Phabulous Photographers
Author: lizbieberportraits
Day 2
After spending the morning finishing up critiquing photos of yesterdays photographs, and discussing what goes into iconic photographs, we took a field trip to check out the work of Rose Marasco- a non prolific photographer who has lived and photographed Maine for over 35 years! After splitting into two groups our class parted ways in order to go a engaging guided tour to learn more about Marasco’s work.
Photos by Rose Marasco. More information about todays exhibit can be found here! http://www.portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions/rose-marasco-index
The Afternoon was all about portraits! After a short presentation that illustrated some tips and tricks of the trade, the students went out and shot for about an hour and a half. We could not BELIEVE the truly stunning portraits that were made today! After just one day we are seeing some major risk taking and improvement!! Great job, everyone! Each and every one stepped outside their comfort zone- what a success!
Below you will find some of the photographs that were made today.
(Photo by Maryam)
(Photo by Maya D)
(Photo by Olivia)
(Photo by Isabelle)
(Photo by Alejandro)
(Photo by Elizabeth)
(Photo by Elli)
Day 1
What a wonderful first day of camp! The weather was overcast making perfect conditions to get outside for our first day of shooting. To start we went over the basics of photography. ISO, shutter speed, and aperture we just a few of the important topics that we covered. After we got the fundamentals down, it was time to show off their skills! The students went on a scavenger hunt- looking for different ways to portray emotions, colors, and perspective through their photographs.
As a class we voted on some of our top favorite photos of the day and here’s what we got!
(Photo by William)
(Photo by Maya S-R)
(Photo By Devon)
(Photo by Cole)
(Photo by Annabel)
(Photo by Aidan)
What is the story?
Gentlemen, start your engines.
We are beginning our week in the Maine College of Art Digital Photography Intensive today. We have so much to cover in five short days..
You will be not only learning to use your digital cameras to the fullest, and how to figure out which photos work best, but also learn to print and show work in a mini-exhibit at MECA come this Friday.
On top of that you will each put together a slideshow of your best work you shot this week.
On top of on top of that, we’ll put together a class slideshow a la music and a bit of cheesiness.
I LOVE cheese. I have a good feeling about this class.
– Liz Bieber, Deputy Photographer
MECAPHOTABULOUS 
