Photography & Photoshop for Glass Artists, Aug. 5 & 6, 2017, Hollander Glass, Houston

Photography & Photoshop for Glass Artists, August 5 & 6, 2017 at Hollander Glass, Houston, Texas

Does your camera speak a foreign language you don’t understand? Do you struggle with how to light and photograph your glass art to showcase their beauty and craftsmanship? In this class you will learn the secrets of how to shoot your glass, jewelry, beads, and crafts with the Official Photographer for the 2017 Glass Vegas Show. Covering basic photography and setting up your camera, you will use instructor-provided lighting setups to photograph your own pieces. The qualities of good lighting, composition, background materials, and setting your camera for consistent high quality photos will be discussed. Students should bring their own DSLR cameras to learn the proper settings for photographing their pieces. Leave this workshop feeling empowered to create photos as beautiful as the art you are photographing.

Photography Class - Day 1
Come learn the secrets of how to shoot your art glass, functional glass, jewelry, beads, metal clay, and wood with a professional photographer and glass artist. See what aspects make for a high quality photograph. Learn the language of studio photography, the 9 parameters of successful photos and how to produce them. We’ll cover basic photography, the qualities of good lighting, composition, background materials, and how to set your camera's menus. Students will photograph their own pieces during class at lighting stations. You'll leave the class empowered to create photos as beautiful as the art you're photographing.

Photoshop Class - Day 2
Students will learn to process, color correct and crop their photos of jewelry, glass beads, and other art objects using Photoshop CS5 and Elements 11 with an experienced professional photographer and glass artist. Exposure level optimizing, background removal, color balancing, print and online file formats will be covered. See how to extract objects from backgrounds, add new backgrounds, create photo realistic shadows and more. Students will learn how to create color accurate files of their art for use on their website, Etsy in magazine articles, books, portfolios and for juried competitions. Plus, how to purchase recent versions of Photoshop at far less than the full retail price.

For details and to register: www.hollanderfusingcenter.com/chptr-houston.php

Artists and craftspeople working in glass, metal clay, jewelry, beads, woodturning, ceramics, and all other genres are welcome to attend. Learning to set your camera and how to properly light your object is universal to everyone. Over 630 people have attended these classes across the US since 2011.

Doug Baldwin is a professional product photographer with 30+ years of experience. He has taught photography classes at the Art Center College of Design, the Art Institute of Phoenix, sold out Photography and Photoshop classes at the Bead and Button Show, the Glass Craft & Bead Expo, the ISGB Gathering, the Sonoran Glass School, the Tucson Bead Show, Blue Moon Glass (Austin) , Ed Hoy's Glass, and at the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona.

Doug is also a flameworker and has taken classes with Bandhu Dunham, Dolly Ahles-Palmer, Laurie Nessel, Kim Osibin and Andy Pollack.

This is the last scheduled Photography class with Doug in 2017. Classes in 2018 have not been scheduled yet. If you're thinking about taking the photography class, sign up for this one as there are no guarantees as to future scheduling.

You'll leave his class empowered to create photos as beautiful as the glass and jewelry art you're photographing.