Malka photography workshops - Private Photography Courses and Tutorials


Private Photography Tutorials & Courses by Daniel Malka One-on-One Consulting with Daniel Malka. I offer private photography lessons and workshops designed to meet your own particular and personal needs, either as a serious passionate amateur photographer or as a professional photographer. I offer a free 45 minutes consult over the phone to focus on your exact needs in order to understand and design the best tutorials that will help you achieve your goals. I offer this consults in English, French and Spanish. You can make an appointment for your first free 45 minute consult by contacting me via email, sending me your name and telephone number. I will contact you by phone to set up an appointment. My time is limited, therefore spaces as well. Portfolio Review. After making an appointment, you will send me via email or post on the web no less than 7 photographs of your work or your whole portfolio so i can get a proper overview of your style, technical skills, strong points as well as weak ones. I will than have an honest conversation with you about the work. You will tell me about your doubts, what your expectations are, and to which level you want to take it to. Based on our first meeting, I will design a program for you and give you an estimate of how many hours of consult you will need. About my experience My passion for fine art, travel, culture and my 25 year experience as a successful award winning editorial, advertising and fine art photographer have given me the opportunity to develop a high level of expertise that covers a variety of areas in photography. My work includes travel photography, car photography, still life photography, portraits, reportage, landscape photography and people photography. My work is produced in all formats; 35mmm, Hasselblad medium format and 4x5 as well as 8x10. I also shoot with digital cameras, ranging from point and shoot such as the little Panasonic Lumix with a Leica lens to Hasselblad's latest technology. My darkroom techniques range from antique processes such as cyanotypes including hand retouching on negatives to various simple and complex toning techniques on FB paper. I was lucky enough to learn with the best printers in the trade while I lived and worked in Europe. I have been printing on fine art papers for over 20 years, first with hand coated emulsions, and now with the high end Canon and Epson printers. I have been working with Adobe Photoshop for over 12 years and prior to that, I use to retouch with the best operators in London and Paris on Quantel's Paintbox. I have shot campaigns with throw away cameras, camera-phones and published others from Polaroid transfers. I have also shot car campaigns with portrait lenses from the 1940's and exhibited portraits shot on 8x10 Tri-X film(my favorite B&W film) photographed with the same lens I had special ordered from Rodenstock in Germany. My lighting experience ranges from strobe lights to tungsten, and HMI lighting without forgetting what ever is available to get the shot I want. You can see more samples of my work here. If you wonder about my skills as an educator, I have trained many assistants over the years to become successful photographers. After completing my Masters in science, I have taught and tutored for many years. Its about passion, fun, vision and imagination, its the magic of the little black box, its what photography is all about. How I can help you with your photography 1. Improving your technical skills, from shooting (including lighting, composition aesthetics and style), retouching, digital darkroom to printing what suits your style best, using more imagination than dollars. 2. Seeing, seeing the light and shadows that will look as you want them to on print, developing your own style, signature and creativity. Its about originality and simplicity, the key and secret to any art form. 3. Portfolio presentation and selection of images. 4. Stock photography, how to be amongst the best. 5. Travel photography, budget, locations, gear, developing a personal, spontaneous and unique perception, vision and style. 6. Portrait, lighting, angle, background, setting and mostly the eyes, how to capture that expression that makes the difference between a portrait and a great portrait. 7. Landscape photography, space light, composition, elegance and emotion. 8. Car photography, originality, sensuality, atmosphere and romance. 9. Still Life photography, composition, lighting, and how to give a soul to an object through your perception and emotion. 10. Advertising photography, all of the above and much more such as client relations and marketing. 11. Marketing your photography. Unlike many other advisors in the trade, I never had a magic wand and a crystal ball in my studio. I simply learned with experience that what looks great and is well presented, shows imagination, elegance, atmosphere and wrapped in a personal style will sale. I can help you put it together and show you the way to art buyers and art directors, but if you expect me to take you by the hand, or even miracles, you will be very disapointed. Its about hard work, perseverance, passion and ambition. All images and text © 2008 Daniel Malka

Private Photography Tutorials & Courses by Daniel Malka

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One-on-One Consulting with Daniel Malka.

