Digital Photography Classes & Private Lessons in Putnam County, NY
Private Photo Lessons and Workshops
Learn to use your camera with confidence—and look at the world with a photographer’s eye. Fallsview Arts offers private photography lessons for teens and adults, with photography classes and workshops for individuals and families in development.
Located in Brewster on the Westchester–Putnam border, our teaching art studio welcomes students from Northern Westchester and Putnam County. Whether you are learning a new camera or exploring photography as a creative practice, start with the equipment you have and the subjects that interest you.
Private Photography Lessons
Private photography lessons are tailored to your camera, interests and experience. Get comfortable with a new camera, move beyond automatic settings, improve your phone photographs or develop a personal photography project.
Depending on your goals, lessons can explore:
Camera settings: Understand exposure, focus and the controls on your camera.
Composition: Use framing, perspective, shape and detail to make stronger photographs.
Natural light: Recognize how the direction and quality of light affect your subject.
Photo editing: Explore simple adjustments that support the photograph you want to make.
Creative projects: Develop a collection of images, a photographic series or a portfolio.
One-on-one lessons are open to teens and adults, from beginners to students building on existing skills. Bring your DSLR, mirrorless camera or smartphone. Instruction begins with what you know and progresses at your pace.
Ask about private photography lessons. Tell us which camera you use, what you enjoy photographing and what you would like to learn.
Photography Workshops
Workshops in development include Get to Know Your Camera, a beginner session that takes your camera off auto; a Nature Photography Walk on light and composition outdoors; Up Close: Plants and Small Wonders, on the details most people walk past; Phone Photography; a Family Photo Adventure for children and their grown-ups; and Photography Meets Mixed Media, which combines printed photographs with drawing, collage and paint. Dates will be posted on the calendar as they are scheduled.
Learn Photography in Putnam County
Planned offerings include:
Get to Know Your Camera: Beyond Auto Mode
A beginner workshop for DSLR and mirrorless camera users who want to understand their camera’s controls and begin making deliberate choices about exposure and focus.
Nature Photography Walk
Explore light, composition and perspective outdoors. Practice noticing patterns, shapes and changing light, and choosing what to include in your frame.
Up Close: Plants and Small Wonders
Slow down and photograph the details that are easy to overlook, from the structure of a leaf to textures and forms found in nature.
Phone Photography
Make more thoughtful photographs with your smartphone. Explore framing, available light and simple editing tools using the camera you carry every day.
Family Photo Adventure
A creative photography experience for children and their grown-ups, with opportunities to explore, observe and make pictures together.
Photography Meets Mixed Media
Use printed photographs as a starting point for artwork that incorporates drawing, collage and paint.