Various workshop programs may be made available, depending on interest, along with book-related ones that may be of interest to photographers. Two examples include the following and you may wish to review the past workshop posts as well.
Natural Inventions – Staging in the landscape
We invite photographers and non-photographers alike, to engage with the land in constructing site-specific assemblages using natural materials and then to photograph them. The image remains as a record of what will inevitably change and fade in the landscape. Over the weekend we use alternative printing methods to turn digital images into tangible prints.
Seeing Black and White: The Zone System
This workshop will cover practical aspects of black and white photography, based on the Zone System methods of understanding light and exposure. Addressing both digital and film photography, this approach allows for previsualization of the grey values of the image, resulting in improved negatives and digital files that are closer to what one sees in the mind. Participants may work with digital and/or film processes. Exercises and photography will take place around the farm and digital results will be reviewed onsite. Film work will be processed later on your own time, but may be evaluated through online sharing.
Peter Sramek learned the Zone System when studying at MIT from Minor White, author of the Zone System Manual. He then taught black and white photography for over 40 years at OCAD University in Toronto.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please contact us at workshops@scff.ca. Participants may arrive on Friday to stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session. Registration will be posted here as workshop dates are announced each year. If you have particular interests, please do not hesitate to get in touch.