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3-DAY WORKSHOP

CHERYL WALSH: Shooting People Underwater

Orientation Sunday, May 5th, 4:30pm – 5:30pm.

Monday, May 6th – Wednesday, May 8th, 9:00am – 4:00pm. 

Limited to 12 Attendees only

 

Anyone who has tried underwater photography knows that it’s far more challenging than it looks. If photography is an art and a science, then underwater photography is an art, a science and a science. Photographer Cheryl Walsh has spent the past 12 years conquering the science of swimming pool-based underwater fine art portrait photography. Her mastery of the science allows her to express her own unique artistic vision.

This introductory class is an opportunity to spend two days experiencing the special challenges of working in a liquid environment. Cheryl’s goal is to help you begin to break through those challenges so that you can develop your own unique artistic vision.

The class will begin with the hows and whys of photographing underwater. Cheryl will share her knowledge on the technical aspects of underwater photography including: safety, equipment, weights and buoyancy management, backdrops, underwater housings, water clarity, lighting techniques, styling and wardrobe choices, and vetting and working with models.

Day One: Cheryl will share her work with the class and review the work of the class in the morning session. The afternoon session will include a demonstration by Cheryl of her working methods.

Day Two: Attendees will each have two sessions in the pool photographing models.

Day Three:  Cheryl and the class will review the work made on the prior day in the morning session. In the afternoon attendees will photograph in the water with models.

Experience for yourself how water affects light, color, movement, and the human body. Photo shoots will take place in the swimming pool at the workshop headquarters, Korakia Pensione, using both modified natural light and underwater constant lights. Cheryl will demonstrate coaching and working with models. Underwater housings will be made available so that each attendee can use their own DSLR or one of ours.

Attendees need to wear swim shorts and a UV protective rash guard top, provide their own eye goggles (preferably with the nose covered), bring their own towels, CF or SD cards, DSLR with a lens between 16 and 24 mm focal length that accepts filters with either an 82mm or 77mm thread as well as something with which to take notes.

For Safety reasons, this class will be limited to 12 attendees.

Price: $1530.

Includes a boxed lunch for both days of the workshop.

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Photographers should bring their laptops and be conversant with their hardware and software in order to facilitate downloading and projecting their work for critiques in class. Digital projectors with standard DVI / VGA cables will be provided. If you require any special adapter for your computer for this purpose, please be sure to bring one to class.

All Workshop Participants are invited to the Canon/Freestyle Digital Print Center at Korakia on Thursday, May 9th from 11:30am to 6:00pm to have their work reviewed by Cheryl Walsh and an image of their choice printed out on a Canon Pro 2000 printer by Eric Joseph using custom profiles and on their choice of several inkjet papers.

BIOGRAPHY

In an overwhelmingly chaotic world, Southern California based underwater fine art portrait artist Cheryl Walsh finds her inspiration in an atmosphere of peaceful solitude. In the depths of her underwater studio, she works with the quiet currents that slow down time, bring vibrancy to colors, and leave her subjects virtually weightless. The liquid atmosphere, invisible but ever present in the reflection on the water’s surface, is a mirroring of the duality that personifies life. Her underwater portrait fine art photography is described alternately as old-world painterly and photo-realistic, traditional and surreal. Combining the science of working underwater with the art of photography, she utilizes vintage and avant-garde fashion on dancers, models and clients to tell a deliberate story in each of her fine art series. Cheryl has won over 60 WPPI Print and Image Competition Awards including 11 Gold, maintaining full control over all her fine art prints by printing them herself on her Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4000 on Canson Infinity fine art papers in sizes up to 44×64 inch.
 

WEBSITE
www.cherylwalshfineart.com

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