Workshops

Toward a Personal Vision: Creating Your Portfolio

Morean Art Center
Wednesdays, Mar. 3rd – Apr. 7th 7-9:30pm

This workshop is designed for photographers seeking to move their photographic process to the next level. The class is devoted to examining each participant’s work, uncovering ideas and interests, and investigating ways to create images more aligned with personal vision. The class examines the disparity between the photographs imagined and those actually made. The real work begins with diminishing the distance between the two. In order to accomplish this task, participants reexamine and learn how to work not only to make photographs, but also towards their personal vision.

The class begins with portfolio reviews, followed by weekly assignments and critiques of works in progress. This cycle of creating and critiquing pushes participants to develop a more concrete understanding of their own imagery and work process. Rather than focusing on subject matter, software, or hardware, this workshop is about the most important element in photographic work: you, the photographer.

In examining the process of work, participants have something to take home that will continue to assist individual evolution and growth as a photographer, a more concrete sense of imagery and our involvement with it.

Prerequisite: Review of your work with instructor prior to class.

Skill Level: 5

Register (727) 822-7872 or Morean Art Center

HDR Photography – 2 day workshop

Morean Art Center
Saturday & Sunday, March. 6th & 7th 10am – 4am

High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) is the most exciting development in photography since the zoom lens. Photographers can now capture scenes of extreme contrast that would overwhelm film or a single digital capture. Dark interiors with sunlit windows are no longer a challenge; landscapes with deep shadows and bright highlights can be tackled with confidence. Special shooting techniques and powerful software tools combine to produce final prints with lush shadow detail and gloriously detailed highlights. It is amazingly easy to tackle scenes that one would normally walk away from for fear of empty black shadows and blown highlights.

The workshop not only shows how to shoot and process HDR captures, but how to precisely control the full range of color and contrast in images. It delves into the brave new world of 32-bit images, reviews proper color management techniques, and explores new selection and masking skills, all toward making perfect prints on luxurious archival papers.

Students should bring a digital SLR camera that is capable of shooting raw format, a solid tripod, remote release, spare memory cards, batteries and a card reader.

Skill Level: 2-5

Register (727) 822-7872 or Morean Art Center