Workshop: One Lens One Camera: The Haiku of Photography

Workshop: One Lens One Camera: The Haiku of Photography
San Francisco Bay Area

Apr 1/2/3/8, 2011
Registration: $395

*Register Early — Limited Seatings*
Featuring Photographers Rafael Hernandez and Oliver Klink

The One Lens One Camera is a workshop that encourages imaginative risk-taking and promotes freedom in your creative work. Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own. We have to crack the cognitive egg and scramble it up. This is a way of nudging what experts call ordinary Creativity.

Why is it called the Haiku of photography? Haiku, is a form of moras, consisting of 17 Japanese poetry, in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. In this workshop, we are going to develop your photography skills to apply the simplicity of the Haiku and still make your images stand out.

The workshop is a combination of slide lectures on photography and visual design, field trips with the instructors, and critiques of your work. You’ll be exposed to various expressive techniques such as dreamscapes, multiple exposures, panning, ways to break the “photography rules of composition” to nudge your creativity, such as zoom with your feet, previsualize the concept not the image, focus on your state of mind, and understand what your camera vs. your eyes see. You are also going to learn what it takes to work on a “theme”. As past participants are saying “I didn’t know how much I had been missing with photography. Now I marvel to photograph everyday.”

The One Lens One Camera Workshop is for the novice to the experienced amateur or professional. It takes place over four sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area for the field trips and in Sunnyvale, CA at Rafael Hernandez Studio for the instruction and reviews. The four sessions enable you to learn and practice the new material, and get thoughtful critiques of your work. Not only your work will be reviewed, but you are also going to be exposed on how to critique others’ images.

At the end of the workshop, you’ll have a good understanding on how to improve your visual thinking, observe more accurately, develop your imagination, review photographs, and express a subject more effectively with photographs.

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