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| Photographing Children: Rising to the Challenge |
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| Instructors: Cheryl
Machat Dorskind Duration: 4
Weeks Cost:US$195 |
Children make fascinating portraits. Discovering so many things for the first time, their faces clearly express honest, no-thought reactions. A hug, a kiss, a tear, a smile—all are universal symbols that translate messages of hope, joy, pain, and love. Few subjects have as much appeal.
Based in part on Cheryl Machat Dorskind's highly acclaimed book, The Art of Photographing Children, this class promises an information-packed journey into the kaleidoscopic world of children's photography. Whether you are a parent who simply wants to take better pictures of your kids or a photographer looking to break into the business of children's photography, Photographing Children will provide all the inspiration and skills you need to capture the spirit and individuality of children in timeless photographs.
Course Outline:
Week one begins with a discussion of camera fundamentals and equipment essentials for creating lifestyle and traditional portraits.
Week two focuses on lighting. Students work with ambient light or available light (daylight) as the key light source. Quality of light, white balance, the time of day and the direction of light are explored. Exposure compensation and supplemental lighting (reflectors and fill flash) will also be discussed.
Week three explores composition design strategies useful for creating compelling child portraits.
Week four puts it all together as we learn to organize an environmental photo shoot. Striving to create honest-beyond-the-cliché photographs, we move outside our comfort zone to photograph children in a setting that tells a story. To prepare, we'll discuss location scouting strategies, wardrobe, props, and rapport.
Course Requirement:
DSLR (Additional Equipment: Recommended but not essential: auxiliary flash, flash diffuser, reflector)
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Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind
 Cheryl Machat Dorskind, a professional photographer for over twenty years, shares her passion for photography through her books, teaching, fine-art, and commissions.
The author of two best-selling books, The Art of Handpainting Photographs — considered the definitive guide to traditional darkroom photo painting — and The Art of Photographing Children — the ultimate guide to creating cherished photographs of children — Cheryl Machat Dorskind has also written approximately seventy-five articles for her newspaper column "Picture This" for The Southampton Press.
As an adjunct professor, Cheryl Machat Dorskind instructs and mentors students at colleges (Long Island University, Southampton Master Photography Workshop) and art institutions (Maine Photographic, Guild Hall, Huntington Art Museum, Nassau County Museum of Art) and currently teaches photography at Suffolk County Community College and online at the Perfect Picture School of Photography.
High-end portrait sessions by Cheryl Machat Dorskind embody the gorgeous natural Hamptons' light. Whether the setting is at the beach, a park, or a home, the lifestyle posed-but-not-posed images are fluid and rhythmic.
Noted internationally for her ethereal misty coastal handpainted photographs and her playful self-portrait Photopaintings, her critically acclaimed fine-art photographs are exhibited regularly, commissioned for book jacket cover art (Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, Secrets and Surprises, and Distortions) and are included in many public and private collections.
Her corporate clients include Epic Records, Random House, Hamptons magazine, The Southampton Press, and The New York Times.
For further information, please visit her website, www.cherylmachatdorskind.com or contact her Cheryl@cherylmachatdorskind.com
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