Introduction to Digital Flower Photography with Allen Rokach

When

  • Tuesday
  • Feb. 28, 2012
  • 8:00 AM

Description

Introduction to Digital Flower Photography with Allen Rokach sponsored by Photobotanic
Tuesday, February 28, 2012


Join us for a one-day workshop exploring digital photography basics to help you create stunning floral photos, shooting the beautiful Conservatory of Flowers. Through demonstrations and hands-on practice you will hone skills in photographic seeing, composition and mastering digital camera settings. We'll critique, edit and learn to improve and enhance images.

Allen Rokach has traveled the world since 1975 on photographic assignments that range from the bulb fields of Holland and the antiquities of Egypt to the vast Amazonian rain forest. An expert in location photography best known for his photographs of flowers, gardens and landscapes, Rokach's work has spanned everything from public relations and photojournalism to art and sculpture to travel and features about people. His career has included fourteen years as the staff photographer and Director of Photography at the New York Botanical Garden and ten years as a Senior Photographer for Southern Living magazine, editorial assignments for National Geographic, Audubon, Natural History, the New York Times, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, Coastal Living, Southern Accents, Science Digest, among others, and his photographs have appeared on the covers of many magazines, including Horticulture, Natural History, Fine Gardening, and Modern Photography. He has taught at the New School for Social Research, the American Museum of Natural History, the International Center of Photography, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and founded the Center for Nature Photography, which has run instructional photography workshops in Maine, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and other prime locations around the U.S.
Photobotanic is a resource for garden photography owned by Saxon Holt, Photography Program Director at San Francisco Botanical Garden, and member of the Conservatory of Flowers' Advisory Council.
Fee: $150 General Public, $130 Conservatory of Flowers Members
Time: 8 am to 6 pm, Feb. 28

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Tickets

$130.00-$150.00

Phone

415-831-2090

Where

Conservatory of Flowers
100 John F Kennedy Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118


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