© Andrew Macpherson 2012
4-DAY WORKSHOP (Three full days plus 2 hour wrap up on fourth day)
ANDREW MACPHERSON: Beauty & The Signature Portrait
“This workshop will serve as a reminder of why we take pictures. We will explore looking at and playing with natural light, alternative lights and lights we find at night. It is a hands-on workshop where Andrew will guide students through his approaches to portaiture. This is not a conventional studio class; strobe and hot lights will not be addressed. The first day will be spent shooting on location– working with natural light (using silver/white cards, etc.). The second day will be spent shooting models on location, incorporating both lighting methods. All students should bring 5-10 images that can be projected. The third day will involve critiques and another session with models.
Andrew is known for the quality of his work and his professionalism. You’ll learn how he approaches a portrait assignment, how he intuitively is able to utilize what is available to create memorable and powerful portraits. He’ll discuss his style – and what style means in today’s world. How does one come to understand his / her own style and develop it?
Day One: Monday, April 2 at Korakia. Andrew will present a selection of his work, and review the work of his students. There will possibly be time to make some photographs in the afternoon session.
Day Two: All-day shooting at Korakia or in studio.
Day Three: Shooting on location or in studio. Models will be available.
Day Four: Review and wrap up
You’ll work with the impact of lighting and posing subjects. You’ll have lots of one-on-one hands-on time with Andrew. You’ll come to know how he thinks about photography and how that informs his decisions about his work – and apply these insights to your own photography. We promise you this — you’ll take away an invaluable learning experience from this class. Students will photograph themselves and several models as well.
Photographers working with digital cameras should bring their laptops and be conversant with their hardware and software in order to facilitate downloading and projecting their work for critiques in class. Digital projectors with standard VGA cables will be provided. If you require DVI connectors and / or adapters, please bring one to class.
Monday, April 2 – Wednesday, April 4, 9:00am – 4:00pm + Thursday, April 5, 9:00am – 11:00am
Price $1100 (Includes model fees and all transportation) *
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Attendees of this workshop are invited to borrow cameras and lenses from Canon, Leica, Fuji and Mamiya at Korakia Pensione each morning before the workshop begins (8:00am – 9:00am). The Samy’s Camera Store suite is also open each morning for your convenience.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Macpherson was born in London at the dawn of the sixties. His mother had a couture dress shop, so he grew up surrounded by fashion magazines, drinking in the excitement, glamour, and adventure of the time through their pictures.
He started photography at school when he was thirteen, and knew it was all he wanted to do in life, so he left school at fifteen and went to work in a photo production house in Fleet Street. It was a grey, grim Dickensian place, staffed by miserable old men, but it was a start. It gave him the all important experience to move up the ladder of assisting, leading him to work with such exceptional photographers as Lord Snowdon, Horst, Fabrizio Gianni and Ed White.
At twenty-two his first fashion story was published in the venerable Harpers & Queen magazine. Over the next eighteen months he then shot for all the main London magazines including i-D, The Face, The Sunday Times, and the short lived but wonderful Jill magazine out of Paris. With so many fashion shoots out so quickly Vogue, fashion’s bible, then started to commission him, first in London, then Paris, and finally Italian Vogue, the ultimate commission for any young photographer. After this the big advertisers came onboard, with campaigns for Diesel Jeans, Levi’s, Dunhill, Kookai, Rayban to name a few.
It was shooting on location for these clients that he discovered and fell in love with California. He continued to work as a fashion photographer for several more years, splitting his time between London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, but gradually refocused his energies on the entertainment industry, moving to the city he fell in love with in 1994. Since then he has been based in LA working in the entertainment industry, shooting movie posters, album/CD covers and portraits for magazines from all around the world.
WEBSITE
www.macfly.com
