Portraits of a Tea Cosy One-day workshop with Mark Crocker: photographing art works
Date & time
Mon 16 Mar 2015, 10am–5pm
Location
Photography and Media Arts Workshop
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Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre is proud to partner with the Australian National University to offer craft practitioners, designer-makers and artists a special, one-off opportunity to learn from experienced professional photographer, Mark Crocker to produce high quality photographs of artworks, products and objects. This workshop is a great opportunity for non-professional photographers to expand on and develop their skills.
Date: Monday 16 March, 2015
Duration: 10am – 5pm (with a one-hour lunch break from 1 – 2pm).
Location: Photography and Media Arts Department, Australian National University School of Art, Ellery Crescent, Acton, ACT.
Number of participants: maximum 8
Weekend workshop fee: $150 general public; discounted rate for students and Craft ACT members $100. Tea and coffee provided, please bring your own lunch.
Bookings and enquiries: Gwenyth Macnamara, Curator of Public Programs, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre – phone: 02 6262 9333.
Workshop Outline:
The development of digital photography and inexpensive speed lights makes high quality
reproduction of artwork accessible to non-professional photographers. The key to artwork
reproduction is knowledge, practice and professional workflow. By the end of 6-hour workshop the participants will be able to work independently and have practiced a full run-through of set up, image capture and editing. Detailed workshop notes will be provided.
The workshop incorporates:
- Camera set up
- Shooting with natural light and speed lights
- Lighting setup for 3D, 2D including works
- Image capture for correct exposure and white balance
- Calibrating computer monitors
- Introduction to Lightroom software
- Importing files into Lightroom adjusting colour, tone and sharpening
- File cataloguing and management
- Exporting files for online and print
Equipment and materials required
- Digital Camera
- Camera manual
- Tripod
- Small 3D or 2D artwork to photography
- Optional laptop and Lightroom 4 with either 14 day free trial or license
Enquiries and bookings: Phone Gwenyth Macnamara, Curator of Public Programs, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre on 02 6262 9333