The Art of Seeing
Adult | Available
Colin Harrison will present four classes on successive weekends that cover the end-to-end processes of digital photography from shot to print. Each class will be 2 hours long and they may be taken individually or all together as a course, according to the student's needs.
Students will learn to develop skills in noticing and understanding interesting subjects, capturing subjects effectively and creatively with a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, and processing and printing such images with Adobe Photoshop.
This course is the beginning of an enormous, indeed lifetime, learning experience and in 2 hours students will not become experts. The aim is simply to learn some of the many entry points into deeper learning.
Eighty percent or more of the impact of a photograph comes from where you chose to stand, where you pointed the camera, how you framed and lit the scene, and when and how you made the exposure.
The primary duties of the photographer are to be an observer, recognizing and framing striking subjects that will attract and hold the viewer's attention, and then to know how to capture them based on methods of composition employed by visual artists of all kinds.
All materials are provided. No prior experience is required.
This Class is held in the Modern Craft Studio above the Ceramic Studio.
The door to enter is from the Forge driveway
Parking is available up at the Forge, Ceramic studio and the main parking lot.
There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
Members will have the $4 fee deducted from the tuition.
Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number of registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.
Colin Harrison
Colin Harrison was born in the Steel City of Sheffield in the North of England and grew up in the North Sea resort town of Scarborough. From birth he was destined to be creative. At the age of four he exhibited right-brain thinking, assembling Meccano Erector set models without instructions. At 7 years he was given a Kodak Brownie camera and taught himself how to process film. He became a PhD engineer, working at CERN in Geneva, at EMI Research near London on the first clinically useful MRI, and finally a long and world-wide career with IBM as a Distinguished Engineer.
Over several years, he studied natural art photography with Freeman Patterson in St. John’s, New Brunswick. From these experiences, he learned to see “the act of photography” as a human response to the inherent spirit of natural scenes. He participates regularly in solo and group shows in western Connecticut, most recently the Brookfield Craft Center, the Bethel, Brookfield, and Roxbury Libraries, the Carriage Barn, the Easton Arts Council, and the Ridgebury Meetinghouse, winning various awards. He has a great love of alpine scenes and plants at varying scales, and his works on alpine subjects are in the permanent collection of the Town of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. In retirement he teaches photography at the Brookfield Craft Center. His work is focused on developing his own and his students’ skills in observing and responding emotionally, over a wide range of scales, to what he calls “Nature’s Art”.