Photography

The Digital Portrait

Glen McClure, Award-Winning Photographer

Join photographer Glen McClure, whose projects have included A Random Portrait of Virginia and Faces at the Races, in a hands-on workshop on the digital portrait. Learn simple portrait techniques, including the use of natural light, electronic studio flash, proper backgrounds, and strategies to help your subjects relax in front of the camera. Weather permitting, we will work outside with natural light and create portraits of our classmates. At the end of the day, images are reviewed in one-on-one and group discussions.

Audience: Adult
Enrollment: 15 participants

The Positive Image: Early Photographic Processes

Phil Nesmith, Award-Winning Photographer

Some of the earliest photographic processes produced positive images on polished copper, glass, and tin. Each image was unique — the film negative was many decades away when daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes were all the rage. In this lecture demonstration artist Phil Nesmith gives an overview of this rich period in photographic history, as well as a discussion of the modern resurgence of interest in and use of 19th-century processes in contemporary art. While tintypes and other early photographic processes were thought by many to have died nearly a century ago, these media have had a renaissance in recent decades, including some of America's most famous contemporary artists, from Chuck Close to Virginia artist Sally Mann. In addition to a lecture on historic processes and their modern applications, Nesmith will demonstrate the making of wet collodion tintypes, a magical process that sheds light on both the history of photography and on contemporary art.

Available: Jul – Dec 2012
Audience: Adult
Enrollment: 15 participants