Speakers

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 12-1PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Traditional vs. Modern Photo Montage.  Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor will share a visual presentation and discuss the evolution of their individual bodies of work.  After more than 50 years, Uelsmann continues to explore and develop his darkroom techniques, while Taylor creates her composite images in the computer. They will discuss some of the differences and similarities in their working processes. Master Photographer Jerry Uelsmann is world renowned for pioneering the art of multi-layered photo montage imagery. His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of some of the top museums in the country, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. Jerry was also named among the “Top 10 Most Collected Photographers” by American Photographer. Jerry’s wife, Maggie Taylor is an award-winning and published still life and digital image artist. Her art is produced by scanning objects with a flatbed scanner and then layering and manipulating them into whimsical surrealist images. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad and is in numerous public and private collections worldwide.

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 1-2PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Safari as a Way of Life: a colorful journey through the journals and photography of Dan Eldon.  Globally revered Kathy Eldon is mother of world famous Dan Eldon, a young creative reporter who was tragically killed on assignment in Somalia in 1992. Kathy turned her grief into an inspiring art activism celebrating the use of creative expression as a powerful vehicle for social commentary.

 

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 3-4PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Art & Soul.  As a 30-year industry veteran, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, and Sony Artisan of Imagery, Brian Smith is known for capturing bold, graphic portraits of famous celebrities, athletes and executives, which have been used in corporate advertising and have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines, including Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Magazine and British GQ.

 

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 3-4PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Voice of a Photo Blogger. In this presentation Rob will help make sense of how Social Media Marketing tools work, show photographers who are finding success with these tools, and inspire to take action. Rob Haggart is the former director of photography for Men’s Journal and Outside magazines and founder of the popular photo industry blog APhotoEditor.com. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography Focus Award for Rising Star, awarded to an “emerging force the photographic community is watching with interest.” He has received photo editing recognition from Graphis, American Photography, Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, American Society of Magazine Editors, Photo District News, and was chosen as part of the creative team of the year by Ad Week. His most recent venture, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers.

 

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 4-5PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: 100 Portraits — Digital Exhibition + Photography Online.  The Internet has changed the way we consider photography, and the medium has undergone remarkable transformations at every level. No longer restricted to the gallery wall or the printed page, photography now regularly—and sometimes exclusively—appears onscreen. More significantly, Web 2.0 is influencing photo culture around the world by connecting international audiences to art experiences, enabling the discovery of new work and presenting never-before-seen channels of expression. Inspired by the Web’s innovations, curators Larissa Leclair and Andy Adams created 100 Portraits, a digital exhibition of contemporary portraiture that has been viewed by more than 54,000 online visitors from around the globe. They’ll explore the intersection of self-publishing, social media, and community collaboration in this lively discussion about photography in the Internet Era.

To Be Announced

Orlando Museum of Art. 2416 N. Mills, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Saturday May 12, 6-7PM

In 2011, we featured: The Snapshot Aesthetic, Mobile Image Capture and the Urban Drift. American photographer E. Brady Robinson uses the camera to examine her environment. She will lecture on her new photographic installation Transfer opening July 1st through October 8th at CFAM.  Transfer combines mobile image capture with the psychogeographic concept of the drift. The snapshot is utilized as a means to quickly record, document and observe. The installation is a mapping of geography encountered at home and abroad. Robinson will lecture on her new work, the exploration of the formal qualities of the snapshot, mobile image capture and the writing of French theorist Guy Debord.

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Orange Studio. 1121 N. Mills Ave, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Sunday May 13, 10-12PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Shooting Tethered with Capture 6 software and using Ipad. The best 2 hrs of Capture 6 you can get. Chris Snipes brings more than 20 years of experience with high end digital camera systems. Capture One 6 gains the ability to make local changes to images without affecting the underlying raw file, amongst other additions. It also adds keystone distortion correction that attempts to reduce perspective effects (e.g. converging verticals), without overly distorting the dimensions of the objects in the scene.

To Be Announced

Orange Studio.  1121 N. Mills Ave, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Sunday May13, 1-3PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Workshop on the art of “Beauty Photography”. Betsy will provide valuable insights on how to achieve highly sophisticated imagery. She will be utilizing the latest equipment and software provided by Capture Integration, including a Phase One Medium format camera with a Profoto Air system, and Capture 6 software, which enables to control lights directly from the computer. Betsy Hansen is a professional photographer based out of the New York and Orlando areas. Her work has shown internationally in magazines such as Cigar Aficionado, Parade Magazine, The Times London, Wall Street Journal, and Family Circle Magazine. Over the past ten years, she has won numerous awards and is currently president the Central Florida Chapter of ASMP.

To Be Announced

Orange Studio.  1121 N. Mills Ave, Orlando 32803. MAP IT.
Sunday May 13, 4-6PM (limited capacity)

In 2011, we featured: Workshop on Custom Built Set. Think the only way to shoot on a budget is against white seamless? Not so! In this workshop, industry professional Jesse Adair will teach commercial photographers how to enhance their value to potential clients by mastering the art of set building on a tight budget. With an ever-increasing emphasis placed on keeping costs down without compromising quality or artistic vision, this skill gives commercial photographers an edge in today’s competitive market. Jesse will build a set, light it, bring in live models, and show workshop attendees how to effectively shoot on that set, all for less than $400 (actual costs for every item/expense will be shared during the workshop).