Teen Workshop: Photography Rules & Breaking Them

Imagine a culture glued to their screens watching football 24/7. Imagine in this culture that only the players, coaches, and team owners know the rules of the game, yet for some reason the fans want to watch anyway.

That’s photography today. We live in an image culture yet most people don’t know what makes a “good” photo. Why does one photographer become famous or go viral while another goes unnoticed?

To make good photographs you need to know the basic rules of photography, but to make great photos you need to break them. Come improve your game at The Image Flow!

We’ll examine some famous and not so famous photographers to understand the photography rules that were used or not. With this new insight, we’ll take a photo walk and shoot in the studio to experiment with using and breaking the rules.

Gale Jesi has taught Photography to teens for over 20 years at San Francisco University High School and Marin Academy. She has given numerous workshops in photography and continues to help many private clients reach their photographic goals. She is a lifelong champion for visual literacy. Jesi received her BA in Fine Art from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa and MFA from UC Davis. She has shown her work nationally and internationally.