I'm giving a webinar on HABS/HAER via zoom through the University of North Texas. April 23, 2025. https://library.unt.edu/news/2025/03-19-lecture-habs/ more info link: https://library.unt.edu/news/2025/03-19-lecture-habs/ If you’d like more information about HABS/HAER/HALS photography take a look at our website. HABSPHOTO.com Stephen Schafer, Architectural Photography, Ventura, California Ph: 805-652-1000 E: schaf@west.net
Teaching Photography
Introduction to (landscape) Photography video now available. (Free)
… honored to be included in this short educational photography session sponsored by the California Preservation Foundation (californiapreservation.org) and the California Garden and Landscape History Society (cglhs.org).
Architecture Photo Workshop with Stephen Schafer- October 2021
I’m teaching my in-person architecture workshop on October 17th, 2021 at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
December 2020 Architecture Photography Online Workshop
I'm teaching my architecture workshop on December 13th, 2020 at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP): Mastering architecture photography is a complex yet rewarding process. Like people, buildings have their best side, and choosing your perspective, composition and camera placement for both interiors and exteriors will be a focus. In this workshop we will…
Creating Your Photo Business Workshop @ LACP
https://lacphoto.org/events/creating-your-photo-business-with-stephen-schafer-march-2020/ Are you starting to charge for your work? What does it take to start a photography business or take your hobby to the next step? Are you reaching the people who need to see your work? Stephen Schafer wrote the book about becoming a professional photographer. Join him for a day as he…
Workshop December 8, 2019 – Architecture on Location with Stephen Schafer
I'm teaching another architecture workshop in December 8th, 2019 at LACP: https://lacphoto.org/events/architecture-on-location-with-stephen-schafer-2019/ Mastering architecture photography and location is a complex yet rewarding process. Like people, buildings have their best side, and choosing your perspective, composition and camera placement for both interiors and exteriors will be a focus. In this workshop we will examine the intricate…
Photographer’s Eye: Capturing History Forever, Photographing for the Historic American Buildings Survey
HABS, as the Historic American Buildings Survey is informally called, is arguably the best documentation program in the world for historic buildings. Stephen Schafer has been practicing this archival photographic process to capture sites in California as diverse as an 1840s adobe and a Cold-War stealth ship.
Lighting Workshop April 2, 2017 at LACP
Photography strobe lighting 101 workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography April 2017
Not just HABS/HAER photos but also Teaching … and more Teaching …
It’s a busy year (semester?) so far here at HABSPHOTO.com headquarters. We’ve been juggling a new set of projects like Ascent Apartments, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Mt. San Antonio College, and the San Francisco Presidio HABS projects. But I’m also teaching Advertising Photography (Art 455 B/C) at California State University Northridge (CSUN) this semester. If…
Self Publishing Your Photo Book Workshop in Los Angeles at LACP
A new workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography; an introduction to self-publishing your own photo book using digital on-demand-printing.