day of photography where we'll be using lighting equipment such as the Profoto D1 Air and Profoto Tungsten lighting gear. The goal of these classes is to help you understand metering, lighting equipment, light shapers/modifiers and everything else that revolves around studio photography....
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| Fairfield, NJ | 27-MAY-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| San Francisco, CA | 10-JUN-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| Atlanta, GA | 04-NOV-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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Master the Nikon D700 & D3/D3s/D3x In Depth
Join us as we go in depth to unlock the potential of the amazing Nikon D700 and D3 cameras in our completely reworked curriculum.
The Nikon D700 and D3 cameras are the top professional workhorses in the Nikon digital SLR family. This course is aimed at improving your skills with Nikon's amazing new digital cameras. You will learn directly from one of our Nikonian Professional photographers in an intensive hands-on environment....
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| Fairfield, NJ | 25-MAY-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| Nashville, TN | 22-JUN-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| Omaha, NE | 03-AUG-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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Master Nikon i-TTL Wireless Flash, CLS
Learn to use Nikon's innovative wireless flash system in our completely revamped workshops for 2012.
For anyone who owns a SB-600, SB-700, SB-800, SB-900, SB-910 flash and wants to understand how the i-TTL (intelligent Through The Lens) system works and what Nikon's Creative Lighting System (CLS) can do for you. We'll have lots and lots of flashes, and will set up many different types of shots using the i-TTL system (speedlights, cameras, gels and filters). You will learn flash techniques that will help you solve difficult lighting scenarios. We'll cover methods on how to creatively light situations that arise in studio photography, outdoor portraits, product photography, closeup and flower photography, web and product photography, travel photography, fill-flash photography and night photography....
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Master the Nikon D800 and D4 - In Depth
Join us as we go in depth to unlock the potential of the amazing Nikon D800 and D4 cameras in our brand-new curriculum.
The Nikon D800 and D4 cameras are the newest generation professional cameras in the Nikon digital SLR family. This course is aimed at improving your skills with Nikon's amazing new digital cameras. You will learn directly from one of our Nikonian Professional photographers in an intensive hands-on environment....
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Master the Nikon D800 and D4 - Advanced
Join us as we go into the advanced functions of the D800 and D4 to further unlock the potential of these incredible professional cameras in our brand-new curriculum.
By popular demand, we've added an Advanced D800/D4 workshop to our schedule. There is so much more to the D800/D4 than we can cover in our In Depth Day 1 workshop, so we felt the need to add this Day 2....
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| Atlanta, GA | 02-NOV-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| San Diego, CA | 07-DEC-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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Master Adobe Lightroom 3 & 4 Advanced
Our Day 2 Lightroom workshop designed to go into more advanced topics.
During this workshop we’ll build upon the information you received in the Lightroom 4 Essentials workshop by expanding our understanding of the Library, Develop, Map Slideshow, Print, and Web modules. Our Nikonians Academy workshop will help you better understand the power and productivity that Lightroom offers. Learn how to develop, map and output your digital images like a pro. We’ll spend ample time helping you understand how to output your digital files for print, web and slideshows....
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| Seattle, WA | 13-JUL-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| San Francisco, CA | 12-OCT-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| Austin, TX | 28-OCT-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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| San Diego, CA | 09-DEC-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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iTTL/CLS Advanced Flash Workshop, One Flash + One Day = 5 Flash Techniques
Use one flash to learn five great new flash techniques.
Want to learn how to better utilize your Nikon flash unit? During this one day workshop, we’ll focus on using the flash on and off camera in casual portrait settings with models and with stationary subjects such as flowers and product type photographs....
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| Indianapolis, IN | 14-JUN-2012 | $224 | $254 | |
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D800 & D4 Learn, Capture & Process Two-Day Workshop
Learn the entire workflow from setting up your Nikon DSLR camera to capturing images in the field to processing your images in software.
This is the workshop Nikonians photographers have been asking for; two full days engaged in full emersion learning, capturing and processing images. The D800/D800e and D4 cameras are a new breed of DSLR and this is a new type of workshop designed specifically for these new cameras....
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Master HDR Photography - 2 Day Workshop
Master the secrets of High Dynamic Range Photography and learn new techniques for creating amazing HDR images in this two-day workshop.
For years, photographers struggled with how to go about capturing the full range of light in a scene when film only could record a fraction of what our eyes saw. Ansel Adams took the well-known steps of Zone System in compressing or expanding the tones in a scene to match that of the final print. But now with digital, we can do the color equivalent of the Zone System by using High Dynamic Range Photography in capturing dramatic and not-so dramatic scenes that are then rendered into realistic and at times surreal visions of colorful imagery....
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Timelapse Photography Workshop - San Francisco, CA
From cable cars to bustling waterfronts to rolling fog over the Golden Gate Bridge, no where else is there a better place to learn and understand the technique of timelapse photography than in San Francisco during this intensive 3-day workshop.
What You Will Do......
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| San Francisco, CA | 06-JUL-2012 | $695 | $725 | |
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Winter Yellowstone and Grand Teton Photo Adventure
Experience Yellowstone and Grand Teton like never before in this exclusive winter photography adventure.
Every nature and wildlife photographer wants to shoot Yellowstone in winter. Add the Grand Tetons and the National Elk Refuge and you have the most amazing winter photography workshop ever offered!...
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| Jackson, WY | 26-JAN-2013 | $1000 | $1125 | |
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Photoact 2012 August 24th - 25th
Bringing together the art, the craft, and the technology of photography in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA
Join us at this premium photography event in beautiful Santa Barbara, California this summer for a shift in focus to the artistic aspects of image making. Our own Nikonians Academy Director, Mike Hagen, will partner with a world-class panel of 13 presenters over the course of two days....
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| Santa Barbara, CA | 24-AUG-2012 | $495 | $525 | |
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Member prices are only applicable to Nikonians Silver, Gold and Platinum Members. Non-members can register as Nikonians members here. Nikonians Basic members can upgrade the membership level here. Membership payments help sustain the growth of the Nikonians community and its services such as the Nikonians Academy.