Practice Your Photography While Touring DC at Night!

Duration

2 Hours

About

​After giving an orientation on the basic techniques of nighttime photography, Instructor E. David Luria will take you to the most photogenic areas on the western end of the National Mall. We will begin our walk along the Mall at the Lincoln Memorial with its majestic statue of President Lincoln. From there we’ll walk along the Mall and visit the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Three Servicemen Statue, the Vietnam Women’s Memorial. At each location on this safari, David reviews exposure, how to shoot at night WITHOUT using a flash, white balance settings and how to achieve interesting composition with close-up detail that truly brings out the meaning of each memorial and statue. These Memorials photograph MUCH better at night than in the daytime and this safari will help you achieve beautiful, postcard-quality images of the nation’s Capital. Great for black and white photography too!

What to Bring

• Camera
• A STURDY Tripod us a MUST
• Lens in range from 18-100mm
• Extra charged battery
• Extra memory card
• Weather appropriate clothing

What a client had to say about the Monuments at Night Safari:

I spent Saturday evening with the Washington Photo Safari and Professional Photographer   E David Luria, learning how to photograph a few monuments and memorials on the National Mall and Memorial Parks. Mr. Luria taught us how to take photos with our DSLR or mirrorless cameras—explaining how to use F-Stops and Shutter Speed to take pictures at night and how to change the settings on our camera to take black-and-white photos. One of my big takeaways from the class is how the picture you're taking should look like what you're seeing.

Wesley F.,  Germantown, MD

Your Instructor

Architectural photographer E. David Luria is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari, which has provided over 6,700 photo safaris for 46,000 amateur photographers – an average of 5 people every day, 365 days a year, since it was founded in 1999.

“You taught me several important points and helped me better understand not only photography but also my own camera. I've taken photo classes at the Smithsonian, Glen Echo, and the Washington School of Photography. You've been the best among all the teachers I've had.“ David Lassiter, Olney, MD

Trained in Paris by a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Luria is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Society of Photographic Educators and has had his images of DC appear in over 100 publications, calendars, and postcards and on 30 magazine covers.