Creative Bird Photography: A Fine Art
with Kristi Odom
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Course Description
The sky is literally the limit in this online workshop intended to engage your passion for photographing birds and push your creativity to expand your vision. Traditional bird photography can be very repetitive and at times challenging to break out of the box. Join renown wildlife and fine-art photographer Kristi Odom for this new workshop designed to push the boundaries of bird photography enabling you to create works of art.
Kristi starts by reviewing and demonstrating creative camera techniques that bring motion, narrative, colors, pattern, and shape into your images. A critical outcome of perfecting these techniques is to make those looking at our images feel an emotion. Evocative photographs are powerful and stand the test of time, and this is what we strive for in our images of birds.
The important next step in this workshop is to dig deep into learning and experimenting with processing techniques using Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop that enable you fly even higher. These simple techniques can help elevate your work and push your own creativity.
Kristi gives assignments at the end of each class and then reviews selected images during the next session. The goal of this five-session workshop is to create multiple pieces of art that you are proud to exhibit, or sell, or hang on your walls.
Get ready for this journey into the sky and into our imaginations!
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Working knowledge of digital workflow and manual mode on your digital SLR or mirrorless camera. Participants must be able to download and select images using image editing software for class sessions. A proficiency in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop is required for this workshop.
Policies:
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For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
about
Conservation photographer and filmmaker, Kristi Odom has worked in some of the earth’s most remote locations to help document stories that will help protect our planet’s biodiversity. Informed by her experience working as an associate fellow for the International League of Conservation Photographers and as a contributing photographer for National Geographic, Kristi explores the role of photography in environmental advocacy. Her work has helped raise hundreds of thousands for the restoration and protection of our planet’s climate change fighters, from mangroves and grasslands to our pollinators.
Her accolades include over 60 international photography awards. She was included in National Geographic’s 2021 collection for Best Animal Photos, and her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has appeared online and/or in print for the following clients: National Geographic, Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, Rollingstone, Nikon, Microsoft, and Outside Magazine.
Kristi believes strongly in teaching about the power of photography to help create positive change and ultimately help protect the planet’s wildlife.
Website: kristiodomfineart.com
Instagram: @kristiodom
