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Stalking Photographs in New York City - NY Field Trip #A - lower Manhattan

July 18, 2009 (raindate July 25, 2009)

See and explore New York through the eyes of a New Yorker
Fee: 10 hour NYC photo excursion $200 per person (does not include transportation or meals)

Come along on a "digital field trip," to New York City with Lenscapes photographers, Melissa Cherniske and Emery Roth. We'll meet at Wingdale Station on the Harlem River Line. Shooting may start before the train arrives. Wear your walking shoes and bring your camera questions and uncertainties. The train ride down is for sharing our backgrounds, identifying priorities, and discussing composition.

Throughout the day, Ted will guide the group to view the city in ways you may never have viewed it before, see things you may not have known existed. This is not a sight seeing tour of Manhattan; this is a hands-on workshop that will focus on visual composition, with diverse content. Learn practical tricks-of-the-trade in camera operation and artistic composition. This workshop is only open to six participants so please register early.

The narrow streets of old New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, the street vendors of Chinatown, the cobbles of Chelsea, and the hustle and bustle of city government and the financial district provide ample opportunities for a lifetime of shooting. We won't be able to do it all. We'll make our choices as weather and participants' choices dictate. If the weather cooperates, the air above the city makes a special orange glow at sunset, and on a good night one can catch it bouncing off the new glass towers on the Jersey shore of the Hudson River.

The following skills will be addressed in this workshop:
• basics of camera operation, including, where appropriate, manual exposure settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field)
• selecting lenses and understanding their effects on composition
• strategies for stalking shooting locations and good shots
• principles & evaluation of image composition
• understanding and using qualities of natural light

Earn "frequent stalker miles" sign up for two

email us at lenscapes.photo@gmail.com for questions.