With fresh, challenging and exciting new workshops in photography and visual media, Brooks’ Photo Workshops seeks to stimulate, inspire, and energize students and serious amateurs alike. Taught by former Brooks Institute faculty members, as well as renowned guest instructors, these workshops are fully hands-on, articulating the Brooks’ 70-year philosophy of learn by doing.
Natural light can provide some of the most beautiful and flattering of all portrait lighting. Although it is free and available to everyone, natural light requires a unique understanding of which situations work best when photographing people. Tim will guide you through the process of recognizing, modifying and manipulating natural light in the creation of beautiful and creative images.
Course Description
This full day course, Finding and Mastering Natural Light , emphasizes the skill sets needed to find, manipulate and master natural lighting environments as they pertain to portraiture. You will experience the subtlety of natural lighting and how to use it creatively. Tim will also demonstrate techniques for bringing light to the natural environment through simple reflectors, use of flash and High Speed Sync. This day will have many hands-on photographic opportunities.
This course can be an important step in improving your photography and enabling you to advance to more refined and expressive imagery!
See Tim’s work at www.meyerphoto.com
Tim Meyer, MFA, M.Photog, Craftsman, CPP
Throughout his 40 plus years as a professional photographer, educator and author, Tim Meyer’s work has been internationally recognized and respected for its innovative style and technique. In addition to many national education programs, he has lectured internationally in England, Germany and Mexico.
Tim’s writings on photography and art have been published as magazine and online content and his book, The Portrait—Understanding Portrait Photography, published in English, German, Italian and Chinese and now in its second edition, has been adopted as a textbook at numerous colleges.
As an academic educator, Tim holds both a Masters and an MFA in art and photography and taught at Brooks Institute and Mount Saint Mary’s University. His areas of expertise are portraiture, wedding and fundamental, advanced and creative lighting.
Workshop Details
The workshop will include hands-on shooting sessions with models. Students should have a digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera capable of manual exposure settings and a hot shoe or sync connection.
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants.
Late lunch and afternoon snacks are included.
Date and Time:
Saturday, September 14, 2019 | Noon to 7PM
Fee:
$275
Location: This workshop will be held on the grounds of the historic Doheny Mansion which is part of the Mount Saint Mary’s University Doheny Campus at 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles CA 90007
Course Description
Join renowned photographer and educator Christopher Broughton for a day of exploration into Street Photography. You will start the morning off with a presentation and lecture, and then head out onto Sunset Blvd and nearby Hollywood Blvd to explore and capture imagery in the legendary neighborhood. Then, back to the campus for some quick edits, lunch and off to Downtown Los Angeles via the LA Metro for an afternoon of photography. Afterwards, you will head back to the digital labs on campus for more editing and a wrap-up critique with Broughton. This adventure in street photography makes a worthwhile and memorable workshop.
See Christopher’s work at www.christopherbroughton.com
Christopher Broughton
Christopher served as a faculty member of Brooks Institute of Photography for more than 20 years, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University in the MFA Film, Television and Photography program. Christopher, who is widely recognized for his ability to truly inspire his students, is currently working on a photographic passion project about artists in Paris.
Workshop Details
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. Participants to bring camera and card reader.
Lunch is included.
Date and Time:
Saturday, September 28, 2019 | 9AM to 6PM
Fee:
$275.
Location:
Mount Saint Mary’s University Campus at Sunset Gower Studios
1438 N Gower St, Los Angeles, CA 90028.
Course Description
Incorporating lecture and hands-on shooting with models, this workshop explores the photographer’s process to go beyond the mechanical push of the button to create a visual narrative that anticipates the viewer’s perception. Discover how your images can tell a story through symbolism and open a visual conversation with your viewer.
See Eliot Crowley’s work at www.eliotcrowley.com
Eliot Crowley
Eliot dances a fine line between story telling and photographic art. The process involves and evolves through combining talent direction, and production value enhancement. His images linger in your memory and are tactile for your eyes and imagination.
“The mimicking ability of photography is what separates it from every other art form. It is fast, and effective at creating a quotation from reality. Like a quotation it can be taken completely out of context. That is the power framing has in photography, what is included and what is not. The visual clues, or symbolism of the quotation. It is the quality of the quotation, which gives a photograph its value.”
— Eliot Crowley
Workshop Details
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants.
Late lunch and afternoon snacks are included.
Date and Time:
Saturday, October 12, 2019 | 1PM to 8PM
Fee:
$275
Location:
This workshop will be held on a small, scenic ranch situated in the magnificent
foothills of Santa Barbara, California. The compound features a beautiful home, detached studio/classroom, and numerous inspiring shooting locations.
Course Description
Spend the day experimenting and playing with your images using your digital camera and your cell phone to see beyond the ordinary. Guided by Joyce Wilson in the morning, a walk-about in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone will provide a plethora of opportunities to discover unusual and unique viewpoints. Joyce will demonstrate the magic of today’s cellphone technology, using apps to create the look of tintypes and other alternative processes. In the afternoon you will learn how to prepare your images and create a vintage cyanotype print, opening a world of possibilities for one of a kind art pieces.
See Joyce’s work at www.joycewilson.com
Joyce Wilson
Joyce Wilson’s remarkable career as an artist and photographer spans half a century. Launching a small portrait studio in her early beginnings, and striving to incorporate her artistic background with her commercial assignments, she soon developed a reputation as a creative problem-solver with a lifelong devotion to her chosen craft. Her images have appeared in advertising for Kodak, Polaroid, Fuji Film, and many others.
Joyce Wilson’s remarkable career as an artist and photographer spans half a century. Launching a small portrait As her business thrived, Wilson was also sought out as an inspiring educator. At the United Nations in 2003, the International Photographic Council honored her with the Distinguished Leadership Award. In 2006, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Professional Photographers of America.
Wilson served as a faculty member at Brooks Institute from 2000–2013. Currently, she continues to teach while pursuing her extraordinary photographic vision—experimenting with alternative processes, blending old-world techniques with contemporary digital technologies to alter and enhance the photographic image.
Workshop Details
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. Students can use either a cell phone or their digital cameras. Participants should bring their laptop computers with Adobe Photoshop for editing their images in the afternoon.
Lunch and snacks are included.
Date and Time:
Saturday, November 2, 2019 | 9AM to 5PM
Fee:
$275.
Location: This workshop will begin in the morning in the Funk Zone of Santa Barbara. Lunch and afternoon printing will be at Joyce’s home/studio, about a 15 minute drive. Exact locations and details will be provided around 10 days before the workshop.
