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John Paul Caponigro's workshop, August 8 - August 13
Destination Iceland / a place of amazing contrasts
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Get ready for a non-stop week of making images in a breathtakingly beautiful landscape.
You will:
- Clarify your personal style.
- Learn to be more versatile with your photographic skills.
- Develop a stronger awareness of composition.
- Improve your storytelling skills
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Experience grandeur unlike any other. - Walk into rainbows below and behind thundering waterfalls. - Hike across vast glaciers, the largest south of the Arctic Circle. - Slide into frozen ice caves. - Scale up, into, around, and through one or more of 5 active volcanoes. - Feel the primordial painted earth rumble beneath your feet. - Walk through geothermal hotpots, steam vents, and geysers. - Float amid icebergs ebbing in and out of glacial lagoon.?- Navigate a fiercely wild seacoast.?- Dive in crystal clear grottos.?- Float in sky blue hot springs.?- Spelunk in giant sea caves. - Drive through the rivers of Europe’s largest desert. - Chase wild horses. - Steep yourself in history. - Experience a unique culture, descendants of ancient Vikings now developing cutting-edge geothermal technology.
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Iceland's variety and complexity is dizzying.
We'll get a taste of it all in this week long intensive workshop You'll learn much more than technique, you'll learn how composition, style, and storytelling can be used in concert with one another to clarify, strengthen, and effectively communicate your own unique authentic voices.
You'll get lots of guidance on site and reviews of your work offsite. Get ready for a non-stop week of making images in a breathtakingly beautiful landscape. You will: Clarify your personal style. Learn to be more versatile with your photographic skills. Develop a stronger awareness of composition. Improve your storytelling skills
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That's what this week is for. After new working methods and perceptual patterns have been suggested, participants will be encouraged to make new images employing both historical and contemporary methods, searching for an optimal balance tailored for each individual. You’ll find a balance that’s best for you. For some this week will be an introduction to the possibilities, for others it will be about tying them all together. It will be a complete immersion for everyone. The most important thing to bring is an open mind.
Freeman Patterson offers excellent advice. List all of the rules of photography. And break them. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding of the medium. I recommend you take this advice one step further. List all of your rules of photography. And break them. You’ll either find confirmation that what you’re doing is right for you or you’ll make new breakthroughs. Daily readings, discussions, demonstrations, and assignments will guide individual explorations.
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Once an optimal image adjustment strategy (including converting images with Camera Raw and sharpening) has been outlined and detailed, I'll demonstrate and you'll learn techniques such as how to expand format, extend depth of field, increase dynamic range, paint with light, use creative focus effects, convert color to black-and-white, and much more.
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What should participants bring a long?
Participants need a digital camera, portable computer, and Adobe Photoshop. Manufacturer loans may be available. Photographic skills, and open mind, and curiosity are the primary requirements for this week. Students will be required to have only a general understanding of digital imaging, though some experience with Photoshop is recommended. The more you bring to the week, the more you'll take back.
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