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Photographers at Painter’s
Picture yourself spending the weekend with some of Western Canada’s premier professional photographers. If photography is your passion or just your pastime, this weekend will broaden your horizons, polish your skills and inspire your creativity.
Learn personal techniques from professional photographers amidst the intimate settings of workshops and panel discussions. Each of the presenters' work will be displayed in our gallery.
Photography Getaway — May 15 – 17, 2009
Your photography getaway includes:
- two nights accommodation at Painter’s Lodge in Campbell River,
- two full days of workshops, demonstrations, and panel discussions, as well as entrance into the photograph gallery,
- two brunches, and
- a wine and cheese reception with the photographers.
Package price is $349 per person, based on double occupancy.
Day passes are now available for $60, including brunch at Painter's Lodge.
You’re encourage to bring one of your own, unframed photos (no bigger than 8” x 10”) for the critique and to display in the gallery.
Download the 2009 Photographers at Painter’s itinerary.
Space is limited for this unique event. To book your getaway, call 1-800-663-7090 or visit our reservations web page.
Photo by Hélène Cyr, Photographers at Painter’s, 2006
2009’s Workshops
Hands on Photography
Mitch Stringer – mitchstringer.ca
Mitch Stringer
Join Mitch as he does a walk around exploration of April Point and the surrounding area. This will be an opportunity for ‘hands on’ photography. Bring your camera gear, tripod, cable release and notepad for this 2 hour field trip. Please note this session will have limited enrolment, so sign-up is required at the resort on Friday, May 15.
Going Beyond
Janet Dwyer – janetdwyer.com
Hatching – Janet Dwyer
What makes a photograph go beyond being a recording of a scene or subject into the realm of creativity? Clarity about what you want to communicate, compositional awareness and editing skills, combined with the ability to translate ideas into accessible imagery can result in work that captures a viewer’s imagination. Join Janet as she explores this topic.
Travel Photography
Deddeda Stemler – deddeda.com
Little Nepali Girl – Deddeda Stemler
Deddeda will share her images and experiences that range in topic from shooting the Prime Minister for the Canadian Press wire service to travelling overseas to a remote Egyptian desert oasis near the Libyan border.
Stock Photography
Boomer Jerritt – strathconaphotography.com
Join Boomer Jerritt as he leads you through the ins and outs of stock photography including topics such as how to scout locations, shoot the material and stay at the top of the industry.
Andy Clark
40 years as a Photojournalist
Join Andy as he discusses his career as a photojournalist from his start in 1970 to his current assignments that keep him hopping around the world.
Metering in Photography
David Montizambert – montizambert.com
Joe Smith by David Montizambert
Metering was crucial in film photography but with the advent of instant preview and histograms in digital photography, metering is fast becoming a lost art. In this session international lighting and Photoshop trainer Dave Montizambert will show you how to combine tried and true metering techniques with digital instant previews and histograms for stronger images with less stress.
The Magic of Light
Sharron Milstein
Sharron Milstein
Light defines what we perceive of the world. Colour, form, texture and mood exist because of light. It is the very essence of a photograph: the vital ingredient; the stuff of which it is made. For the photographer, understanding the characteristics of light (intensity, quality, direction and colour) must be seen as a fundamental component of the creative process. Sharron will deal with these topics, offer a variety of creative techniques and tips and include a slide/sound presentation.
The Photo-Impressionist Landscape
Tony Bounsall – photo-design.net
Before computers and photoshop, photographers often tried to emulate a more painterly approach to photography. Soft focus lenses, diffusion filters, and paper negatives were all used to add a softer impressionistic approach to photographic repertoire. These days, a lot of these techniques have been forgotten given that there is a digital solution. We will step back in time by making some simple, do-it-yourself handmade filters that will help you see the world differently.
Salt Spring Island Nude Charity Calendar
Howard Fry – howard.frygallery.com
Howard moved to Salt Spring Island to relax and experience a rural lifestyle after leaving a successful international career in fashion and annual report photography.
The unexpected sale of 1600 acres of beautiful forest near his home to developers and loggers motivated him to volunteer his expertise in an attempt to raise money to purchase the land and protect Maxwell Lake and other watersheds. The ensuing calendar raised well over $100.000.00 in three months, and contributed to the purchase of what is now Burgoyne park.
Howard will share the experience of what became a rewarding project both creatively and financially.
Small Light – Big Impact
Snorri Gunnarson – snorrigunnarsson.com
Join Snorri as he demonstrates the use of small off-camera flashes with professional results. A common sense approach to the methods, gear and techniques will allow you to create great images with a minimum of equipment.
Discovering Landscape Photography
Steven Friedman – friedmanphoto.com
Autumn Awakening by Steven Friedman
Steven guides you through all the basic information needed to improve your landscape photography. Throughout this seminar, you will see and begin to understand the techniques used by Steven to photograph spectacular landscapes. Topics to be covered include: Trip planning, equipment, what makes a good landscape photograph, designing a landscape photograph and light and the landscape. Time will be allowed for an interactive discussion.
High Dynamic Range Imaging
Darren Stone
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. Darren will demonstrate capture of source images, generation and tone mapping of HDR images with Photomatix software, and final enhancement with Photoshop.
Our lists of photography workshops from 2008 and photography workshops from 2007 are still available.
