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| All About Color |
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| Instructors: Cheryl
Machat Dorskind Duration: 4
Weeks Cost: USD195 |
You can spend a lifetime studying color—ranging from the technical to the sublime— there is so much information on the subject. Color can create a sense of time, place, and emotion. It can be the subject itself. Colors, whether loud or quiet, tell a story. Most successful professional color photographs, while seemingly happenstance, are carefully orchestrated using color theory and color psychological properties.
Color (including black and white) makes or breaks a photograph. It follows that to create artful or powerful photography, a photographer should learn about color.
This course surveys color theory and color psychology and provides fun packed lessons and tips on how to use this color information to create compelling photographs.
Course Outline:
Week one visits color theory basics. We’ll learn about the different oeuvres of color theory and focus on pigment and photographic color properties. We’ll learn to interpret a color wheel so it becomes a useful tool for composition refinement. Highlights of this lesson include light, the visible spectrum, primary colors (pigment, additive and subtractive), light and pigment color wheels, complementary colors, analogous colors, monochromatic colors, triadic colors, and color temperature.
Week two explores color psychology and color symbolism. You’ll read about your favorite colors and what they truly imply. You’ll learn the codes and how to utilize color for photographic impact. We’ll also explore how color can create movement and optical illusions as we learn about warm and cool colors, simultaneous contrast, and after image.
Week three explores high key, low key, and black and white photography. We’ll learn about Rembrandt lighting and chiaroscuro painting and how they influenced today’s photography. While digital photography is ALL about Color, there is certainly a time and place for black and white digital imagery. We’ll learn the key ingredients for creating successful black and white “artful” photographs as we study the subtle colors of the gray scale, the power of contrast, and the best color space to work in.
Week four takes us on the wild side as we look to the Fauves and American POP Culture for inspiration. We’ll learn to break color rules as we purposely strive for disharmony. Diving into the mystery of color, we’ll celebrate the auras of nightlight and cross-processing.
Course Requirement:
Digital or 35mm SLR camera, or a point-and-shoot camera with some manual control settings such as ISO, aperture priority, shutter priority, and white balance.
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Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind
 Cheryl Machat Dorskind, a professional and critically acclaimed photographer for over twenty years, shares her passion for photography through her books, teaching, fine art, and commissions. Communicating with her celebrated hands-on personal approach, Cheryl Machat Dorskind has been instructing at colleges and art institutions for over fifteen years including; Long Island University and the Maine Photographic Workshops. She currently teaches at Suffolk Community College (www.sunysuffolk.edu) and the Perfect Picture School of Photography (www.ppsop.com).
Her critically acclaimed fine art photography is exhibited regularly and sought by an esteemed worldwide clientele. Known for her highly personal approach to portraiture, Cheryl Machat Dorskind’s portraits brim with personality and stand the test of time.
The author of two 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 is now working on a few book projects.
Residing in Westhampton, New York with her husband and two daughters, she teaches workshops and writes the popular newspaper column “Picture This” for The Southampton Press (www.southamptonpress.com).
For further information, please visit her website, http://www.cherylmachatdorskind.com or contact her Cheryl@cherylmachatdorskind.com
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