Join Leica Store Miami and fine art photographer Richard Sexton for a unique, small group Leica Monochrom workshop in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is the 10th year in a row that we’ve run this workshop and it is one of our most popular offerings. If you own a Leica Monochrom, this is the course for you!

If you have always admired the tradition of black and white photography and the many great Leica photographers who are associated with that tradition, such as Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Robert Frank, and Garry Winogrand, then this is a workshop designed to help you take your black/white photography to a higher level and to ensure you will get the most out of the Leica Monochrom.

New Orleans provides an extraordinary setting in which to realize these goals—grand 19th century architecture, historic cemeteries filled with elaborate, above-ground tombs, the wildness of Bourbon Street, the nightlife of Frenchmen Street, jazz funerals, and more.

“I fell in love with all the things that make New Orleans feel like a foreign city on American soil – a city that belongs to the U.S. only by the accidents of politics and history,” Richard Sexton, from his book, “Creole World”.

As a digital camera system devoted solely to black and white capture, Leica Monochrom cameras produce files with an analog character and subject rendering that cannot be replicated by any color digital camera. They are specialized photographic instruments that requires a unique approach when it comes to:

• Capture: Learn a unique way of seeing the world in black and white employing pre-visualization and a commitment to black and white imaging before the fact, rather than after.
• Color Filters: Learn how to use color filters to transpose color values to shades of grey which can improve your images at the time of capture.
• Post Production: Using Adobe Lightroom to optimize the grayscale raw file.
• Printing: Monochromatic printing is more subjective, more malleable, and more interpretive than color printing.

• Learn how to attain proper exposure with a Monochrom.
• Learn how to use color filters.
• Learn how to see in black and white and what to look for.
• Exclusive location shooting sessions. 
• Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop processing sessions.
• Create and take home (or ship) one or two gallery quality prints.
• Receive a signed book from Richard Sexton

This workshop is geared towards current Leica Monochrom owners or photographers who wish to try the Monochrom. Anyone interested in black and white photography is also welcome to attend. Limited loaner Monochrom cameras and lenses may be available to try during the workshop.

Richard’s new live/workspace is located in the St. Claude neighborhood of New Orleans. Although availability may be limited, we recommend Hotel Peter & Paul, a unique hotel that was recently renovated and the closest option to Richard’s studio. Another close option is the brand new Hampton Inn on Elysian Fields. AirBnBs are also readily available in that neighborhood.

If you’d like to stay elsewhere, we would recommend that you look near Frenchmen St.in the nearby Marigny neighborhood. It’s a lively area with a lot of restaurants, music venues, bars and it’s also a great place for street photography.

Here are some hotel and b&b recommendations should you need them:

http://www.royalfrenchmenhotel.com/
https://www.lerichelieuhotel.com/
http://www.maisondubois.net/
http://www.hoteldelamonnaie.com/
http://www.lanauxmansion.com/

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