Analogue and digital black and white photography
Back to the roots: since the success of colour pictures in books and in the print and electronic media, black and white photography has been freed from the burden of documentation. Nowadays, photographers use it as a stylistic means in art, photojournalism and even advertising. Through the removal of colour, very different images emerge, with results that are often particularly impressive. Especially in the case of portrait photography and reportage, even fifty year-old photos can still look modern today.
Workshop content:
What is special about photographing in black and white? What technology do you need? How do you achieve certain effects? What do you need for a photo laboratory in your own cellar? Or isn’t digital black and white photography better? At least more practical?
In addition to the particularities of seeing in black and white, Knut Gielen uses this workshop to explain the technical foundations, present famous photographers, and give participants practical exercises on how to use their analogue or digital Leica today, to photograph in black and white.
Saturday
- Technical foundations: film, developing and laboratory techniques explained in brief
- The impact of colour filters on black and white photos
- Ansel Adams’ Zone System
- Practical exercises: photographing with film, developing film and creating contact sheets for the selection of images
Sunday
- Thinking picture composition in black and white
- Famous photographers
- Practical exercises: black and white photography with the digital camera, portraits and architecture
- Development and filter effects with Adobe Lightroom
About the photographer:
Knut Gielen has been a photographer in Hamburg since 1987. Initially he worked in advertising, then an a press photographer for Reuters News Agency, and finally as a photojournalist for magazines such as Mare, Stern, Geo, Zeitmagazin, and many more. Participants will discover that Gielen is as curious, open and friendly a photographer in the workshop as he was when travelling the world. He has been teaching photojournalism in Hamburg since 2017, and offers workshops on analogue and digital photography. Of course, even today, he prefers to photograph in black and white.
Workshop content:
What is special about photographing in black and white? What technology do you need? How do you achieve certain effects? What do you need for a photo laboratory in your own cellar? Or isn’t digital black and white photography better? At least more practical?
In addition to the particularities of seeing in black and white, Knut Gielen uses this workshop to explain the technical foundations, present famous photographers, and give participants practical exercises on how to use their analogue or digital Leica today, to photograph in black and white.
Saturday
- Technical foundations: film, developing and laboratory techniques explained in brief
- The impact of colour filters on black and white photos
- Ansel Adams’ Zone System
- Practical exercises: photographing with film, developing film and creating contact sheets for the selection of images
Sunday
- Thinking picture composition in black and white
- Famous photographers
- Practical exercises: black and white photography with the digital camera, portraits and architecture
- Development and filter effects with Adobe Lightroom
About the photographer:
Knut Gielen has been a photographer in Hamburg since 1987. Initially he worked in advertising, then an a press photographer for Reuters News Agency, and finally as a photojournalist for magazines such as Mare, Stern, Geo, Zeitmagazin, and many more. Participants will discover that Gielen is as curious, open and friendly a photographer in the workshop as he was when travelling the world. He has been teaching photojournalism in Hamburg since 2017, and offers workshops on analogue and digital photography. Of course, even today, he prefers to photograph in black and white.
Location:
LFI Photographie GmbH
Springeltwiete 4
20095 Hamburg
Germany
Individuals are responsible for travel to and from the location. We can inform about reasonably-priced hotels. Lunch snack, coffee and drinks included during the workshop
Date:
April 21 to 22nd, 2018, 10am to 6pm
Number of participants:
Min. 6 / Max. 10 people
Fee: 350 euros
We reserve the right to cancel if there are too few registration or if the instructor is unable to attend, in which case, the fee paid will be fully refunded. In the case of a participant cancelling at short notice, there will be no refund.
Further information at:
workshops@lfi-online.de, Ref: Knut Gielen
The deadline for registration is April 7th, 2018
LFI Photographie GmbH
Springeltwiete 4
20095 Hamburg
Germany
Individuals are responsible for travel to and from the location. We can inform about reasonably-priced hotels. Lunch snack, coffee and drinks included during the workshop
Date:
April 21 to 22nd, 2018, 10am to 6pm
Number of participants:
Min. 6 / Max. 10 people
Fee: 350 euros
We reserve the right to cancel if there are too few registration or if the instructor is unable to attend, in which case, the fee paid will be fully refunded. In the case of a participant cancelling at short notice, there will be no refund.
Further information at:
workshops@lfi-online.de, Ref: Knut Gielen
The deadline for registration is April 7th, 2018
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