Joe Mikuliak teaches classes for artists on
HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR OWN ARTWORK
The best person to photograph your own artwork is YOU, the artist. For this reason Joe has been doing a "demonstration and class" for artists on this subject since 1988. It is now two evenings, two hours each evening.
This is the information you need to take good photographs of your 2D and 3D work to submit to juries, show to galleries, and/or put in your portfolio. The camera technique demonstrated is useful for people who take slides, use digital cameras, or have only color film and get color prints back from a lab.
The talk and demonstration is for painters, sculptors, and artists who work with paper or textiles. You can ask about a specific material or a hard challenge, i.e. jewelry or shooting through glass, and Joe will to try to answer. He just asks for no questions about how to operate a specific camera.
The first night, Joe starts by talking about photography outdoors. This is how to spend the least amount of money for equipment, but has drawbacks so he also covers working indoors with tungsten lights and a camera that has manual exposure control.
The first and second nights are one week apart. This gives students the chance to use the demonstrated technique, take their own slides or photos, and bring questions and/or the slides to the next class.
The second night Joe shares "professional", advanced techniques to deal with glare, minimize wasted film, photograph art in galleries, etc. He encourages students to show some slides of their own work. Joe also shows some slides he took to review techniques presented in the previous class.
The next scheduled "demonstration and class" will be at the Fleisher Art Memorial, in Philadelphia. It will happen on Jan 16 and 23, 2008. The snow date is Jan 30.
The cost for both evenings is $20 and you must reserve your seat in advance. Call James Mundie at 215 922 3456 ext 328 for more information. Registration begins December 1.
Joe's teaching technique is to demonstrate the equipment, present information, answer questions, and review the handout. And because artists bring in a few of their own slides on the second evening, there have been some lively discussions that have been educational for all.
Click here for the how-to hand-out from last year's class (Adobe reader required.)