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The world today is in constant flux. Conventions, once regarded as factual and absolute, can no longer be considered concrete and certain.  To navigate this ever changing landscape, Unlearn is a three day workshop designed to help you expand your problem solving and communication strategies through design based thinking exercises, dialogue, and critique. The understanding of rules and how they shape our lives and creativity will be thoroughly explored by challenging the relationship between form and content. Unlearn will push the boundaries of each individual's knowledge to enhance creativity.

This workshop is targeted to visual thinkers, including students, educators, professionals, and visual strategists interested in the exploration of communication and image. Computers will be available on site for use.

de.MO is an award-winning multidisciplinary design firm that produces diverse projects — books, web sites, corporate identities and branding, multimedia, packaging — representing a wide range of international clients and their businesses.  At the heart of de.MO is a respect for dialogue and collaboration. de.MO acknowledges that the best design results from a strong exchange of ideas and a creative process with the client in order to deliver innovative design, down to the smallest detail.   Founded in 1997, and since 2002 housed in a 19th-century barn in Millbrook, New York — de.MO is headed by Giorgio Baravalle and made up of a small team of talented designers.  See their projects at www.de-mo.org

Class limit: 15  
Tuition: $425 / CPW members: $395 

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Phil Mansfield: Table Top Shooting

Friday, January 21

This one day seminar will introduce you to lighting for tabletop photography work. Natural and artificial light will be demonstrated, as well as various modifiers used to create dynamic images.  A special emphasis will be put on product photography, such as shooting for ebay or etsy, as well as food photography.  Phil will also show you how to create a home based table top system so you can take these techniques back to your own studio. 

PHIL MANSFIELD joined the CPW staff as the Digital Lab Manager in the Spring 2008.  His photography has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Psychology Today and Scholastic Magazine.  His photographs were recently featured in Eat Fresh Foods: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs, a children’s cookbook published by Bloomsbury.  To learn more about Phil visit www.philmansfield.com or check out his informative blog www.cpwdigitalkitchen.blogspot.com  

Class limit: 12
Tuition: $150 / CPW members: $125

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Joan Barker: Intro to Digital Photography

Sat-Sun, January 29-30 

Just getting started? Ready to go beyond snapshots? In this two-day, hands-on individualized workshop – limited to just seven participants –you will learn the basic foundations of digital photography and how to make a successful picture within a supportive environment. Joan will begin with helping you understand and feel comfortable with your digital camera.

  You will see inspiring examples of successful photographs and learn about the elements that help make a good picture including subject matter, light, texture, pattern and mood.  Joan will also conduct lessons on aperture, shutter speed, film types, exposure, depth of field, lighting, white balance and composition. Lenses and their characteristics, uploading files, image size and resolution, image adjustments and printing will also be included.  We will explore the technical and aesthetic possibilities of picture taking while on a photographic fieldtrip.

No previous experience necessary. For those with film background this class will allow you to better understand the photographic principals relative to both film & digital.

  Students will have Canon digital SLR cameras available for use. You may also bring your own camera and camera manual.

JOAN BARKER In her personal photography, Barker pushes limits and employs both traditional and experimental methods. She completed her MFA in photography at SUNY New Paltz where she has been teaching for over ten years. Joan is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship, The Village Voice Photography Grant and two CPW Fellowships. Her photographs have been featured nationally in one-person shows, including OK Harris in NYC, and group exhibits at the Photographers’ Gallery in London and Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, amongst others. Joan’s photographs are part of numerous collections including the New York Public Library Her website is www.jbarkerimages.com

Please bring:  A Digital SLR camera is required for this workshop- please no point & shoots! (If you don't have one, CPW has Canon digital SLRs available for loan), photos you have taken that you would like to share with class or that you have questions about are welcome, as are images by other photographers that you admire – from books or magazines.

Class limit: 7
Tuition: $255 / CPW members: $225

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