Workshops
Prospectus of Talks and Presentations for Camera Clubs and Institutions
Workshops, Talks, Lectures and Courses.
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Workshops and Talks
Subjects:
Take One for Yourself and One for the Competition.
A look at the many aspects of photography outside the realms of the club competition,
Expanding, Experimenting and Improving.
Judging club photography- Expanding the criteria.
Street photography.
(History, contemporary, and my own take on the subject with lots of examples and slides. (PDI - I have my own projector if the club doesn't have one available that evening.))
What makes a good photograph?
(This is a talk which takes an alternative view to the accepted norms of club photography. We look at many of the other genres of photography and take a look at what made great photographs historically. Lots of examples PDI.)
My own career as a professional advertising and editorial photographer. (A short showing of work from the last 45 years with a brief talk on working in advertising, freelancing, magazines and general commercial work.)
Portraiture - Look at contemporary and traditional portraiture
The "Art of Photography" For a more advanced group I can present a talk on the "Art of Photography" showing contemporary artists who use photography and photographers who are artists. This comes with a basic discussion on understanding art photography and an overview of the broad range of styles and approaches taken by art photographers.
Abstract Photography, Art, experimentation and imagination. A look at how artists and photographers have approached the subject and their developments – plus an in depth analysis of the range of abstraction from being completely unrecognisable and indescribable to quirky and unusual ways of seeing objects, scenes and narratives from an emotive or purely compositional point of view.
The art of wedding photography - a "how to" approach with many, many examples.
Composition - how to construct an image that will work and how to break the rules. Why do some pictures seem to have a natural beauty or “rightness”?
How light works in composition and how other elements such as colour, tone and texture all have a place. Why we should break the rules.
Travelogues: (About 400 images shown in fairly quick succession)
The Trans Siberian Railway: The journey from Vladivostok to Moscow and Including some of Mongolia - the unusual sights, vast landscapes, people and cityscapes.)
The Silk Road : Beijing to Moscow via China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Russia.
The Crimea: Including Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova to Odessa, Sebastopol, Balaclava, Yalta, Simferopol and Kiev.
Japan: Tokyo...Fuji, Takayama, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Miyajima, Kyushu, Nagasaki, Goto Islands, Shimabara:
Castles, temples, people and historic places. Samurai and Tea ceremonies. Sake production and Geishas.
Scandinavia: Stockholm, Helsinki. Finland and above the Arctic Circle. Northern Norway and the Fjords...Lofoten
Islands and Bergen. Copenhagen. Spring and Winter above the Arctic Circle.
The Cities of Europe: A whirlwind tour of the major cities of Europe: Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bergen, Paris, Venice, Vienna, Berlin, Helsinki, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, St Petersberg, Volgagrad, Odessa, Chisinau, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges, Perpignan, Arles, Pisa, Lucca, Sienna, London.
Antarctica: Antarctic Peninsula - A pristine, remote intriguing world of ice, glaciers, penguins, seals, whales and albatrosses.
The Galapagos Islands: Lava fields and Islands and the extraordinary creatures that captivated Darwin.
Workshop Notes and Handouts
Analysis and Judgement of Photographs
A Quick Guide for Beginners - compact and DSLR camera etc,
Photography and Art:
Photography and Art
Some historic and well known photographers:
Some historic and recent photographers for examples.
Street Photography:
Street Photography
Lighting talk:
www.photomills.co.uk/gallery/lighting
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BOOKS
A Sci-Fi Novel:
The Uncertainty Dilemma -
Available on Amazon Kindle...Click here for Kindle
And Amazon paperback...Click here for paperback
A Novella:
A testosterone fuelled teenage hitch-hiking adventure across northern Europe in the 1960s.
A Booklet
Judging Photography - A look at how competitions and judging affect camera club photography.
Ideas for a comprehensive set of criteria and activities designed to enhance fresh creativity in camera clubs.
Services:
Photography and image processing
Advertising, commercial, editorial, documentary and social photography.
Specialising in documentary and portraiture for editorial and social photography.
Studio and interior photography specialising in creative lighting.
Highly experienced post production enhancement and manipulation techniques.
Large volume photographic editing and enhancement.