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Art Photography Workshop - July 30th August 2010.

Let yourself become aware of your uniqueness. Make decisions that ‘feel’ right, experiment and push your boundaries, make mistakes and embrace them. This is a workshop for breaking the rules and learning more about yourself.

The first two days are spent explore new ideas and photographic techniques and the last day is spent making an ‘art print’ and ‘art book’.

Above all enjoy yourself and your photography.

This all starts with a good understanding of what photography is, how your camera operates, and pre-visualizing what you want to photograph. Tuition fee- NZ $720.

Accommodation and meals
Please make your own accommodation booking in Queenstown. There is so much to choose from, the workshop is based at 7B Manchester Place, Queenstown. 20 minutes walk (uphill) from town. ... See map below.

The Critique process ...
This is a very important part of the learning process, we learn ‘what works’ and what doesn’t work and then try to solve some of the problems with post editing.

These days Photoshop and other kinds of software programs contribute and important part, to fully realizing images. Ultimately we aim to develop your visual aesthetics.

This workshop differs from the others in that ‘art photography’ really has no rules. So the critique session become more of a discussion session.

What you should bring:
Five landscape photographs for the first gentle critique session on the Friday afternoon, prints or digital files. Clothing for cold / wet weather as well as sunny weather including a hat, waterproof walking boots. Insect repellent. Umbrella or rain coat for your camera, small hand cloth to dry down gear.

Your camera gear, sturdy tripod, camera charger, spare memory cards, or if your shooting Raw files a transportable hard drive to download to.

Use our Canon 500D SLR cameras; if you don’t have a digital DSLR. We burn your files @ $20 per DVD. We also have a few tripods that we can loan out @ $20, light tripods are of almost no use.

If your thinking about buying a tripod for the workshop contact us and we will give you our recommendations or bring one for you to purchase.

This is a guide to what happens:
Each workshop is unique in that the group has it’s own dynamics. The workshops are about enjoying photography, and enjoying the company of other like-minded people and we encourage you to be open and relaxed.

Friday ...
3.00-5.00 Introduction to the workshop, held at Mike and Jackie’s home/studio 7B Manchester Place, Queenstown ... See map above.
Saturday ...
Understanding the creative use of aperture and shutter speed, focus. We go though the new features found in today’s modern DSLR cameras. Your photographic equipment should not get in the way of your creative process, understanding what it can do is an essential part of freeing your creativity.

Composition lecture, and discussion on what makes an image strong. What is art Photography??? Ideas…

We look over and discuss many examples of other photographer’s work.

Though a brain storming session come up with an idea for a series of images. Using a visual diary, write down your thoughts and an outline of what you want to achieve.

12.30-1.00pm Lunch

Excursion to work on your series.

4.00-6.00 download and discuss.

Dinner followed by presentation by Mike and Jackie talking about their personal work.

Sunday

9.00am- Revision and discussion on ‘works in progress’.

All day excursion to the Paradise valley, further exploring ideas and techniques. Lunch at Glenorchy.

4.00pm back in Queenstown, to download and discuss

7.00pm Dinner- a night out in Queenstown-pay as you go.

Monday

Photoshop tutoring, editing and fine tuning your images to increase the communication of your photographs.

Practical- Make a artist book and art print on Jackie’s Epson 7900 or her Canon Pro9500 Mk II

2.00pm farewell. Registration - Just e-mail us