Tom McCall Waterfront Park

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E-MAIL US AT [email protected] OR CALL 1-877-372-2231 OR click here TO LEARN ABOUT OUR PRIVATE ALL DAY OR HALF DAY CLASS

ASK ABOUT OUR BACK-TO-BACK SAME DAY WORKSHOP OFFER STARTING WITH A SIT-DOWN SESSION FOLLOWED BY A 3-HOUR DEMONSTRATION PHOTO SHOOT, LED BY A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

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Tom McCall Waterfront Park, within 36 acres, offers a dizzying array of photo ops and your Digital Photo Academy Instructor will demonstrate a number of easy-to-learn, composition strategies to enable you to create dynamic images.

You will practice the use of Negative Space. For example, try creating the illusion of peace and tranquility by focusing only on an empty expanse of the cool blue Willamette River, catching its repeating rippling pattern at play, completely void of activity, comprising 99% of the scene within the frame of your photograph. But leave in the tiny speck of a figure, in the upper right third of the image, paddling atop a surf board, and that lone individual will pop and tell a story of quiet solitude, man communing with nature. The tranquility of the scene would not be disturbed by what you cropped out of the frame, namely bustling crowds, bikers, joggers, skate boarders, dog walkers and so on, taking place 15 feet away from the boardwalk.

As crowded as the park might be, the landscape greenery can offer the same opportunity to visually create a metaphor of human scale, small against the universe, dwarfing a couple picnicking along side a massive tree trunk and its huge canopy of leaves towering above. Be patient but quick and take several steps back from the massive tree, waiting until there comes a moment of no human presence save the couple starring in your photograph. The moment will come and quickly go but there will be just enough time when you can frame your shot to include the entire tree from the ground to the top of the leaves 80 feet above, no people whatsoever, except the couple, conveying a tender romance undisturbed in its own little world.

Your instructor will simultaneously supervise tricks like Panning and other depictions of action and motion so you can convey exactly the opposite of tranquility…the frenetic energy of the park. Learn to glide your camera along the path of a skateboarder zooming by, the background blurred with speed.

Use a Rule of Thirds or Leading Lines technique convey great power and dominate the scene with the steel bridge on the other side of the park. Try a slow shutter speed and render the water in a fountain as a velvety stream of sensuous liquid reminiscent of the old Impressionistic paintings.

There are so many photos to take in this locale you will be back again and again.

Meet your host (wearing a blue shirt) and group in front of the WorldMark Portland Waterfront Park Hotel entrance – 221 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland. The group will then walk over to the park together. Metered street parking and plenty of pay lots near the meeting spot.

221 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97204

Call Digital Photo Academy at 1 877 372 2231. Lots of people seem to hang up if our welcome recording comes on instead of a live voice, but we promise to return your message within a day or two if you leave one with your name and number. It would be even better if you included your email address as well as the date and city of the class you are considering. If leaving a voice mail message is not your thing, please email us at [email protected].

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Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

E-MAIL US AT [email protected] OR CALL 1-877-372-2231 OR click here TO LEARN ABOUT OUR PRIVATE ALL DAY OR HALF DAY CLASS

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