Vision Series: Arches National Park Photography Workshop

November 30, 2028: Arrival, Introductions, and Workshop Overview

Meet your Pros and fellow photographers at our hotel in Moab at 4:00 PM local time. We’ll gather in our private meeting room for introductions and an overview of the workshop, including the creative ideas and techniques we’ll be exploring over the coming days.

Afterward, we’ll enjoy dinner together and prepare for our first full day.

Grand Junction, Colorado, is generally the most convenient airport for reaching Moab, with shuttle services available between the two. We’ll provide recommended transportation information before the workshop.

December 1, 2028: Building Stronger Compositions

We’ll begin at 8:00 AM with our first classroom session, introducing the visual principles that will underpin the week. We’ll explore how alignment, balance, shape, repetition, negative space, scale, and focal length influence the way an image works. Your Pros will also discuss camera and Lightroom settings that create a strong foundation for later processing in future classroom sessions.

After lunch, we’ll head into Arches National Park for our first extended field session. With your Pros working alongside you, we’ll put the morning’s ideas into practice, studying how small changes in position and focal length can transform a composition. We’ll photograph through the afternoon, golden hour, and sunset before returning to Moab for dinner.

December 2, 2028: From Capture to Finished Photograph

Our morning begins with an image review using photographs from our first field session. Together, we’ll look at what worked, what could be strengthened, and how different compositional choices affect the way the viewer experiences an image.

We’ll then move deeper into Adobe Photoshop, working with layers, masks, selections, contrast, and color while exploring how post-processing can strengthen the visual structure already present in a photograph.

In the afternoon, we’ll return to Arches for another field session, this time concentrating on applying what we discovered during the review. We’ll continue photographing through sunset, working with changing light, sandstone formations, intimate details, and larger desert landscapes.

December 3, 2028: Developing Your Visual Approach

We’ll begin with another guided image review before turning our attention to developing a more efficient Lightroom Classic and Photoshop workflow.

The emphasis today is on bringing the entire process together: recognizing a composition in the field, developing it through camera position and focal length, making appropriate technical decisions, and carrying that original idea through post-processing.

After lunch, we’ll return to Arches for our final field session. This is an opportunity to revisit techniques from throughout the workshop, work independently on ideas that interest you, and receive one-on-one guidance from your Pros as sunset changes to blue hour on our last day in the park.

December 4, 2028: Final Processing Session and Departure

Our final morning begins at 8:00 AM with a practical editing session. Your Pros will teach you about additional post-processing tools and techniques, then give you time to work on your own photographs with guidance from the instructors. We’ll finish by bringing together the principles explored throughout the workshop and discussing how you can continue applying them to your photography beyond Arches.

The workshop concludes at approximately 11:00 AM. If you are traveling to Grand Junction, please arrange transportation departing from Moab no earlier than 12:00 PM.