How to Shoot the Garden Environment with National Geographic's Raymond Gehman Mar 23-24, 2012: 9:30am - 5:30pm

© Raympond Gehman

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

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Join Raymond in this two-day workshop designed for digital photo enthusiasts who love nature and travel photography , or those who revel in nature in their own back yard garden! You will visit some of Palm Beach's luxurious gardens where you will learn the most artistic ways to visually capture the garden environment. Raymond will teach you his methods for photographically covering a subject as if it were a National Geographic Magazine story. Through your photography you will discover that everything has an underlying theme, and that there is a natural beginning, middle and end to every shooting environment. You will also learn technical aspects of digital camera use, including macro work and easy fill-flash, as well as explore the principles of light, composition, perspective, and visual design as they impact on the artistry of your image.

The workshop will include a lecture and slide show of Raymond's most renowned works, suggesting the heart-stopping imagery toward which participants may strive followed by a photographic field trip to Morikami Gardens where you will be exposed to and trained by Raymond's accomplished and uncanny eye for capturing garden images. There will be a detailed critique of the shoot and you will be treated to editing insights for selecting your best pictures. You will also learn Raymond's hands-on Adobe Photoshop digital processing and enhancement techniques for transforming your own photographs into exhibition quality photographs. 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.