Midwest Photography Workshops

#445 On the Go with GoDox Flashes for Location and Studio Use Sunday November 16, 2025 1-5:00 PM
2025-11-16 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
This four-hour workshop will provide students with an easy; lightweight, inexpensive travel lighting or studio system. GoDox manufactures an entire lighting system; easily to transport and setup anywhere. Students will learn how to sync multiple GoDox AD200 flashes and/or to the GoDox V1 shoe mount flash. Learn about the difference of bare bulb lighting, globes, umbrellas and soft-boxes and how they illuminate your subjects differently. Learn how to use a flash meter to achieve “PERFECT EXPOSURE and LIGHTING RATIOS” to within 1/10 of an f/stop. Learn to set up additional lights as background lights, hair lights to complement the basic main and fill light. Learn about the GoDox Triggers that can fire multiple flashes from your camera’s hot shoe. Learn about achieving perfect white balance to minimize excess post production editing. Bring your camera, mild telephoto lens and lens hood and plenty of media cards. Model is provided. This workshop can include the #999 Post Workshop Private shoot immediately following the conclusion of this workshop. You can get a one-hour private shoot with the model for $100.00 which may include a model release. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged and only two private shoots will be offered per workshop. Enrollment is first-come-first served. Students are expected to bring: camera with ample media cards, wide angle and telephoto lenses, tripod and a lens hood for each lens. Just like you go to a restaurant, it is common and appropriate to give your waitress/waiter a tip or gratuity, such is the case here. You are encouraged to provide a gratuity to your model at the end of a successful shoot.

#235 Intermediate Lightroom Classic Workshop in a Day - Sunday November 16, 2025 10-5:00 PM
2025-11-16 10:00 - 17:00 | Wildbrook Computer Lab, 29260 Wildbrook Drive, Southfield, 48034, United States

#444 Off the Wall Fashion and Fine Art Saturday November 15, 2025 1-5 PM
2025-11-15 13:00 - 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
Welcome to this four-hour shoot where the model will pose with props such as picture frames to inspire and develop your creativity when working with a model. Several wardrobe changes and background changes are included. Learn how to take an idea or concept and work toward a photographic image emphasizing and expanding your vision. This workshop can include the #999 Post Workshop Private shoot immediately following the conclusion of this workshop. You can get a one-hour private shoot with the model for $100.00 which may include a model release. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged and only two private shoots will be offered per workshop. Enrollment is first-come-first served. Students are expected to bring: camera with ample media cards, wide angle and telephoto lenses, tripod and a lens hood for each lens. Just like you go to a restaurant, it is common and appropriate to give your waitress/waiter a tip or gratuity, such is the case here. You are encouraged to provide a gratuity to your model at the end of a successful shoot.

#129 Focus Stacking for Macro and Landscape Photography a one-day workshop Sunday November 9, 2025 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
2025-11-09 10:00 - 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States

#205 Portfolio Review and Tech Time Friday November 7, 2025 6:30-9:30PM
2025-11-07 18:30 - 21:30 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
This three-hour program is intended for photographers to bring in up to 10 of their images for Bryce to review and critique; saved on a USB flash drive. The students’ 10 images may be their best ever images for validation that these images are as good as the photographer hopes they are. Most students however; bring in their problem images in hopes that they can gain an insight of how the image can be re-edited or perhaps re-photographed even better. Bryce will display the images on a big screen and tell you the truth about each image and hopefully; how to make it better if it can be made better. We start at 6:30PM and we continue until we are done. This program is held at our Farmington Hills campus. The image resolution should be 6″x9″ @ 240 DPI or 2160 Pixels at the longest dimension. Students will also want to bring in both the RAW image (unprocessed) and their edited .jpg image if possible, in case Bryce needs to demonstrate a processing technique from scratch. Images with smaller resolution can still work, but may provide a limited opportunity as compared to the larger RAW image to take full advantage of the data available from the larger file size of a RAW file.

#210 Editing your photos using Adobe Lightroom Classic - a Six Week class starting Monday November 3, 2025 6:30PM - 10:00PM
2025-11-03 18:30 - 22:00 | Wildbrook Computer Lab, 29260 Wildbrook Drive, Southfield, 48034, United States

#128 HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography Sunday November 16, 2025 9-12.00PM
2025-11-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Wildbrook Computer Lab, 29260 Wildbrook Drive, Southfield, 48034, United States
Photographers frequently make images under less than ideal conditions. Film and digital sensors have limitations in capturing detail in bright sunlight compared to dark shadows. Commonly, if the photographer places exposure emphasis on light areas, the dark areas become too dark and vice-verse. Stacking is more than bracketing your exposure. You may use Photoshop CC (Cloud), Lightroom, NIK – HDR and PhotoMatix Pro 4.2 in this two-hour workshop. Learn about tone mapping and how to create a composite from a three-shot bracket (or a 5, 7, 9 shot bracket) into a photograph that could not be captured by conventional means. We will also demonstrate how to create multiple files from a film scanner. Bring your camera and tripod as you will be shooting photos to work on in class.

