Our photo students challenged their skills on our weekend workshop at the first annual Peanut Polo Cup in support of Canine Rescue efforts.

Galloping horses, cute puppies and fast paced action offered the cameras plenty of play. Shooting the event, students learned to:

• manage equipment
• choose appropriate tools for their task
• freeze unique speeding subjects
• balance shooting the event – much of the action is off the field
• stay comfortable for optimal shooting all day

Vistek‘s equipment offer allowed students to test new equipment.

It was a full day.

Stay tuned for more polo photos in the days to come:

Our workshop with David Trattles and Canadian Geographic filled up with lightning speed. Dave is a mild mannered, superman of the social documentary photo world.

We have scheduled a second session at Canadian Geographic Headquarters in Ottawa to fit his busy schedule. Same price ($375 + taxes). Same agenda. The new workshop dates are:
October 5 (eve),
October 7 (eve),
October 9 (eve),
October 10 (afternoon), 2009.
(approximately three hour sessions)

Workshop Details

Today I found a fun article on painting with light by the prolific Chase Jarvis. Light painting has been around for a while but people continue to experiment with new ways to play!

• Read the Chase Jarvis article.

• See some different examples of the wild world of lights at night, below…

1. Taking advantage of available light:

2. Light Driving – do not try this at home:

3. Complex scenarios including light painting, existing lights and HDR effects from a student on our workshop:

We’re pleased to announce we will be presenting a workshop through Wallack’s Art Supplies: “Photographing Artwork for Promotion.”

Promoting artwork on your website or submitting photos to a juried show, gallery or other art organization takes quality work and quality photographs of your work. Creating appropriate photos can be done inexpensively with simple equipment.

We will be teaching and demonstrating the ideas behind documenting artwork at Wallack’s Nepean store on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 in the afternoon.

There are only 25 spots available – they are charging just $25 per person.

Please register through Wallacks.

In the spring we presented a similar session to the Ontario Craft Council.

Ontario Craft Council – March 2009 Conference

Sara Washbush of the Craft Council wrote:

“Harry’s workshop was one of the main attractions for attendees… Harry’s presentation was full of simple effective solutions, explained in a fun and lighthearted way.”

If you missed that opportunity you have a second chance!