Taking Better Holiday Photos Workshop

General Course Information:

Our holiday photography workshop is a 1 day workshop filled with a combination lecture and hands-on demonstrations of how to create better holiday photographs. Whether you are trying to capture better family photos, the holiday lights, decorations, outdoor displays etc. this workshop can help. This photography workshop is geared toward amateurs who want to learn simple non-technical methods to improve their holiday photos. Our instructor will share tips, "tricks", and techniques to help you improve you photos in time for the next holiday season.

Course Topics Include:

How to create wonderful images of your family in front of a Christmas tree in both a dark room and a normally lit you.

Benefits and drawbacks to using Flashes and continuous lights.

Capturing candid photos of presents being opened, Easter egg hunts and similar situation.

Is Halloween a holiday in your family? We can show you to turn your friends and family into ghosts!!! (Just in photos, not for reel).

Setting up a camera on a tripod and using an intervalometer to take a photo every 15, 30, 60 seconds or how often you would like. This is an easy way to capture any holiday events while you participate with your family! Think opening gifts, Easter egg hunt, trick or treaters at your door and you don't have to take the photos, your camera does it for you (requires a camera with an intervalometer function or an external intervalometer).

How to use a flash and not have those horrible dark shadows in the background.

MUCH MORE!

Course Requirements:

There are no requirements for attending this workshop but please read the following.

• Bring an Interchangeable lens camera if you have one (dSLR or Mirrorless camera) and a lens for the hands-on demonstrations will be helpful.
Please bring a pen & paper to take notes.
• Bring a printed manual for your camera - if you have one please bring it.
• Dress comfortably, we will be moving around, sitting, and standing.
• Having a sense of humor helps make the workshop more fun.
• This workshop is geared toward DSLR and Mirrorless digital cameras but many of the techniques can be applied to point and shoot cameras and cell phones. Those students who will be using a point and shoot camera will be limited by the abilities/features of their camera or phone. If you are using a phone for this class, please be aware that you should be able to find the camera settings and controls in the "expert or advanced" mode.

Upcoming Schedule and Location:

Location

ProCam
1014 Ohio Pike Cincinnati,
OH 45245
(513) 943-9000
Map and Directions

Cost: $50

Schedule:

Saturday December 13th 2025

11:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.

There will be a 15 minute break approximately half way through the workshop. You may bring drinks and/or snacks to eat during the workshop and of course bringing a sandwich to eat during the break is a good idea.

Registration:

To register for the Photographic Lighting Workshop, please use ProCam Events web-page by clicking here.
If you experience difficulties with the event registration please contact ProCam Cincinnati:

PROCAM Cincinnati Cincinnati
1014 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45245
(513) 943-9000
Store Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:30 am - 7:30 pm EST
Saturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pm EST
Sunday 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Additional Scheduling Options and Information.

This workshop is also available as a private lesson contact us for details.

If you have questions about this course call us or email our education department at education@studio63.org. Email usually works best for course and workshop questions! Please allow a few days for us to reply as only our instructors return emails and calls regarding courses and workshops and they are also our busiest photographers.