Los Angeles Center of Photography three days in July

If you’re in the LA area and cannot make this workshop, I’ll be giving a presentation the evening of July 14th. The public is invited at no charge so click on the link below for details.

Imagine yourself with an artist’s palette in your hand. A recently stretched canvas is waiting on an easel, and a jar full of cleaned brushes sits on a small table next to you. Cobalt and Ultramarine Blue, Raw Sienna and Burnt Umber are positioned side by side while Chromium Oxide Green, Cadmium Red and Yellow lie together opposite them. They have all been squeezed from tubes, asking to be mixed together.

Now imagine that instead of all those wonderful pigments, your palette holds the elements of visual design and composition. Vanishing point, negative space, perspective, tension, color, texture, pattern, and line have been etched into the aged wood. When you mix red and blue you get purple, blue and yellow and you get green. But what happens when you mix tension, a few patterns, and perspective together while taking your daughter’s portrait during an outdoor birthday party? Or negative space, some texture, and a vanishing point when you’re composing a street scene in a small Tuscan village?

Remember, you’re still an artist, but a camera on a tripod has now replaced the stretched canvas and easel. In this unique, weekend intensive workshop, Joe Baraban will help you “stretch your frame of mind” while developing your eye. Assignments to shoot during different times of the day will give you a better understanding of and sensitivity to light as it enhances every aspect of photographic design. Joe will show you how to incorporate these elements of design and composition into your imagery. A new, finely tuned vision will be the result, and you will walk away armed with the ability to create powerful and memorable photographs.