|
Go to Carmel
Photo Class Home Page
The Carmel four day schedule
We
will start on Thursday
at 10 a.m. ...at the Il Fornaio
restaurant (attached to the Pine Inn on Ocean Avenue- between Lincoln St. and
Monte Verde St.) in downtown Carmel, with introductions. We will then dive
into the many pages of information that Michael provides that is needed to know
to make award winning art consistently, instead of happenstance-once-and-a-while-luck,
like now.
At noon we take a break and have lunch
there. We will then continue going over the multitude of things that can
make or break our art. Michael has developed, from a lifetime of creating
art and studying how the eye views it, a keen ability of creating great
compositions with 'controlled eye movement', even from some of the students work
that they thought were just ho-hum!
You will learn as much as you can take in, but much comes from
the field practice that is still to take place. Bring 3 or 4 photos with
you and Michael will show you how to make your best images even better by
applying all of the compositional rules you have just learned to them. You will
'fix' your old art, learn how to 'dodge and burn', with editing programs, to
enhance them, to make certain things stand out and other parts retreat, and to
cut them / crop them to keep the strong parts only, eliminating the weak parts,
thus turning many into new-looking pieces entirely, ones that Will Now Win
AWARDS- many have!
Later in the afternoon, we then go and make some
new photographs, starting our advanced thinking processes in creating. Michael
will give a few 'easy assignments' to get us thinking/working in the processes
that have won him so many awards. Class
officially ends this day at 6 p.m..
Click photo to enlarge.
Lichen Covered Stones, Pacific Grove Beach,
Monterey by Michael Seewald. All rights reserved.
Day two: We start out with a
group breakfast at 8 a.m. at First Awakenings in Pacific Grove, just
around the corner from the Monterey Aquarium in Monterey, in the American Tin
Cannery outlet Center. Parking is available for free at the lot just up the
street, and pay-meters don't start until 9 we believe, check first.
www.firstawakenings.net
125 Ocean View Blvd, Ste 105, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(831) 372-1125
Michael, as well as the students with
their newfound knowledge, then critique a few more photos for review if we did
not get to everyone's the day before. Whether beginners or advanced, all will
learn so much from these exercises. We will
then head out to 'make art' at in the area. Cannery Row in old Monterey, 17 mile drive in Pacific Grove, and other local
areas will provide a plethora of subject matter.
We will work the great afternoon light over on the
Fisherman's Wharf. We will finish at 6 pm.
Click photo to enlarge.
Imsuk Lee and Robin Dias pose with Michael
and their Certificates inside the beautiful, and posh, Pine Inn.
Click photo to enlarge.
Carmel Mission
DAY III:
we will
start Saturday at the Il Fornaio coffee bar,
in the rear of the Pine Inn in downtown Carmel, at 9 a.m..
Afterwards we will head to Point Lobos Reserve and work
there until 1, making some dynamic images that MANY of the students over the
years have been able to sell and reimburse themselves for the cost of the class
in profits, how's that?
We take our lunch over near the 'Barnyard' in Carmel Valley, and then
hit the Highlands Inn overlooking Point Lobos State Reserve as we head
north up the coast to Big Sur. It usually has a splendid photography exhibit in
the main lobby/bar area (see group photo above). We then hit Big Sur, shooting
the famous Bixby's bridge on the way out, and the streams we find along the way.
We will shot the waterfall at Julia Pfeiffer State Beach past Big Sur proper. There
is a good chance we will return late this day, approx. 8 pm. or so.
Day
Four: On Sunday we start with a group breakfast at
8 a.m. at Em-le's restaurant-
http://www.em-les.com/ on Dolores between 5th & 6th
Carmel-by-the-Sea tel. (831) 625-6780), and
then progress to the Carmel Mission and
work throughout the morning there. We will go back into Carmel for a
deli-lunch at 1 and resume class at 2, working around Carmel proper shooting
some of the classic old homes, and will finish this day at 5 pm. If some
folks have to scoot out a little early to catch a plane home we understand, many do, it's OK!
We will return home in a good frame of mind knowing that our art is progressing (slow at
first, then faster by the end of the class) in light-year proportions over
past growth rates- (see testimonial pages) and have, in many cases, made friends
from fellow classmates that could last a lifetime.
Go to
Seewald's 'Carmel Photo Class' Page
Go To Seewald's 'Photo Class Home Page'
|
