Creative Movement in Photography with Sandra Shenk and Lisa Dimondstein
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Forest Pan by Lisa Dimondstein |
This 2 session workshop will explore the creative use of movement using slow speeds, panning, and other forms of camera movement. You will be adding new skills while exploring your creativity. Come join us in a day of fun both indoors and out followed by an evening to review and be astounded by your images. Both digital and film camera users are welcome.
Required experience: suitable for all
Required materials: film or digital camera with capability of shooting at slow speeds (1/15 sec) and slower, a tripod, CD’s of images if using digital capture or slides/prints if using film.
Dates: Saturday, Oct. 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Thursday, Oct. 30, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: TBA
Cost: $115 members/$125 non-members
Introduction to Black and White Photography with Carley Stevens-McLaughlin
Enjoy the magic of the darkroom! Learn the foundation of photography from shooting film, developing and printing, to discovering the visual techniques of composition, perspective, perception and more. Advanced students are encouraged to participate as assistants and improve their own technique. The course ends with a public exhibit of student work. This 12-session course is for students in grades 7-12.
Required experience: suitable for all
Required materials: none
Dates: Wednesday and Friday evenings, 6-8 p.m.. Oct. 22 - December 10 (no class Fri. Oct. 31, Wed. Nov. 26 and Fri. Nov. 28 Thanksgiving week)
Location: CPS Studio, 3rd floor Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St Barre, VT
Cost: $195 for students grades 7-12; $360 adults
Introduction to Digital Workflow for Photographers with Bill Steinhurst
So, you’ve filled up the card in your digital camera or, worse yet, your computer’s hard drive. Now what? When you are drowning in image files, a logical but flexible workflow is your lifeline. Learn when, why and how to import, store, backup, sort, rate, keyword, access, and output your images. This course does not deal with processing (“Photoshopping”) your images, but will show you the most important corrections you will want to apply, when in the workflow to apply them, and why. We will look at the latest in software, including Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and Aperture.
Experience required: Digital photography beginners are welcome, but familiarity with camera and personal computer basics is required.
Required Materials and Equipment: None. Students are welcome to bring a laptop to try out techniques as we go along, but charge your batteries, as outlets may be limited.
Dates: Thursdays, Oct.16, Oct. 23 and Nov. 6, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Cost: $105 members/$115 non-members plus estimated $5.00 materials fee payable to instructor
The Beauty of Portraiture Lighting with Jamie Cope and Andrew Kline
Beautiful lighting is the key to a beautiful portrait, whether in color or black and white, film or digital. Andrew Kline will teach the art of studio lighting and how to dramatize a portrait. Jamie Cope will teach how to control and manipulate the use of natural light indoors or outdoors for soft portraiture light.
Experience required: suitable for all with digital SLR cameras
Required materials: digital cameras only and laptops (if you have one) for editing your work Saturday afternoon. Bring a bag lunch.
Dates: Sat. Oct. 25, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm and Sat. Nov. 1, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Afterimage Photography 26 State St. 2nd floor, Montpelier
Cost: $175 member/$185 non-member
Basic Digital Camera Concepts with Annie Tiberio Cameron
Are you making a shift to digital photography from film, or starting fresh in digital? How do digital cameras capture your image? Learn the basic features that make digital cameras tick. If you want to understand terms that are new and confusing, such as resolution, memory cards, optical & digital viewfinders, file formats, white balance, and more, come and learn the basics in simple language, supported with a comprehensive handout. Some features will be familiar from your film camera, and we will briefly review how these features appear on your digital cameras.
Experience required: Suitable for beginners to digital photography, either point-and-shoot or SLR cameras.
Required materials: Bring your camera and the instruction manual that came with your camera! If you don’t have one, please download one from the web or secure one from the manufacturer before the class.
Dates: Saturday, Nov. 8, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Montpelier, TBA
Cost: $55 member/$65 non-member
BECOME A MEMBER!
You do not need to be a CPS member to sign up for classes, although you will be eligible for a discounted price on classes if you join. A special membership category for class session members allows you to use the CPS darkroom during Community Darkroom Hours free of charge for the duration of the session during which you are registered for a course. To become a CPS member, entitled to class discounts, also fill out the CPS membership form and payment information.
