The event is held at the Topsham Medical Building, 4 Horton Place in Topsham where everyone is welcome to attend. Attendance is free for members of FLCC; $10 for others.
Clemons’ presentation will address the many techniques that can be used both while photographing and in post processing to achieve a painterly effect. These techniques include using camera movement, slow shutter speeds, double and multiple exposures, as well as adding texture layers and painterly filters to photographs. She will also offer a brief overview of the Lensbaby system, a series of lenses which enhance creative expression and allow the photographer to see in a new way.
Although Clemons is known as a photographer, her talk will focus on creating painterly techniques for all subjects from landscape to macro.
Clemons took her first photo class in 2003 and got into flower photography by accident. She was photographing inside during the long cold of February 2004 and cast about for a new subject. She purchased some roses from a grocery store, started photographing, and, according to Clemons, “changed her life.” By the end of the class, she was selling her photographs through a stock agency in Amsterdam and began teaching her process online through the Bryan Peterson School of Photography in 2006.
Besides teaching for Bryan Peterson’s online school, during 2018, Clemons will teach these location workshops: Charleston, South Carolina in March; The Santa Fe Photography Workshops in May; Madeline Island School of Art in Wisconsin in June; and the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania in April and in September.
She is also offering one workshop in Maine during September. This coming July, she’ll be at the New England Camera Club Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, offering classes on flower photography and on the Lensbaby system. Her classes can also be found on Creative Live (online at www.creativelive.com) and on her own website, www.kathleenclemons.com.
First Light Camera Club hosts tech nights, field trips, and talks throughout the year and welcomes new members. To learn more, visit www.firstlightcc.com; email: info@firstlightcc.com; or call (207) 729-6607.
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