Photography Workshop: Creating with Your Phone

Discover just how powerful your phone camera can be in this fun, hands-on photography workshop led by Paul Muratore. Designed for all experience levels, this class is perfect whether you’re brand new to mobile photography or ready to deepen your creative skills. Using any type of smartphone or mobile device, you’ll learn how to take stronger photos and transform them into expressive, artful images—all in a supportive classroom setting.

We’ll explore composition, editing, and creative enhancements using free, easy-to-use apps—no extra purchases required. The class is relaxed, encouraging, and playful, with plenty of time to experiment, ask questions, and discover new creative possibilities.

You’ll learn and practice:

• Understanding composition for more compelling images

• Cropping, overlays, and grouping techniques

• Creating simple e-collages

• Adding special effects and artistic touches to enhance your photos

• Navigating and organizing your photo library

You’ll leave with new skills, fresh inspiration, and a whole new appreciation for what your phone camera can do.

Chatham Beaches in Focus: A Walking Photography Workshop

One session · 2 hours · All levels welcome

Join photographer and educator Paul Muratore for a relaxed, hands-on walking photography workshop at Chatham Lighthouse Beach. This workshop is open to all levels and designed to help you see the shoreline — and your photography — in a whole new way.

Whether you’re shooting with a camera or your mobile phone, this workshop emphasizes observation, creativity, and simple techniques you can use anywhere. We’ll walk, pause, and photograph together, using the beach environment to explore light, texture, movement, and visual storytelling.

Along the way, you’ll learn how to:

• Work with natural light and changing conditions

• Create stronger compositions using sand, sea, sky, and shoreline

• Capture mood, motion, and detail in coastal scenes

• Feel more confident photographing what catches your eye

Paul provides clear guidance, live demonstrations, and personalized feedback throughout the session, meeting you where you are and helping you make the most of the tools you already have. The focus is on learning to see — not technical overwhelm.

This workshop is for you if you:

• Want to take more compelling photos in outdoor settings

• Use a camera or a smartphone

• Enjoy learning in a supportive, inspiring, and low-pressure environment

No experience required. Just bring your camera or phone, comfortable walking shoes, your sense of adventure, and a desire to learn.

Come experience Chatham’s beaches with fresh eyes — and leave with new skills, stronger images, and renewed creative confidence.