The Art of Color Photography

- Bring more to your color photography

  Rick Wright, Photography Classes and Workshops at Project Basho in Philadelphia PA
Rick Wright
Description:

This workshop is designed for any digital photographer who wishes to get beyond color's basic descriptive nature and into color as a more creative force: color as emotion or mood, color as graphic punch, color as muted and serene, color as abstraction, color as a subject-unto-itself.

The class will be a fun crash-course in the Art of Color as we'll look at examples of photography, as well as painting, to illustrate artistic ideas. Over the weekend, you will learn about the color wheel and how to utilize it. There will be plenty of exercises and mini-shooting assignments to start your thinking about color as a potent tool. By the end of the weekend, each student will have a small set of prints demonstrating new ideas and attitudes about color's function within a photograph.

Technically, we will delve into white balance, in-camera settings, and also do some post-processing in Photoshop to shape the "color story" of our images further.
Schedule:
One-weekend Workshop:
Saturday & Sunday, 10am - 5pm
March 13 & 14
Materials Needed:
  • Digital SLR (or Point/Shoot Digital)
  • Thumb or jump drive
  • Glossy/Semi-Gloss/Pearl printing paper (min. 20 sheets of 8" x 10")
Prerequisite:

Photographic Vision Digital I or Intro to Digital SLR,or portfolio review
Class Fee:
  • $275 + lab fee of $50
Enrollment: Limited to 8
Deadline: March 5
Instructor: Rick Wright practices and teaches photography as a malleable and sculptural medium. Though initially trained as a painter at Princeton and Columbia Universities (BA and MFA), he later studied at ICP in NY with John Loengard, Susan Meiselas, Danny Lyon, and Nan Goldin.

Rick shows his work locally and nationally. He is collected in several permanent collections, most recently added to the University of Pennsylvania's Collection. Wright has kept a studio in Philadelphia for the past 7 years and teaches photography at various venues including: Fleisher Art Memorial, Project Basho, Panasonic's Digital Photo Academy, as well as his own online classes and seminars.