Upcoming Classes and Workshops

  • Sports Photography Workshop

    Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025
    Noon-5pm
    Cape Cod Art Center

    Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025
    7:00-8:00pm
    Online

    Photographing sports requires an entirely different skillset (and mindset!) from photographing landscapes, still lifes, or portraits! From noon until around 2:30pm we’ll explore an overview of equipment, techniques, and psychology needed to photograph fast moving action. We’ll then head out into the field to photograph the Massachusetts Wolves vs. the Connecticut Flyerz at 3:00 p.m. On Tuesday from 7:00-8:00pm we’ll have the opportunity to review and discuss your images online via Google Meet.

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  • Mindful Photography

    Thursday, January 9, 2025
    Thursday, January 16, 2025
    7:00-8:30pm
    Online

    Photography can be a meditative process, and by bringing an intentional mindfulness to everyday subjects we can explore the inner life of those subjects and of ourselves.

    Blending concepts of Zen, Vipassana, and other contemplative traditions with the art of photography, in this class we’ll combine mindfulness practices with exercises in seeing.

    Through these practices and exercises, and some brief forays into post-processing, we can come to know ourselves better while finding interest in even the most mundane subjects.

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  • AI in Cellphoneography

    Tuesday, February 4, 2025
    Tuesday, February 11, 2025.
    7:00-8:30pm
    Online

    It’s a Brave New World in photography, with AI producing images that can be difficult to tell apart from the real thing! Rather than despair, we can learn to harness the power of AI to augment our photography in ethical ways.

    Using our cell phones and AI apps, we’ll both tweak our own images with AI or use AI images as a point of departure for our artistic creations.

    As digital artists we have new and amazing tools at our disposal, let’s step into the future together!

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Classes, Workshops, Talks, and Mentoring

Basics of the Big Black Camera

Learn about all those buttons, knobs, and dials on your DSLR or Mirrorless Camera. What do they do, how do they affect your image? You’ll learn about Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO, and when you should be concerned with each.

Street Photography

Hit the streets (or beaches) without fear to document your unique world. An endlessly fascinating genre of photography, Street Photography can be practiced anywhere people are in public and can hone not only your photographic skills but your emotional skills as well. Whether in Provincetown or Providence there are street and beach scenes that will enrich your portfolio.

Landscape Photography

Cape Cod provides unique landscapes, but the same basics apply. Correct camera settings, good light, interesting subjects, and dynamic compositions are all necessary for wall-worthy prints. Whether in color or black-and-white, your inner Ansel Adams will find expression in these workshops.

Still Life Photography

What to shoot when winter comes? Gray cold dreary days offer the perfect opportunity to photograph created scenes of flowers, food, and other items that you may have around the house. Through our camera settings, control of lighting, and post-processing techniques we can bring out the inner renaissance artist that lives within each of us!

Artificial Intelligence in Photos

It’s a Brave New World with AI producing images that can be difficult to tell apart from the real thing! Rather than despair, we can learn to harness the power of AI to augment our photography in ethical ways. Whether tweaking our own images with AI, or using AI images as a point of departure, digital artists have some new and amazing tools at their disposal.

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop may be the most powerful digital imaging tool outside of NASA’s Web Telescope. From images to text to page layout to printing, Photoshop can do almost anything. The most used tools are covered in depth, with practice assignments between sessions. Learning Photoshop is a lifetime journey that will allow you complete control over your images.

Cellphoneography

The old adage “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more true today than ever. To this we’ll add “the best darkroom is the one you have with you” and look at the native cellphone camera controls and various apps that allow much greater creative freedom.

Portrait Photography

Every face and every person is a unique photographic subject, and capturing the essence of a person in the camera is a challenge to both our photographic and human skills. Looking at camera settings, lighting patterns, posing and conversations to bring out the best in your subject, we cover available light as well as strobes, reflectors, and DIY lighting.

Sports Photography

College baseball, high school football, the kid’s soccer games, all provide exciting and dynamic subjects for your photography. Challenges include camera settings, ISO, freezing action (or blurring action), and anticipating where the action will unfold will all be covered in these sessions.

Contemplative Photography

Photography can be a meditative process, and by bringing an intentional mindfulness to everyday subjects we can explore the inner life of those subjects and of ourselves. Combining mindfulness practices with exercises in seeing, we come to know ourselves better while finding interest in even the most mundane subjects.

Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is the industry standard for managing photographic collections and for post-processing those images. Learn the differences and similarities between the Classic, Desktop, Web, and Mobile versions of Lightroom, and begin to corral and improve those images scattered on your hard drives and phone.

Non-Photography Workshops

I offer a variety of services for organizations and individuals at David Mullen Consulting, including:
-Leadership Coaching
-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
-Workplace Emotional Systems
If interested you can contact me at dave@davidmullen.net