CA Workshops

Jeff Burkholder, Executive Producer CAworkshops, takes you on a tour of Cox Black & White lab, in Rancho Cordova, CA and how they work with photographers to create ultra high-quality archival negatives to print your photographic art with traditional photo chemical processes.

They are one of the remaining custom Black & White labs that do large printing, Pyro processing, and other custom archival processing methods. If you want fine art quality printing or service you’ve got to check them out.

Level: Any
Length: 15:46 mins.
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Studio & location shooter Bill Santos explains why he does not have a bag but a 1/2 ton rolling bag (1/2 ton van). With his large studio & location producitons it’s necessary to carry everything a photographer needs. Because you never know what you may run into on a large production shoot.

Level: Basic

Video duration : 8:37 mins
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ISO, is one of the components for Exposure;  the starting point for most all photography.  In the day of film it was the sensitivity of the film; the actual size of the grain of film. The larger the grain the more light sensitive.

Now with digital photography and CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) sensors it’s the sensitivity of the our internal camera’s chip. Jeff Burkholder explains ISO and how it is key to you and your photography.

Level: basic
Length: 5:04

Many times while on-locaiton or just shooting a simple portrait I need some clamp, a piece of tape or some tool. CAworkshop’s Executive Producer, Jeff Burkholder shows you in length his ‘Tool Box’. His must have tools and tricks for dealing with the things that get thrown at him as a location shooter. If you really want to see what tricks are in the Grip Kit join CAworkshops and get all of the online lessons.

Level: Basic
Video duration : 0:42 mins.

Many times while on-locaiton or just shooting a simple portrait I need some clamp, a piece of tape or some tool. CAworkshop’s Executive Producer, Jeff Burkholder shows you in length his ‘Tool Box’. His must have a bit of tools and tricks for dealing with the things that get thrown at him as a location shooter.

Level: Basic
Video duration : 17:34 mins.
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We all know that keeping a camera clean is key to not having  junk on our photos. But, cleaning digital cameras is tricky. You have to be very careful and use special equipment to clean not only the outside and our lenses, but the inside of the camera too. This lesson will show you how to keep your camera clean. Do note, that you will have to purchase some materials for this.

Level: Basic
Video duration : 18:44 mins