Today I’m leading a couple of workshops at the Girl Scouts Great Escape at Camp Wabasso in New Hampshire. The Great Escape is where Girl Scout Leaders in the New England area get together to exchange ideas and learn skills they can incorporate with the scouts when they get back home. It is a lot of arts and crafts — and I’m taking a shot at teaching the craft of photography.
My first workshop centers on connecting to nature with photography: camera use, environmental field ethics, tripods, etc. I will spend some time emphasizing how simple point-and-shoot cameras can be used to take great photographs (a definite nod to Chase Jarvis’s concept of “the best camera is the one you have with you”): enhancing their image-making capabilities with simple and inexpensive tools such as a bottle-cap tripod, flash diffuser, and using the self-timer as a “cable release”.
The second workshop is on post-processing: getting images into your computer, basic edits, sharing (email/web/facebook/etc.), and a bit of printing.
The foliage should be pretty good… here’s hoping the weather cooperates a bit.
Photo: Mill Street Bridge, Assabet River, Maynard, MA. Canon 5D Mark 2, 70-200mm f/2.8L, 115mm, 1/15 @ F/13, ISO 200. Relatively minor Lightroom tweaks for exposure and contrast.
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