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4-DAY WORKSHOP (3 full days plus morning session on the fourth day)

SHELBY LEE ADAMS: Environmental Portraiture

In this workshop, you’ll have a chance to work closely with renowned photographer Shelby Lee Adams and develop your own eye for environmental portraiture using mixed lighting sources on location. This course will explore the psychological, emotional, and technical aspects of portraiture, with special emphasis on photographing people in their environments. Students will learn how to develop rapport with their subjects, establishing a collaboration that produces spontaneous, intimate and inventive portraits. Photographing on location in small towns surrounding and including Palm Springs, we will photograph each other as well as models using a combination of daylight and flash for two of our three days together. Students will study Adam’s techniques of balancing lighting to create unique portraiture of real people. Student’s work will be projected and critiqued following each shooting session, which benefits all with shared knowledge. All formats welcome. Students are expected to edit the results of each session to no more than 8 images for projection to the class.

Models are arranged and class will be divided into groups. Shelby will set up different light and environment situations and rotate the students, so by the end of each day, all students have had all three location experiences, each with a different kind of lighting set up. Placement and blending of strobe light with daylight is critical. Lighting ratios is important to cover with histograms.

Photographers should bring their laptops and be conversant with their hardware and software in order to facilitate downloading and projecting their work for critiques in this workshop. Digital projectors with standard DVI cables will be provided. If you require DVI adapters, please bring one to class.

Digital photographs only will be used in class critiques.

Monday, April 2 – Wednesday, April 4, 9:00am – 4:00pm (plus Thursday, April 5, 9:00am – 11:00am)
Price: $1000.
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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
Shelby Lee Adams, of Hazard, Kentucky, was born in 1950. His photographs are collected in more than 60 museum and private collections. He has exhibited in numerous one person and group exhibitions internationally since 1974. Between 1993 and 2011, he has published four important monographs: Appalachian Portraits, Appalachian Legacy, Appalachian Lives and Salt & Truth. Shelby has received numerous awards throughout his career including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Survey Grant and most recently he was awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Photography Fellowship in 2010. His work has also been supported by the Polaroid Corporation, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham and Peter S. Reed Foundations. His photography resides in over 60 national and international collections, including the Musee De L’Elysee Lausanne, the National Gallery of Canada, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Amon Carter Museum, among others. His work has been published by many academic, fine art and commercial publications, including, Aperture, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Black and White Magazine. He divides his time between his home in the Berkshire Mountains and Eastern Kentucky.

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