Dancers in Color with George Simian

616 Moulton Avenue,Los Angeles CA 90031

19 March, 2022

Description

Join our new workshop and you will learn and practice new lighting and capture skills, and create unique images for your portfolio! Dancers move with explosive energy through space, performing feats of physical prowess with grace and illusionary effortlessness - but traditional still images don’t capture the energy of their motion. Strobes freeze all movement - and create a sharp image, even if the dancer or the camera are moving. Continuous light, during a long exposure, creates colorful blurs, especially when the dancer or the camera move. Combining them gives us a sharp outline, with colorful blurs filling the silhouette of the dancer, captured in motion. Join our new workshop, where we’ll use an advanced technique to dramatically illustrate their energy and beauty, with color and graphic shapes - all created in one in-camera-capture. WORKSHOP SCHEDULE March 15th 7pm - Lecture on Zoom March 19th 6pm-11pm - Hands on Shoot at Diavolo Space March 21st 7pm - Review Session on Zoom We will meet at the dance studio at 6PM on Saturday evening, and work till 11PM. We’ll provide the dancers and all the necessary lighting equipment and staging - just bring your camera, a short telephoto lens or zoom, a formatted memory card, and charged batteries. Our advanced techniques are complex - but we take the time to train you before the start of the shoot, as well as limit participation to only 12 students, to ensure individual support. We will explain the theory of this approach in a Zoom session on Tuesday evening, March 15 - then show you the post-processing in Lightroom, necessary to enhance and define the colors, in a subsequent Zoom session on Monday March 21. You do need experience doing extensive processing in Lightroom - though even if you’re not, George will return your the best images, fully adjusted. A week after the event, you’ll send us your best images to be shared with the dancers (as well as posted to a class web page) and you’ll receive individual email feedback. Don’t delay registering for this workshop, as all our advanced workshops always fill up fast! Instructor Bio: George is an ex-East-Coast-based advertising photographer, with over 30 years’ experience of providing services to Corporate and Editorial clients. Projects have included providing photography for annual reports, advertising and marketing materials, and magazine features shot on locations around the world. A life-long advocate for photographers’ rights, he has served on both the national and the LA board of directors of the American Photographic Artists and currently leads the Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group. George is also a photography educator who has taught at UCLA Extension (2007 Instructor of the Year), Samy’s Camera, and one-on-one. Every summer George leads travel photography workshops in Bali, Indonesia. In August 2011 George was recognized as one of the 13 Best Workshop Instructors, nationwide, by PDN Magazine, the Bible of the commercial photography industry. In July 2018 Digital Photo Pro Magazine profiled him and his specialized lighting of dancers and acrobats, in a feature article that can be read here (https://www.digitalphotopro.com/profiles/the-art-of-movement)  *As a condition of enrollment in this course, all students shall provide the photos they take during the workshop to our actresses/models.  This allows us the keep the workshop fee low and not require students to pay an extra actress/model fee.   In accordance with state and local public health organizations, Samy's Photo School is following all COVID-19 related protocols. Please do not attend this class if you have experienced any symptoms related to COVID-19 over the past 24 hours including fever of 100.4 or higher, cough, shortness of breath, loss of sense of taste/smell, fatigue, diarrhea, muscle aches and headache. Please do not attend this class if you have had close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days. Face coverings are mandatory for all who attend. Diavolo Dance Studio requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of negative COVID-19 test for admission. By registering for this workshop, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. Click here to view our Terms and Conditions. Website: https://samysphotoschool.com/organizer/samys-photo-school-los-angeles/