At Understand Photography,
“We Simplify the Technical!”
Understand Photography provides photography lessons, tours and selling advice to photographers who prefer step by step, easy to understand instructions.
Our mission and our motto is: “We Simplify the Technical”!
- Read through over 100 blog articles teaching basic to advanced photography, along with videos and articles about selling your photography as art.
- Check our schedule for upcoming events, workshops, and trips.
- New short training video every Tuesday in the Blog.
- The Understand Photography Show every Friday. A teaching show/podcast featuring travel, nature and selling your fine art photography.
If you prefer simplified training without all the technical jargon, you’ve come to the right place!
If you are a photo-artist who wants to sell more of your fine art photography, this is the site!
Students can learn at their own pace at our photography studio in Naples, Florida, on location or in the privacy of their own home via online classes.
What We Offer
Photography Training
We highly recommend everyone begins with our Four Weeks to Proficiency in Photography course. This course is a live, interactive online class with lots of support! and includes practice assignments.
We also offer training through hands-on, in person workshops and private lessons.
Tours and Trips
With the exception of our trips to Cuba, we limit attendance to five or six photographers per tour so that everyone can get individual attention.
We plan our tours so that every level of photographer will learn, have lots of fun and leave with amazing images!
We specialize in tours to Cuba, short Florida trips (we live here after all!) and Women-only trips.
Resources
Here are our products and services, as well as trusted affiliates, partners and friends’ products.
Do you need your camera cleaned or repaired? You’ll find info here.
You can find our guide book for Collier County and the Western Everglades here.
Studio Rental is available. Why own when you can rent it all!?
About Your Photography Instructors
Peggy Farren
Founder / Lead Photographer
Peggy Farren is an award winning, professional photographer, author, instructor and speaker. She is frequently interviewed and featured on TV and in many national and local publications.
Peggy is the host of The Understand Photography Show, which airs weekly on Facebook, Youtube and as a podcast.
Peggy also owns and runs the photography studio, Avant-Garde Images, Inc. Avant-Garde Images specializes in commercial portraits, family portraits and event photography.
Joe Fitzpatrick
Lead Instructor
Joe is the type of person who needs to know how everything works. If he doesn’t know, he’ll figure it out! And then he’ll simplify it so that the rest of us can understand!
Brian Jannsen
Photography Instructor
Brian is also on the team of professional photographers with Avant-Garde Images, Inc.
Essential Preparation Tips for Travel Photography
This free report will help you choose the right cameras, lenses and accessories for your travels. You'll need different equipment depending on where you are going, your finances, and the weight of the gear. We'll show you how to determine the best equipment for your needs. Also included is a comprehensive list on what you'll need, some things you may not have heard before but you'll be so glad we let you know!
