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THE ART & COMMERCE OF TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: Creativity, Workflow and Market Synergy
March 30 - April 4, 2008 Click here for registration information on the official CONNECT website.
***Please see below for sponsors and giveaways during Lorne's workshop***
CONNECT 08/PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL:
From festival website: CONNECT 08 offers the opportunity to meet top photographers, curators, art directors, educators and industry leaders in the spectacular desert environment of Palm Springs, California for this year’s Palm Springs Photo Festival. Show your portfolios, study with legendary photographers, attend cutting-edge seminars/symposiums and enjoy evening projections of works by famous image makers. Network with the master photographers, industry insiders and your contemporaries at several great evening parties and enjoy the warm Palm Springs weather. Most importantly, we promise you won’t have more fun at any other photo event. Walk away with a renewed passion for the art of image making. Don’t miss your opportunity to CONNECT!
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Los Angeles based fine art and commercial photographer Lorne Resnick, winner of the 2005 Travel Photographer of the Year award, will guide this 4-day workshop. From his first book of photographs, “Live in Concert: 10 years of Rock and Roll”, published in 1987, to his latest work-in-progress, fine art coffee table book Cuba Dreaming, Resnick has always strived to create images that probe beyond the everyday facade to capture the essential meaning and character of his subjects. His pursuit of unique and compelling images has led him around the world to such places as: Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Greenland, Cuba, China, across Europe and 22 countries in Africa. Resnick’s striking commercial and fine art images have been exhibited in galleries across Europe and America, and have been used commercially for annual reports, billboards, television, web sites and for worldwide advertising campaigns. He currently has nine fine art posters published of his travel work.
Along with the actual shooting, there will be time for critiques of images made during the program, portfolio reviews and discussions. Topics will include:
CREATIVITY:
-The creative process
-The travel story arc: What to shoot and how to shoot it
-Shooting with the current visually overloaded, sophisticated audience in mind
-Editorial (local culture) vs. art directed shoots
-Using unusual lenses/cameras/techniques (tilt/shift, wide aperture, Diana, blurs, etc).
-The Eiffel Tower paradox: How do you shoot an original image of an iconographic object?
sWhy do people keep shooting images of something that has been shot to death - because the images keep on selling.
-Critical analysis of photos
-The ingredients that make a winning image
WORKFLOW:
-Time Management
-Equipment selection (camera, lenses, digital storage options, software, printers, etc.)
-Raw digital capture
-Dealing with model releases
-D.A.M. (digital asset management)
-Calibration
-Editing
-Image processing (batch actions, special effects)
-Submitting images
-Copyrighting images
-Portfolio development (using inkjet printers and/or Print on Demand publishers, image selection, image pairing and flow)
MARKET SYNERGY:
-What markets are available as outlets for travel work?
-How to shoot with market synergy in mind (to sell the same image in several different markets at the same time)
-How to optimize your travel shooting to take advantage of different markets
Among the markets and topics discussed will be:
-Stock (shooting trends, idea generation, image tracking, agencies, submission requirements, digital capture requirements,
sroyalty free vs. rights managed, selling stock yourself)
-Fine Art (print sizes, galleries, edition size, pricing, signing prints, certificates)
-Posters (submissions, contracts, proofing)
-Commercial (bidding travel jobs, delivering images, client education, bidding/estimating software)
-Book publishers (building a dummy book, generating a publishing proposal, financing)
-Website (building the site, optimizing images, search engine optimization)
At the end of course all participants will receive a CD of resources including:
-A database of more than 400 contacts and names (poster companies, art galleries, museums, stock agencies, magazines, sbook publishers, tourist boards and a list of print on demand publishers)
-Commercial photography documents (model releases, copyright forms and various commercial job templates)
Price: $660
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SPONSORSHIP.
Lorne would like to thank his sponsors for supporting his workshop.
HERE ARE THE SPONSORS:
Hyperdrive will provide one COLORSPACE O portable hard drive memory card backup device. HyperDrive COLORSPACE O is a high performance memory card backup device with a high-resolution 3.2" color LCD screen. Supporting 11 different types of memory card formats, the COLORSPACE O has the world's fastest memory card backup speed at 25MB/s (backup 1GB in 1 minute) and an extremely long battery life (backup up to 120GB on a single battery charge). With unique features like 32-bit copy verification, built-in card/data recovery and hard drive S.M.A.R.T. monitoring system in an ultra compact package, the COLORSPACE O is designed as the ultimate photo backup device for photographers to safely backup, store and view their photos on the go without the need for a computer.
SharedInk publishes premium-quality hardcover books and calendars that feature the finest 4-color digital offset-style printing. Each SharedInk book is hand-bound and printed on archival quality, acid-free paper. SharedInk offers three cover styles (Clear Cover, Leather Hardcover and Linen Hardcover) and six book sizes ranging from our pocket-sized 5x5 Square Book all the way up to our jumbo 16x12 "XL" Book. SharedInk books are perfect for proof books, signature books, albums and portfolios.
Shared Ink: All attendees will be given to a special $50 discount off the 1-time Photographer Program membership fee. There is a page for this special offer here: Shared Ink will also be giving away one free Basic Photographer Program membership.
DUST-AID will be giving DSLR cleaning products for all the workshop participants.
DUST-AID is the home of DSLR sensor cleaning! We've all been hunting for a safe and easy way to remove dust from our DSLR sensors and finally the search is over, welcome to the world of DUST-AID.
Flolight will be contributing a brand new product - a small compact LED location light. More details to follow.
Blinkbid will be contributing TWO free copies of their bidding estimating software.
Blinkbid - the easiest estimating and invoicing software for photographers bar none! Blinkbid will help you introduce savvy business practices that will put more money in your pocket. Being a photographic genius is good. Being a well-paid photographic genius is awesome. Let Blinkbid help you feel awesome.
Camera Bits will let all participants try demo version of their software until the end of August 2008.
The Ultimate Professional Workflow Tool- Looking for a fast and easy to use image browser? Photo Mechanic's super fast browsing enables you to quickly compare multiple images and select the best ones from a sequence. Its powerful batch processing, full support for image variables, IPTC and Exif meta-data, make it the perfect tool for any digital photographer. Photo Mechanic is a standalone image browser that lets you view your digital photos with convenience and speed. Photo Mechanic displays your "thumbnails" in a familiar "contact sheet" display window. Photo Mechanic helps you find the best photo amongst several similar shots in a preview display that lets you flip through a group of selected photos at high resolution.
Upstrap will donate some straps for the participants
The Ultimate Non-Slip Shoulder Strap: The UPstrap® is the Ultimate Non-Slip Shoulder Strap for Cameras and bags. The UPstrap Patented all surface non-slip pad provides amazing traction and lateral stability that removes the slipping annoyance and will greatly reduce the root cause of many neck, lower back and shoulder problems. UPstrap allows a natural posture and a relaxed body to free your mind to the art of seeing.
AND....
Lorne will also be raffling off one of his fine art prints (edition of 50, value $625.00).
The winner can select any available image from Lorne's print catalog (the same images can be seen on his fine art site here).
contact info:
Lorne Resnick Photography
7095 Hollywood Blvd., #455
Hollywood, CA 90028
323 876 6999
http://www.lorneresnick.com
lorne@lorneresnick.com