Thanks to Mark James!

We want to thank Mark James on his wonderful presentation on Making Connections in Art, History, Science, and Philosophy with Photography.

Mark talked about "5 Major Themes to Make it Work":
1. Visual Language
2. Examine life more closely; experience more deeply
3. Pictorialism
4. Hidden Truths
5. Forms and Essence

Conclusions:
Be keen obsevers and use art to probe "hidden truths" in nature
Live life richly
Study the 'significances' of things
You must decide to engage on this level

If you missed out, no problem! Mark was nice enough to give us his PowerPoint presentation.
Just click on the link: http://frc2.org/files/April%20Presentation.pptx

Here are some links for Mark James:

www.americanwestphoto.com (Mark's Photography)
www.americanwestcollector.com (Mark's blog)

There was a great attendance of 14 people! Thanks to all who attended! I know you were enriched and inspired!

Mark James will be hosting the following workshop:

April 29th is Worldwide Pinhole Day. The Center will be celebrating this event a day early with this workshop on April 28th. Join us.

Pinhole Photography Workshop

Course Description:

This is pretty simple. You make a camera out of a box, use the box to make images on light sensitive paper, develop the paper, and you have a pinhole photograph that's all yours.

The objective is to learn to keep it simple; starting with your vision, the image capture and especially the processing and the printing of the image. We will explore ways to simplify these steps so that our primary focus can be on the creation of the image.

Level:

Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced

Materials list:

A sense of curiosity and clothes that you don't mind possibly getting stained. (Darkroom chemicals)

Date:

Saturday April 28 from 10 am – 6 pm

Tuition:

Members - $1.00
Non-Members - $4.00 Yes, that is four dollars.

Instructors:

Micheal Butts, Valerie Burke, and Mark James

Location

The Center for Fine Art Photography – South Gallery and Darkroom

Maximum number of students - 20

Click Here to Register Online

Click here to read the Workshop and Forums Registration Policies

FRC² Next Event - Mark James

Mark James of Studio of American West Photography will be presenting a workshop on photography! To learn more about Mark James visit his website at http://markjamesphoto.com

Poetry Slam Pictures

Oh la la!












Viva la France!

Scott Poland

Kendra Thornton

Cheryl Matsumoto

Jens Agger

Thanks to Linda Baldwin for the wonderful pictures from the Poetry Slam event!

Outdoor Photography Session with Jerry Sullivan

Saturday, August 6^th, outing to Benson Sculptor Garden in Loveland with Jerry Sullivan as our Photographic Expert, guest and guide was fun as well as informative.

We spent our first hour getting familiar with our cameras, talking

about settings (how and why), and addressing individual questions

participants had.

Our efforts next concentrated on shooting a single object (piece of sculptor) with

different camera settings to see and learn how changing settings will affect your shot.

As the garden was under transformation for this week’s Sculptor in the Park show, are focus next took us to the flora around the lake where we experimented with depth of field, composition, light and movement.

This was another extremely informative, interesting, and fun FRC2 gathering, we were fortunate to offer the group because of Jerry Sullivan graciously giving his time and expertise.

Our thanks go out to Jerry for his continued support and participation with FRC2, and we look forward to seeing you all Saturday, August 13^th for the Sculptor in the Park show, Benson Sculptor Park
in Loveland.

Linda Baldwin

Anyone want to design a website?

Jerry Sullivan is in need of someone to design and build a website for his photography business. If anyone would like to help him out, please contact Jerry Sullivan at sully204@yahoo.com

He would not be able to pay you, but you would be able to add that to your portfolio for experience.

He would greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks

Jerry Sullivan's Photo Workshop

Jerry Sullivan's photo workshop was awesome!
Jerry was very friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful in his workshop, and we're all itching for him to come back and teach us more. The majority of the workshop covered the bare basics of film speed, shutter speed, and aperture.

As Jerry says, don't just shoot with luck, shoot with knowledge! He gave a homework assignment to help us fully understand shutter speed and aperture and how they work together.

If you missed the meeting and are interested in the topics covered or the homework assignment,
contact Caitlin Ming at cming88@gmail.com.

Jerry was very gracious to give us his phone number and email if anyone would like to learn more about photography basics, he would be more than happy to help.


Here is his information:
Phone number: 970-568-6910
Email: sully204@yahoo.com

If you email him, just make sure to put "Photo Workshop" or something similar in the subject line.


Simple exercise to demonstrate how our camera interprets 18% gray.

We look forward to having Jerry come back this summer for another workshop. It will be an outdoor photography workshop! Look for details soon!