DATE:

Thursday through Sunday July 12-15th, 2018. Full itinerary only released to participants and serious inquirers.

PRICE:

$1,000 per person total.

A $100 deposit (non refundable) to reserve one of eight spots in advance, the remaining balance can be payed online any date before 7/12 or cash upon arrival.

LOCATION:

Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. The exact coordinates of our spot will be provided once signed up.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING:

Required

1. A DSLR with long exposure capabilities
2. Sturdy tripod
3. Various lenses (14mm-85mm), mostly wide angle with fast aperture (f/2.8-ish)
4. An intervalometer
5. A headlamp with red light capabilities
6. Memory cards and batteries
7. Proper clothing, medicine, hella snacks.

WHAT YOU GET:

Three epic full nights/days of hands on astrophotography instruction with Jaxson and Derek in Goblin Valley State Park, camping and yurt accomodations, over 4 hours of post processing videos and private editing lessons, and life long memories of a truly fun and passionate astrophotography vacation.  This workshop will teach you a comprehensive workflow from image acquisition to editing, so you can create extremely clean, detailed, and creative images using a standard DSLR set up. 

TOPICS COVERED: 

(included but not limited to!)

• Both Jaxson's and Derek's personal artistic theory with composition and photography.
• Camera settings ISO, Aperture, and Exposure time for a well balanced image.
• Learning about and planning your Milky Way shots around the Milky Way core schedule, moon cycles, light pollution and locations.
• Discuss astrophotography equipment like lenses, camera bodies, intervalometers, and even equatorial mounts, and post processing softwares like Lighroom and Photoshop.
• Finding an artistic and interesting composition and foreground and what factors contribute in making a high quality astrophoto.
• Astrophotography techniques like how to focus your camera at night, find the Milky Way and important night sky constellations, stars, and celestial objects.
• Concepts about balancing a proper exposure and the exposure triangle with ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. Topics like Signal, Noise, Rule of 500, Coma, Chromatic Aberrations.
• We will also discuss astrophotography topics like Signal to Noise Ratio, Quantum Effeciency, Tracking, Stacking, and more.

  DATE:

  Thursday through Sunday July 12-15th, 2018.

  PRICE:

  $1,000 per person total.

  A $100 payment to reserve one of six spots in advance, the remaining balance can be payed online any date before 5/24 or cash upon arrival.

  LOCATION:

  Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. The exact coordinates of our spot will be provided once signed up.

  WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING:

  Required

• A DSLR with long exposure capabilities
• Sturdy tripod
• Various lenses (14mm-85mm), mostly wide angle with fast aperture (f/2.8-ish)
• An intervalometer
• A headlamp with red light capabilities
• Memory cards and batteries
• Proper clothing, medicine, hella snacks.

• WHAT YOU GET:

  Three epic full nights/days of hands on astrophotography instruction with Jaxson and Derek in Goblin Valley State Park, camping and yurt accomodations, over 4 hours of post processing videos and private editing lessons, and life long memories of a truly fun and passionate astrophotography vacation.  This workshop will teach you a comprehensive workflow from image acquisition to editing, so you can create extremely clean, detailed, and creative images using a standard DSLR set up. 

  TOPICS COVERED: 

  (included but not limited to!)

• Both Jaxson's and Derek's personal artistic theory with composition and photography.
• Camera settings ISO, Aperture, and Exposure time for a well balanced image.
• Learning about and planning your Milky Way shots around the Milky Way core schedule, moon cycles, light pollution and locations.
• Discuss astrophotography equipment like lenses, camera bodies, intervalometers, and even equatorial mounts, and post processing softwares like Lighroom and Photoshop.
• Finding an artistic and interesting composition and foreground and what factors contribute in making a high quality astrophoto.
• Astrophotography techniques like how to focus your camera at night, find the Milky Way and important night sky constellations, stars, and celestial objects.
• Concepts about balancing a proper exposure and the exposure triangle with ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. Topics like Signal, Noise, Rule of 500, Coma, Chromatic Aberrations.
• We will also discuss astrophotography topics like Signal to Noise Ratio, Quantum Effeciency, Tracking, Stacking, and more.