Nikon Z9
A dedicated bootcamp for getting comfortable with your Z9’s settings, controls and everyday decisions.
Online courses · In development
Less time figuring things out. More time making photographs.
I’m developing a new collection of courses, beginning with dedicated Nikon camera bootcamps. Alongside them are classes about finding your own way of seeing, building a dependable workflow and making more room for photography in a busy life.
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Nikon Camera Masterclass Bootcamps
The best camera setup is one you understand well enough to stop thinking about. I’m building four dedicated courses around the cameras I know photographers want to get more comfortable with: the Z9, Z8, Z6III and Zf.
Each bootcamp will follow its own camera, rather than ask you to translate a general tutorial into your menus and controls. My aim is to help you make deliberate choices, simplify your shooting process and give more attention to what is happening in front of you.
Nikon Z8
A Z8-specific approach to simplifying your setup and responding with greater confidence.
Nikon Z6III
Get to know your Z6III through practical choices that support the way you photograph.
Nikon Zf
A dedicated look at working with your Zf, with attention to the controls and settings you’ll actually use.
What I’m developing
Autofocus that responds to the situation. Exposure choices you can trust. Custom controls that earn their place. These are the practical areas I’m shaping into camera-specific lessons, with room to explain not just what a setting does, but when it is useful.
Built around current firmware
Each course is being developed around the latest firmware available for that model when it launches. The aim is to teach the camera you’re using now, not a version you’ve already moved beyond.
Independent courses by Steve Simon. Not sponsored or endorsed by Nikon.
Beyond the camera
There’s more to a photographic life.
How we see, how we work and what we give our time to all find their way into the photographs.
Coming soonThe Passionate Photographer: Finding Your Own Way of Seeing
What keeps you looking when the first obvious photograph is already made?
Based on my book, The Passionate Photographer: Dream It, Be It, this course is taking shape around its practical ten-step approach. I want to connect ideas about attention, timing and courage with photographs and exercises you can take into your own work.
The planned focus includes personal projects, editing and recognizing the interests that keep returning in your photographs. The aim is a more considered body of work, not photographs that look like mine.
This forthcoming course is separate from the signed book.
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Coming soonAI for Street Photographers: More Time Behind the Camera
Help with the work around photography. Never a substitute for making the photograph.
For passionate photographers and working professionals, the unfinished correspondence and planning can take over the day. I’m developing a practical course exploring help with emails, proposals, marketing, organization and the administrative work that keeps us from getting out with a camera.
The shooting stays yours. So do the photographs and the creative decisions. No generated street photographs, fabricated moments or adding and removing subjects. We’ll consider how to protect private information, check facts and keep your own voice.
Coming soonLightroom Classic for Street Photographers
An archive should help you find your photographs, not lose your afternoon.
I’m planning a photographer-centered path through importing, organizing, selecting, developing, sequencing and exporting, with a dependable backup workflow as part of the process.
The emphasis is thoughtful editing: finding the photographs worth returning to, preserving their character and building habits you can keep using as the archive grows. This course is specifically about the desktop application Lightroom Classic, rather than the cloud-based Lightroom apps.
Stay in the picture
I’ll let you know when they’re ready.
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