Photography Workshops in NJ / NYC
I present personal workshops and tutoring sessions which are tailored to your needs and to your schedule. These individual workshops are available as well throughout the year, depending on both of our schedules. My studio is only 17 miles from Manhattan. Just a short hop from New York and quite accessible by bus. Oh, and there’s parking at the studio. Free parking.
If you are limited in how far you can travel, we can do an online tutoring session via Zoom, to help you get a much better understanding of photography and lighting techniques.
For now, there is a hiatus on future group workshops – flash photography and studio lighting – and only personal workshops and tutoring sessions are available.
- Recaps of previous workshops, with feedback from attendees.
- Also, here are the results you can expect to achieve yourself! It’s well within your reach.
Would love to attend a workshop of yours in So. Cal. There are a bunch of us here in the Los Angeles/Orange County area who are dying to learn from the master of off-camera flash. Please come join us soon….
As much as I would like to, the logistics make it a financial gamble whether I’d get enough people to sign up for any workshop where I travel. Even New York.
If you consider the starting point for me in announcing a workshop away from my own studio, at some point I have to commit to going ahead and book hotels and venues and flights .. even before I have reached the break-even point. Then there are the additional costs of models and catering once the workshops have been confirmed. The costs pile up quickly.
I had to carefully weigh the feasibility of all other workshops away from NYC / NJ. It’s just too much work, and too much time away from my business, for too little money. Not just that – there is also the risk of actual financial loss for me with this.
Specifically, the workshops in Dana Point and San Francisco in 2009 and 2011 were teetering on the financial break-even point. (Keep in mind that I was on the road for a week each time then.) Then there was the oddity of the workshop in Atlanta in 2009, which sold out … but no one at the workshop was from Georgia. Everyone had flown or driven in for the workshop. It was at that point that I decided all workshops will be in the NYC / NJ area.
There have been a few exceptions subsequently though where I have presented workshops abroad. There have been the workshops in Amsterdam (2012), and Dublin, Ireland (2011), and workshops in Brighton (UK) and Birmingham (UK) in 2009, and as well as Cork, Ireland. So traveling workshops could still happen, but I would have to carefully consider them.
I am not a professional but have all of the necessary equipment as if I was and it keeps multiplying. I participated in one of Neil’s workshops a couple of years ago and was one of a number of photographer’s who did a street shoot with him in NYC. Now, forget all of the tips, tricks and time saving instructions that you get from him personally for a minute. Go out and hire a model or two for time of the workshop and you will spend the $600 if not more. Then bottom line is you are paying for the model (s) and Neil with all he brings to the table is a bonus at no charge.
On a serious note, you will not be disapppointed. Be open minded, don’t think you know more than he does and you might even get one of those black foamy things:-)) Hope all your day’s are picture perfect.
Warmest Regards,
Gary Teto
Do you want to know what I love about your photographs Neil? I just figured it out. When I look at your work I never find myself thinking about what camera, what lens, what post processing technique you used on the photo. I do that with the vast majority of images I look at. But looking at your work I just think…..man……that is a beautiful picture. It’s that simple.
I am since my debut photo, you are one of my greatest sources of inspiration. I have really enjoyed participating in this workshop, but I live in Paris so it’ll be a little hard for me. good luck
Neil, I just found your remaining workshop date – I’m booked :(
Will you be offering further dates at your studio? I have been a big fan for many years (but apparently not a very good blog reader;). Would love to learn from you in person some day. Thanks!
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Tom K … I concur – I find Neil’s work so natural and pleasing, not only to the eye, but also to my ‘creative’ soul. It would be great to visit NJ to do a hands on workshop.
Shooters in NY are lucky to attend a hands on class with Neil – just from reading his articles over the years I think you’ll definitely have an “aha” flash moment during this class. Class fee is a small investment that’ll save you years of trial and error