The Art of Seeing Creatively: The Cape from Dawn to Deep Night w/ Mark Bowie

The Art of Seeing Creatively: The Cape from Dawn to Deep Night
Instructor: Mark Bowie

Day: October 19-22

Time: Times Vary (starts 10/19 6:00pm, ends 10/22 12noon)

Price: Members $330/ Non-Members $400

With intricate details in the landscape and sky — from the brilliant orange-golds of sunrise to the theatrical colors of sunset, the luminous blues of twilight and the otherworldy light of midnight — the latest digital technologies allow photographers to push the bounds of what can be captured with a camera.  Creative vision and good field craft are also paramount to creating compelling images.  In this power-packed workshop, professional nature photographer Mark Bowie will examine in-depth the fine art of seeing, offering innovative strategies, tips and techniques for looking deeper, refining your personal vision to create expressive imagery.  He’ll also share processing techniques to convey the desired effect.

Mark will lead day and night photography field sessions to some of the Cape’s finest scenery: the ocean, beaches, marshes, woods, lighthouses and fishing villages.  During indoor instructional sessions, he’ll explore the beautiful interaction of light and subject that speaks to somewhere deep within us.  He’ll cover field and digital darkroom methods for:

• Reading weather and shooting the light
• Shooting at sunrise and sunset, twilight and at night
• Photographing the night landscape in relation to the celestial skies
• Previsualizing images for artistic result
  Seeing from different vantage points
• Designing and fine-tuning powerful compositions using the principles of visual flow, dynamic tension, balance, leading lines, shapes and patterns
• Using exposure to control mood and atmosphere
• Determining exposure at night
• Achieving critical focus
day and night
• Using Live View
• Working creatively with your full suite of lenses
• Varying shutter speed for artistic effect
• Targeting color and tonal palettes
• The artistry of long exposures
• Creating expressionistic abstracts
• Planning and shooting multiple exposures: layer masks, panoramas, HDR’s, star trails and time-lapse sequences
• Focus stacking
to maximize depth of field
• Blending multiple exposures with state-of-the-art software

Informative and inspiring, this workshop is geared for both amateur and advanced photographers who want to learn to envision the image-making potential of a variety of landscapes and translate it into compelling imagery.  Join Mark to explore wonders of the Cape — from dawn to deep night.