Minnesota and wildlife! (Part 1)
Notes from Day 1 & 2… Capture, Compose and Create Workshop Minnesota 2014 Day 1 What a great experience not only for myself but for the students as well, I saw smiles all weekend. There were 12 workshop participants ranging in all skill levels and mediums. The first morning started off bright and early with our first photo shoot and even though it was overcast and lightly raining, everyone was excited to get several hundred images of a beautiful Grey Wolf. They overcast wet conditions really made for some highly saturated colors with great contrast. One of our other subjects for the morning was a young black bear that really pushed our limits with understanding the use of our cameras. There was a lot of adjusting of the ISO, shutter speed and aperture settings to accommodate for the darkness of the bear’s fur in the low lighting. Nevertheless there was many, many oh’s and ahh’s as each artist looked at what they were seeing on their LCD screens of the