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The Characteristics of Light

Saturday, October 15, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Caribe Royale: Boca VI 

Audience: High School, College/University, Museum

Tags: Photography Art History Digital Art

Pathway: Learning Discovering and experimenting with new techniques, skills, materials, and technology

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This is a hands-on session on basic and advanced photographic lighting techniques: Direction, Intensity, Quality, Color & Contrast. Continuous and strobe lighting will be set up to create transillumination and portrait lighting. Participants should bring digital cameras to record the lighting types: backlight, butterfly, split, high ley, low key and Rembrandt short and broad body light. The instructor will assist with camera settings and focusing calibration techniques, such as eye detection and depth of focus and design elements, and the use of the frame. In addition, a photo-macro station will be set up to photograph small subjects.

This is an extended hands-on Workshop with limited spots, and requires advance registration.

You can purchase this workshop when you pre-register for the conference, or at the on-site registration desk.
On-Line Pre-Registration: $10.00, Paper Pre-Registration: $10.00 On-Site Registration: $10.00
Mr. Walter  Lara 

Florida School of the Arts

A native of Peru, Lara was educated in Lima, as well as Miami, Rochester, New York and Jacksonville Florida. As a graduate from the most prestigious school of Photography, The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, 90), his programs of study included, Graphic Arts and Biomedical Photographic Communications. He is a Registered Biological Photographer (RBP) Lara is an instructor for Florida School of the Arts, where he teaches photography. Lara’s work started with black & white portraiture techniques, later worked as a medical photographer, technical director of Medical Informatics and Instructor of Kohler Illumination for University of Florida Health Science Center from 1990-2002. Lara’s preferred medium is liquid, glass and nature, aiming for symmetry in motion utilizing extreme optics. His extreme photography has landed him assignments with corporates contributing with The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve and Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience