Orlando Photography Group - Photography Classes & Courses in Orlando

Upcoming Events

Beginners Photography Class

Sunday the 10th of July

Mead Botanical Gardens - 9am - 3 hours

Mastering your camera begins when you take your camera off Auto and start taking control of your settings. This class is designed to help you do just that. We'll cover how to control the light in your camera with the exposure triangle. Next, we'll learn a few rules and techniques of composition. Finally, we put this all together and practice our new skills with a series of photographic exercises.

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Street Photography Meetup

Sunday the 24th of July

Downtown Orlando - 9am - 2 hours

Urban street is a great way to get to know a city. It is a great genre to practice at home, and it's also a great photography tool you can take with you on vacation. In this class, we'll do a review of our camera's manual settings and talk about the best settings for different kinds of street photography. We'll talk about some of the composition tools that will help make your street photography stand out. Then we'll put this learning to practice with a few exercises highlighting different techniques.

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$39pp only 5 places left

50mm Lens Meetup

Sunday the 7th of August

Downtown Orlando, Florida - 9am - 2 hours

The 50mm lens is arguably the most flexible lens you can put on your camera. It sits on the line between wide angle and telephoto lenses, and is used for many different genres from portraits to landscapes. It is also usually a small lens, which makes it good for street photography, too. In this meetup, we'll take our 50mm lenses out for a spin and use them in a variety of ways. You'll learn some important tips for getting the most our of this wonderful lens, and then put those tips into practice.

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$39pp 9 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 meetups based on a photography theme/technique/style and they take place in various locations across the region.

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 one 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.

Join the Orlando Photography Facebook Group here to share your photos after the session.

We ask that everyone attending a meetup follows social distancing guidelines:

Stay home if you have any symptoms of COVID.

Keep 6 feet away from others.

Wear a suitable face mask or show a valid vaccination card indicating that you are vaccinated.

Don't make unnecessary physical contact with others.

* Wash your hands regularly with alcohol-based sanitizer.

Class was great. The instructor is very informative and has a lot of patience. I enjoy meeting other new enthusiasts like myself and sharing their experiences as well.

5/5

Kristen Curtis

June 27th 2022

great

5/5

PETER LANZARONE

June 13th 2022

It was amazing and taught us all a lot and have us the chance to put to work what we were learning, the instructor is absolutely great and explains things so we all understand it and he helps us improve and shares his knowledge with us to help us!!!! I would recommend his classes to others !!

5/5

Bryon Ritchi

June 12th 2022

5/5

Karen Bell

June 12th 2022

Great class! Thanks Mike

5/5

Maggie Baekey

May 29th 2022

5/5

Claudia

March 13th 2022

I really enjoyed this class! It was great to be able to practice Night Photography in this way.

5/5

Neida Rodriguez

March 13th 2022

Iván opened a new interest in nature photography from birds to nature landscape and object and texture in the wild. It was very educational and Iván was very knowledgeable and answered questions and provided suggestions where needed. Very well done. Highly recommended for new photographers and advanced photographers. Good to be outdoors in nature. -Waldo

5/5

Waldomiro dos Santos

February 28th 2022

Michael was very knowledgeable with good insights of the legality of street photography and answered question appropriately. The photography tasks/challenges where appropriate and very informative giving a new point of view on how to look at surroundings. Highly recommended. - Waldo

5/5

Waldomiro dos Santos

February 28th 2022

4/5

Kyle West

February 28th 2022

This was great! Good information. Mike was excellent as he led us around and talked to us about the assignments. He is very informative.

5/5

Jacquelin D Arndt

February 27th 2022

Ivan is very knowledgeable and passionate about photography. My son and I have never taken a photography class and the instructor took his time to give us the basic concepts and help us build from there. We learned about our cameras as well as different techniques for nature photography. Highly recommend Ivan.

5/5

Ramon Reyes

February 26th 2022

Michael Wacht

Mike has more than 40 years' experience behind the camera, a good deal of that as a professional. A bulk of his work has been as a photojournalist and documentary photographer. This storytelling style informs his other work as an event, portrait/headshot, and travel photographer. Mike traveled in 2003 to Angola, Africa to document the postwar church, documented relief efforts after the 2004 hurricane season, and shot an outdoor wedding next to a glacier in Alaska. Mike holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Washington & Lee University and a master's in strategic communications from Purdue University. He lives in Orlando with his five rescued dogs.

Iván Baella

Ivan Baella has been a photographer for 45 years. He has been the Official Photographer for Camarero Horse Racetrack in Puerto Rico for the past 40 years.He has worked with El Amal Pharmacy Chain doing product photography for 20 years. Has done Event Photography such as the conventions of Puerto Rico Chemist Association,Weddings,Drag Racing Photography at Caribbean International Racetrack. In 2020 he relocated to Orlando.