New Orleans Photography Group

Upcoming Events

Introduction to Flash Photography

Sunday 18 December

New Orleans - 11am - 3 hours Hours

Learn to use your on camera flash or your external speed light. Flash is used for creating light in areas light is needed. A flash is a device used to produce a brief burst of light at color temperatures helping to illuminate a scene. Very helpful in dark scenes and low light situations. We will be learning how to use fill light, freezing motion in a photo and light trails.

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$76

Introduction to Flash Photography

Sunday 29 January

New Orleans - 3pm - 3 hours Hours

Learn to use your on camera flash or your external speed light. Flash is used for creating light in areas light is needed. A flash is a device used to produce a brief burst of light at color temperatures helping to illuminate a scene. Very helpful in dark scenes and low light situations. We will be learning how to use fill light, freezing motion in a photo and light trails.

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$76 5 places left

Come along to our photo sessions to dust off your camera and get snap-happy with a professional photography instructor.

Brush up on your camera skills and learn new photography techniques whilst on a photo walk class with other local keen photographers!

We run two hour photography sessions based on a photography theme/technique/style and they take place in various locations in New Orleans .

New to photography? We also run a popular 3 hour Beginners Guide to Photography Class once a month. And once in a while we will run special niche 3 hour classes, for example, Astrophotography - so do subscribe to our newsletter to know when the next on is!

Who can attend? Open to all skill levels, from beginners to keen amateurs. The photography instructor is there to help you with camera settings and provide any advice you need.

What to bring? We recommend bringing a camera that has full manual mode or semi-manual modes (Aperture or Shutter Priority). Compact cameras and smartphones also welcome!

The meeting point and full details for the day are sent in the booking confirmation email to the email address you provide at time of booking.

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John McCusker

An award-winning photojournalist, first at The Times-Picayune and then The New Orleans Advocate, McCusker documented the people and places of his native city for three decades.
McCusker has written two books; “Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz” (2012) and “Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians,” with Shane Lief, (2019). Both were published by the University Press of Mississippi.
In 2021 McCusker founded the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House in the former Andry/Woodland plantation house in St. John the Baptist parish. The house museum tells the story of the 1811 slave rebellion, which started at the house, and the tale of jazz pioneer Kid Ory who was born in the plantation quarters in 1886.