Mar 27, 2011. INTERM / ADV. Blossom Kite Festival
1st Annual Blossom Kite Festival:
A Photographic Storytelling Workshop
Sunday, March 27, 2011, 12:30-4:30 PM
A Photographic Storytelling Workshop
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
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*Before enrolling in this workshop, students should have a good grasp of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and be capable of using aperture priority and shutter priority camera modes.
Spring is in the air with the National Cherry Blossom Festival’s first ever Blossom Kite Festival, including a Kite Makers Competition, Hot Tricks Showdown, and Rokkaku Battle. During the Hot Tricks Showdown, multi-line sport kite fliers will engage in a series of one-on-one competitions, aweing the crowd with amazing flight patterns timed to music. The crowd chooses the winners with the loudness of their clapping! And during the Rokkaku Battle, teams of kite fliers compete to “cut” or ground the kites of the opposing team – featuring hexagonal-shaped Rokkaku fighter kites originating from Japan.
While you may have already honed your photography skills, and you may have many terrific photos, telling a story through a series of photographs is a much different skill, and this year’s 1st ever Blossom Kite Festival promises to be a terrific opportunity to hone skills in both people photography AND storytelling.
Click here for more information about the Blossom Kite Festival.
Click here to register for this workshop.
What to Bring:
- Your digital SLR camera (preferred) or film SLR camera. If you don’t have an SLR camera, than at least bring your point-and-shoot camera that permits adjustment of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
- Your camera lenses, ideally a wide angle and a telephoto.
- Your camera manual.
Where to Meet:
Washington Monument grounds – Constitution Avenue & 17th Street, NW
Schedule:
12:30-1:30 PM: Storytelling
Creating compelling imagery of people is a very different skill from photographing architecture, nature, or landscapes. Creating a compelling story takes us a step farther still. We’ll discuss:
- The photo essay
- Power and impact
- Photographing people
- Composition
1:30-4:00 PM: Let’s Go Photograph!
1:30-2:00 PM – Kite Makers Competition
2:00-3:00 PM – Hot Tricks Showdown
3:00-4:00 PM – Rokkaku Battle
Students will work together to explore the event and create their photo essays, with input from me.
4:00-4:30 PM: Photo Critique
We’ll find a quiet place to look at the images you got! You’ll show us your photo essay and talk us through each element. We’ll also talk about the power and impact of your images and how the choices you made changed the message of the image/essay.
After-Workshop Critique
After the workshop, you’ll send me the six most important images to your photo essay, which I’ll post on my blog as a slideshow. Each photo essay will also be posted in a private viewing site, which only workshop students have access to. I will provide a photo critique of each student’s images/essay.
STUDENT WORK FROM PAST WORKSHOPS
Also click on the links below to view student work from past photography workshops:
- Art of Architecture: Photographing the Franciscan Monastery
- Photographing the DC Memorials from Evening to Night
- Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair
