On March 15, 6:30 pm Nic Stover will give a presentation to our club and the St. Croix Valley Camera Club. Thanks to Mike Chrun for arranging this and for sharing the cost with us!
Join professional landscape photographer Nic Stover for this session to talk about Not too Heavy, Not too Light. Just right. The word “photography” literally means “drawing with light” from the Greek words phos, (genitive: photós) meaning “light”, and graphê meaning “drawing or writing”. There are so many ways to think about the different types of light within our photography and what we can do with what we get in the field but also when we get back in front of our computer to process our images we “harvested” in the field.
In this presentation Nic will talk about how the most important thing in photography is you and how you look through the light harvester (IE the camera) and the choices and decisions you make on how to collect the light that is falling in front of you onto your subjects of choice. Nic doesn’t have mastery of light nor the power to control it but he will talk about what he CAN control is how he reacts to the light he is given, not the light he wants, but the light he is given. Nic considers the science and study of light to be one of our most important pursuits in photography. This presentation will increase your understanding of how to work with light.
Some of the topics covered in this presentation include but are not limited to:
- How to think about light.
- How we view light vs how our camera (light harvester) views light.
- How do we actually see light from the warms and cools to the brights and darks.
- What is the true value of light in our images?
- How do photographers describe and talk about light?
- What are the 4 ways in which light interacts with our scenes?
- How can you most effectively use light in your images.
- Ways you can break out of your normal mode of working with light.
As part of this session you will get a follow up with a reference sheet of 15 ways to describe light, and a recording of the presentation.
Stover is based in San Luis Obispo, California and focuses on landscape photography classes and workshops encouraging his class participants to develop their skills, explore their capabilities, and to create meaningful work. Additional information can be found at www.stoverphoto.com
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