All registrations are due one week before the first class meeting.
REGISTER BY MAIL: To register by mail, fill out the Class Registration form and mail the form and payment to: Center for Photographic Studies, 45 State Street #394, Montpelier, VT 05602.
REGISTER ONLINE
TEACHER BIOS
Annie Tiberio Cameron is a nationally known nature photographer whose work has appeared in galleries and art shows across the United States. Since 1978, Annie has taught photography for many institutions, primarily for University of Massachusetts Continuing Education. Since 1991, Annie has undertaken annual solo wilderness photography treks, and now tours the country with a retrospective slide show entitled, “Death Valley, Okefinokee and Beyond.” Since the late ‘80s she has also taught photography for the National Wildlife Federation in locales from Hawaii to the Bay of Fundy, and many places in between. Telephone: 802-223-2204; e-mail: annie@a-tiberio.com
Andrew Kline has been a professional photographer for 30 years, working from his studio and gallery, Afterimage Photography at 26 State Street in Montpelier. His commercial work encompasses photography for publications, documentation projects, wedding photography, digital presentations, portraits and custom black and white film processing and printing. Recent exhibits include the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, a retrospective at the Vermont Supreme Court, Enigma Gallery in Essex, Shelburne Craft School Gallery on the Green, the Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield, ArtPath Gallery in Burlington, and the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project Gallery. He takes photographic portraits for the sheer love of it. Telephone: 229-4924
William Steinhurst photographs with film and digital, in color and black and white, exploring a wide variety of landscapes and city environments, mainly in the desert Southwest and the Northeastern U.S. He has taught photography courses and workshops for the Center for Photographic Studies, the Community College of Vermont and private clients. He has studied at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, holds a Certificate in Photography from the University of Vermont Church Street Center, and has exhibited and curated shows of photography and other visual art media in Central Vermont. He has been awarded two grants for photographic projects by the Montpelier Community Arts Program. Selected work can be seen at www.steinhurst.com. He is a Trustee of the Visual Arts Committee at the T. W. Wood Art Gallery; President of the Center for Photographic Studies; and Vice-President of the Art Resource Association. Telephone: 802 223 2417; email: w2@steinhurst.com
Sandra Shenk has been intrigued with photography since college, and took it up in earnest when she retired in 2003. She attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, MT where she completed a 4-month intensive course of study of both film and digital photography. She has studied with Freeman Patterson focusing on the techniques of montage, multiple exposures, and with Kathleen Carr, an internationally known transfer artist, learning to create Polaroid transfers. “I have always been entranced with the interplay of light and color. My goal is to be able to recreate the mystery of that interplay in my photography and to create images that have an impressionistic, painterly or dreamlike quality to them.” She teaches photography classes through The Center for Photographic Studies, Helen Day Art Center in Stowe and The Firehouse in Burlington. She exhibits and sells her photographs in galleries, restaurants, art fairs and stores in Vermont. Telephone: 802-229-9336; email: sandy@sandrashenk.com: web site: www.sandrashenk.com
Lisa Dimondstein Following a life long interest in photography Lisa made a commitment in 2003 to pursue this passion on a deeper level. She attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, in Montana for a 3 month intensive program. Since that time she has exhibited her photographs in galleries, restaurants and art shows, as well as teaching in Northern Vermont. In 2006 she won the award of excellence in photography at For Art’s Sake in Stowe Vermont. Through her photographs she aspires to capture a sense of place, that may not be literal, but holds the essence of what she is experiencing or seeing and is drawn to a sense of movement and fluidity in images. Contact Lisa at 802-888-3777 or lisadim@verizon.net
REFUND POLICY
Refunds: 90% of tuition paid is refundable up to one week before the 1st class
or 100% credit is available towards a future class, to be used within one year.
No refunds can be made for cancellations received later
than one week prior to the 1st class meeting.
REGISTRATION
All registrations are due one week before the first class meeting.
To register by mail, fill out the Class Registration form and mail to:
Center for Photographic Studies, 45 State Street #394, Montpelier, VT 05602.
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