Finding the transition from still photography to video downright daunting? This hands-on workshop will demystify some of the settings, tools and techniques that are fundamental to capturing video. This one day workshop will be held at Oakland Photo Workshop. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops

Join us at Oakland Photo Workshop for the closing of Raymond Cooper’s Oakland!

This one day workshop will be held at Oakland Photo Workshop. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops

For those who own a 35mm camera and want to learn how to get the most out of it. In this course, an instructor will guide you through the basics of manual camera function and making images with black & white 35mm film, including ISO, aperture, shutter speed, light metering, focus, and more. This workshop will get you making images that can be sent out for processing or prepare you for your own processing work in the darkroom. Participants must bring their own 35mm camera.

Join us to celebrate the incredible archive of photographer, business owner, Black Panther, and sailer Raymond Cooper. As featured in SF Gate, this exhibition features a small selection of Cooper’s remaining archive.

Join us 6-9pm for refreshments, and music by Vinyl Richie!

This two-part series will be held at Oakland Photo Workshop on February 11th and March 3rd. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops

Camera lenses are, at their base level, shockingly simple: A single piece of glass and a tube. As time has gone by lenses have gotten increasingly, mind-bogglingly complex. But one can still, with some very basic materials, make your own camera lenses that render surprisingly good images.

This is a two part series that will cover the basics of making your own camera lens. We will talk about the simple calculations required to combine lens elements, where to find and purchase the elements, and in class make an elementary lens out of two optical elements and a pair of dollar bills.

We are water, we are earth, we are sky - closing reception

At Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, February 2nd from 6-9pm!

Join us to celebrate EBPCO’s creative and amazing members! We are water, We are earth, We are sky is a photographic celebration of humanity’s interconnectedness with nature, curated by EBPCO member and OPW volunteer, Amanda Bensel. Light refreshments, music, and good times will be provided!

Do you have a film camera sitting in your closet or collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative or borrowed from a friend, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and question to this informal workshop where we will share with others and with EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm). Philip will test and assess your camera, if possible help with minor repairs, and explain how to use it, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.

This workshop is free to attend but advance registration is suggested, sign up here.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Join us Friday November 17th from 6-9pm for the closing reception of The Gun Next Door, Judy Dater’s series of carefully crafted portraits of Bay Area gun owners. Featured in the East Bay Times, SF Gate, and Alta Magazine!

The Zone System was designed as a method for enabling the (analog) B&W photographer to control the technical aspects of exposure, development and printing. It starts with what Ansel Adams called “Pre-visualization” or more specifically the visualization of the subject as a finished black and white print, before the shutter is tripped.

Starting with an introduction of how we transcribe into shades of grey, from deepest black to whitest of white, we will explore how to realize that abstraction of reality into a finished print. We will learn about the characteristics of the materials (film, development and print) and both the possibilities and limitations of how these materials can be manipulated to most closely realize the artists’ (pre)visualization of their subject.

Most importantly, we will emphasize that the technique itself is not the work of art, but rather a means to that creation. In my own experience, an early fascination and preoccupation with the technique led to losing sight of the art of the photograph. Once the photographer understands the full possibilities and limitations of the media, then they may freely view their subjects through the prisms of lens, film and print.

This workshop will be lecture only. No darkroom demonstrations. Participants are encouraged to bring in one or two prints with negatives to ask any questions they may have. This part will not be a critique, rather a chance to assist in understanding how to control the materials.

Purchase a ticket here.

Are you a film enthusiast who wants to preserve the magic of your film in a digital format? Then, join us for an immersive workshop that will teach you the art of digitizing your negatives using a DSLR camera. Led by Dave Tau, this hands-on session will equip you with the knowledge and equipment you need to capture high-quality digital photographs of your negatives. From understanding essential equipment needs to mastering the fundamentals of negative scanning, this workshop will give you a solid foundation in digitization.

All equipment, except for your negatives, will be provided. Don't let your precious film negatives fade into obscurity. Join us for "Digitizing Your Negatives" and unlock the potential of your analog treasures in the digital age.

Purchase a ticket here.

Since the invention of photography, there has been one specific constant: The lens. Every camera, regardless of its form factor or medium, has one. This means that today every single photographer has well over 100 years of camera lenses to choose from, but only if they know how.

In this class we will cover how to find, choose and use some of these pieces of camera history on your modern DSLR, talk over the basics, and have some hands-on exercises.

Join us Friday September 15th from 6-9pm for the opening of The Gun Next Door, Judy Dater’s series of carefully crafted portraits of Bay Area gun owners.

The Stories We Tell - Closing Reception and Panel Discussion with the Artists.

At Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, September 1st from 6-9pm!

Do you have a film camera sitting in your closet or collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative or borrowed from a friend, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and question to this informal workshop where we will share with others and with EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm). Philip will test and assess your camera, if possible help with minor repairs, and explain how to use it, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.

This workshop is free to attend but advance registration is suggested, sign up here.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

In Person Artist Talk!

This is a FREE EVENT, but tickets are required. Click here to grab your spot.

What better way to celebrate National Honey Bee day than a talk about photographing insects?

Hugo Sappington, a novice macro photographer, amateur photogrammeter (and purported undergraduate student of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley) will talk about his experiences photographing choice specimens at the Essig Museum of Entomology.

