How to See and Shoot Like a National Geographic Photographer with National Geographic's Raymond Gehman Feb 28-Mar 2, 2011

© Raymond Gehman

Members: $595 • Non-members: $645 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Ever since Raymond Gehman landed a National Geographic Society assignment to shoot a book on Yellowstone Country in 1988, he knew his calling was photographing the natural world. With three cover photographs and numerous books and articles to his credit, Raymond will teach the nature, wildlife, and travel enthusiast how to envision and photograph like a National Geographic photographer. On the first morning of this three-day workshop, Raymond will present a slide show of his most renowned works, suggesting the heart-stopping imagery toward which participants may strive. During the first afternoon and second morning, you will take photographic field trips. You will visit sublime natural settings where you will learn the technical aspects of camera use in the natural environment as well as explore the principles of light, composition, perspective, and visual design as they impact on the artistry of your image. You will be exposed to and trained by Raymond’s accomplished and uncanny eye for capturing natural images.

On the second afternoon you will be introduced to computer laboratory instruction, editing insights for selecting your best pictures and critiques about the images you have made during the photographic field trips.

On day three you will be treated to Raymond’s hands-on Adobe Photoshop digital processing and enhancement techniques for transforming your own photographs into magazine-cover quality pictures. Following a final critique session, you will emerge from the workshop with your very own heart-stopping imagery.

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Biography

RAYMOND GEHMAN has worked for National Geographic Society since 1986. With three cover photographs and numerous books and articles, he has been on assignment in Yellowstone, Wyoming’s Bighorn Country, Florida’s Sanibel Island Gulf Coast, the Canadian Rockies, the rain forests of Belize, Icelandic glaciers and icebergs, deep, dark Polish forests, and rural China during the People’s Republic 50th anniversary celebration. He has documented grizzly bears, the vanishing prairie dog and wetlands, the ecology of fire, the aftermath of hurricanes, hot pools, and nocturnal Apache ceremonial dancers. Previously, he studied fine arts photography at Northern Virginia Community College and earned a degree in photojournalism from the renowned School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He worked for 11 years as a newspaper photojournalist in Montana and Virginia. Recently he has concentrated on more personal digital artwork, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary by shooting everything from apples to oranges, flowers to flying light domes, and glass globes to transcendent trucks, and transforming these subjects into dazzling impressionistic imagery. In 2010 his work will be exhibited from Virginia to Houston to Colorado.