Mini-Workshop
Beyond Automatic Mode: Creative Camera Controls
Your digital camera has different modes for shooting to choose from and in this hour-long workshop you’ll learn how to configure your cameras to get the creative results you want. We’ll develop a simple workflow to quickly choose the right settings for the given situation and learn how to avoid common pitfalls. You know that aperture, shutter speed, and ISO affect the look of your photographs — think motion blur, depth of field, and low-light sensitivity — but do you find yourself too often defaulting to fully automatic? Autofocus is fast and accurate, but sometimes focusing on the “wrong” thing is more interesting. Should you be “zone focusing” — whatever that is? This Mini-workshop is appropriate for anyone who would like to get the most out of their digital camera.
Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.
Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.
His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.
Kai teaches black and white photography, photobooks, and more for StrudelmediaLive.
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