Photography Workshops
Winter/ Spring 2010
To register:
by Mail: download form
by Email: info_at_bakeryphoto.com
by Phone: 207-591-6675
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Pinhole Photography
With Jack Nordby
February 27 $125
10am-4pm
In this introduction to pinhole photography. Students will build simple pinhole cameras and learn fundamentals of pinhole photography technique. We will be exposing paper negatives and developing prints in the darkroom.
Photoshop for Photographers
With Scott Peterman
March 6 $125
10am-4pm
For photographers who have a working knowledge of Photoshop but want to break through to the next level. e.g. adjustment layers, masking, advanced dodging & burning, layer types. Class will be customized to students’ needs. Bring a laptop with Photoshop version CS or later.
Platinum/Palladium Printing
With David Wolfe
March 20 $125 + $45 lab fee
10am-4pm
The platinum /palladium historical printing process produces uniquely beautiful prints, which yield a wide range of contrast with very subtle tonal gradations. In this workshop we will begin by creating large format digital negatives from your own digital files. Then you will make contact prints using paper that has been sensitized by coating with a palladium solution.
Cyan & Gum Bichromate
with Brenton Hamilton
April 3 $125 + $30 lab fee
10am-4pm
This workshop will introduce the chemistry and technique of the 1840’s cyanotype and possibilities of gum bichromate in tandem. Chemistry, coating techniques, process. Papers and procedures are all demo’ed and practiced. Cyanotype and images with light gum over washes can be quite seductive and painterly.
Black and White Darkroom
With Bob Monroe
April 10 $125
10am-4pm
An introduction to the fundamentals of black and white printing, no experience necessary. Bring some of your favorite black and white negatives to print. Workshop includes four darkroom rental hours to be used at your convenience.
Wet Plate Collodion
With Keliy Anderson-Staley
May 8 & 9 $325
10am-4pm
An intensive two-day introduction to the wet plate collodion process. This workshop includes “how to” make ambrotypes, tintypes, and glass plate negatives. This silver-based process was the leading mode of photography in the 1850’s and 1860’s and involves the hand-pouring of chemicals onto glass or blackened metal. Participants will learn how to use wooden view cameras with antique brass lenses, and how to prepare the plates, expose and develop them and to produce one-of-a-kind photographic objects.
Color Darkroom
With Tanja Hollander
April 24 $125
10am-4pm
An introduction to the fundamentals of color printing, no experience necessary. Bring some favorite negatives to print. Workshop includes an additional four rental hours to be used at your convenience.
The Fine Art Digital Print
With Scott Peterman
May 15 $125
10am-4pm
Learn to make beautiful exhibition prints in the digital darkroom. Do you want to take your digital printing into the fine art realm? We will be using BPIC’s Epson Professional 9880 printer which makes prints up to 44″ wide. This class will cover paper types, printer profiles and will explore the possibilities available in digital fine art printing, as well as tips and tricks in Photoshop to get most out of your files. We will cover scanning of negatives for print, and how to get the most out of RAW files from digital capture.
INSTRUCTORS:
Keliy Anderson-Staley received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY. Keliy was a 2008 NYFA Photography Fellow. She has taught the nineteenth-century wet plate collodion tintype process at the Center for Alternative Photogaphy in NYC, the Bakery Photo Collective, at Bowdoin College, Hampshire College, and New Jersey City University. Her work has been featured in fine art photography magazines and exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. www.andersonstaley.com
Brenton Hamilton has been a print maker and educator for 18 years - specializing in historic process. Hamilton teaches year round at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport Maine and directs the long term residency program in photography.
Tanja Hollander graduated with a BA from Hampshire College in 1994. Tanja has been printing color photo0graphs for 20 years. She is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, and Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York. www.tanjaalexiahollander.com
Robert Monroe graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from SUNY Oswego. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography in NYC, privately with photographer Dan Cooney and in the graduate program at MECA. His work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, and throughout Maine.
Jack Nordby is a self-educated photographer, having built his first darkroom at age twelve. Jack’s specialty is panoramic photography. He has been doing pinhole photography for over 10 years.
Scott Peterman (MFA Yale ’98) has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Tate Modern London, The 10th annual Architecture Exhibit Venice, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Portland Museum of Art and The Decordova Museum, as well as many commercial Galleries. His clients include IBM and Nextel, NY Times Magazine, GQ, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and Forbes among others. Scott’s work is in the collections of Aomori Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art and The PMA among many others.
David Wolfe is a master printer in Portland, Maine. He is proprietor of Wolfe Editions, a fine art and book printing studio. He teaches at MECA, and shows work at numerous venues. He is represented by VOX Photographs. David is the “Traditional Arts Fellow” for 2010 given by the Maine Arts Commission.