Your instructor will demonstrate and supervise the art of creating dynamic images, with easy-to-learn composition strategies, that will lay a foundation for all future photo activities whether at a family gathering, a sporting event, a walk in the neighborhood or a lifetime travel experience.

 

Capture the skies with adjusting your camera or cell phone controls to the ever changing lighting from above, that shines down through the foliage.

 

The various trails offer a vehicle to create different perspectives of a myriad of potential environmental portraits of the hikers who you come upon or who are in your company. Different placements of the people/animals on the trail control one’s eye movement within the frame of the shot and each tell new stories. The direction of the trail also makes a difference. A straight path is one visual experience, a curving trail, another.

 

How about a lesson to learn the art of capturing patterns of the visual interplay of shadow and light on the scene? The sun behind the clouds is quite different than the sun, unobstructed by the clouds. The window of opportunity is fleeting but worth waiting for.

 

Scenes with no human presence can also offer a powerful narrative, an exhilarating visual experience, for example, when you focus on a vibrant flower that offers a bright spot of color against the green backdrop of trees or a pet dog romping amid the brush, owner just beyond the photo frame.

 

Concentrate on a texture theme by focusing closely on a single tree. You can almost feel the bark of the massive trunk.

 

Join the workshop and you will not only have an enjoyable experience of this centuries old oasis, but you will walk away with wonderful photographs worthy of framing for your living room walls.

 

Meet your Digital Photo Academy Instructor at 611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, in front of the Japanese Garden entrance by the tennis courts parking lot.