The Photo Experience is presently available for small groups or teams interested in walkabouts, photo tours, and creativity building.

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Plan a photo hunt and go on a museum smartphone camera adventure with 5+ participants. Private groups start at $125/pp for a 2.5h session. For more info complete the contact form or email: amuse.productions@gmail.com

The Photo Experience is recommended by Goop and Trip Advisor for things to do in NYC, shortlisted by the Luxury Travel Guide for 2016, 2017 and travel/hospitality award winner 2019 and 2021. Visit The Photo Experience Blog.

Spark your creativity

street photography Experiences

Spark Your Creativity’s Photo Hunt is a personalized, customizable 2h+ group or individual photo experience to maximize your DSLR or smartphone camera skills, explore the city, and have some fun anywhere, anytime during a day or night session in New York or beyond.

DSLR: Day or Evening

Work those fancy buttons, dials, and settings for daytime or nighttime photo adventures on location anywhere in the 5 boroughs of New York. Choose a daytime session or a shoot in the evening: from low light, dusk to dark — or completely after dark for magic in the moonlight with your DSLR mounted on a tripod for light painting and intentional camera movement (ICM).

Invite happy accidents and serendipity into your day: work “flow” for a multi-sensory photo experience that sparks curiosity, self-discovery, and imagination.

At the conclusion of each photo session, private groups have the opportunity to share their work with other members and benefit from a friendly photo review — discuss over coffee, a glass of wine, or light meal (optional).

Smartphone photography

Smartphone camera sessions encourage photographic exploration without any heavy lifting - no equipment necessary other than your smartphone.

Enjoy a photo walk while maxxing out your device’s technical and creative potential. Learn a variety of apps, tips, and tricks to capture people, places, and things in the urban landscape.

Assignments include telling visual stories for a photo book and/or making digital art (collages) in-camera.

DSLRs & Smartphones

New York is your digital playground, an inspired destination for which we set an intention: everything that manifests on the planet is first a picture.

Whether with a DSLR or smartphone camera, you capture, select, and edit images to learn about sequencing (creating a series) during an on-location adventure for all levels of photo enthusiasts.

Practice skills

DSLR: ISO, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, metering, exposure compensation (EV), shooting in manual and more
Smartphone camera photography: multiple apps and tools to “make” pictures with a seemingly simple device

Learn Composition

See the world in shapes, patterns, light, color and form for taking better shots
Understand leading lines, rule of thirds, negative and positive space, depth of field
Stay in the moment (“flow”) — capture the zeitgeist, create inspired work

Think Differently

Describe, discuss, share your work with others and on social media
Consider a private group session in Finding Inspiration and Creativity Building to augment your skills

Ready to Book?

This is a private photo experience customized for individuals, small groups and special events. Spark Your Creativity founder Roberta Fineberg leads you on a journey to observe and experience the city full on — photograph its people, places and things: parks, bridges, cityscapes, neighborhoods, historic buildings and sites, or focus on art and design, say, employing light and shadow, searching for abstraction as one compositional exercise. Photograph what moves you, captures your attention and excites you about the urban landscape.

Crisscross the city one location at a time — Manhattan is your island, surrounded by even smaller islands (Governor’s Island, Roosevelt Island, City Island, Randall & Ward’s island, Ellis & Liberty Island, etc). Explore the surrounding boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island. You decide the location and we customize the photographic journey.

Spark Your Creativity’s out-of-doors, hands-on photo experiences explore 'outside the frame' in the spirit of Da Vinci’s ‘Saper Vedere’ (knowing how to see) while engaging all 5 of your senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch).

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choose A location

Practicing the skills of creativity through photography, you tap into your unique vision. You visit both off-the-beaten track and iconic locations in the city.

Central Park
Battery Park
Brooklyn Bridge | City Hall
Times Square | Bryant Park
West Village | The High Line
Carl Schurz Park
Roosevelt Island
Other location (let’s customize!)

Uptown Manhattan

Central Park
Carl Schurz Park
Lincoln Center
Columbus Circle
Riverside Park
Conservatory Garden
Other location (let’s customize)

Midtown Manhattan

Times Square | Bryant Park
Grand Central Station
Public Library
Rockefeller Center
5th Avenue Holiday Shopping (Christmas time)
Other location (let’s customize!)

Downtown Manhattan

Battery Park
Brooklyn Bridge | City Hall
South Street Seaport
World Trade Center | 9/11 Memorial | Wall Street
25th Street Flea Market
West Village | The High Line | Hudson River Park
Meatpacking District | Chelsea Market
China Town | Little Italy
Lower East Side | The Bowery | East Village Gardens
Madison Square Park | Flatiron Building
Other location (let’s customize!)

ALL BOROUGHS

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Heights | Prospect Park | Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Carroll Gardens | Bushwick | Williamsburg | Brooklyn Navy Yard | Dumbo | Coney Island | Brighton Beach | Gowanus Canal
Queens: Long Island City | Astoria | Flushing Meadows - Corona Park | Socrates Sculpture Park | Noguchi Museum | PS1
The Bronx: Arthur Avenue - Little Italy | The Bronx Botanical Garden | The Bronx Zoo. The North (Soundview) and South Bronx (Mott Haven).
Staten Island: Staten Island Ferry | Snug Harbor - Chinese Scholar's Garden | Alice Austen House
Other location (let’s customize!)

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