Featuring Michael Yamashita, David Alan Harvey, Ira Block
19th – 22nd November, 2009
Price: US$995 (Includes the classroom sessions, shooting on location, and a three-night stay at the Millennium Grand Sukhumvit Bangkok)
Designed for photographers of all levels, participants must bring a SLR camera, a few favorite lenses, all necessary cables and memory cards. A laptop is also highly recommended for editing photographs.
Bangkok is the ultimate photographer’s canvas. From revered temples to crowded night markets, the city has a diversity and vibrance unlike any other in Asia. It’s this plethora of subjects and moods that make Bangkok the perfect place to learn important disciplines such as artificial lighting, street photography, and the art of capturing cityscapes.
The seminar will be led by three internationally renowned National Geographic photographers and experienced workshop teachers: Ira Block, David Alan Harvey and Michael Yamashita.
The seminar will be broken up into three sections so that participants can spend a full day with each photographer – in the classroom and on location; and focus on three major photographic disciplines:
The fine art of flash and artificial lighting;
How to approach and shoot subjects on the street;
Capturing vibrant cityscapes.
Each morning, the entire class will meet to discuss each subject, look at selected photographs, and plan the day’s shoot. Afternoons and evenings will be spent “in the field” at various locations, giving participants the chance to test their new skills and learn what it takes to make photographs that have impact and tell a story.
For more information: f8workshops@gmail.com or www.f8workshops.com.
PROPOSED ITINERARY
November 19th, 2009
Subject: Cityscapes
Classroom session: 1pm – 3:30pm
World-renowned photographer Michael Yamashita will kick off the seminar’s first workshop with opening remarks then impart his techniques of capturing cityscapes and landscapes, and teach participants how to shoot pictures that have mood, depth and color. At 4pm, the class will move on to areas around Bangkok that offer the perfect opportunity to capture the city at its “golden hour”.
November 20th, 2009
Subject: Shooting Street Subjects
Classroom session: 9am – 2pm
In the seminar’s second workshop, veteran photographer David Alan Harvey will share the secrets to looking for, approaching and shooting subjects on the street. At 4pm, the class will move to the Patpong/Suriwong Night Market and Chinatown to hone their new skills, and photograph some of Bangkok’s most fascinating street scenes and subjects.
November 21st, 2009
Subject: Artificial Lighting and Flash (In conjunction with Canon, Thailand)
Classroom sesson: TBA
In the seminar’s last workshop, industry icon Ira Block will introduce participants to the fine art of using flash and artificial light to capture and stop motion. At 5:30pm, the class will move to specific locations around Bangkok to practice their newly-learnt techniques, and experiment with flash in low light settings and subjects.
November 22nd, 2009
Closing edit and slide show
Exact schedule TBA
On the last day of the seminar, all three photographers will come together to conduct a final edit of the best student photography, and put them into a slide show. Participants will have the chance for further discussion with the instructors, and to share their experiences with one another.
