Photographic Workshops & Photographic Play Dates
High school students inquire about discounted pricing
Basic Camera Handling with Laurie Klein
Have fun learning how to use all the features on your digital or film camera. Gain a clearer understanding of how to take great pictures. Laurie will instruct you on the use of: f-stops, shutter speeds, flash, digital white balance, lenses, diopters, ISO, exposure, metering, continuous shooting, modes, bracketing, manual and automatic focus, and so much more.
Wednesday evenings June 9th and 16th 7-9:30, $165 or Sunday June 13th 10-3:30, $165
Creating Classic B&W and Infrared Photographs with Laurie Klein and Kyle Perler
Do you know how to get that classic B&W and IR photographic look with your digital camera?
This is a jammed-packed one day opportunity to learn how to photograph both nature, and live models. A discussion will follow on composition, histograms, lighting, exposures and camera settings for B&W and IR. (An IR dedicated camera is optional.)
Kyle will show you how to take your digital files and give them the traditional B&W IR look using filters, and a variety of software.
Equipment: digital SLR, laptop encouraged
Prerequisite: basic camera handling experience, knowledge of f-stops, aperture settings and depth of field.
Sunday June 27th, 9:30-5:00, $195
Dream the dream, prepare the dream, share the dream PREPARING FOR THE “REAL WORLD OF CREATIVE ARTS“ (for young adults) with Laurie Klein
Do you have an unrelenting passion for the creative arts? Are you on a quest to discover your unique visual voice? If so this workshop is for you. Our medium will be photography so you should have some photographic experience. In order to create a body of work that expresses artistic clarity you will learn:
- How to control your camera instead of having your camera control you
- How to express your personal artistic vision
- The valuable skill of objective critiquing
- How to pre-visualize a scene to get the result that you want
- The symbiotic relationship between informing and composing
Daily explorations include:
- Being on both sides of the camera, the model and the photographer
- Becoming aware of the nuances of natural light
- How to pose the subject to its greatest advantage
- Creating a visual journal
- Looking at each other’s work
- Developing an artistic vocabulary
- Analyzing accomplished photographers work
- Developing exciting portfolios
Tuesday June 29th - Wednesday June 30th 10-3:30 $295
The Digital Side of Photography
with Kyle Perler
Do you know how to make your digital camera work for you?
How do you choose the best settings for your digital camera?
Do you know what all the bells and whistles on your camera do?
Do you know how all this new technology works?
Those are the first questions Kyle will address.
What comes after capturing your image?
If these are questions you ask yourself, then this class is perfect for you.
Come learn the answers to these and other subjects such as file management, resizing, backups and simple photo editing. We will wrap up the class discussing different methods of printing and displaying your finished images.
Prerequisite: basic camera handling experience, knowledge of f-stops, aperture settings and depth of field.
Sunday July 18th, 10-3:30, $150
Got Juice? – Creative Juice That Is
with Laurie Klein
Now more than ever, the global marketplace is demanding higher and higher levels of creative thinking. With the emergence of a well educated, middle class in countries such as China and India, the economic competitive advantage in the future will fall to the society that learns to use new techniques that foster cutting-edge creative solutions.
Do you recall the freedom and joy you felt as a child when playing with finger paints? Creative thinking was easier then. We relied more upon our intuitive, right-brain functioning than on our logical left-brain functioning. It’s time to bring back that creative child again.
This workshop will facilitate:
• independent expression
• visual journaling
• greater reliance on intuition
• small group creative ‘think tanks’
• will facilitate broader analytical thinking
• renewed energy and initiative
• heightened awareness of new possibilities
This is a hands-on workshop that uses photography as a tool to unblock years of reticent creativity. It does not require any knowledge of photography other than the ability to point and shoot. Laurie’s goal is to have her students leave the workshop with renewed purpose, new perspectives, and the ability to keep growing their creative skills on their own. Get some juice, get ‘out of the box’ and shout, “I’ve got a better idea!”
Friday-Sunday July 30th - August 1st, 10- 3:30 $395
PlayDates – Let loose, have fun, learn.
Running Water at Bulls Bridge, Route 7, with Kyle Perler
There is something magical about photographing water. Join us for this fun play date. Challenge yourself to photograph moving water, often a difficult subject. Learn about exposures, histograms, using neutral density filters, time-lapse exposures, and lighting. Kyle will teach you how to select your cameras features, such as f-stops, shutter speeds, and focal planes in order to photograph water like the masters used to. Kyle will demonstrate compositional techniques with a traditional large format camera. Please bring a tripod if you have one.
Tuesday June 29th 5:30 pm- 7:30 pm $45.00
Glamour and Fashion Photography, on Location and in Natural Light.
With Laurie Klein and Kyle Perler and the spectacular and beautiful model, Nicole Cudzilo.
This will be a fabulous, fast-paced playdate, filled with energy and fun.
We will learn how to:
- establish a personal rapport with a model
- encourage a model’s emotional commitment
- pose and determine body language
- create great light using many techniques
- utilize the natural environment
- choose proper lenses and camera settings
- use some of Laurie and Kyle’s photographic secrets (you have to promise not to tell anyone!).
We will wrap-up this exciting day with an informal critique and taste test of international chocolates.
Sunday July 25th 10:00 - 4:00, $195 + $15 model fee
Share your work with Laurie and Kyle
This lay back critique session will allow you to get feedback on images you are working on, plus the wonderful opportunity to see other’s photographs.
Thursday July 1st 7:00- 9:00, $ 25.00
Magical Muse Experience
Try something new with Laurie Klein
“It’s was a great daycation” H.T.
You will come away……..
Feeling refreshed, excited, and creatively stimulated
Bound book of 20 joyous photos, that we select together that will be cherished, recording that day’s experience,
All of the photos taken that day on a DVD
The opportunity to express the inner child at play
LK will lead you on a 4 hour Alice in Wonderland experience that includes:
Being photographed by Laurie Klein with her many signature styles
Energy work or massage by a wonderful masseuse Arden
Brown bag gourmet lunch and brief tour on Candlewood Lake
Day at the lake
Having fun with Laurie’s youthful assistant Nicole as she coordinates with you wardrobes and make up that brings out different personas for the photographs.
You can bring out your alter ego, try on new persona’s and just play.
Please call to inquire about dates, fees and times. Because this is a custom course, Laurie will work around your schedule.
Laurie Klein is a very successful Fine Art and Commercial Photographer and has been teaching and ‘mentoring’ students of all ages for 30+ years. Laurie found her artistic passion in high school, thanks to teachers and professionals that supported her dream!
She received a B.F.A. from R.I.T. and her M.F.A. from Ohio U.
Laurie went on to study with the famous landscape photographer Ansel Adams, who in his own words he said:
“Her style is unique, combining a wonderful ability for composition and a sensitivity to her subjects that will carry her to the top of her field. I can’t teach the way she sees and feels!” Ansel Adams
Kyle Perler graduated with a BFA from Tufts University in collaboration with the School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Kyle currently works at a high-end commercial and medical photographic studio in downtown Boston as a photographer and production manager. He is an accomplished printer and photoshop technician, and has been showcased in the MFA among other locations in the greater Boston area. www.kyleperler.com
Gift certificates, private instruction in person or via Skype are available.
203-740-1110
www.laurieklein.com
