Intermediate/Advanced Digital Photography & Photoshop Workshop
Saturday, July 10 - Monday, July 12, 2010
Instructor: William Pitcher
Assistant: Penny Pitcher
Early Bird Fee: $302 + GST (Must Pay in full by June 1st)
Regular Fee: $335 + GST
Combine with the 1-Day Beginner Digital Photography on July 9 for $396 (before June 1st) or $440 (after June 1)
Using traditional photographic techniques while shooting in RAW format with a DSLR camera – and then post processing the images in Photoshop requires an understanding of what is, in fact, a complicated work flow.
Spend three days with professional photographer/photographic illustrator William Pitcher and his wife Penny, as they guide you through lighting, exposing, and composing difficult subjects – and teach you the “tricks of the trade” in Photoshop.
We’ll tackle a different photographic objective each day, and subjects have been carefully chosen that tie several photographic concepts together. The skills taught can be used across a wide variety of subjects.
We’ll start each day in the classroom with a discussion, and demonstration, of the techniques and skills needed to complete that day’s objective. We’ll then put what we’ve learned to use by JUST DOING IT. We’ll finish each day “tweaking” our favourite images in Photoshop.
Day One - Wild Flowers: Composition will be the focus of the day. Colour and form, light and shadow, lead-in lines, selective focus, and depth-of-field will be used to bring attention to your subject. Wild flowers are the perfect subject to demonstrate good camera technique as there is little room for error when working so close to your subject. The proper use of macro lenses is discussed and put to use. (Macro lenses are expensive. Hoya makes reasonably priced closeup filter sets that are adequate for occasional closeup work. If you have neither, a larger flower will do. This exercise is about technique - it’s what you’ll learn that counts – not the equipment you own.)
Day Two (morning) - Buildings aren’t boring! You just need to know how to make them into something more than a record shot. We’ll show you how to shoot both exteriors and interiors. The correct use of wide angle lenses is emphasized, and we’ll show you how to straighten lines and add drama using Photoshop.
Day two (afternoon) and Day Three - People: This will be a study of light. A portable studio will be set up for practice, and we’ll move lights around to study their effect on face and form. We’ll also learn how to use simple modifiers to add or subtract light. We do this in a studio setting because it’s easier to study, and understand what’s happening. But light is light, and everything is equally applicable to outdoor or living room light. And just to prove it, we’ll go outside and duplicate our studio results using natural light. We’ll retouch our favourites in Photoshop by removing blemishes, smoothing skin, and sharpening selectively. Moderately long telephoto lenses will be used for this exercise.
Bio:
William Pitcher decided to become a photographer while sitting in a bar in Buffalo, New York. With a couple of beers on the table in front of him, a jukebox playing in the corner, and a life size image of a scantily clad Marilyn Monroe on the wall, he proclaimed this fact to everyone within earshot - it was 1954, and he was seven years old.
This surreal-like atmosphere set the stage for a lifetime of visualization and unconventional thought. As a student of light and line, colour and composition, William has an innate understanding of how a camera ‘sees’ compared to how the human brain assembles an image.
Primarily a storyteller, William’s photographic career has centered on industrial projects across Canada, and his reputation for working under difficult lighting conditions has allowed him to maintain an international client list, even while living in a small Rocky Mountain community. Scheduled for 2008 are projects in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and New York.
Island Mountain Arts School Policies
- Registration: A (non refundable) deposit is payable upon registration. Final payment is due no later than seven days before a course begins. Please add 5% GST to adult courses.
- The registration deadline is two weeks before class start. Registrations will be taken after that date, space permitting.
- Refund: There are no refunds on course deposits. If full payment has been made, and a student withdraws from a course, 75% of the workshop fee will be refunded. Note - there are no refunds the final week before classes begin.
- Cancellation Policy: If Island Mountain Arts cancels a course due to insufficient registration, the entire fee will be refunded. Cancellation decisions are made two weeks before course start.
Island Mountain Arts
Box 65, Wells, BC V0K 2R0
1-800-442-2787 or 250-994-3466
Fax: 250-994-3433
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