For those of you who are familiar with Craig Morey’s work — and if you appreciate photography of the female nude, you should be! — you have a rare opportunity to learn a true Master of the craft. Craig is holding an Erotic Photography Workshop on Sunday, April 26 , 2009 at his studio in Oakland, Ca.
This workshop is open to photographers and to non-photographers both and photographers will be able to shoot as well (or so I understand). He’ll conduct a full shoot of artistic and erotic work with one of his favorite models, Amber (whom I know and she is very good). Space is very limited, so check this opportunity out soon if you are interested.
You can get more info and register for Craig Morey’s workshop here
Full Disclosure: I’m not affiliated with Craig in any way. We’ve known each other personally for several years (our studios are 5 mins apart), and I’ve been a fan of his work since I discovered it in 1992. I hosted one of his workshops two years ago, and they are excellent. I don’t derive any financial benefit from people signing up for this workshop or buying his prints; I just think the guy is an amazing photographer and the people here would benefit from his work.
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Taking photographs is an odd business — cutting experience into thin slices of 1/60th of a second or so. What goes on in those many thousand 1/60ths of a second when the shutter is closed? Well quite a lot, of course, and that is the gulf that separates the photographer who was there and “saw it all” and the viewer who just sees those minuscule slices caught when the shutter was open. So photographs are not life, or anything very like it, but the photoshoot is not life either. A photoshoot is a collaboration (some might say a connivance) between the models and the guy with the camera to create images that reflect a state of affairs that in some sense never happened. If it is well done, the images will contain the truth of the subject, but only part of it — the part that the subjects and the photographer jointly agree that they want others to see.
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