# Photo Week 2018

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/learning-path/photo-week-2018>

## Curriculum
1. **Shooting in Natural Light with Dave Krugman**
2. **In Person Sales Techniques for Photographers with Ben Shirk**
3. **Image Composition for Street Photographers with Dave Krugman**
4. **Green Screen Photography with Ben Shirk**
5. **Guide To Simple Photo Backdrops with Mike Hagen**
6. **Business 101: Start-up Considerations with Karen Okonkwo**
7. **Brand Development for Creatives with Karen Okonkwo**
8. **Vlogging for Photographers with Jeven Dovey**
9. **Shooting Creative Portraits With Props with Joshua Kissi**
10. **Strategies to Grow Your Photo Business with Tomayia Colvin**
11. **Creating Diversity in Stock Photography with Joshua Kissi**
12. **How To Set Up Your Pricing Structure with Tomayia Colvin**
13. **In Focus: The New World of Photography with Joshua Kissi, Karen Okonkwo, TONL**
14. **Getting Started with Off-Camera Flash with Erik Valind**
15. **Understanding Viral Content with Daysha Veronica (Edewi)**
16. **Controlling Time and Motion with Flash with Erik Valind**
17. **Intermediate Drone Videography and Photography with Dirk Dallas**
18. **Creative Post-Processing for Portraiture with Jackie Jean Acosta**
19. **Using Your Style To Diversify Your Photography with Steve Sweatpants**
20. **iPhone Video Editing with Cielo de la Paz**
21. **Sculpting with Hard and Soft Light with Erik Valind**

## Instructors

### Dave Krugman

Dave Krugman is a freelance photographer and social media consultant based in Brooklyn, New York. His commercial work spans many genres, including fashion, travel, and portraiture.

### Ben Shirk

Ben Shirk is an internationally award-winning professional photographer. Growing up in a log cabin near a small farming community of Wilton, Iowa, he spent his days exploring the woods, swimming in rivers and developing his imagination.

### Mike Hagen

Mike Hagen is a professional photographer, author, and workshop leader. He's taught hundreds of workshops and thousands of students over the years on just about all photo topics including camera gear, studio lighting, Photoshop®, Lightroom®, landscape, travel, and digital workflow.

### Karen Okonkwo

Karen Okonkwo is a Nigerian-American and Seattle-based serial entrepreneur who co-created TONL with the intention of infusing diversity within the stock photography industry.

### Jeven Dovey

Jeven Dovey is a filmmaker, YouTuber, world traveler and mountaineer based in Los Angeles, CA.

### Joshua Kissi

Joshua Kissi is a Ghanaian-American creative entrepreneur specializing in photography and creative direction, based in New York City. Raised in the Bronx, Kissi grew up with an affinity for the arts and picked up a camera at the age of seventeen.

### Tomayia Colvin

Tomayia Colvin has been photographing high school seniors and weddings for five years and has been a classroom teacher for more than 10 years.

### TONL

Karen Okonkwo is a Nigerian-American social entrepreneur owning various companies in the event planning and online business realm. Having been an avid blogger since starting a site with her two sorority sisters in 2013, Karen struggled to display diversity on it.

### Erik Valind

Erik Valind is a freelance photographer, born and raised on the Florida beaches, now living in New York City. He specializes in commercial lifestyle photography and environmental portraiture with airy and energetic imagery defining his style and vision.

### Daysha Veronica (Edewi)

Daysha Veronica (Edewi) is a veteran digital media producer who was a producer at BuzzFeed, and created over a hundred well-known, viral short-form videos that focused on gender, race, identity, health/wellness/fitness and body positivity.

### Dirk Dallas

Dirk Dallas is an FAA licensed drone pilot, commercial photographer, filmmaker, speaker, professor of design and visual experience and the host of AdoramaTV’s web series “From Where I Drone with Dirk Dallas.

### Jackie Jean Acosta

Jackie Acosta, of Jackie Jean Photography, is a Portland-based photographer specializing in children and family portraiture. Jackie has had a camera in her hand for over two decades, and she continues to learn and grow in her field.

### Steve Sweatpants

Steven John Irby, also known as Steve Sweatpants, is a self-taught street photographer in Brooklyn, New York. Heʼs also the co-founder & director of Street Dreams, a photography publication and visual agency.

### Cielo de la Paz

Cielo de la Paz is a San Francisco-based mobile filmmaker and photographer and founder of TheStoryographist.com. With her mobile videography and filmmaking courses, Cielo has taught thousands of individuals to tell their stories – using nothing but their mobile phones.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $199