Monday 19 December 2011

Finding Pictures! Unleash your creativity with this new Workshop


Update! All registrants will receive a free Fine Art Print of one of their pictures! (Early birds will receive 2!)

My new Photography Workshop will show keen photographers how to make arresting, thoughtful pictures of wherever they are. Be it on the other side of the world or just outside your door there are unlimited, unique pictures just waiting to be made.

If you, or someone you know, loves making pictures then here's the chance to have a pro show how to get the most from a DSLR camera.* Discover how to train your eye and imagination to see the beauty and the design that makes interesting, captivating photographs. 

Set in Sydney's beautiful and inspiring Botanic gardens the half day workshop will set you on the path to your own style with skills and techniques to nurture inspiration.

Paul will hone your composition skills as well as explain how to use light and shadow to add depth and drama to your photographs. Learn how to control depth of field and add deliberate motion blur as well as the ins and outs of Polarizing and Neutral Density Filters.
This course is designed for the keen enthusiast so you should know the basics of how your camera operates and own a tripod and shutter release. 



Art - Images by Paul Foley

Making pictures with your camera on a tripod slows down the creative process and gives you time to construct more 'considered' photographs capturing the beauty and details that many others don't even notice. Of course, these skills will also improve your hand held, spontaneous photography. 
The morning will begin with a short classroom session then we will head into the beautiful Gardens and surrounds to make pictures. It will be fun, creative and certainly educational! The Workshop also includes one on one, online tuition in the month after the workshop as Paul will assess up to 5 of your pictures as you practice the lessons learnt.
Class size is limited to just 15 and includes a yummy lunch under the shade of the Garden’s trees. Please feel free to email me directly if you have any specific questions about the workshop. 

There are 3 Saturday dates available for the workshop: 11 February, 24 March and 28 April 2012 so hopefully there's a date that suits. You can visit here to book your place and if you book before January 15, 2012 I will personally make a Fine Art Print of one your pictures for free! **


I hope you (or someone you know) can join me for this workshop - I've designed it to help keen photographers understand the process of picture taking and make photographs they 
will be proud to hang on their walls.


*Paul Foley has been a professional photographer for over 25 years. His landscapes have won international awards and been exhibited in Australia, China and Japan. Many hundreds of his limited edition prints are hung in homes around the world.
** To fit on 375 x 250mm paper - valued at $55.00.

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Touchy Feely Photographs


In this digital, online world it is always great to see your work on paper, be it a fine art print or as a double page spread in a well printed magazine. The world of magazines and newspapers moves further from paper towards pixels each day and I was pleasantly surprised when a real magazine showing one of my pictures arrived in my post box recently.

In September I wrote about the 'See Change' panorama shoot I undertook for Newcastle City Council. The usage agreement allows for the client to get a lot of mileage from this picture so I was very happy to see it used across two pages in OUTthere magazine's 'Windowseat' section.

click on the photograph to purchase your own fine art print

OutThere is the national in-flight magazine for Australia's largest regional airlines, Regional Express (REX), as well as New South Wales' AeroPelican Air. 'Windowseat' highlights a different facet of Australia each month and on this occasion celebrated Newcastle's listing in Lonely Planet's 2011 Worlds Top Ten Cities.

Many thanks to Guy Pendlebury and Edge Custom Media for the high design and reproduction values they insist on for their work. The surfers at sunrise picture looked beautiful!

For those of us who like to hold real paper photographs and/or display them in our homes please visit the new Collectable Photography website. The prints are personally made by me and limited to editions of 25 or less. For stock photography please visit Lightmoods