Come along on a "digital field trip," to New York City with Lenscapes photographers, Melissa Cherniske and Emery Roth.  We'll meet at Wingdale Station on the Harlem River Line.  Shooting may start before the train arrives.  Wear your walking shoes and bring your camera questions and uncertainties. The train ride down is for sharing our backgrounds, identifying priorities, and discussing composition.

Throughout the day, Ted will guide the group to view the city in ways you may never have viewed it before, see things you may not have known existed.  This is not a sight seeing tour of Manhattan; this is a hands-on workshop that will focus on visual composition, with diverse content.    Learn practical tricks-of-the-trade in camera operation and artistic composition. This workshop is only open to six participants so please register early.

Even limiting our explorations to the East Side we'll be able to choose from the glamor of Fifth Avenue, the light-catching glass of Park Avenue's towers, or a view back at Manhattan Island from the aerial tramway and Roosevelt Island.  Numerous secret treasures lie in the blocks between, and we'll do our best to catch what's happening on the sidewalks of New York.

The following skills will be addressed in this workshop:
• basics of camera operation, including, where appropriate, manual exposure settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field)
• selecting lenses and understanding their effects on composition
• strategies for stalking shooting locations and good shots
• principles & evaluation of image composition
• understanding and using qualities of natural light

 

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