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Photography Online Workshop

Learn How to Create my “Gigapixel”  Photos

An Online Gigapixel Panoramic Photography Training Workshop is Now Available

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An “Online” training workshop is now available. While I am no longer doing regularly scheduled annual in the field workshops, I am offering this nearly 6 hours of Online classes that cover the essentials needed to get started doing Gigapixel Panoramic Photography. I have custom tailored the instruction for an intermediate to advanced level of photography experience. In general, the curriculum will consist of the class room portion of days 1 to 3 of my Gigapixel Panoramic Photography Workshop I have held in Ouray, CO in the past.

What Will be Covered in this Online Course

Key Technical Considerations

• What kind of special camera equipment do you need?
• Setting up your Panoramic gear.
• How to find your “No-Parallax Point“
• Camera Settings for consistent results.
  • Camera Settings for Focus Bracketing
• Maximizing Your Camera’s Dynamic Range using ETTR
• Color Gamut – Why it Matters
• Composition of Panoramic Photos.
• Depth of Field Considerations for Panoramic Photos
• Determining when focus bracketing is necessary
• Diffraction Considerations
• Computer & software needed to process images
• Pre-processing of images in preparation for stitching.
• Focus Stacking your images prior to stitching
• Using PTGui stitching software to stitch panoramas.
• Post processing of image after stitching.

 

To purchase access to the online course for one person, simply use the PayPal pay buttons below. Please note, the purchase of this course is intended to be used only by the purchaser. It may not be shared with others.

 

One Day In Person Training with Optional Field Training

• Gigapixel Photography is considered “Advanced Photography” and attendees should be experienced beyond beginner levels with a solid working knowledge of shutter speeds, f-stops, ISO, focal lengths etc.
• Student/s should own or have access to some type of Panoramic Nodal Head in addition to camera, remote cable release, tripods  and etc..
  • See the “What to Bring” list.
• The One Day Mini-Workshop training will consist of 8 hours of classroom training at our home in Longmont, CO. Base cost is $485 for first person.
  • If 2 or more additional students participate at the same time for Group pricing is $450 each in the 8 hour classroom session.
  • We do not offer accommodations or meals for students. There are numerous motels and hotels in the Longmont area.
  • If you need the training done at another location, then student/s will be required to pay for travel, meals and accommodations for the instructor.
• In Field Follow-up and Training
  • There are numerous areas in Colorado outside the national parks that offer good settings to utilize the skills taught in the classroom training.
  • In field training is $60/ hour per person.
    • Within 50 miles of Longmont we will waive transportation charges from Longmont to destination and back to Longmont. Students can either travel on their own or I can provide transportation for up to 3 people.
    • For distances greater than 50 miles from Longmont, CO, but within the State of Colorado, student/s will be required to pay mileage at rate of $0.50 per mile after first 50 miles to the location.
    • Outside of the State of Colorado, the costs for travel, meals and accommodations for the instructor during field training needs to be scheduled at time of registration, and included as part of the travel costs for the classroom training.
  • In Field Training in Rocky Mountain National Park
    • In most cases, permits and fees are not required for filming, still photography, or audio recording that involves eight or fewer individual  in Rocky Mountain National Park.
    • A $350/day surcharge for groups larger than eight people is required if you want to do in field training in Rocky Mountain National Park.
    • I can provide transportation from Longmont to RMNP and back to Longmont for up to 3 people.
    • If you plan to travel in your own vehicle, you will be required either to pay a $20 entrance fee per vehicle (with 16 or fewer passengers) or to present a valid park pass (seven-day entrance pass, Rocky Mountain National Park annual pass, or other pass valid for entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park). Park service may raise rates in 2018.
• All students booking field sessions are required to sign a liability waiver.  Please download Liability-Release-Form.pdf, read, print, and sign the liability waiver (PDF) and bring it with you to the workshop.

For more information or to book One Day workshop, please call or email me. I look forward to helping you achieve your photography goals.

Contact Info:

John Freeman, 303-485-9437

email [email protected]

Feel free to contact me for more information and any questions you may have.

My Annual Workshops in Ouray Colorado are No Longer Regularly Scheduled

Future In Field Workshops — by Special Request Only

Call 303-485-9437 if interested in scheduling a private In the Field workshop.

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At this time, Nov, 2025, I have no current plans to continue holding regularly scheduled annual in the field workshops in Ouray, CO. I will turn 75 this next February and do not feel that it is something I want to continue to do. I will still consider a field workshop in the Ouray area by special request for up to three persons maximum. Arranging a location in Ouray to hold the workshop classroom instruction is just too difficult. Any classes would be held in our large RV at a campground in the Ouray area.

I started using the Canon R5 camera in Dec. 2020 and it has an excellent internal focus bracketing capability that is fast enough to be practical in the field. The Canon R series cameras have a “good” focus stacking system. The Nikon Z series & Sony A7RV cameras also have a similar focus bracketing system.  If a Canon R, Nikon Z series Sony A7RV owner(s) is interested taking part in a workshop feel free to contact me about doing a private workshop.

Have you wanted to, or tried to, capture Ultra High Resolution Gigapixel stitched photos?

Join me for 3-5 full days in beautiful Ouray, nearby Ridgway and Telluride Colorado situated in Southwestern Colorado for a Fall Colors tour of the San Juan mountains, one of the most spectacular areas in the Western United States during the peak of the fall color season. You will be learning how to shoot, stitch and edit our unique style of “Gigarama” photos. We will instruct you with detailed information on the equipment, software and methods you need to know to enable you to capture the kind of high resolution panoramic images you see in our “Gigapixel Wall Murals Gallery“.

Our workshop is designed to teach you all the techniques required to capture and stitch single and multi-row panoramas to create images from hundreds of Megapixels to several Gigapixels. This is a medium to advanced level workshop. Students are expected to have a good basic working knowledge of photography and own some type of Panoramic Nodal Head. Days 2 & 3 will have an emphasis on applying Focus Stacking techniques to your Gigapixel Panoramas to allow incredible Depth of Field. The Focus Stacking portion of the workshop will be focused on using a Canon R series cameras, Nikon & Sony camera’s with focus bracketing capability.

In addition, there will be an optional additional day for using HDR images to create stitched panoramic Images. I will help you to understand the best methods to capture HDR and process for optimum quality stitched HDR images. Please note: to the best of my knowledge no camera is currently capable of doing both focus bracketed and exposure bracketing at the same time. Thus, the HDR portion of the workshop does not include focus stacking.

What you will learn.