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Our Landscape course with renowned Landscape
Photographer, Philip Evans is to run over two days with
the first day on Saturday 28 March 2009. The follow-up
day on 18 April is designed as an assessment of your
progress up to that point.
What
makes a photograph? Would you describe the process as
shooting or taking? Should you describe it as something
else, if so what? And then, worse, how do you define a
‘good’ ( or ‘bad’ ) photograph?
In
terms of landscape photography how do you marry the
artistic principles with the unchanging rigour of
electronics and computer science. How do you reduce the
mountains to so many pixels or silver grains and
transport your audience to the sunshine and rain, the
noise of the wind and the evening stillness of a
mountain pond.
Unlike
any other photographic discipline ‘landscape’ allows the
photographer no control over the light source. Minor
modification may be possible but often not desirable.
The photographer, the camera and the subject meet as an
eternal triangle of complex emotions and practical
problems. This course is about picture making and as
such will be suitable for both digital and film users.
We shall look at the similarities and the differences as
we go along outlining strengths and failings of both
methods.
During
this very short course we shall look at the basis of a
system for approaching the world of natural light
photography. A system which has been tried and tested
over many years. Our aim will be to explore the line of
image production from behind the eye of the photographer
to behind the eye of the beholder stopping at many
places in between
Philip
Evans has been working in the natural world across two
continents for many years. He has worked in many
branches of photography including scientific and
commercial applications. His photographs illustrate many
publications including two volumes from the world famous
Sierra Club Exhibit Format series under the direction of
the late David R. Brower the general editor of the
series. One of these exhibited the beauty of Eryri (Eryri,
the mountains of longing) and the other the White
Mountains of New Hampshire, USA (At Home in the Wild).
He has tutored courses in both of these locations for
many years. He is never quite sure which came first in
his life the camera or the mountain but he is absolutely
certain that life without either is not life at all.
So
come and share that enthusiasm with Philip and perhaps
find new ways to explore your favourite spots in our
beautiful part of the world. The course is in three
parts. First an indoor session to look at theory and
planning. Then an outdoor session to give a solid basis
to our morning discussions. And then the opportunity to
go over personal portfolios and individual critique in
the follow-up day.
You will de taken to a
suitable local location (weather permitting) for
instruction on the first day with the follow-up day in our training room at Cambrian Photography
If you are interested
in attending please call Cambrian Photography on 01492
532510 to check availability and make your booking.
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