The Serenbe Photography Center has some great workshop coming up in the next few months.  Many of which I know will be of great interest (and very affordable) for our membership.  Here's a sampling:

Fri Mar 26 - Sun Mar 28 - Sapelo Island, Georgia's Atlantic Coast - with Kathryn Kolb

Hone your artful editorial, nature or fine art photography skills in the beautiful wilderness setting of one of Georgia’s Atlantic barrier islands - Sapelo. Students will have the opportunity to photograph pristine beaches, maritime forest, coastal marsh and swamp, historic buildings and ruins, from an ancient native American site to the 19/20th century RJ Reynolds mansion and grounds. Students will experience both group and independent shooting time, and nature fine art and environmental photographer Kathryn Kolb takes time with each student in the field to help him/her achieve their desired rendering of particular landscapes and landscape details. Will Berson, of Georgia Conservancy is host and guide.

Sat Apr 10 - Lightroom Photography Management and Processing System - Introducing Lightroom V3 - with Judith Pishnery, Pisconeri Studios

Develop your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts; work with presets (and create your own); create catalogs and work with “collections” to organize your images by client, topic, portfolio, or any criteria you want. Designed for intermediate and professional photographers -- this class is a must for anyone needing to efficiently process and organize images!

Sat Apr 17 - Shooting for the Greenhouse Project with Michael David

Your photographs can help artist Michael David build his brilliant new work "The Greenhouse Project," to be installed in Serenbe Community. Meet Internationally renowned painter, mixed media and conceptual artist Michael David and discuss photography concepts and design for the project and how your photographs can be a part of the work. Then tour points of interest on Serenbe landscape including the organic farm, creek w/ waterfall, old homestead etc. and make photographs for the project either independently or with guidance on landscape photography.

Sat Apr 17 - Basic Orientation for Traditional and Digital Darkroom Printing

Basics and refresher classes for beginners and "rusty" printers with Jeani Elbaum, Jenna Duffy and Sonya Jilani from the TPPS Lab.

SPC and the TPPS lab offer these three basic level ½ day workshops on making photographic prints regularly throughout the year. Instruction includes how to make traditional color or traditional B&W prints from negatives in the traditional photography darkroom, and how to make great prints from your digital images using our digital lab and color profiling software. Students will gain skills to make their own prints at The Photographer’s Print Studio lab in traditional, digital, B&W and color formats. Our lab is the only resource in the Southeast that offers this full range of service to all photographers!

Sat Apr 24 - Wildflower Walk at Serenbe with Macro - with Kathryn Kolb and Donna Rosser

Learn about wildflowers while photographing them for the Serenbe Wildlife and Botanical Inventory with natural subjects photographer Kathryn Kolb and photographer/photography instructor Donna Rosser who gives orientation on easy to use macro photography field techniques. Photographers will learn about the accessories they may use to take excellent macro photographs, including extension tubes, close-up diopters, reversing rings and more. You may even discover that your best macro lens is a point and shoot camera! This is an SPC “Eye on the World” workshop.

Sat May 1 - Studio Portrait Lighting - with Billy Howard, Billy Howard Photography

Learn a variety of professional techniques for creating & controlling light in the studio environment to make the most compelling portrait of your subject. Master “people” photographer Billy Howard shows how to put your subject at ease, how to use a variety of both low- and high-tech lighting strategies to create a variety of moods that help tell the story and highlight the personality of your subject. Includes classroom instruction in the morning and “real world” shoot with models of character in studio environment in the afternoon.

Sun May 2 - Alternative Photographic Processes - with Sonya Jilani

Alternative processes can change the look and feel of your images. Includes instruction Van Dyke Brown, Tintype, and Salted Paper process, & mixing light sensitive chemicals and creating their own paper. For amateurs to professionals.