Prepare to Audition for A Digital Media Program with National Geographic's Raymond Gehman and Dreyfuss Student Rachel Weeks Nov 6, 2011

© Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Members: $115 • Non-members: $145 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre is holding a workshop to help prepare those students who are interested in auditioning for Digital Media (Photography) at the prestigious Dreyfoos School of the Arts. As well as receiving numerous awards and having impressive alumni, Newsweek recently ranked Dreyfoos 40th out of 500 of the top high schools in the nation. There are only 30 - 40 positions available in the Digital Media department for incoming Freshman, so if you are interested in attending Dreyfoos, this class will be a vital tool in increasing your chances of acceptance.

This class will be a mock audition for the Digital Media department, taught by a current Dreyfoos senior, along with a professional, experienced photographer.

National Geographic photographer Raymond Gehman will be teaching the photography for this workshop. He will show you how to shoot better photos in just one day! During a photo-walk, he will help you find excellent images in average, ordinary places. You will learn how to "fill up the frame" of your camera so that everything counts, where cropping or post-processing will not be necessary.

After the photo-walk, Raymond will also teach you how to better edit the photos you shoot. He will demonstrate how to spot the "sweet" moments, while overlooking the more awkward shots.

Then, Raymond will instruct you in the art of "photo-story boarding", with a hands-on session on how to build a complete, comprehensive story using photos. Raymond will work with current Dreyfoos student Rachell Weeks to make sure you gain the tools necessary for a successful audition!

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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.

RACHEL WEEKS is a Dreyfoos student.