Photography
Slow Movies (canceled)
Allan Mandell
July 5-9, 2010
$405
Student Supply List
The Slow Movies idea has grown organically from Allan’s lectures and workshops. This year, rather than everyone working on separate ‘shorts’, each will contribute toward one ‘feature-length’ slow movie based on Five Elements. Participants will shoot, edit, sequence, test screen and set a soundtrack for each movement working independently and together. Creativity and cooperation will be called for in large measure. The course will conclude with a public screening of the completed slow movie “The Five Elements”. Students will work with their own digital cameras and laptop computers.
Allan Mandell has been photographing gardens for international publication for sixteen years. His professional career was launched in Kyoto shooting gardens through the changing seasons. He has six books published as sole photographer. He is an advocate of the idea that the camera points both ways – into the artist and out to the world. He lives in Victoria, BC where he is currently working on large-scale photographic prints. www.newgreenshoot.com
The Influenced Landscape
Mike McLean 
July 5-9, 2010
$405
Student Supply List
This course will concentrate on the natural environment as a photographic subject, with a specific focus on landscapes altered by human activity. Each morning, students will undertake a photographic study of a distinctly unique site. In the afternoons, students will discuss the history of landscape photography, and concerns particular to the genre. To contextualize student projects, the instructor will lead digital presentations of notable landscape images and photographers. Each afternoon will conclude with a class critique of the previous day’s work.
Mike Andrew McLean, originally from Lethbridge, AB, is a photographic visual artist living and working in Victoria, BC. His photographs have recently been exhibited at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery and The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and he is preparing for a solo exhibition at The Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2011. He is currently a Sessional Instructor of photography at the University of Victoria. www.mikeandrewmclean.com
Photoshop
Elements & the Digital Darkroom 
Alan Thurston
July 10-11, 2010
$165
Student Supply List
The shutter's soft click
captures a moment of time
nothing but shadows
Capturing the image may be only the first step in creating a photograph. The modern digital camera is a sophisticated recorder of pixels but it does not think and it cannot feel. The picture it makes might not be what the photographer was seeing. Through some simple but powerful editing techniques, the student will learn to make subtle changes to the image to take it from initial capture to final vision. Along the way the student will also learn some useful file management skills to help organize and protect valuable images.
Students will need to have a
laptop (preferred) or desktop computer (PC or MAC) with photo editing
software, preferably Photoshop Elements or Photoshop. Some simpler editing
software may not have all the features that will be used during the course.
Students should also bring about 20 high resolution digital images in jpg
or jpeg format. These should be “straight from the camera”
without any additional enhancements. Students are responsible for
downloading these images onto their computer.
Alan Thurston is a senior systems analyst by profession and a photographer by passion. His 35 year interest in photography carries him into the street, into meadows and mountains and deserts, and along the edges of the sea. He captures this world on film, with digital cameras, and recently with wooden pinhole cameras. Regardless of the tools being used, photography is a way to record an intensely observed, ever shifting world. His profession and his passion converge in the digital darkroom; camera and keyboard, art and science. www.lightimages.ca
Light, Colour & Expression 
Sharron Milstein
July 12-16, 2010
$405
Student Supply List
Light is the essential raw material of all photographic expression. It defines the subject matter, creates the mood and graces the moment. Colour and other properties of light are the underlying themes as students probe the elements that go into expressive image-making – e.g., learning to really see, technical proficiency, creative and appropriate composition. The workshop is for digital shooters. Participants must bring their own laptop and software. In leading this event, Sharron will be joined by digital whizz and ace photographer, Alan Thurston. Check out his talent at www.lightimages.ca/index2.htm Workshop prerequisite: Know your equipment!
Sharron Milstein has been a teacher, workshop leader, tour director and audio-visual presenter for over twenty-five years. Her images have been featured in books and magazines and her prints are shown in galleries on Hornby Island, BC where she lives. Sharron’s passion for photography has focused on nature, landscape and abstract images. Whether she's exploring the deep canyons of the Colorado Plateau or waiting for first light at the edge of a tranquil Rocky Mountain lake, her skill in capturing the essence of her subject matter reflects her understanding and enthusiasm for the magic of light.
Photograph Your Work
Janet Dwyer
July 15, 2010 7-10pm, thursday evening
$37
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This
evening courses focuses on digital photography of 2D and 3D art. We will
discuss controlling natural and artificial lighting, backgrounds, exposure,
color balance and other issues relating to taking better photographs of
your artwork.
For
the past two decades Janet has specialized in photographing works of art in
all mediums. In addition to shooting for many renowned artists, including
Robert Bateman, and numerous fine art galleries, her clients include the
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Royal BC Museum. Her expertise in
photographing works of art is widely respected, and she was the
contributing author of a chapter on the subject in the artists’
survival book Stayin' Alive by Robin Hopper. www.janetdwyer.com |
