DATE:

Thursday through Sunday June 12-15th, 2018. Full itinerary will be released to participants and serious inquirers who need more info.

PRICE:

$750 per person total.

A $100 deposit (non refundable) to reserve one of ten spots in advance, the remaining balance can be payed online any date before 7/12 or cash upon arrival.

LOCATION:

Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. The exact coordinates of our spot will be provided once signed up.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING:

Required

1. A DSLR with long exposure capabilities
2. Sturdy tripod
3. Various lenses (14mm-85mm), mostly wide angle with fast aperture (f/2.8-ish)
4. An intervalometer
5. A headlamp with red light capabilities
6. Memory cards and batteries
7. Proper clothing, medicine, hella snacks.

WHAT YOU GET:

• 4 days/3 nights of hands on astrophotography instruction
• Camping/Yurt accomodations (hotels are nearby as well)
• 4-star breakfast and dinners cooked on site
• 4 hours of post processing follow up videos and lessons

Three epic full nights/days of hands on astrophotography instruction with Jaxson and Derek in Goblin Valley State Park, camping and yurt accomodations, over 4 hours of post processing videos and private editing lessons, and life long memories of a truly fun and passionate astrophotography vacation.  This workshop will teach you a comprehensive workflow from image acquisition to editing, so you can create extremely clean, detailed, and creative images using a standard DSLR set up. 

Topics covered: 

(included but not limited to!)

• Both Jaxson's and Derek's personal artistic theory with composition and photography.
• Camera settings ISO, Aperture, and Exposure time for a well balanced image.
• Learning about and planning your Milky Way shots around the Milky Way core schedule, moon cycles, light pollution and locations.
• Discuss astrophotography equipment like lenses, camera bodies, intervalometers, and even equatorial mounts, and post processing softwares like Lighroom and Photoshop.
• Finding an artistic and interesting composition and foreground and what factors contribute in making a high quality astrophoto.
• Astrophotography techniques like how to focus your camera at night, find the Milky Way and important night sky constellations, stars, and celestial objects.
• Concepts about balancing a proper exposure and the exposure triangle with ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. Topics like Signal, Noise, Rule of 500, Coma, Chromatic Aberrations.
• We will also discuss astrophotography topics like Signal to Noise Ratio, Quantum Effeciency, Tracking, Stacking, and more.
• 3+ hours of post processing videos and private instruction for blending, compositing, editing, and using editing techniques to make your pictures unique, and epic.
• Probably some tasteless yet subtle jokes about how phallic looking the rocks are in Goblin Valley. What I meant to say is, regional geology facts!