The Daily Visual with Ken Merfeld (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

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Online Learning

How dedicated are you to your craft? What percentage of each day do you spend shooting, dealing with, or thinking about photography? Do you walk the streets with your camera? Do you wish you could shoot every day? Now you can. The Daily Visual workshop is intended to motivate you to shoot every day, no matter what.

Every day your goal is to shoot at least one visually compelling image, a piece of art, per se, no matter where you are or what you are doing. Your daily art will be “found” (discovered) images, nothing set up or pre-lit. You will develop a 24/7 “mind set” to discover interesting visuals incorporating emotional light, while raising your level of awareness on a daily basis. Assignments will be given to strengthen your point of view, sharpen your eye for discovery, and change the structure of how you photograph.

Instructor Ken Merfeld has taught “concepts” classes for years and will challenge how you see, what you shoot, what you do or don’t do with light, and where you are going with your photography. The class encompasses learning available light, portraiture on the streets, finding “poetry out of the ordinary,” interpretive thinking, strengthening your personality when shooting in public, and introducing your mind into the artistic equation while easing you into a new, more disciplined work ethic.

Project and assignment prints due each class session. Please bring creative portfolios of what you love to shoot to the first class meeting.

Ken Merfeld is a Los Angeles-based commercial and fine art photographer. His work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Angeleno, Zoom, Black & White and Los Angeles Magazine. His commercial accounts include American Express, Nike, Kodak, Apple, Sony, Pacific Bell, Disney, Mattel, McDonald’s and Panavision. During his 25 years of commercial and fine art photography, he has explored the worlds of autistic children, people with their pets, parent and child, tattooed people, bikers, identical twins, transvestites, “little people,” erotica and more. His current body of collodion work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Santa Fe and Mexico City. Ken teaches photography part-time at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Details

• Six Sessions
• Dates: Wednesdays, October 11 – November 15, 6-9 pm PST
• Enrollment Limit: 15 students
• Skill/Experience Level: Open to all levels.
• Tuition: $475  (Become a Member today and received up to 20% off!)
• Location: Online

A link for the Zoom class meeting will be emailed to the attendees prior to the start date. Please read the instructions included in the email. If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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