Workshop: The Human Element w/ Douglas Flores
Workshop: The Human Element w/ Douglas Flores
2-Day Workshop
9/14/24 5-7:30 PM
9/21/24 10 AM-1 PM
Limited Capacity: 8
Schedule
Day 1 | 9/14/24 5-7:30 PM
Neighborhood photo walk with Douglas Flores guiding principles focusing on capturing the workshop theme: The Human Experience
Return to the lab to discuss images and photographing experience
Day 2 | 9/21/24 10 AM-1 PM
Return to the lab with images to print
Print tech will assist in finalizing your files
Discuss paper choices and color proofing with Flores and print tech
Create test print as well as final image (both to take home)
Learn the art of finding the human element and how light, color, and dynamic composition can turn even the simplest things into powerful images. Participants will learn how to capture the beauty of everyday life and develop a photographic eye for the mundane. We will discuss how all these elements come together to help shape your own style and story.
Participants will be working with Douglas Flores in the field during a photo walk, where Flores will help you find the human elements in your scenes and show you how to use composition and lighting to help frame your scene.
After the photo walk, we will edit and prepare your images to be printed by working with a Printing Technician to help bring your photograph to life. This will include working 1-on-1 with both Flores and the tech to edit, run through a test print process, and make a final print.
About the Instructor
Douglas Flores is a documentary photographer born in Van Nuys, CA, where he lived for the majority of his childhood. His passion for skateboarding really developed his love for the world around him. Douglas was diagnosed with cancer at a young age, which is what inspired him to start photographing the world around him. His work consists of small stories that can be seen in the empty spaces he discovers, filled with small details, rich colors, and remnants of human life.
After 5 long years, he finally won his battle with cancer and decided to relocate back to his home town in California where he has been documenting Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, working on his project, Early Years, a documentation of his early childhood capturing the bittersweetness of growing up.