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Seeing Images & Let’s Talk Mono with Leigh Preston | Full Day Workshop

Location
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 0PT

Time
10:00am – 16.30pm

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Why not join us here in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire for a full day of photographic ideas to change your thought process on the way of taking your images!

PART 1 – SEEING IMAGES AND ASPECTS OF DESIGN and ABSTRACT – VISUAL AWARENESS and USING A LOCATION , SITUATION, OR CIRCUMSTANCE

The morning session is about making the most of the opportunities that you create as a photographer – using a number of different approaches to varying subjects, lens-work, angle of view, and viewpoint. You’ll explore ways of adding intuition, influences, emotion, composition, and involvement.

Leigh Preston FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB will teach you about making pictures away from the ‘norm’, focusing on personal vision, interpretation, format, triptych work, and composite images. Discover how to make pictures with an emphasis, whilst also exploring simplicity and use of empty spaces within the frame. Leigh will cover what to leave in and what to take out to make a picture work, and ultimately how to make your individual images in a unique, personal style.

The session will cover the refinement of those opportunities in a section on after-work/processing and the stages of image adjustment. The final part is about building a portfolio, and making ‘panels’ and pictorial essays.

PART 2 – LET’S TALK MONO

This is a comprehensive afternoon session on monochrome photography.

Explore suitable subjects for mono, and the various ways you can interpret a picture in monochrome. You’ll look at a range of images and a series of before and after examples with the stages of ‘change and adjustment’ to realise the best print as an end result. A mono print is a subtraction from reality and the ideas that fit with that way of seeing and thinking.

Leigh will be bringing a range of his prints for you to look at during the day, to give you ideas on how a paper choice can enhance your images.

 

Tutor

Leigh has lectured widely for over 40 years, still has a darkroom, although most of his work is now digital. He sat on RPS distinction panels for over 25 years. He now runs location workshops , and printing courses for Permajet. Prior to that he worked as a tutor for Jessops school of photography in Leicester and has continued to teach college courses , although these are now far fewer and on-line due to the impact of Covid. His working life was as a Cartographer and Land Surveyor for the Ordnance Survey and other Govt. Departments.

Leigh also holds two RPS Fellowships, one for pictorial images taken of the mill towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire and the other for Darkroom printing. He belongs to the ARENA group of photographers and is a member of The London Salon.

Leigh also has two books of his images published: "Shadows of Change" and "Five Essays".

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