Teaching & Workshops
Learn to see differently. Then go make something.
Photography is part craft, part instinct, and part willingness to put yourself somewhere worth seeing.
Scott Rinckenberger’s teaching and workshops bring photography out of the classroom and into the environments where his own practice has been shaped: mountains, wilderness, backcountry, and the unpredictable spaces in between.
These are hands-on, field-based experiences built around making photographs — not simply talking about them. Whether you’re looking to deepen your creative practice, sharpen your technical skills, learn how to work with athletes and landscapes, or develop the confidence to create in challenging environments, Scott can build an experience around what you want to learn.
Photography in the field
The best way to understand how a photograph is made is to make one.
Scott’s workshops combine instruction, experimentation, and real-world shooting to help photographers develop both the technical skills and creative instincts needed to make meaningful work.
Depending on the group and the goals of the experience, instruction can include:
• Composition and visual storytelling
• Finding and developing a personal photographic vision
• Working with natural and artificial light
• Landscape and adventure photography
• Working effectively with subjects, athletes, and creative teams
• Shooting in challenging weather and environments
• Building efficient camera and field systems
• Backcountry photography and wilderness logistics
• Image selection, editing, and post-processing
• Developing a body of work
• Turning ideas and experiences into finished photographs
The emphasis is always on putting these ideas into practice. We’ll get outside, work through real scenarios, make photographs, look at the results, and adjust.
Built around what you want to learn
No two photographers arrive with the same questions.
Some are looking to make stronger images. Others want to understand how professional outdoor photography actually happens in the field. Some are trying to break through a creative plateau. Others want to build the skills and confidence to pursue their own adventures with a camera in hand.
Scott offers both intimate workshops and custom teaching experiences for individuals, small groups, creative teams, brands, and organizations.
The location, format, curriculum, and level of technical difficulty can all be tailored to the group.
That might mean a half-day session focused on seeing and composition, a multi-day wilderness immersion, a portfolio and creative-development workshop, or an expedition-style experience where photography, movement, and adventure become part of the curriculum.
Art Through Adventure
Where photography, movement, and wilderness come together.
Art Through Adventure is Scott’s signature field workshop: a multi-day experience that brings together photography, backcountry travel, athletic movement, and creative collaboration.
Working alongside professional athletes and mountain guides, participants learn to move safely and efficiently through demanding environments while developing photographs that do more than document the experience.
The goal is to create work that communicates the power, beauty, and meaning of being there.
Through a combination of instruction, shooting, experimentation, and time spent in the mountains, Art Through Adventure is designed to expand both artistic and athletic horizons.
Time in the field
This isn’t a lecture with a few photos sprinkled in. We’ll spend meaningful time outside making photographs, responding to conditions, and learning through experience.
Real-world experience
Scott’s teaching is informed by years of working professionally in some of the world's most demanding environments, creating work for leading brands, publications, athletes, and organizations.
Creative development
Technical knowledge only gets you so far. Workshops are designed to help you develop your eye, trust your instincts, and understand why a photograph works — not just how to make one.
Small groups
Keeping groups intimate allows for direct feedback, meaningful conversation, and the flexibility to adapt the experience to the people involved.
Adventure as a catalyst
Sometimes the best way to see differently is to change where you are. Time spent moving through wild landscapes creates opportunities for photographs — and ways of thinking — that simply aren't available in a studio or classroom.
You might be a photographer looking to:
• Take your work to the next level
• Develop a more distinctive visual voice
• Learn how professional outdoor photography happens
• Become more confident photographing athletes and movement
• Improve your landscape and adventure photography
• Build a stronger portfolio or body of work
• Learn how to work efficiently in demanding environments
• Combine your passion for photography with your passion for the outdoors
• Get unstuck and see your work from a new perspective
You don’t have to be a professional photographer. You just have to be curious, motivated, and ready to learn.
Scott also works with individuals, groups, brands, and organizations to develop custom workshops and teaching experiences around specific creative, photographic, or adventure goals.
Tell us what you’re hoping to learn, where you’d like to go, and who you’d like to bring. We’ll build from there.
Come learn in the real world
The camera is only part of the equation.
The rest comes from being there: seeing the light, reading the landscape, working with your subject, adapting to the weather, making decisions quickly, and knowing when to stop and simply look.
Scott’s workshops are an invitation to do all of that—and to come away seeing both photography and the world around you a little differently.