Digital photography workshop and whitewater lodge trip!

If you are even thinking of taking a photo workshop any time soon you should check out the Rogue River Trip we’re doing which will be and incredible blend of rafting, photography and relaxing at the historic river side lodges. 

September 5-7, 2010 and there are spots still available.  Register Here.

There are some some very cool photography workshops on the books for late fall with spaces still available.  Check out our current schedule here and look for our winter schedule to be out in late September and we will be adding courses throughout the year from Intro to Advanced so subscribe to the RSS feed or email us to get on our mailing list for course updates and event news.  We offer private instruction as well as private group instruction so if there is something you are itching to learn or your photography club or group would like to request a special course just contact us.

We’ve filled the site with our new work,  buffed out sections on our new studio. Like a breath of fresh mountain air, we’re invigorated, feeling good and looking forward to keeping it coming!  We hope you are too!  Take a look and let us know what you think!

Besides showing our new portfolio, we built the site to give our clients and friends a better understanding of what we do and our capabilities.   We offer a 1350 sq. ft. studio, location and production services and retouching.  We are located in possibly one of the most beautiful regions of America (a.k.a location opportunities abound) and when were not busy with commercial and editorial clients we are teaching some killer workshops in and around Ashland, Oregon!

Did I mention we now have a nice home for Jared Cruce Photo Workshops.

The site was a collaboration with our buddy Thad Allender at Graphpaper Press and we couldn’t be happier.  Thad is doing some amazing things with websites and bringing new technology to us artists who can really make use of it.  We’re pretty lucky to had him work on this for us!  If fact it came out so good that GPP is using it as an example and design theme for entrepreneurial photographers.  You can see what they’re doing here. I think that is pretty cool.   Thad is not only a sweet developer, he’s a photographer himself and has a great sense of the web from our perspective.

We’ll be keeping you up to date via our blog.  We have some new things happening in the near future so stay tuned!

The time has come though to move forward and into new light.  I can’t wait for it to be up and running.  We’ve got something really special for you guys coming out soon.  Brand new images, totally new site, our fairly new blog will be fired up and fed to all those interested. 

We are most importantly looking to get into a wordpress based system where our work can be seen and heard.  We have partnered with a totally out of the box, visionary company Graph Paper Press and Thad Allender it’s founder and number one genius has developed this site for us from the ground up.  We have taken all the things we loved about our site, improved upon them and then inserted a bunch of killer elements we felt were missing. 

We’ll have a better portfolio page, a cool new look at personal work I haven’t had a place to show before, and our workshops schedule and information will get a smoking new place to live.  We look forward to presenting it in the next few weeks and here your feedback.

Speaking Art Wolfe, I got to meet Art last this month at the Creativelive workshop I participated in Seattle. Art dropped by to check out what was going on at the Vincent Laforet HD DSLR workshop…I’ll share more of this intense experience in another post, but it was pretty awesome and if you haven’t seen or heard of Creativelive.com you should definitely check it out. More on that later!

Late this February while I was watching the Winter Olympics I heard the sad news of the death of free skiing phenom CR Johnson.  CR died while skiing in his backyard, doing what he loved and that is something to be celebrated for sure.  I was fortunate enough to hang out with CR in Aspen a couple of years back while shooting the XGames and the Smith team riders.  CR stuck out in my mind!  He was profoundly humble and seemed mature well beyond his years.  I remember during the shoot asking him to do a couple different poses like crossing his arms.  I was shooting from a low angle and playing around with that “badass” athlete sort of look  – which all of these kids certainly were.  Athletically speaking that is!  CR said something like “Sure, but that’s not really me.”  I told him then to just do what feels natural and he put is hands back in his pocket, in the most unassuming and laid back manner.

CR will be missed as a radical skiing innovator and a consumate professional in his sport.  But, I think he’ll be missed even more because he was a supremely genuine and kind person who stood out not because of an ego, but because of his humble nature.

March 18       FREE – DIGTAL FOUNDATION
Gaining “Complete Control” of your Digital SLR in manual mode.

MAR.   19-21   DIGITAL PHOTO – JUMP START
Jump Start covers the technical side of resolution, downloading and re-sizing images, file management and archiving, and output/printing sources. Participants will explore shutter speeds, apertures, and shooting modes and by the end of the course, everyone will be using the camera in manual mode with ease.

Jared will share techniques about composition, lighting, lenses, “real world” gear selection and creativity that help participants feel the thrill of reaching creative visions only dreamed of. He creates an atmosphere in which learning the technical processes of digital photography is fun, and playful expression is encouraged. Mornings are devoted to lectures, discussions, and critiques of the previous day’s work, while afternoons are spent practicing newly acquired skills in and around the picturesque environs of Ashland.

APRIL 10-11    DIGITAL WORKFLOW

Learn an efficient, easy to follow professional workflow that will allow you to shoot 1000′s of images at a time, archive them, output them to print or web and find them at the drop of the hat weeks or even years later.   Participants will learn the best methods using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop, digital storage methods, backing up, color correction, output for print and web, the miracle of metadata and more.

MAY 21-23     DIGITAL PHOTO – BEYOND THE BASICS
While the Jump Start covers the basics of the camera and digital image editing, this course will go in depth into composition, storytelling, light and more advanced color correction and processing techniques for print and web. – Portraiture, night, time lapse, panorama, macro, action.  We’ll go over all of the gear a pro would use and how to pack for the field.  Shooting images on location in Ashland, students will bring back their work into the studio for discussion and critique.  Jared will discuss the essentials of strobe lighting.  Participants will have the opportunity to present their portfolio and work with Jared to achieve their personal vision and goals.

JUNE 25-27  LOCATION LIGHITNG – CREATING EMOTION AND ENERGY

A rich and rewarding introduction to the world of lighting on location, Jared teaches techniques for lighting with small strobes, large strobes, multiple lights and mixed lighting.  Participants explore the type of gear used for portrait, architecture, product and action work.  Mornings cover demonstrations and lecture and the afternoon is spent shooting on location in the unique settings of Ashland. Students will have the opportunity to try some new gear, learn to use what they have and will definitely have a great understanding of how to accomplish fantastic lighting with both simple and complex lighting kits.

JULY 16 – 18   ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Covering almost everything adventure, including special gear, lenses, cameras, packing, and lighting, this course is for those that can’t just do it, they’ve got to shoot!  Some of the topics covered will be techniques for remote shooting, underwater, mounting cameras, point of view photography, fill lighting and using ambient to your advantage. Students will learn how to tell a story, while capturing unique and compelling perspectives.  Shooting real athletes out in the field in the afternoons, students will have the opportunity to go through a typical adventure assignment and then apply what they learn by shooting it themselves.  Often overlooked, we’ll cover the professional method for capture and storage of images in the field for fault tolerance and redundancy!

SEPT. 5-8         ROGUE RIVER WORKSHOP
Join professional photographer Jared Cruce for a visual journey down the Rogue River – one of America’s truly wild and scenic rivers.  This trip will be an unforgettable experience as we join Momentum River Expeditions on one of their spectacular “lodge trips.”  Each night after a day of white water, photography and adventure we will overnight at one of the charming riverfront lodges for a gourmet meal, a comfortable bed and plenty of time to live, talk and dream photography.

For information and booking information please Contact Us Here.