May 6, 2021
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
with Michael Boatright, CPP
It is said that art happens when something that we feels motivates us to want to share that feeling with others. The artist then executes certain techniques in order to share that feeling and once presented, the evocation of emotion in others makes the creation art. Psychologist Carl Jung and his associates discovered that through symbolism, form and rules, art is a language for communication of emotion inherent in all human beings.
How each of us sees and responds to the world using the language of art reflects our individual creativity and style. Things like leading lines and rule of thirds didn't just happen by accident--they are part of the fundamental way that human beings communicate visually with each other. As Parker Pfister says, "Your creative process, is everyone else's Alternative Process."
This hands-on workshop will playfully explore creativity--why and how we create--through the rules, symbols, syntax and vocabulary of art and how we might step out of our digital boxes play just a little bit with some old-fashioned and new-fangled "alternative" and "analogue" ways of creative photographic imagery. (Hint: did you get the memo, FILM IS NOT DEAD!).
Course Items: Digital camera and an Analogue ("Film") camera and a roll of film (or two) if you have one (a limited number of film cameras and some film will be available). A light meter/light meter app if you have one. A laptop computer with editing software (some examples with be demonstrated with Photoshop and Topaz and ON1 plugins); note-taking materials. Bring along any other analogue equipment (changing bag, developing tanks, cameras, light meters, etc.) that you would like some extra practice/guidance using. Participants are strongly encouraged to own and bring with them copies of Ansel Adams’ The Camera and The Negative?
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