Diversity Photo Exhibit by Lloyd Wolf
Sept. 10th-25th
Lloyd Wolf, award winning artist, photographer and author of “Facing the Wall: Americans at the Vietnam Memorial” and “Living Diversity” will showcase an exhibit of photos reflecting diversity.
Photo Workshop on Diversity by Lloyd Wolf
Sept. 17th 1-3PM or 22nd 11-1PM
This workshop is designed for all beginning and intermediate photographers to improve their technical skills and their vision. We will focus on getting each participant to be able to use their camera more effectively, particularly in portraying people in candid and natural-light portrait situations. The goal of the workshop is to help USG students be more confident in creating interesting and well-made photographs from their own lives and experience, highlighting the theme of cultural diversity.
Each person will need to bring:
- The camera they use (cell phone cameras are fine, if you do not own another camera).
- A set of five good-quality 8 x 10 prints or digital files for critique/evaluation. These photos can be brought to the workshop on a flashdrive.
- Open mind and eyes, and an eagerness to learn and share.
Topics to be covered include:
- Basic effective composition of a picture. Hints, techniques, rules, and rules to be broken.
- How to use light. Understanding and using light to work for you.
- Review of camera operation and functions (depth of field, color balance, shutter speed, flash basics, etc.).
- Photographing people – creating both posed and candid pictures. Issues, ideas, examples to emulate and avoid. Ethics, courtesy, strategies, people-to-people skills.
- Basic Photoshop and other image editing programs (Gimp, Lightroom, Photomechanic, Picassa, etc.).
- Finishing your work – quality printing, blogs, online photo-storage sites, social media
Diversity Photo Contest/Exhibit
Sept. 28th – Oct. 23rd
Photos used for contest/exhibit purposes only.
How to submit:
- Sized to 8”X10” .JPG format at 300ppi
- Include photographers name & email (for prize notification purposes only)
- Include 1-2 sentence(s) on how diversity pertains (effect or affect, relationship or connection) to the subject and USG
- Submissions are limited to one submission per participant
- Open to all USG Staff, Faculty and Students
Entries must be submitted via email to: nfalk@umd.edu by October 9.
Photo contest held through USG Facebook, voting is determined by most “likes”. Printed photographs (at the libraries expense) will be displayed October 12th-23rd with the winner announced on October 23rd.
PRIZES: 1st – iPod 2nd – Kindle 3rd - Laptop Table
