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MPC will be closed for Memorial Day 
Sunday May 26, and Monday May 27th


Exhibiting Photographer Polly Norman Artist Talk
Monday, May 20th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Exhibiting artist Polly Norman will discuss the technique involved in her abstract photography, including the various kinds of glass block she uses, depth-of-field and focus issues, the different types of lighting, materials including furnace filters, broken glass and mirrors. This Artist Talk is free and open to the public.
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New! Photoshop for Lightroom Users
New! Photoshop for Lightroom Users - Starts May 22nd
Photoshop for Lightroom Users is the perfect class for photographers who already know how to adjust their images in Lightroom, but want to add the powerful adjustment and compositing capabilities made possible by Photoshop’s layers.
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Beginning Digital Image Editing
Beginning Digital Image Editing with Adobe Elements 11 - Starts May 25th
Learn the full range of skills photographers need to download images, efficiently review them to pick the best, optimize their appearance, then prepare them for print or the web with Photoshop Elements 11, an inexpensive yet powerful application from Adobe.



Layne Kennedy: The Art of iPhone
Layne Kennedy: The Art of iPhone - Starts May 25th
This Layne Kennedy workshop is for everyone with an iPhone and dial into one of the newest method of creating photographs. You'll spend time canvassing the Twin Cities with your iPhone in hand, seeking visual moments using a variety of app's designed for use with the iPhone.
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Mitch Kezar: Shooting in the Great Outdoors
Wildlife Photographer Mitch Kezar: Shooting Outdoors - Starts June 1st
Join, nationally recognized outdoors photographer, Mitch Kezar, for a two-day workshop exploring the fine art of creating stunning outdoor nature photography using available light and mixed light sources. Mitch weaves together eye-opening outdoor experiences, technical lessons, critiques of each student’s work.
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Photo: Jim Brandenburg

New Call for Entry
Ambient Light: A Natural Luminosity with Guest Juror, Jim Brandenburg
Ambient light is found light that surrounds you and is already present in a scene. Sometimes referred to as “natural light” or “existing light,” ambient light can be the found inside a home, a restaurant or concert hall, or a bright, sunny day, a deep foggy day, a city at night...in other words, any kind of pre-existing light. This is found light, not additional light that you, the photographer, might choose to add, such as flash.

Prize Awards: First Place - $400, Second Place - $300, Third Place - $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free full-color Exhibition Book All images selected by juror will be exhibited throughout the Mpls Photo Center Galleries and published in a full-color Exhibit Book for purchase.
Accepted Images: All images selected by juror will be exhibited throughout the Mpls Photo Center Galleries and published in a full-color Exhibit Book for purchase.

For More Information and to Submit Online: Ambient Light
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China in Focus: MPC Photo Tour - October 9th
Join MPC On This Once in a Lifetime Experience
Travel with instructor Layne Kennedy on a unique MPC Photo Tour from October 9th to October 23rd, through urban Beijing and rural China, visiting local villages in the south of China nestled amongst the karst formations of Guangxi, and finish up in Beijing to see the wonders of imperial architecture at its best.







 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Upcoming Classes and Workshops

Alternative Process: Wet Plate Collodian - June 1st
Alternative Process: Wet Plate Collodion
This two-day alternative process workshop offers photographic artists the opportunity to learn the beauty and complexity of the historical wet-plate collodion process from a contemporary perspective.
Escaping the Cubicle: Building a Photo Business - June 9th
Building a Successful Photography Business
This one-day Workshop will cover the basis of starting up, maintaining, and growing a successful photography business. From social media & client interactions to bookkeeping & branding, this course covers the basics that bolster the art of photography.
Beginning Digital: All About Your DSLR - June 5th
Beginning Digital: Getting to Know Your DSLR (Weekday Class)
If you are just beginning digital photography and have just joined the world of amateur photography and bought yourself a new Digital SLR, and want to know what do all those bits and buttons actually do, this is the workshop for you?
Photoshop: The Power to Create - June 8th
Photoshop: The Power to Create
Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software further enhances Photoshop's digital imaging imaging tools from its earlier version CS5. In just one weekend you'll learn to to use CS5 and CS6 to optimize the appearance of your images using Camera Raw, remove distractions with the Content-Aware Healing Brush, and size and sharpen images for print or the web.
Alternative Process: Photo Polymer Gravure - June 8th
Alternative Process: Photo Polymer Gravure
This two-day workshop, limited to six students, introduces students to the photopolymer process of printing photographs, a very safe and inexpensive substitute for copperplate gravure. Learn the history photogravure, digital positive creation, plate cutting, exposure method and prep, etching plate and final printing
Photo Union: A Meeting of Minds - June 11th
Photo Union Monthly Photography Meeting
Join photographer Sally Mars for discussions, assignments,and a review of work, to help stimulate, guide and inspire photographers of all levels. Photo Union is about thinking, learning, sharing and growing.  It’s about finding your voice, finding inspiration, and limitless exploration of the possible, improbable and impossible.
Night Photography: Twin Cities at Twilight - June 12th
Night Photography: Twin Cities at Twilight
This three-evening workshop touches on different aspects of using your camera at night. They are designed to gain the knowledge and experience in night photography and discover the many interesting techniques of using your camera at night.
Composition Basics: Making Great Photographs - June 23rd
Composition Basics: Making Great Photographs
In this day long workshop students will look at some basic composition techniques that will dramatically improve their images. By applying one or more of these composition rules, your photos will go from looking amateurish to professional.
Pocket Strobes: Small Lights, Big Results - June 24th
Pocket Strobes: Small Lights, Big Results
This two-evening class will help you understand how to use portable flashes to their best potential and achieve desired lighting effects. A short lecture will be followed by a lighting demonstration and various areas to practice what you've learned.
Hands-On with Nik Software Collection - June 25th
Hands-On with Nik Software Collection
Now that Google has dramatically lowered the cost of the Nik Plug-in software suite including Color Efex, Silver Efex, HRD Efex,Define and Viveza 2, it is time to learn how to take advantage of this powerful collection of software tools and have hands-on experience with them in order to improve your photographs.
Continuing Studies: Photojournalism - July 7th
Photojournalism from Beginning to End
This twelve-week constinuing studies course is designed to teach the fundamentals of photojournalism and will cover what it means to be a photojournalist and how to think like one. The course covers all aspects of photojournalism. Students will learn how to report with a camera as well as caption writing, the truth, ethics, and history of photojournalism.
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Take an MPC Tour, 12:00-5:00pm, Seven Days a Week
The Mpls Photo Center is where photo professionals and enthusiasts alike come together to work and learn, to discover and experience, to create, exhibit and become members of this unique community dedicated to photography and all its media and processes.

MPC Fine Arts Printing Service

Our Print Technicians, Your Personal Vision
MPC print equipment includes the latest Epson 7900/9900 printers, sizes up to 44" and a wide selection of standard and premium papers. Computer monitors calibrated to our printers asures you get what you see and we deliver your perosnal vision.

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