PHOTOS COMING SOON!
MAKING DIGITAL PERSONAL: INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (PH802)
Randy Richmond
M-F, June 9-13, 9am-2pm
Tuition: Member $365 / Non-Member $390
Intermediate
This class will introduce new possibilities for seeing the world through photography. Using the techniques of montage and collage, students will explore the inspiring natural environment of Door County, while using their digital camera as a sketchpad. These “sketches” will then be combined using imaging software to produce a singular and uniquely personal work of art. The tools of digital software, and computers will be used as a painter would use different brushes and NOT as an art making machine. Required: Digital camera, laptop computer with Photoshop Elements and basic understanding of its features. Supply List
Iowa photographer Randy Richmond strives to make digital art natural and organic. He creates digital photographic compositions which he calls “places between places.” To do so, he uses a digital camera as a sketchpad and chooses actual objects that he scans and then separates from their backgrounds. He sometimes combines these objects and new imagery with photographic images that were created during his first 20 years as a photographer.
WOMEN’S CREATIVE RETREAT: PHOTOGRAPHY, WRITING AND CHOCOLATE! (PH803)
Jan LaFontaine
M-W, June 30-July 2, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Open to All Levels
Spend time in the beautiful Door County landscape, focusing only on you. This retreat is an opportunity to celebrate our feminine creative spirit and to explore, clarify and express our vision in a supportive environment of other creative women. We will discover ways to “see,” playing with shadow and light to create photographs that express the feeling of the image. We will incorporate various forms of writing into our work and, of course, every activity will be accompanied by chocolate! Our time together will refresh the mind, body, and creative spirit, and encourage connection to ourselves and to each other. This is a special opportunity to spend time with a photographer whose work is dedicated to helping women discover themselves in a creative environment. A 35mm SLR camera (with interchangeable lenses) is suggested for this class, but any kind of camera is welcome. Supply List
Jan Goff LaFontaine is a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, as well as the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the country and published in several national magazines. She published a documentary photography book titled Reflections Between the Lines, and went on a national tour in 2006 with her second book, Women in Shadow and Light: Journeys from Abuse to Healing.
WOMEN’S CREATIVE RETREAT: CAMERA INTENSIVE (PH804)
Jan LaFontaine
Thu, July 3, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $100 / Non-Member $125
Open to All Levels
A one-day extension of the previous workshop is available for photographers who would like to do a little more in-depth exploration of expressive black and white photography. This day will be for 35mm SLR cameras ONLY, to allow for more individual photography instruction, and exploring the ways in which we can use our camera’s manual controls to create our own emotional expression through our images. Supply List
See PH803 for instructor bio.
INTRODUCTION TO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (PH805)
Skip Simonsen
Thu-Sat, July 10-12, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290 plus model fee
Intermediate
This workshop will include all the basics of taking formal portraits of people. We will discuss and demonstrate lighting using electronic flash, daylight, photoflood, or fluorescent light sources. Learn how to use umbrellas, soft boxes, backgrounds and reflectors to enhance people’s features. We’ll also explore effective posing techniques for individuals and group portraits. Students should bring a single or twin lens reflex camera (film or digital) with manual setting capability. This will be a hands-on workshop. A demonstration of digital photo retouching will complete the picture.
Skip Simonsen has been a portrait and wedding photographer for over 35 years. Currently, he is the contract staff photographer for The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread. He is an instructor of Beginning Photography and Basic Digital Photography at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. He has also taught at Madison Area Technical College – Watertown.
PHOTOGRAPHING AND TASTING DOOR COUNTY’S BOUNTY: WINE AND FOOD (PH806)
Jan LaFontaine
M-W, July 14-16, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Beginner
Join us in exploring and photographing the newest addition to the Door County landscape—vineyards! We will “paint” with light as we photograph the vineyards and wineries, with special access to the places where wine is made and bottled. In addition to the wineries, we will also be photographing some of the grown-in- Door-County food, from field or orchard to finished product. At the end of each day, we will have the pleasure of tasting wines, as well as meeting with and photographing winemakers. Supply List
See PH803 for instructor bio.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: THE WHOLE PICTURE (PH807)
Philip Krejcarek
M-F, July 14-18, 9am-2pm
Tuition: Member $360 / Non-Member $390 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
This course will explore the possibilities for making art with your digital camera. Students will expand their knowledge of photography while developing their own potential as an artist. Improve your photography skills and stimulate creativity as you investigate the magic of Door County. Instruction will be given in basic digital photo editing on the computer. Students will have the opportunity to print copies of work created during the week on provided ink jet printers. Required equipment: a digital camera, a tripod, and a computer with either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements installed.
