Paint it Black 6: Photographing Your Artwork

Michelle Waters, Photographer
October 13th, Old Brick Playhouse, Elkins, WV

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Photographing Your Art with Michelle Waters

Photographer Michelle Waters will share the best tips, tricks and tools of the trade to upskill your photography to achieve professional photos of your art for reproductions, digital portfolios, and marketing purposes. This full-day workshop will begin with the basics of composition and move on to lighting, removing glare, and editing in-camera, with plenty of opportunities to put the lessons into practice, ask questions, and troubleshoot along the way. Artists are encouraged to bring a work of their own to practice with, as well as their cell phone and any camera equipment they have available.

About the Artist

Michelle has been working in the professional photography and art worlds for over 20 years, and was the first female, fine art, digital, “lifestyle photographer” in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Since then, her work has been featured in and on the cover of several local and national photography and art magazines, as well as local, regional and national musicians’ and organizations’ promotional pieces, and has dozens of local and regional fine art exhibits and festivals on her resume.

When it comes to influences, Michelle feels like every aspect of life influences the kind of art she makes. While she does appreciate other artists’ work, she often finds the biggest inspiration from other creatives like musicians, writers and other public figures in the entertainment world. It may feel random at first, but if Mr. Rogers and Pee-Wee Herman had a love child, it just might be Michelle. Upon further examination, Mr. Rogers’ desire to genuinely love his neighbor, and Pee-Wee’s campy, quirky, and often goofy approach to the world round out how Michelle navigates through her own life, which influences how she interacts with others in and out of her photography sessions.

http://www.michellewaters.com

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