With
Brett L. Erickson, Charles W. Guildner
When
May 26 - 31, 2019
Category
Creative Vision, Documentary, Landscape & Nature, Travel
Package Price
2995.00
$2,995 includes double accommodations for 5 nights at the TA Guest Ranch (ideal for couples and friends traveling together; single supplement for solo travelers is an additional $475), all meals starting with Sunday dinner and ending with Thursday dinner, and applicable
model/location/materials fees.
Join veteran cowboy photographers Charles Guildner and Brett Erickson for a week of unforgettable image making at the TA Guest Ranch near Buffalo, Wyoming—the heart of the American West.
In this one-of-a-kind workshop, you explore classic portraiture, photographic storytelling, visual poetry, and more, all the while enjoying classic surroundings, lodging, and fare of a working ranch, each served with a generous helping of Western hospitality.
We begin with the fundamentals of cowboy, ranch, and Western photography, progressing to strategies for using light, working with environmental factors, movement, expression, metaphor, and, of course, editing to enhance your photographs. Our subjects include two- and four-legged varieties of Western inhabitants, as well as still life, landscape, and quiet moments. As the week progresses, we spend time in group and individual critiques to hone our skills.
In this lecture-light, photographing-intensive expedition, you learn to use the gamut of photographic opportunities present in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains to make powerful imagery. By the end you have grown immensely, with a solid foothold in taking your images of Western legends to the next level.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Amateurs, Advanced Amateurs, Professionals
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, select, and transfer images to their own jump drive for class each day.
SPECIAL NOTES:
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Refer to Package Price description for details on lodging and meals.
PACKAGE PRICE INFO:
$2,995 includes double accommodations for 5 nights at the TA Guest Ranch (ideal for couples and friends traveling together; single supplement for solo travelers is an additional $475), all meals starting with Sunday dinner and ending with Thursday dinner, and applicable
model/location/materials fees.
Brett L. Erickson specializes in making fine-art images of the Great Plains and American West, and he encourages his students to commit themselves to considered photographic artisanship of exceptional digital prints. Using practices he learned through intensive study from his own photographic mentors—as well as from his own experiences as a professional journalist and photographer—he has been imparting this philosophy to students in photography, photojournalism, online design, and mass media at Hastings College and in workshops since 2003. This is Brett's fifth year teaching for The Workshops. His web site is www.brettlerickson.com.
For the past 20 years, Chuck has been photographing a project titled, “Lives of Tradition,” finding ordinary people who are living and working in ways that have changed little since the settling of the heartland of this country. A permanent exhibit of 20 of these images resides at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. He has work in the Library of Congress, has been published in LensWork magazine, and his negatives are being archived at the Center For Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska. Chuck resides in Everett, Washington. His website is www.guildner-photo.com.
The best things about my workshop experience were the teachers (Brett Erickson and Charles Guildner), the environment, and how much I learned.
Janique Helson, part participant of Where the Buffalo Roam: A Wyoming Workshop