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| All About Color |
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| Instructors: Cheryl
Machat Dorskind Duration: 4
Weeks Cost: $195 Starts: Sep 12, 2008 |
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.
Instructor: Cheryl Machat Dorskind
 Cheryl Machat Dorskind is a fine art photographer and handpainter, known for her highly personal approach to portraiture. Her photography has been published in newspapers and magazines, including Country Living, House, Hampton Style, and The New York Times, and as cover art for best-selling novels such as Ann Beattie's Falling in Place and Chilly Scenes of Winter. The author of the definitive guide to handcoloring photographs.
The Art of Handpainting Photographs, Cheryl shares her love of photography through her books and by teaching and mentoring at colleges and art institutions.
Communicating with her celebrated hands-on inspirational approach, The Art of Photographing Children, is a comprehensive handbook for creating cherished photographs of children. Her critically acclaimed fine art photography is exhibited regularly and sought by an esteemed worldwide clientele. Residing in Westhampton, New York, with her husband and two daughters, she writes a popular newspaper column, Picture This, for The Southampton Press, and is working on a third book.
For further information, please visit her website: www.cherylmachatdorskind.com.
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