Creative Color for Digital Photographers

So you've got your camera's bells & whistles figured out and your composition is improving with every shot you take. Where do you go next? Color!

This workshop is designed as a logical progression from our basic introductory camera classes to a full-weekend immersion and is suited for any intermediate photographer eager to use color as a more creative force. Beyond color as mere description, color can be an emotion or mood, color can be graphic punch, color can be muted and serene, color can be abstraction, color can be a subject-unto-itself.

The class will be a fun crash-course and will get you excited about rethinking your approach. We'll start off slowly with exercises in toning down your colors by shooting 1, 2, and 3-color photos. As we progress, you will learn how to utilize the color wheel. There will be plenty of exercises and mini-shooting assignments to get you 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.

Weekend Workshop

Saturday & Sunday, 10am - 5pm

March 24 & 25

• $375 + lab fee of $50 (Now includes lunch!)

• Digital SLR (or digital point & shoot)
• Thumb or jump drive

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.