Join wildlife and nature photographer/Certified Florida Master Naturalist Robert Amoruso for a morning of in-depth field instruction at the area's best location for avian and wildlife photography. Robert's images have won numerous national and international contests and have been featured in publications including Audubon Magazine. His image of Royal Terns Courtship Dance won the Birds category of the 2006 Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice Int'l Photography Competition and was displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Locations we will visit include MINWR's Black Point Wildlife Drive and Peacocks Pocket and/or Gator Creek Road if time allows. Bring cameras, wideangle lens, longest telephoto lens and tripods. We will be shooting close to the vehicles. Instruction includes metering/exposure, composition, designing pleasing backgrounds, handling equipment, shooting birds in flight and a host of other topics. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop.

Join wildlife and nature photographer/Certified Florida Master Naturalist Robert Amoruso for a morning of in-depth field instruction photographing the beautiful seashore during sunrise. He will demonstrate the techniques that he uses to create expressive, creative imagery including using neutral density filters, slow shutter speeds, hyper-focal distance and what it all means. Recommended equipment includes a tripod, wide-angle lens and camera. A handout will be provided covering the techniques that he will demonstrate and help you with that morning. It is highly recommended that you attend his Landscape, Sunrise, Sunset Photography classroom seminar in advance where he will cover in detail the techniques he uses in the field. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop.

Join wildlife and nature photographer/Certified Florida Master Naturalist Robert Amoruso for a morning of in-depth field instruction at one of Brevard County's most popular wetlands. Normally at this time of the year multiple breeding pairs of Great Blue Herons will be courting, displaying and nest-building at the wetlands. Bring cameras, wide-angle lens, longest telephoto lens and tripod if you have one. We will be shooting close to the vehicles. Instruction includes metering/exposure, composition, designing pleasing backgrounds, handling equipment, shooting birds in flight and a host of other topics. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop.

A landscape photographer for over 30 years, Robert has been photographing the beach at Canaveral National Seashore since arriving here in 1999. Creating expressive imagery is more than pointing the camera and snapping the shutter. Using slow shutter speeds, turn water to silk. Learn to balance the sky and water luminance using filters. Discover the correct way to set up a tripod and make a long shutter speed image. These techniques and more will be covered during the presentation. It is highly recommended that you attend his Sunrise Landscape Photography Field Workshop, Canaveral National Seashore where we will put the techniques we discuss here into practice in the field. Sign-up at the session and receive a download link by email to the classroom presentation so you'll always be able to refer to what you've been taught. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop and examples of the images you can create. This presentation is for all levels of digital camera users.

Are you confused with what equipment is best for bird photography? Zoom lens, super-telephoto lens, tripods, ball heads, gimbal heads got you in a tizzy? Let Robert help you sort it all out during this digital photography equipment how-to workshop. He will discuss and demonstrate the equipment he uses every day. He will demystify your many camera, lens, flash, tripod and tripod head choices as well as all those accessories. Robert will have equipment demos from his sponsors Feisol and Jobu Design. We will also have all his equipment with him for your perusal and inspection. Our session will include a slide show, a question and answer period and time to peruse the equipment. If you are a beginner and attending one of Robert's field workshops and would like to get a leg up, plan on attending this informative session in advance. Sign-up at the session and receive a download link by email to the classroom presentation so you'll always be able to refer to what you've been taught. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop. This presentation is for beginners and above digital camera users.

Using automatic exposure modes and still having a hard time figuring out the correct exposure? Images too dark or overexposing your highlights? Heard about but don't understand "Exposing to the Right"? Then you need to attend this workshop. Robert will cover the one subject most problematic for digital photographers: determining exposure for digital cameras. We'll discuss his technique for determining exposure using reference targets, setting that exposure manually on the camera and when to adjust that exposure. This method is a hallmark of Robert's professional photo workshops and has helped hundreds of photographers. If you are attending one of Robert's field workshops, plan on attending this informative session in advance. Sign up at the session and receive a download link by email to the classroom presentation so you'll always be able to refer to what you've been taught. Go to http://www.wildscapeimages.biz/blog/?page_id=50 for a detailed description of this workshop.

The leader is Milton Heiberg - teacher of the nature photography for 20 years at NYC Audubon Society, and now (12+ years) at The Crealdé School of Art in Orlando and at DPA (Digital Photo Academy) He is the author of seven books on photography. Many of his students have become well published and noted nature photographers (which includes Florida's own Arthur Morris). Drive and stalk birds and other wildlife along the water's edge on Bio Lab Road. First, we will photograph a sunrise over the waters of Mosquito Lagoon. We will also set up our cameras for HDR photography. Next we will photograph the abundant bird life along the way and stop at a favorite spot to see if the Scrub Jays are cooperative.
Bring tripod, lots of media space, extra batteries, and a 300+ mm lens. You will receive a gratis copy of Milton's book: The Essentials of Nature Photography.

Milton will take you through the work flow step by step within Lightroom, Photoshop, several NIK plug-in programs, including the latest NIK HDR software (HDR Efex Pro2). Recent software innovations and techniques have raised the standards of photography. Digital photography has become software dependent - and it's changing as we speak.

Need to know how to capture the beauty of the birds, how to approach the birds with telephoto lenses, and the technique of photographing birds in flight? Milton Heiberg, author of The Essentials of Nature Photography and 30-year veteran of teaching nature photography, will show you how. He will also show you how to set up your camera for maximum performance when processing with Photoshop and other enhancement software. If you are planning to attend any of Milton's field trips to Bio Lab Road, you should seriously consider this hands on class.

Join wildlife photographer Kevin Karlson as he shares basic and advanced techniques for photographing wildlife in action, and reasons for selecting one option over others. Topics covered include: handheld versus tripod technique; proper exposure and camera settings; subject acquisition; subject tracking, including autofocus options; and importance of continued practice. Each of these topics is explained in depth and a variety of photos provide visual examples. Digital photography advances allow us to capture flight and action images like never before. Even with these mechanical advantages, it is important to learn how to best capture a dynamic wildlife image with the most efficient field techniques and camera settings for a variety of situations.