Design Elements in Photography Worshops by Yannis Souris

Jan 22-23 / Feb 12-13 / May 14-15 / June 4-5 / Sep 10-11 / Oct 22-23

Creative Photography Workshops by Yannis Souris

2011 season

Design Elements in Photography

Design Elements in Photography • Creative Image Making • Marketing for Photographers • Photo Creativity (Mt.Tremblant) • Photo Creativity (Crete) • Photo Creativity (Havana)

2010/11 SEASON

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

Design Elements in Photography The Byward Market, Ottawa, Ontario / Chelsea, Quebec

Format: 2-day weekend, offered six (6) times a year.

Jan 22-23 / Feb 12-13 / May 14-15 / June 4-5 / Sep 10-11 / Oct 22-23 As an artistic medium, photography is a great way to express yourself. Photographers try to depict something they’ve seen or imagined in a unique an interesting way. Most of them, however, will see something pretty and record it on film or a sensor without even thinking of improving what they see in the frame. But what is that extra something that makes photographs truly remarkable and make the viewer take notice? Are the exotic locations and the strange people you visited? Is it the vibrant colours? Spectacular scenery can carry the image, but it’s not enough. In order to create a compelling image you need more. In this workshop, Yannis demonstrates certain design and art direction techiniques and assigns excercises that help students discover what it truy takes to make an image you can be proud of.

Duration:

2 day Weekend

Capacity:

12 people

Focus:

Creativity, compositional/design elements, technical, execution, field work, assignments

Cost:

$285/person

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

2010/11 SEASON

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

DESIGN ELEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY: 2-day weekend, offered 6 times a year Jan 22-23 / Feb 12-13 / May 14-15 / June 4-5 / Sep 10-11 / Oct 22-23

What can you gain? > Develop skills that will allow you to “make a photograph” before you even press the shutter button. > Learn “Design” funtamentals. > Use design elements like diagonals, S arrangements and triangles to compose a better picture. > Rules of compositon. Learn them, then break them. > Learn to see from a different perspective > Understand the three things that matter the most in an image: subject, light and background

What is the format? > First part: design fandamentals, elements of composition. > Second part: exercises and hands-on creative work.

What to bring: Your photo gear and your imagination.

(Stationery items and visual aids will be provided.)

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

2010/11 SEASON

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

DESIGN ELEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY: 2-day weekend, offered 6 times a year Jan 22-23 / Feb 12-13 / May 14-15 / June 4-5 / Sep 10-11 / Oct 22-23

Day 1 Part 1: General composition Discussion/Excersices/Assignments Part 2: Transforming three-dimensional set ups into successful two dimensional compositions.

Design Elements part 1: Depth, diagonals, S-structure, Triangle.

Discussion/Excersices/Assignments Part 3: The thinking photgrapher: think first, shoot after Design Elements part2 : Colour and texture.

Discussion/Excersices/Assignments

Day 2 Part 1: Realistic looking and made-up images Design Elements part3 : Depth and perspective Discussion/Excersices/Assignments Part 2: People photography. Portrait Street, Phtojournalism. Design Elements part3 : Element Relationhips Discussion/Excersices/Assignments Part 3: Technical considerations review.

Final assignment. Critiques.

Discussion/Handouts

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

About

2010/11 SEASON

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

YANNIS SOURIS

Yannis has presented seminars and workshops to hundreds of amateur and pro photographers in Canada and abroad, motivating and inspiring beginners and advanced photographers alike for over a decade. His professional background includes a successful commercial art career, as an award-winning advertising art director, ŠSothea Kham

but it was his interest in photography as an art medium that led him to considerable exposure the past seven years. Yannis has won more than 250 national and international awards both in art direction and photography and he has been recognized three years in a row with Photographer of the Year awards in Ottawa. His photographs and articles on the subject of creativity have been published internationally in magazines like Photo Life, Canadian Camera, Photo Art Magazine, and PhotoDigital. Yannis has also judged several photography and design competitions over the past ten years. As a fine art photographer, he has exhibited his work in more than 20 galleries.

Official web site:

www.yannisfoto.com

Photo Workshops:

www.ysworkshops.com

Prints for sale:

www.moodscapesgallery.com

General photo art:

www.persistenceofmemory.ca

Marketing site:

www.yannisouris.com

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

2011 season Creative Photography Workshops by Yannis Souris Register: www.ysworkshops.com Contact and info: yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540