Back to Basics: Demystifying Digital Cameras & Photography with Adam Stoltman Mar 5-7, 2012 9:30am - 5:30pm

© Adam Stoltman

Members: $695 • Non-members: $765 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Digital cameras while offering the advantage of instantaneous results, can also confuse and bewilder us with a dizzying assortment of menus, modes, buttons, commands, and functions......many of which can be intimidating and overwhelming, and worse take us out of the natural flow and rhythm of creative picture taking. Additionally, once we begin to produce digital images, storing, managing and retrieving them can also quickly swamp us. This workshop will seek to simplify the process and remove as much confusion as possible through connecting the myriad digital camera functions to the basics and fundamentals of traditional photography. In doing so, you will learn to be less intimidated by your cameras and become more comfortable with them, and your natural picture taking style. The camera should be a tool that conforms to your needs, not the other way around. Additionally, the basics of digital workflow, storage and image management strategies and tolls will be discussed, giving you a good grounding in the options available to you.

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Biography

ADAM STOLTMAN's photography has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and a host of other publications. He has covered ten Olympic Games and stories ranging from human interest, and the arts to sports and international news. As a photography editor he was part of a team of editors at The New York Times Magazine who produced award winning visual coverage in the late 1980's and early 1990's of events which included the Fall of the Eastern Bloc, The FIrst Gulf War and Tiananmen Square. He also served as Sports Picture Editor for The New York Times daily newspaper and as deputy picture editor for feature photography at Sports Illustrated. He is the co-founder and co-publisher of Journal E, an award winning online magazine devoted to human storytelling through photography and new media. The site which twice won Best Use of Photography honors at the Pictures of the Year Competition, was one of the first online destinations to regularly publish streaming media. Visitors routinely spent upwards of an hour per visit as early as 1997."