Authenticity in Photography Workshop

The ability to create eye-catching photographs in the 21st Century is not far from the grasp of almost anyone with a smart phone or digital SLR. In such a world, making photographs might be seen to have become a mundane activity.

Yet, creating images that are a conversation between artist and subject – that speak of the true nature of both the artist and what we are photographing – is far from mundane. The path to this kind of photography and a fulfilling creative life as a photographic artist is through authenticity.

To see and photograph authentically is to understand your unique perception and to be able to join that with an understanding of the technical tools of photography. It is a process of working from within to converse with the world around us. It allows us to see and reach beyond the surface of things and is the path to creating a master work—an image that speaks of a moment in a way that reveals a greater truth and carries a moment of time onward to the future.

In this workshop, Memphis Barbree will outline the path of the masters, those who have created masterpieces of photography and painting (the origin of photography). She will review the fundamentals of human perception and photographic “seeing”.  She will discuss the basic technical problems that stand between photographers and a masterful expression and offer solutions in approach, camera technique and image processing.