5-day full time workshop with David H. Wells in Helsinki - June 11th to 15th – Registration by May 10th, 2012
Light is the most important element in photography. Photography IS light. Understanding the nature of light and its characteristics as well as learning how to control it, determines how our photographs turn out.
Join award-winning photographer David H. Wells for a totally unique experience in the beautiful city of Helsinki with its great architecture and magic summer light.
This will be an intense shooting/lecture workshop with extensive visuals to introduce this important and essential approach to using available light; it is designed for beginner and intermediate photographers who want to master the use of natural light and its triple nature: color, direction and quality. We’ll be out shooting together every morning and late afternoon, occasionally at night. Every day David will work one-on-one with each participant, in the field and before class, looking at their work and helping them determine and achieve their photographic goals. The class will meet daily between photographing sessions for discussions, lectures and demonstrations, which will cover several topics:
• time of day / morning vs. evening light
• quality and direction of light
• scouting a location with a compass to plot the play of light
• the importance of the photographer’s position
• twilight and night photography
• the use of lines, light and dark
• lens choice / composition
• framing to create dramatic images when no dramatic light exists
Don’t miss this chance. Southern Finland is an amazing place for photographers in June. The sun shines for most of the day and when, late in the evening, it’s near the horizon and preparing to set, you will have many opportunities to shoot in a light that is like nowhere else on earth: the light is softer and warmer, the shadows are longer and delicate for many, long golden hours.
The workshop starts on Sunday evening (June 10th) with a dinner introduction and presentation of the program and will end on Friday night (June 15th) with a closing dinner. Minimun N. of participants: 6 – Max 12
Tuition Price: €1650 LATEST NEWS: if you sign up today you get a 10% discount on the original fee. The New Tuition Fee is € 1485 (includes tuition, and both introductory and closing dinners). You have time till May 10th.
If you sign up for the 5-day workshop plus either one or the other 1-day workshop held by David, you get an additional € 50 discount. If you sign up for all 3 events, you get an additional € 75 discount. The additional discounts will be awarded when buying the other workshops.
Accommodation: We are all staying at the 4 star Linna Hotel, in the center of Helsinki
Prices for 7 nights, from Saturday June 9th to Saturday June 16th
€ 511 per person – Twin or Double Room
€ 882 per person – Single Room
If you like, we can try to pair you up with another photographer in the twin/double room. Just let us know by email when registering. Please note that in the event that we are unable to pair you up for twin-sharing, you may have to get the single room. The prices include breakfast, V.A.T. and Service Tax.
We strongly advice you NOT to make any travel arrangements to Helsinki until we confirm that the Workshop will take place.
Non-student companions are welcome and encouraged to join the trip, but we will not be able to accommodate them during shooting or critique sessions. Companion supplement is € 511 and covers only the 7-night hotel stay.
If you want to extend your stay we’ll help you with your travel arrangements.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
David H. Wells is a commercial photographer, photo-essayist and photo-educator in Providence, Rhode Island. His photo-essays have been published in magazines and shown in exhibitions across America and around the world. Portfolios of his work have also been featured in American Photographer, Camera and Darkroom, Camera Arts, Nikon World, Photo District News, Photo Magazine, Photographers International, Photo Techniques, and Zoom. His commercial photography has been published in Chicago Tribune, Geo Magazine, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic, Newsweek Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Post Magazine, among other publications.
David has received two Fulbright fellowships to India as well as grants from Nikon/N.P.P.A., the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation’s Program of Research and Writing on International Peace, the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, the University of the Arts, the International Center for Photography in New York City, the Maine Photographic Workshops, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was named one of the “Best Workshop Instructors” in a PDN survey in 2011 and has recently launched an online educational tool with video podcasts and other useful information for photographers on The Wells Point
