Portfolio Development for Visual Artists: Photographing and Cataloging Your Work

This course is an introduction to learn how to photograph original works simply and effectively to make them look good, even with just a smartphone camera, including:

• How to set up a photo, behind glass or not, understanding lighting, and including capturing 3D work in successful images.
• How to do very basic editing to straighten and correct flaws like key-stoning (photo pinched in at the top, or bottom), colour balance and more.
• Ideas for naming images and files for cataloguing and for inclusion in a gallery/museum submission.
• Tease of more in-depth workshop for creating high-quality reproduction prints.

Dates: Sept 18 & 25, 2021 | Saturdays 10am – 12.30