Event: NCC Meeting
Date: 14 January 2025
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: Golden Gate Community Center
Competition Type: Critique Session - No Competition
Speaker: Jackie Kramer
Topic: Floral Photography
Jackie will be presenting live at the Community Center.
Artistic Floral Photography
Join Jackie as she takes you on a journey through her digital garden where she will share a variety of techniques that she uses to bring out the character in floral subjects. She will show examples and discuss how to reflect the personality of a flower through a variety of techniques, such as selective focus, shoot-throughs, abstracts, multiples, textures and more. Hear her rationale as it applies to decisions in the field pertaining to selection of the subject, background, approach, composition, lighting, exposure, and depth of field and leave inspired to pick up your camera and follow your own creative voice.
Jackie will also have flower photography classes in the Botanical garden on January 15th and 16th and a Post processing course on January 17th. Look for a future sign up email.
Jackie Kramer bio:
Jackie has been photographing the natural world, with an emphasis on flowers and birds since high school. Jackie is a Lensbaby Ambassador and KelbyOne instructor who has received international acclaim for her images. Her work has been published in numerous online and print magazines.
Jackie's true passion is to encourage people to live their legacy, which she does primarily through her Facebook group, Phlorography - Artistic Floral Photography, with thousands of passionate floral photographers from around the world. She is committed to supporting other photographers and using photography as a medium to build relationships and enrich each other’s lives.
Event: Artistic Floral Photography - Prior Reservations and Required
Dates Group 1: 15 & 17 January 2025
Dates Group 2: 16 & 17 January 2025
Location for Workshop: Naples Botanical Garden - 4820 Bayshore Dr., Naples, FL
Location for Post Processing Workshop: Palm room of the Naples Hilton
Time: See write-up by Jackie Kramer below
More Information About The Workshops From Jackie:
Artistic Floral Photography
Naples, Florida
January 15 & 17 or 16 & 17, 2025
(yes, we are meeting in January, not February!)
Hello Everyone!
Thank you for registering for our workshop next week on artistic floral photography. This email contains information on locations, gear, and other tips on how to prepare. I hope you will be able to make the Naples Camera Club meeting on Tuesday evening, Jan 14th, so we can meet each other and you can get an overview of my work and approaches.
In the garden, I will point out ideal candidates for various techniques, as well as what doesn't work and why. I will help you "see" and learn how to approach your subjects, how to use your equipment for the most optimal results, how to marry subjects with backgrounds, and how to shoot textures.
On Friday, we will meet in the classroom at the Naples Hilton where I will demonstrate post-processing techniques in Adobe Lightroom (analogous to Adobe Camera Raw). In the post-processing stage, we will talk about what features to highlight - light, colors, shapes, etc - using Lightroom masking features extensively. I will also demonstrate how to apply textures in Photoshop.I use Adobe Lightroom (14.1.1 or latest version) and Photoshop for editing.
WHERE
Day in the Garden:
We will be spending the first day, Wed the 15th or Thurs the16th, in the Naples Botanical Garden. We will meet in the Orchid Garden at 9:15am. If you're a member, you can arrive as early as 8am, but we won't begin until 9:15. it's forecast to be a bit chilly both days so please dress accordingly. We will have a coffee break in the morning and again for lunch, returning at a time TBD ( would like to spend 2 more hours in garden as long as weather permits) for afternoon shoot.
Naples Botanical Garden - 4820 Bayshore Dr., Naples, FL
Post-processing:
On Friday, the 17th, we will be starting at 10:30am in the Areca Palm room of the Naples Hilton. We'll end at 3:30pm with a break for lunch.
Naples Hilton - 5111 Tamiami Trail N
What will we cover?
- Classic macro w/selective focus
- Composition
- Shoot Through
- Abstracts
- Negative Space (depending on circumstances)
- Low Key & High Key (depending on circumstances)
- (depending on circumstances)
- Making Textures
What to Bring:
- Camera body
- Extra Batteries
- Memory card
- Macro lens and Lensbabies or if you own one or more
- Telephoto to 100-400mm or 100-500mm equivalent if you have one
- Laptop with latest versions of Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw & Photoshop
- Tripods ONLY if needed
- Kneeling pad (optional)
- WARM CLOTHES & COMFORTABLE SHOES
[My gear:Canon R5 MkII, RF 100mm, RF 100-500mm, & various Lensbabies (I will bring my Sweet 50 & Double Glass II for demos in garden).]
What you can do to prepare:
- Make sure you know how to control the point focus in your camera. If you do not know, please figure it out by referencing your manual (download the digital manual to your laptop).
- Learn how to go into Live View Mode and how to magnify your screen view.
- If you do not own a macro or a telephoto lens, please consider renting one to get the most out of the workshop.
- In summary, PLEASE know how to operate your camera.
Looking forward to seeing you soon!!
Jackie
907-317-4667 (phone or text)
Jackie@luvblooms.com(email)