With your camera in hand, spend a beautiful evening knee deep in lavender flowers in Mona, Utah at the Young Family Living Farms. Our experienced instructor, Wayne Fox, will provide you the knowledge you need to capture the warm light on the lavender flowers as the sun goes down.
The Details:
We will meet at Pixels Foto & Frame and depart promptly at 4:15 PM on July 19, 2011. Transportation to Mona in a van will be provided from the store. We plan to arrive before the visitor center closes at 6:00 pm. The drive is approximately an hour (without traffic). During the ride Wayne will go over how to set up your camera and how to look for the right “spot”. Upon arrival we will scout for the best location and provide on site instruction to help you capture the scene. The workshop will focus on “seeing” a composition and translating that vision into an image that you will love.
Suggestions for items to bring.
We will provide additional lenses (for Canon and Nikon), some filters, and Lensbabys. We will be shooting during meal time; a light snack and drinking water will be provided.
All workshop participants will receive a complimentary 16 x 20 or 16 x 24 metallic print from an image taken during the workshop. Custom framing of that image will be offered at a 20% discount.
Some flexibility on the date must be considered as we would like to be at the Farm near the peak of the blooming season. Group size is limited; if enough people sign up we will run a second workshop.
The cost of the funshop (more fun than a “work” shop) is $49. Please register by Friday July 15, 2011. To register; stop by the store or call 801.233.9090. Inclement weather will not cancel the trip unless there is a danger to the participants. Sometimes the best photos are made during bad weather!
What you will learn:
This workshop will be relaxed and informal and for all levels of photographers.
About the Instructor:
Wayne Fox bought his first SLR, a Mamiya-Sekor in 1972. He was hooked and for the next few years, shot and processed hundreds of rolls of film, much of it black and white. In 1975, his wife arranged for him to shoot a friends wedding, and his career was set. He has always done most of his own printing, starting with a slide projector he converted to an enlarger to print small black and white prints, to a full commercial color lab which began using digital printing technologies as early as 1994. He has been working with Photoshop and inkjet printers since 2000, first with an Iris type drum printer, followed by an Epson 9600. With this background in color printing and long involvement with digital inkjet printing he has become an expert in color management, teaching classes and consulting other photographers on their workflows.
He was a founding partner of Kiddie Kandids. In 2005 he sold his interest in Kiddie Kandids and “retired” a year later, but enjoys the technical side of photography, so in 2010, he partnered with Pixels Foto and Frame in Sandy, Utah. He enjoys writing and keeps a blog on his musings and observations. His technical background (including computer programming), extensive experience in printing technologies as well as a practical and logical approach to solving problems offers a somewhat unique perspective to current digital capture, post processing and printing processes.
While he spent his professional career doing portrait photography, his main passion is landscape and nature photography. He is constantly in search of the finest quality in his images, and his goal is large prints with very fine detail. He uses mainly medium format cameras, either a Phase One or an Alpa, and the highest resolution digital backs available, which currently is the PhaseOne 80 megapixel back. He also shoots the Canon system, and his current “point and shoot” is a Sony NEX-5 which is always close by.
Artist Statement:
“When you view my images, I want you to see what I saw; and more importantly, feel what I felt when I created that image.”