Photographing your Artwork Presented by Erik Gehring

Artists need high-quality digital images for promotional purposes, as well as for submission to exhibits and other opportunities to display your artwork. This hands-on workshop is designed to teach artists how to create these images, using the tools they have at hand, whether they be professional digital cameras, point-and-shoots, or even their smartphone camera. Following an instructional period on basic principles, participants will have the opportunity to create their own images under the tutelage of the workshop instructor.

Participants can expect to have one high-quality digital image of their own work later that week, and the knowledge to create additional professional images of their work.

Participants Should Plan to Bring to the Workshop:

1. The camera they will use for photographing their artwork (professional digital camera, a point-and-shoot, or cell phone)
2. One piece of their artwork (either 2- or 3-dimensional) that they plan to image.
3. For 2-D work, please do not bring framed pieces, just the artwork itself.
4. Artwork should not exceed 48 inches on the longest side
5. Maximum number of attendees: 10

Presenter bio: Erik Gehring is a freelance photographer who specializes in trees and natural landscapes.  He is the current Education Coordinator at the Hyde Park Art Association, and he is a past President of the Boston Camera Club.  He lives in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston with his wife Julie and sons Carl and William.  Although Erik enjoys photographing natural environments all over New England, his favorite destination is Boston’s Arnold Arboretum.

Erik’s work has appeared in Yankee Magazine, AMC’s Outdoors, Northern Woodlands, the Boston Globe, the Boston Metro, the Cape Cod Times, E the Environmental Magazine, and other publications.  He has shown his fine art prints at galleries throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Erik also has lectured and taught classes at the Arboretum, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, the Concord Art Association, the Hyde Park Art Association, and many different camera clubs throughout New England.

(Photo credit: Jeff Perrott, http://jeffperrott.com)