Watercolor Painting Workshop
This 3-hour workshop is a great way to set the stage for your Sedona Hummingbird Festival experience. Watercolor artist and teacher Sandra Beck will lead you through the process of sketching and painting a watercolor hummingbird portrait, and you will leave with your very own completed painting as well as the painting supplies you used to create it! This class is designed for beginners, but anyone will enjoy it. The workshop will be held in Canyon Trails Cowboy Church, 1.5 miles (3-minute drive) from Hummingbird Central.
Limit: 20
Date & Time: Thursday, July 25, 1-4pm
Cost: $30
Costa’s Hummingbird
Photography Workshops
We are offering 2 hummingbird photography workshop sessions. These workshops will be held in two of the most beautiful hummingbird gardens in the area, filled with a large population of hummingbirds.
Beginning Hummingbird Photography
Love photographing hummingbirds but struggle to use the correct settings and techniques? Learn critical information to improve the quality of your images.
You will learn:
- Suggested settings for shutter speed and aperture to ensure sharp eyes and reduce motion blur in your images
- Essential composition tips
- Suggestions on what lighting, foreground and backgrounds work to make your images more eye-catching
This class will be held in the Village of Oak Creek in a private garden filled with hummingbirds, with red rocks in the background. It is 15 miles (30 minutes) from Hummingbird Central.
Gear to bring: DSLR, Mirrorless or Bridge camera with a lens length of 200mm to 600mm, memory cards and batteries. Tripod optional.
Limit: 12
Date & Time: Thursday, July 24, 4-7pm.
Cost: $110
Intermediate-Advanced Hummingbird Photography
Do you love photographing hummingbirds in natural light and want to take it a step further? Here is your opportunity!
You will learn:
- How shutter speed will affect wing blur / sharpness and how you can experiment with speeds to get varying looks
- What focus settings work best to get the most out of your camera’s eye-tracking and continuous focus features
- Expanding on composition and aperture to give more subject-background separation
This class will be held in the Village of Oak Creek in a private garden filled with hummingbirds, with red rocks in the background. It is 15 miles (30 minutes) from Hummingbird Central.
Gear to bring: DSLR, Mirrorless or Bridge camera with a lens length of 200mm to 600mm, memory cards and batteries. Tripod optional.
Limit: 12
Date & Times: Thursday, July 24, 6-9am
Cost: $110
Watercolor Painting Workshop
This 3-hour workshop is a great way to set the stage for your Sedona Hummingbird Festival experience. Watercolor artist and teacher Sandra Beck will lead you through the process of sketching and painting a watercolor hummingbird portrait, and you will leave with your very own completed painting as well as the painting supplies you used to create it! This class is designed for beginners, but anyone will enjoy it. The workshop will be held in Canyon Trails Cowboy Church, 1.5 miles (3-minute drive) from Hummingbird Central.
Limit: 20
Date & Time: Thursday, July 25, 1-4pm
Cost: $30
Costa’s Hummingbird
Photography Workshops
We are offering 2 hummingbird photography workshop sessions. These workshops will be held in two of the most beautiful hummingbird gardens in the area, filled with a large population of hummingbirds.
Beginning Hummingbird Photography
Love photographing hummingbirds but struggle to use the correct settings and techniques? Learn critical information to improve the quality of your images.
You will learn:
- Suggested settings for shutter speed and aperture to ensure sharp eyes and reduce motion blur in your images
- Essential composition tips
- Suggestions on what lighting, foreground and backgrounds work to make your images more eye-catching
This class will be held in the Village of Oak Creek in a private garden filled with hummingbirds, with red rocks in the background. It is 15 miles (30 minutes) from Hummingbird Central.
Gear to bring: DSLR, Mirrorless or Bridge camera with a lens length of 200mm to 600mm, memory cards and batteries. Tripod optional.
Limit: 12
Date & Time: Thursday, July 24, 4-7pm.
Cost: $110
Intermediate-Advanced Hummingbird Photography
Do you love photographing hummingbirds in natural light and want to take it a step further? Here is your opportunity!
You will learn:
- How shutter speed will affect wing blur / sharpness and how you can experiment with speeds to get varying looks
- What focus settings work best to get the most out of your camera’s eye-tracking and continuous focus features
- Expanding on composition and aperture to give more subject-background separation
This class will be held in the Village of Oak Creek in a private garden filled with hummingbirds, with red rocks in the background. It is 15 miles (30 minutes) from Hummingbird Central.
Gear to bring: DSLR, Mirrorless or Bridge camera with a lens length of 200mm to 600mm, memory cards and batteries. Tripod optional.
Limit: 12
Date & Times: Thursday, July 24, 6-9am
Cost: $110