#101 Fundamentals of Photography starting Thursday October 30, 2025 6:30-10:30PM
2025-10-30 18:30 - 22:30 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
This is a six-week, 4 hours per night or 4-hour daytime class, (seven-session class approx 30 hours). It is designed for the beginning photographer who has recently purchased a digital SLR camera, a mirrorless camera, or even for people looking for a refresher on technique. This class covers: exposure, shutter speeds, ISO selection, f/stops and how to read a histogram. Learn composition techniques such as: The Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, S Curves, C curves and the Light Isolate Theory. In addition to learning about the use of filters, extension tubes, and tele-convertors; students will also receive instruction on flash photography, portraiture, close-ups (Macro Photography), and how to overcome full automation in today’s cameras.
Learn about how to photograph wildlife, nature and sports. We may view a couple of photographs of the portrayal of the artistic nude model as fine art.
Any digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) or mirrorless camera that can be adjusted for manual operation was well as automatic exposure is welcome provided it is not an an automatic exposure only style camera. No point and shoot or cell phone cameras permitted. This class is about 30-hours in total. There is also an all-day Saturday or Sunday session at the end of the class. Expect homework assignments!
GPS coordinates: 42°26’31.0603″ N 83°19’54.2024″ W

#120 Intermediate Shooting Techniques - A six-week class with field trips starting Tuesday October 28, 2025 6:30PM
2025-10-28 18:30 - 22:00 | Wildbrook Computer Lab, 29260 Wildbrook Drive, Southfield, 48034, United States

#620 Ten Barns in a Day Saturday October 25, 2025 10AM - 5:00 PM
2025-10-25 10:00 - 17:00
Join us for this all-day photography field trip visiting the best looking barns in Washtenaw County. Your instructor, Richard Grubola has visited and researched extensively to find the best specimens of Classic American barns and will guide you to their location and how to photograph them. If you are a beginner… NO PROBLEM!He can assist you with shutter speeds, f/stops, ISO, Lens selection and composition. We specialize in small class sizes so everyone can get as much individual attention as needed.Rain Date if needed, is the following day. Students are expected to meet at the McDonald’s restraunt in Chelsea just before 10AM.

#421 Studio Portraiture and Business Practices Saturday October 11, 2025 1-5PM
2025-10-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
This six-hour workshop starts with classroom instruction on the running of a business photographing a graduating high school senior, professional corporate head shots or even wedding engagement announcement photos. Remember that graduates frequently use their senior portraits as a personal statement of who they are as a rite of passage. Most graduating seniors desire a photo that shows people active in their interests in life; like music or a pet or sports. You need to be able to extract that information from the client and deliver it back to the client in the form of your photographs. After the classroom business portion we will go into the studio where students will photograph a model and learn how to quantify beauty by using lighting, backgrounds, poses and props to maximize the model’s best features or to minimize those that are less desirable. Lighting ratios and metering will also be discussed and demonstrated. Students will use state-of-the-art studio electronic flashes housed inside really large soft boxes for great soft lighting. This workshop can include the #999 Post Workshop Private shoot immediately following the conclusion of this workshop. You can get a one-hour private shoot with the model for $100.00 which may include a model release. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged and only two private shoots will be offered per workshop. Enrollment is first-come-first served. Students are expected to bring: camera with ample media cards, wide angle and telephoto lenses, tripod and a lens hood for each lens. Just like you go to a restaurant, it is common and appropriate to give your waitress/waiter a tip or gratuity, such is the case here. You are encouraged to provide a gratuity to your model at the end of a successful shoot.

#944 Photographing the Fine Art of Shibari Sunday October 5, 2025 1-5 PM
2025-10-05 13:00 - 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
This one-afternoon studio workshop provides basic instruction about shibari for photographers. Shibari is the traditional Japanese form of rope bondage used by the Ninjas who were the police in feudal Japan. The first part of the workshop will cover basic shibari for photographers. Students will then photograph the model who will be bound in several different ways. Students are expected to bring their digital cameras to create portfolio grade images. Instruction will also include studio lighting techniques.
Students are expected to bring: camera with ample media cards, wide angle and telephoto lenses, tripod and a lens hood for each lens.
Just like you go to a restaurant, it is common and appropriate to give your waitress/waiter a tip or gratuity, such is the case here. You are welcome to provide a gratuity to your model at the end of a successful shoot. Suggested tip is 10% of the course fee for a Portrait/Fashion workshop, 15% of the course fee for a Lingerie/Boudoir workshop and up to 20% for a Nude/Figure workshop.

#205 Portfolio Review and Tech Time Friday October 3, 2025 6:30-9:30PM
2025-10-03 18:30 - 21:30 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States

#210 Editing your photos using Adobe Lightroom Classic - a six week class starting Monday September 8, 10:30AM - 2:00PM
2025-09-08 10:30 - 14:00 | Wildbrook Computer Lab, 29260 Wildbrook Drive, Southfield, 48034, United States

#205 Portfolio Review and Tech Time Friday September 5, 2025 6:30 - 9:30 PM
2025-09-05 18:30 - 21:30 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States

#1303 Private Lessons with Bryce Denison - 3 Hours
2024-01-01 08:00 - 2025-01-01 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States

#1302 Private Lessons with Bryce Denison - 2 Hours
2024-01-01 08:00 - 2025-12-31 17:00 | Midwest Photography Studio, 28830 W 8 Mile Rd #5937, Farmington Hills, MI, 48336, United States
