Yosemite National Park

With Rod Barbee and Don Mammoser

May 18-22, 2009
El Portal, CA
$850  Limit 12, minimum 6
(Price does not include lodging, meals, or transportation)
tentative schedule

Your instructors are two professional outdoor and nature photographers, both of whom have numerous publishing credits (including articles and books) and extensive teaching experience.

We'll meet on the evening of Monday the 18th for introduction, orientation and a bit of instruction that should help you get started. We'll then spend the next four days exploring the park Ansel Adams made famous. We'll visit such places as Cathedral Rocks, Tunnel View, Half Dome, Swinging Bridge, Yosemite Falls, and Fern Spring, just to name a few.
Here we'll be able to help you master landscape techniques like hyperfocal focusing. We'll also help you with setting up for multi-image panoramas as well as making separate exposures of scenes for later blending in Photoshop (sometimes called the digital graduated ND filter technique).

Flowers should be plentiful and we'll help you further your close up photography skills by demonstrating techniques and some specialized equipment.

There will be a little hiking involved. Nothing too strenuous for those in average shape. Most hiking books would list anything we do as easy.

Our goal is to help you create photographs that are uniquely your own and to help you develop your own style. To that end, we’ll be encouraging you to stretch beyond what you’re used to doing and to look for perspectives, angles and compositions that are expressions of your own view of the world. 

Since there are so many opportunities and so many great scenes with easy access, this workshop won’t involve much hiking. But never fear, we’ll employ other means to exhaust you. 

Since this is a Field Workshop, most of our teaching will be done in the field, and we may not be spending much time in the classroom. Besides, if conditions are great we'll definitely want to be out photographing as much as we can. We will, however be getting together at least once for image sharing and critiques. If time allows we'll also

To sign up, first visit our policies and payment page and read our payment and cancellation policies.

Send deposit or full payment by check or money order to:

Donald Mammoser Photography
581 Burland Drive
Bailey, CO 80421
(Prices do not include lodging, meals, or transportation)

Lodging: 

We'll be staying at the Cedar Lodge in El Portal, CA, just minutes from the park entrance. Room rates are $104 plus tax. Upon registration we'll send you the details on how to reserve your room.

Share the Ride

If anyone signing up for this workshop is interested in sharing rental car expenses (or rooms, for that matter), let me know. I'll set up a private web page for those who are interested and post your contact information. You can then get in touch with each other to set up sharing and coordinate travel.