Photographing Your Work
Adult | Available
In this workshop you will learn how to photograph your craft work using basic strategies that you can duplicate at home. Using whatever camera you have available to you, we will cover background choices, natural and artificial lighting, basic styling and retouching. Bring a piece that you would like to photograph and a camera if you have one.
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 2 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.
Julia Swyers
Julia has a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. She has worked as a professional photographer specializing in jewelry and watches for commercial clients. After some time working in product photography, Julia branched out into woodturning.
"I first learned about wood turning while taking a general carpentry class at a local college. I had recently moved into a new house and wanted to make furniture for my home. Once in the woodshop, I was drawn to the row of lathes at the back of the room with all the turning tools lining the wall. Here and there were the practice pieces left by other students featuring glue ups of exotic woods, broken bowls or half-done candlesticks. I was intrigued by the handheld scale and tactical quality of what could be made on a lathe. I soon enrolled in workshops learning bowl making and spindle turning, eventually setting up my own shop at home. I like to make functional pieces to warm the home."