I offer private photography lessons and workshops designed to meet your own particular and personal needs, either as a serious passionate amateur photographer or as a professional photographer. I offer a free 45 minutes consult over the phone to focus on your exact needs in order to understand and design the best tutorials that will help you achieve your goals. I offer this consults in English, French and Spanish.

You can make an appointment for your first free 45 minute consult by contacting me via email, sending me your name and telephone number. I will contact you by phone to set up an appointment. My time is limited, therefore spaces as well.

Portfolio Review.

After making an appointment, you will send me via email or post on the web no less than 7 photographs of your work or your whole portfolio so i can get a proper overview of your style, technical skills, strong points as well as weak ones.

I will than have an honest conversation with you about the work. You will tell me about your doubts, what your expectations are, and to which level you want to take it to. Based on our first meeting, I will design a program for you and give you an estimate of how many hours of consult you will need.

About my experience

My passion for fine art, travel, culture and my 25 year experience as a successful award winning editorial, advertising and fine art photographer have given me the opportunity to develop a high level of expertise that covers a variety of areas in photography.

My work includes travel photography, car photography, still life photography, portraits, reportage, landscape photography and people photography. My work is produced in all formats; 35mmm, Hasselblad medium format and 4x5 as well as 8x10. I also shoot with digital cameras, ranging from point and shoot such as the little Panasonic Lumix with a Leica lens to Hasselblad's latest technology. My darkroom techniques range from antique processes such as cyanotypes including hand retouching on negatives to various simple and complex toning techniques on FB paper. I was lucky enough to learn with the best printers in the trade while I lived and worked in Europe. I have been printing on fine art papers for over 20 years, first with hand coated emulsions, and now with the high end Canon and Epson printers.

I have been working with Adobe Photoshop for over 12 years and prior to that, I use to retouch with the best operators in London and Paris on Quantel's Paintbox. I have shot campaigns with throw away cameras, camera-phones and published others from Polaroid transfers. I have also shot car campaigns with portrait lenses from the 1940's and exhibited portraits shot on 8x10 Tri-X film(my favorite B&W film) photographed with the same lens I had special ordered from Rodenstock in Germany.

My lighting experience ranges from strobe lights to tungsten, and HMI lighting without forgetting what ever is available to get the shot I want. You can see more samples of my work here. If you wonder about my skills as an educator, I have trained many assistants over the years to become successful photographers. After completing my Masters in science, I have taught and tutored for many years.

Its about passion, fun, vision and imagination, its the magic of the little black box, its what photography is all about.

How I can help you with your photography

1. Improving your technical skills, from shooting (including lighting, composition aesthetics and style), retouching, digital darkroom to printing what suits your style best, using more imagination than dollars.

2. Seeing, seeing the light and shadows that will look as you want them to on print, developing your own style, signature and creativity. Its about originality and simplicity, the key and secret to any art form.

3. Portfolio presentation and selection of images.

4. Stock photography, how to be amongst the best.

5. Travel photography, budget, locations, gear, developing a personal, spontaneous and unique perception, vision and style.

6. Portrait, lighting, angle, background, setting and mostly the eyes, how to capture that expression that makes the difference between a portrait and a great portrait.

7. Landscape photography, space light, composition, elegance and emotion.

8. Car photography, originality, sensuality, atmosphere and romance.

9. Still Life photography, composition, lighting, and how to give a soul to an object through your perception and emotion.

10. Advertising photography, all of the above and much more such as client relations and marketing.

11. Marketing your photography. Unlike many other advisors in the trade, I never had a magic wand and a crystal ball in my studio. I simply learned with experience that what looks great and is well presented, shows imagination, elegance, atmosphere and wrapped in a personal style will sale. I can help you put it together and show you the way to art buyers and art directors, but if you expect me to take you by the hand, or even miracles, you will be very disapointed. Its about hard work, perseverance, passion and ambition.