Photo Workshops & Tours

Photo Tours in Paris (voir page en français)

We offer a range of different Photography Tours in Paris. Each tour concentrates on a different neighborhood of Paris. The Latin Quarter, the Marais, Montmartre, Belleville, St. Germain and others to come. These sessions last approximately three hours. In addition to sharing some of the highlights of the various neighborhoods (some better known sites and monuments but also some lesser known gems), the session will cover a range of topics including technical questions about cameras as well as offering aesthetic tips about how to strengthen your photographs.

Photo Tour Options

Click on the links below to learn more about our various tour destinations:

Digital Photo Workshops (voir page en français)

Digital Photo 1 Private or small group class (2-4 sessions depending on group size) for the beginning student who wants to make better use of his/her camera. We’ll help students to master their cameras and learn how to better capture all the beauty of Paris. We’ll help students understand what all those numbers on the camera mean, what the buttons and dials do so they can really start to make some beautiful images of the places and people they encounter!
Digital Photo 2 (2-4 sessions depending on group size)nfor the intermediate student who has gotten more comfortable with all the different options the camera offers. In this cycle we push deeper into photography by exploring more advanced topics like advanced composition, nighttime photography, how to shoot powerful images in black and white and portraiture.
Nighttime Photo Private or small group workshop to investigate the wonderful beauty of the changing light in Paris. We’ll start before sunset and will watch (and capture!) the beautiful changes of light as we lose the sunlight and turn our attention to the lights of the city and their wonderful variety of colors.

Lightroom & Photoshop Classes

Lightroom 1 The Lightroom photo editing software allows for very powerful adjustments to help improve your images (better color, contrast, sharpness, etc.) while also helping to catalogue your thousands of images so you can more easily find them on your computer.
Lightroom 2 For students who have begun to work with Lightroom to edit and catalog their images but want to push a little deeper into the software.
Photoshop 1 Learn the software that has been the reference for digital photo editing for more than 25 years. We’ll go through all the basics in image correction, showing students the most efficient ways to make color and tonal corrections and much more!

Traditional Photo Workshops

Pinhole Photography Learn about the origins of photography. Make your own camera from a tin coffee can and discover the magic of capturing your own images! A fun and easy process anyone can master.
Cyanotype Learn one of the oldest traditional photographic processes (invented in 1842!). Discover the stunning beauty of these prussian blue prints. Working from digital images students will supply, we’ll convert these into negatives to be used to print their images. One of the simplest of the 19th century photo processes. If you have taken a digital photograph, you’re ready for this class!

Instructor:

Michael McCarthy has been working as an artist and teaching art and photography classes for more than twenty years. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous prizes and his work is currently represented by Galerie Duboys in Paris.

Workshop Locations:

Digital Photo Workshops and Photo Tours will meet at different locations within Paris, allowing students to explore various neighbourhoods as their photography skills grow.

Traditional Photo Workshops (Pinhole, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate and others) will most often meet in Gentilly (just South of Paris and convenient via RER line B or bus (57, 125 and 184 lines stop close to the studio). Occasionally, the pinhole workshops may take place in Pantin (East of Paris) near the Eglise de Pantin Métro stop on line 5 or by bus on line 61, 249 or 330.

Digital Software Classes (Photoshop, Lightroom and others) will most often take place at student’s residence.

Getting to Atelier Atlantis in Gentilly:

View Atelier à Gentilly depuis la station RER Gentilly à pied in a larger map