The Santa Fe Photo Workshops
www.sfworkshop.com

PORTRAITS UNPLUGGED
One-week Workshop
February 14 to 20, 2010

The beauty of available light is that it's everywhere. Any time of day and any situation can be turned into a great opportunity for environmental portraits. This workshop will help develop your ability to "see" the quality of light and apply it to "real" people. We don't scout locations, we scout light and make the location work. We put our people in the light, critically aware of the direction as well as the quality, to create our interpretive portraits. The most important part of our picture is not the subject, but how we choose to define our subject. The emphasis is on utilizing all our tools: light, tonality, composition and color, to get our ideas stated visually.

The workshop will consist of demonstrations, field trips, working with models and personal projects. We will work with all kinds of existing light: hard, soft, bounced, reflected, diffused, etc. The only tools we use are reflectors. Portable flashes are optional but discouraged. We will work in both black and white and color and in any format. We will work on capturing the essence of the people by the use of posing and props. We will learn how to work with a variety of personalities and how to draw out the appropriate expressions. Santa Fe is the perfect location for this class because of the quality of light and the array of colorful characters.

This is not a tech course. It is for photographers who want to strengthen their people skills as well as their appreciation of light. A working knowledge of photography is required for this course.

PEOPLE and PLACES
One-week Workshop
August 1 to 7, 2010

Santa Fe, the City Different, is an enchanting place both for the variety and imagination of its people and the splendor of its location. This workshop is designed to provide the participants the opportunity to explore their photographic creativity with both the human element of location portraits and by shooting the stunning landscapes in a variety of styles. By working with creative camera techniques and essential design elements, the participants learn to create photos that capture the heart and soul of their subjects: animate, inanimate or the environment.

Course topics will include understanding available light and how to manipulate it, working with portable flash for effective lighting, color temperature, composition and design, color and black and white, approaching people and human psychology, developing concepts and creating a mood. The participants learn to be more aware of what the environment has to offer visually, from the smallest detail to the overview.

This class strengthens both the technical craft and the art and ideas of photography. Photographers learn to create and execute their pre-visualized idea, leading to stronger and more meaningful images.