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Workshop With Michelle Bates – Documenting Your Artwork

October 13, 2018, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

$45.00


Documenting Your Artwork

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:
Quality documentation is essential to creating a strong portfolio to be used in submissions, on your website and social media, and for archival purposes. In this workshop, photographer Michelle Bates will lead you step-by-step through the process of creating high-quality documentation of your work. You’ll learn about camera settings, lenses, lighting, backgrounds, editing digital files, and other technical and aesthetic aspects to capture the ideal image.

*This workshop is open to artists of all career stages who’d like to learn about documenting their own work.

TOPICS COVERED:
– Terminology
– Camera types and settings
– Lenses
– Lighting & backgrounds
– Photo-editing software
– Editing digital files

TAKEAWAYS:
– Knowledge of how to document your work and how to work with professional photographers
– What buyers, curators, gallerists, juries, & selection committees look for in your documentation

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Michelle Bates has been a photographer since 1991, doing fine art photography and teaching, documenting theater and events, doing studio promotional and portrait photography, and photographing artwork for artists. Bates is the author of “Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity” about low-tech cameras, and has given talks and workshops all over the country and exhibited her work internationally.

For more information contact Michelle: michelle@michellebates.net

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Details

Date:
October 13, 2018
Time:
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cost:
$45.00
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Venue

Vashon Land Trust
10014 SW Bank Road
Vashon, WA
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