A powerful shift has taken place in the photographic world: more and more artists are creating images that move beyond documentation into interpretation. This contemporary form—often called expressive photography or photographic expressionism—embraces emotion, imagination, and experimentation. It draws on decades of creative innovation, from early expressionist painters to today’s digital pioneers, and welcomes everything from subtle abstraction to bold visual transformation. While some artists craft their effects in-camera, the digital darkroom has opened extraordinary new avenues for shaping mood, movement, color, and narrative. Join Shelley in the evocative landscapes of Santa Fe for an immersive exploration of this creative approach.

Infrared photography can be so much more than white foliage and unusual colors. It is the perfect palette for creating fine art photographs that tell intricate stories. 

This workshop focuses on capture and post-processing techniques that can add a creative flair to your infrared images. Move beyond the basics of infrared photography into the magical creative possibilities of using composition, color, and content manipulation to craft your narrative.

Your camera captures the moment — but the digital darkroom is where you shape it into art. In this online workshop, you will learn to bridge the gap between what you photograph and what you truly envision, using Photoshop and Lightroom as expressive tools rather than just technical ones.

Across three live online sessions, we will cover the expressive use of tonality, contrast, and sharpness; enrich images with color techniques including split-toning, color grading, and LUTs; and create atmosphere through blur, glow, and light effects. We will work with multiple layers to blend images and build narratives, and use texture overlays to unify tone and mood across a body of work.

Transform your photographs directly on your iPhone or iPad in this four-session online workshop. 

Through step-by-step demonstrations and guided practice, you move beyond basic adjustments into more creative techniques, including masking, compositing, and adding texture. You work entirely on your mobile device while building a flexible, efficient editing workflow.

Learn infrared photography from camera selection to capture considerations to efficient and artistic post-processing in five online sessions with the co-author of Infrared Photography: Techniques for Artistic Images, Shelley Vandegrift. Sessions scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.