Philip Krejcarek has been teaching art in the Milwaukee area for 40 years. The last 30 years, he has been a Professor of Art at Carroll College where he teaches photography and digital imaging. He is the author of An Introduction to Digital Imaging and Digital Photography: A Hands-On Introduction, both published by Delmar Learning. He is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant and his work is included in collections at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum.
PLEIN AIR PHOTOGRAPHY: CAPTURING THE LANDSCAPE AND THE ARTISTS (PH808)
Suzanne Rose
M-W, July 21-23, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Open to All Levels
Join Suzanne, with cameras in hand, during the annual Door County Plein Air Festival as painters from across the country converge here for a week of painting the landscapes of the County. The painters will be working in a variety of locations and settings and we will visit numerous artists “in situ.” Peek over the shoulder of these talented artists and draw inspiration from their canvases. Whether you choose to capture the painters, their palettes full of vibrant colors, or the pastoral setting all around, you will leave with a portfolio of images that speaks volumes about the quintessential Door County art scene. All skill levels welcome, digital or film, color or black and white. Supply List
Suzanne Rose is “a straight shooter with a kind of spare visual poetry that speaks volumes in a mood of Zen Americana.“ Her southern Door County home town and the landscape of this area define her work through the ongoing thematic project “In Walking Distance.” Her work can be found in many public and private collections, including The Fairfield, Door County Maritime Museum, Door County Historical Society, the Racine Art Museum and The Corcoran Gallery of Art. An exhibition of new work was on view at the Fairfield Contemporary Museum of Art in September of 2006.
COMMUNICATING THROUGH PICTURES (PH809)
Dan Anderson
M-F, July 21-25, 9am-Noon
Tuition: Member $215 / Non-Member $240
Open to All Levels
This workshop is for anyone interested in improving their ability to communicate with pictures, whether color or black and white, film or digital. We will learn by looking at lots of photographs—your images, examples of Dan’s work and those of well-known master photographers. We will see how the many elements of the photographic process work together to create a truly expressive photograph. Visualization, composition, qualities of light, proper exposure, film and digital tips for exciting color and presentation of the finished photograph are some of the topics that will be covered. We will then practice these new skills out in the beautiful Door County landscape. This workshop is for any camera format—film or digital. See Supply List
Dan Anderson is the founder and director of the Door County Creative Photography Workshops. He studied with Ansel Adams and other master photographers. In his personal work, Dan concentrates on the 8x10 view camera to create contemporary black and white images of the classical American landscape. His photographs have been published and exhibited widely and are in many private and public collections. His work may be seen by appointment at his Ellison Bay studio.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY DECISIONS (PH810)
Dan Anderson
Thu-Sat, Aug 7-9, 9am-Noon
Tuition: Member $150 / Non-Member $175
Open to All Levels
Digital photography has arrived suddenly with a bang and is here to stay. You probably have a digital camera, but is the digital process as great as you have heard and how exactly can it improve your creative photography? We will explain and discuss the many factors and decisions involved in a transition to digital photography—such as what equipment you really need, what computer skills are required, what software is necessary. We will look at examples of photographs generated traditionally and digitally and by examining the differences, try to improve your digital photography. While we will certainly try to answer any questions about Photoshop, this is not an in-depth Photoshop course. We will also spend some time photographing the beautiful Door County summertime, so bring your camera. See Supply List
See PH809 for instructor bio.
DIGITAL WORKSHOP: CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS (PH811)
Randy Richmond
M-F, Aug 18-22, 9am-2pm
Tuition: Member $365 / Non-Member $390
Intermediate
The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with intensive time to create in an environment that will facilitate the problem solving sometimes needed when using digital imagery, and includes class time as well as field photography. Students should arrive with a project in mind that will take them well beyond the time they spend during this week. The atmosphere will be inspirational and creative with plenty of dialogue and showing of their own work, as well as the work of several internationally known artists. Required: Digital camera, laptop computer with Photoshop Elements or CS and a well-developed understanding of its features. Supply List
See PH802 on for instructor bio.