Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon

Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon are amazing!

For aspiring photographers, this is a perfect opportunity to explore the nuances of shooting in a wide format to focus on more intimate compositions.  I’ll help you understand your camera settings to maximize the wide range of light in these shots.  Understanding how to “see” and read light is essential to photography.  You’ll have endless opportunities to explore and practice during your five days of exploring the wonders of Zion.

For intermediate and professional photographers, this workshop will delve into advanced composition techniques. You'll learn how to identify crucial elements within a scene, including shapes and lines, and how to emphasize them to create more impactful and engaging images.

I will cover essential skills such as focus stacking, focal length blending, long exposure photography, and techniques for recovering highlights and shadows in challenging lighting conditions. These methods are straightforward to learn, allowing you to apply them repeatedly in your work.

The small group setting ensures personalized attention, making it easy for you to ask questions and receive guidance on your composition from fellow photographers and instructors.

There’s no place quite like Zion National Park. Towering red cliffs, narrow slot canyons, and golden light reflecting off Navajo sandstone create one of the most visually stunning and spiritually moving landscapes in the American Southwest. As a landscape photographer, it’s the kind of place that stays with you — and calls you back again and again.

On this Zion photography workshop, I’ll take you deep into both the iconic and lesser-known corners of the park. We’ll chase that signature Southwestern light — from sunrises casting long shadows through Zion Canyon to the soft glow bouncing off canyon walls in the late afternoon. You’ll photograph grand vistas, intimate canyon abstracts, river reflections, desert textures, and the powerful contrasts that make this place unforgettable.

Each day is designed to maximize light and location. We’ll start early, capturing the cool tones and soft edges of first light, and shoot late into golden hour when Zion’s red cliffs seem to catch fire. As we explore, I’ll work alongside you to fine-tune your compositions, read the light, and show you how to bring more depth, dimension, and emotional connection into your images.

Zion has something for every kind of landscape photographer. Towering viewpoints like Canyon Overlook and Angels Landing (no, we won’t be hiking that one — but we’ll photograph it), peaceful Virgin River scenes winding through cottonwoods, glowing narrows, and high-desert palettes that shift with every change in the weather. This landscape photography tour of Zion National Park is built to be flexible — we’ll adapt to the light, the group, and the conditions to make the most of every opportunity.

This workshop is ideal for photographers who want to go deeper — not just technically, but creatively. Whether it’s your first time photographing the Southwest or you’re looking for a fresh perspective on a familiar place, you’ll leave with new skills, stronger images, and a renewed sense of connection to the landscape.

Expect immersive instruction, small group camaraderie, and plenty of one-on-one time. This isn’t just a photo tour — it’s a hands-on photographic experience in Zion National Park, created to help you grow, explore, and make images that truly matter.

Topics we will cover

• How to research potential shoot locations

• How to read the weather

• Learn how to create powerful compositions and bring your artistic vision to life

• Visualizing your composition, capturing and guiding the viewer

  The use of Neutral Density and ND Graduated filters to enhance and control light.

• How to identify and control: Balance and visual flow

• The use of filters to enhance and control light. How to “see” light

• Histograms, how to read them and why they play an important role

• Focus Stacking for extreme front and back focus

• How to use lens compression and when to use it.

• How to blend focal lengths and exposures to maximize Dynamic Range

• How to create beautiful Long Exposures to unveil a hidden visual world of intrigue and wonder

• Photographing the night sky: Stars, Milky Way, Star Trails and Time Lapse Photography

• Light Painting in the Twilight and night Landscape

• Image Critique and Visual Experience

• Post Processing and Digital Workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop, including third party softwares

What’s Included

• Photography instruction with Landscape Photographer Tommy White

• Lightroom and Photoshop training

• 3rd party programs like TK Actions, Luminar and Nik

• 5 Full days of Photography and field Instruction

• One on One field guidance in framing, settings, visual flow and “seeing” in the landscape.

• GPS field guidance to track our shoot locations

• Drinks and Snacks are provided during Workshop

• Identifying important subjects both near and far

• Capturing textures, shapes and patterns

• Visual interpretation of the landscape. How to “see” and use the light

• Guidance and safety throughout the entire trip

• Limited field equipment and accessories

What’s not included

• Participants should plan to provide their own transportation. Carpooling will be available at your own discretion

• Meals during the trip. I will always have drinks and snacks on hand, but plan to travel with your own favorites as well.

• Lodging - We will provide information for you on Lodging upon registration. As photography is all about the weather, we will plan to move about for the best conditions. We will have a secured place to stay on the night of our arrival and the night before our departure

• Park and admission fees. We are fully permitted in State and National Parks, but occasionally there are other fees per individual.

• Alcoholic beverages

• Travel Insurance (Highly Recommended)

• Personal Items

Cancellation Policy:  If you need to cancel your booking, the Deposit is non refundable on all Seasonal and Group Photography Workshops.  If the cancellation is less than 90 days, you will receive a full refund minus the deposit and 15% admin fee, when your spot is filled. If the cancellation is more than 90 days, you will receive a full refund when your spot is filled, or, you may move to another available workshop (minus a 15% admin fee) in the current calendar year. The remaining balance on the new Workshop is due upon transfer.

If you are booked for a Private Workshop and you need to cancel, you may reschedule your workshop one time within the current calendar year during an available time.