Magic Hour: Urban & Street Photography
6 Week Class | This course is currently not open for registration.
In this course, we will explore the city where you live - looking at architectural styles & neighbourhoods filled with either cultural diversity or perhaps a strong historical element that has shaped where you live. Using film or digital cameras, students will create a body of work featuring these significant places, returning to the same spot each week to further their investigation into what makes a place unique, both during the day and at night. We will engage the architectural visual composition of the city—structures, people, vehicles, light, and all of the clutter of the chaotic street scene—into well-thought-out and organized photographs, while always allowing for the unexpected surprise.Technical aspects of architectural photography will be thoroughly explained and practiced. Weekly assignments will be discussed in a group setting. Field trips will be part of the exploration along with presentations in our digital lab on historic and contemporary architectural photographers with a myriad of styles such as Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Vivian Maier, Fred Herzog, Lee Freidlander and Saul Leiter.
Notes:
- Basic computer fluency is required.
- This class is held in-studio and in our Digital Lab
- Helpful if the student has access to Lightroom & Photoshop if they want to work at home, otherwise we have in our Lab computers.
Base Tuition: $335
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- What You Will Learn:
- Understand how to set up your digital camera
- Understand the connection between digital photography and the digital darkroom
- Learn the basic rules of exposure, composition and natural lighting
- Learn to develop creative images using Lightroom & Adobe Photoshop
Please keep your receipts in case you need to return items.
- Digital camera (DSLR preferred) or film camera (35mm or 120mm)
- Fully charged camera battery(s)
- An empty SD card, or various rolls of film
- Hard drive
- Laptop
Jessica Thalmann
Jessica is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. Thalmann has taught at the International Centre for Photography, Akin Collective, MacLaren Art Centre, Toronto School of Art, Gallery 44 and City College of New York. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, International Centre for Photography, Camera Club of New York Baxter St, and Humble Arts Foundation (New York), VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver), Museum of Contemporary Art, Harbourfront Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Angell Gallery, Gallery TPW, Art Spin, and Gales Gallery at York University (Toronto).