(Session 1) How to Photograph Your Artwork 101, with Erik Gehring

(Session 1) How to Photograph Your Artwork 101, with Erik Gehring

Tuesday, November 14 from 12:00-2:00pm, Kathryn Schultz Gallery

$40 CAA Members; $50 General Admission

Registration Close Date: Tuesday, November 7 at 5:00pm

Maximum number of attendees: 10

 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, particularly their cell phone camera and/or point and shoot camera. Following an instructional period on basic principles, participants will have the opportunity to create their own images of their own art under the tutelage of the workshop instructor.

Participants Should Plan to Bring to the Workshop:

- Cell phone or point and shoot camera, and knowledge of how to use that camera.

- One piece of their artwork (either 2- or 3-dimensional) that they plan to photograph.

- Artworks can be framed and behind glass.

- Artwork should not exceed 48 inches on the longest side. 

Presenter bio: Erik Gehring is a freelance photographer who specializes in trees and natural landscapes. He is the Director at the Menino Arts Center, home of the Hyde Park Art Association in Boston, and he is a past President of the Boston Camera Club. He lives in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with his wife Julie, sons Carl and William, and dog Comet. 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 workshops at the Arboretum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center in Cambridge, the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge Art Association, the Concord Art Association, the Hyde Park Art Association, and at locations all over New England for BlueHour Photo Ventures.

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