The works discussed will range from the infamous scuttle fly, to the photogrammetized virtual body of an unidentified ‘beetle from Sulawesi,’ and the many miniature, exoskeletal corpses in between. Hugo will present recent work and discuss best practices for newly invented armature of documentation, the Macropod™, as well as the Canon 6II, Nikon Z7, and software: Agisoft metashape, Zerene photostacker and Adobe Suite.

This talk is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Join us Friday July 14th from 6-9pm to celebrate the opening of The Stories We Tell!

This exhibition explores how family stories and oral histories are preserved, passed down, and shared by our elders. Featuring the work of Gene Dominique, Jessica Chen, Laura Ming Wong, Matthew Hoang, Najee Tobin, Ngân Vũ, Senny Mau, and Stella Kalaw.

There will be light refreshments and jazz spun by Dj Mor Bounz!

Join us for drinks, snacks, and an insightful panel discussion with exhibition artists.

At Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, June 23rd from 6-9pm!

Join EBPCO and Counter Collective for a film screening and poetry and prose reading! The first reading begins at 7! Featuring the work of:

Aja Lenae

Amanda Bensel

Edie Trautwein

Essi Westerman

Kawena Vidigal

Neva Ryan

and Talena Sanders

Do you have a film camera sitting in your closet or collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative or borrowed from a friend, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and question to this informal workshop where we will share with others and with EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm). Philip will test and assess your camera, if possible help with minor repairs, and explain how to use it, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.

This workshop is free to attend but advance registration is suggested, sign up here.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Join us for drinks, snacks, and music from Heart of Gold DJ’s DJ Jordan!

At Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, May 5th from 6-8pm!

STROBE LIGHTING III - ON LOCATION

This workshop will take strobe gear outside and introduce all the ways to mix light and set up a portable studio. Location: Mountain View Cemetery.

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Strobe Lighting is a 3 part class that covers quality of light, strobe lighting set ups, and how to use strobe lights on-location.

Interested in attending this workshop? Purchase your ticket here. You can attend 1 class or all 3, discount applied for purchasing all 3 classes in advanced.

STROBE LIGHTING II - SETUPS

This workshop will build on the broad concepts and new familiarity with gear from the first workshop by going over specific lighting setups and how they’re achieved. There will be a lot of opportunity for students to experiment with different setups and modifications of them.

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Strobe Lighting is a 3 part class that covers quality of light, strobe lighting set ups, and how to use strobe lights on-location.

Interested in attending this workshop? Purchase your ticket here. You can attend 1 class or all 3, discount applied for purchasing all 3 classes in advanced.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

STROBE LIGHTING I - QUALITY OF LIGHT

This workshop will introduce broad concepts of lighting and give students ways to think about and discuss different qualities of light. But it will also be hands-on, allowing students to get their hands on all the standard strobe gear and light modifiers used in a typical photography studio and begin understanding how to use different tools to achieve different effects.

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Strobe Lighting is a 3 part class that covers quality of light, strobe lighting set ups, and how to use strobe lights on-location.

Interested in attending this workshop? Purchase your ticket here. You can attend 1 class or all 3, discount applied for purchasing all 3 classes in advanced.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Jan and Jenny explain the importance of framing and presenting your photographic work. They will cover frame styles, colors and sizes; mat colors and borders; mat vs. no mat; glazing options (glass vs. plexi); finishing (hardware/wires, etc.) and how to present your work at portfolio reviews. They will demonstrate how to cut windows in matboard.

Attendees will have the opportunity to try out cutting mat windows. Glass cutting can be demonstrated if there is interest and time.

This workshop has SOLD OUT!! Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

Do you love the click! and whirr! of a Polaroid camera? Are you enamored by the wonderful mystery of the emerging image? Come celebrate your love of instant photography at Oakland Photo Workshop’s first exhibition celebrating all things Polaroid, Impossible, and Instax!

Join us this First Friday for music, drinks, snacks, great art, and great people!

This exhibition presented in partnership with Bay Area PolaCon.

Do you have a film camera sitting in your closet or collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative or borrowed from a friend, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and question to this informal workshop where we will share with others and with EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm). Philip will test and assess your camera, if possible help with minor repairs, and explain how to use it, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.

This workshop is full. Interested in attending the next one, on May 13th? Sign up here.

This workshop is hosted at Oakland Photo Workshop.

SWAPTASTIC! THE BEST OF EBPCO FILM SWAPS

JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 19

ARTIST RECEPTION ON FRIDAY, FEB. 3RD, 5PM-8PM

Join EPBCO on First Friday as we celebrate the best of our Film Swap Show and Tells!

Featuring the work of: Anita Gay - Gene X Hwang - Myleen Hollero - Fairlight de Michele - Ryan Noonan - Ernie Luppi - Ronald Orlando - Jenny Sampson - Marvin Moser - Philip Krayna - Jessica Greaux - Lucas Yan - J.M. Golding - Al Brydon - Alex Drysdale - Vince Donovan - Brian Shapiro - Hannah Rohret

Join us on Friday, January 6th for the closing reception for our 2022 Member Exhibition, "Where Would I Be Without You?" - we've loved having this wonderful collection of our members' work on our walls for the past couple months, and we're looking forward to celebrating everyone involved.

When: First Friday, January 6th, 5pm-8pm

Where: Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St., Oakland.

There will be snacks, beverages, music, and good company!