Despite the overwhelming complexity of digital photographic technology, from the camera’s capabilities to the possibilities of post-processing, the fundamental things―as that classic song has it―apply. From format to aperture, shutter-speed to film speed, composition to theme, light and shadow, and cropping: all of these are just as important to us today as they were to the greats of film photography. Whether our own inclinations lead us to street scenes or wild landscapes, portraits or gardens, or macro blooms and insects, the stronger our grasp of these bedrock essentials of photographic creativity, the better and more emotionally effective our images will be.
Join local photographer Chip Smith, best known for his work in traditional, large-format black-and-white imagery, for a fast-paced, exciting review of the essentials upon which every successful photographer builds his or her practice. Suitable―and hopefully inspiring for all levels of skill and experience.
About the presenter:
Author, photographer, and conservationist C.E. "Chip" Smith is the author of one book of essays about the Murrells Inlet salt marsh, A Pocket Wild: Notes from a Carolina Marsh, and one children's novel, The Tide in the Cordgrass, set in an imaginary Murrells Inlet. Known for his evocative writing and large-format, black-and-white photography, Smith also founded and continues to lead the now 34-year tradition of the Spring Tide Inlet cleanup and celebration, and conceived the anti-marine-litter slogan and practice of Plus-One Boating.