Take Control of your Close-ups with Craig Blacklock Jan 26-30, 2010

© Craig Blacklock

Members: $995 • Non-members: $1075 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 10 participants.

Description

All of the difficulties of photography are magnified when doing close-ups. This workshop will help you avoid technical and compositional pitfalls, and teach you some very easy, but advanced techniques that will vastly expand your ways of seeing and capturing images. Most days will be spent capturing images in the mornings, and putting them together on the computers in the afternoons. We will work outside when conditions allow, and in the studio when they don't. Whether you photograph flowers for fun, or products for a living, this workshop is sure to revolutionize the way to see and work.

Some of the topics covered include: (Almost) infinite depth of field using Helicon Focus software; Single and multiple-capture selective depth of field; Separating the subject from the background; Hyper-focal distance and beyond; Close-up panoramas; Controlling available light; Using a strobe so it looks like available light.

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Biography

Craig Blacklock is one of the country’s premier landscape photographers. He specializes in Lake Superior – the subject of several of his books including The Lake Superior Images, A Voice Within and The Lake Superior Nudes. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Minnesota Book Award, and an Independent Publishers book award for the best photography book of 2005. His prints are in numerous collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Polaroid Collection, and the George Eastman House. He has taught photography workshops since 1982. A well-rounded and innovative nature photographer, Craig can help you realize your own vision in color or black and white – while working with flowers, landscapes, or nudes – both in the field and in Adobe Photoshop.