The Art of Photography Miami (Field Workshops)

You're cordially invited to join our group on a "hands-on" opportunity to create great photo images in this interesting and diverse area of Miami. Calle Ocho -in Little Havana, is a fantastic location for "Street Photography" with very unusual and challenging photo opportunities.

Come ready to "create magic moments" with... strong wall murals backgrounds, interesting characters, art galleries, cigar rolling, dancers / musicians, and unusual local scenery. If you so desire, you can stay after our photoshoot to enjoy a typical, inexpensive, and great meal from the many restaurants in the area.

The workshop leader / instructor (Rafael) taught photography classes and has personally over 150 field photoshoots and will be available all along this shoot for specific tips, technical consultation, and photography considerations to create better images making this a memorable learning experience AND provide insightful cultural / historic tidbits of information about the area - This workshop is a “One-of-a-Kind” technically supported photoshoot with attention to practical learning (and some local history) for which there is a $10 fee.

-PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE IN PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND OTHER GROUP MEMBERS AGAINST POSSIBLE MEDICAL CONCERNS BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE / IT IS IMPLICITLY STATED (IN THIS AND ALL MEETUP OUTINGS) THAT EACH ATTENDING PARTICIPANT IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS / HER OWN ACTIONS, PROTECTION, AND SAFEKEEPING-

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CHANGE AGENTS in PHOTOGRAPHY
Join us on March 25 at 7pm to see what happens when two women drift together in creative orbit.

Toby Berman and Lynne Mass met each other through this meetup, discovering that they had lived parallel lives both being driven by an intense desire to be creative and to be lifelong learners.

“We found that PEOPLE were dominant in our professional careers. As we talked, we learned that we also had similarity of personal artistic and intellectual values. We both wanted to alter and innovate our photo processes as we had innovated during our professional lives. We started working together thinking about photography differently. We realized we were becoming agents of change.

Two thoughts dominate everything we do - PLAY and TRIAL & ERROR. For each of us, we see complacency as the enemy of creativity, and Creative Disequilibrium (letting ideas simmer subconsciously) as the engine of creativity. Constant education is the catalyst to making the next photograph our best. It is important to note that we are not using artificial intelligence to create any images.

In brainstorming for this presentation, we identified overlapping categories that contained the following:

1. Playing with light and playing with shadows
2. Unusual textures
3. Composites
4. Using software special features
5. Silhouettes
6. Blurs
7. Double exposures
8. Different lenses and different lens techniques - fisheye, prism, saran wrap, etc.

We both use minimal equipment - a mirrorless camera, an iPhone and a few lenses.

Sit back and see what evolved from Lynne’s and Toby’s artistic collision. The final demos are examples that demonstrate the frequently asked questions, “How did you do that? Can you show me?” as Toby and Lynne each show how a finished work got from camera clicks to a final creative image.

You are cordially invited to this “out-of-the-ordinary NIGHT photowalk event” to challenge your Street Photography skills, as well as sharpen your urban scenery talents. You’ll be able to practice Street / Documentary Photography under various types of lighting conditions, while anticipating and executing under exciting decisive moments opportunities BESIDES enjoying a great night of music and camaraderie.

Cultural Fridays at Calle Ocho are special events that happen on the fourth Friday of the month with displays of musicians, whimsical shops, interesting characters, Art Galleries, and the traditional Domino / Chess players at the Maximo Gomez Domino Park: You just need to come ready to "create" quality magic moments.

This event is guided by Rafael, an enthusiastic photographer and experienced photography instructor who has taught photography in South Florida for many years. He has also led many field photography outings for over 15 years and will be available along this photowalk for specific tips, technical consultation, and even offer Little Havana’s cultural and historic information.

We’ll meet and start our photowalk at the Domino’s Park entrance (1444 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135) at 6:30 PM - Please note that there is plenty of (pay with app) street parking along 8th Street and side Avenues… This workshop is a “One-of-a-Kind” technically supported photoshoot with attention to practical learning for which there is a $10 fee.

PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE IN PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND OTHER GROUP MEMBERS AGAINST POSSIBLE VIRUS CONTAMINATION BY MASKING AND/OR MAINTAINING DISTANCE / IT'S IMPLICITLY AFFIRMED (IN THIS AND ALL MEETUP OUTINGS) THAT EACH ATTENDING PARTICIPANT IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS/HER OWN ACTIONS, PROTECTION, AND SAFEKEEPING

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Gordon Parks was an American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer whose work from the 1940s to 2000s documented race, poverty, civil rights, and urban life with empathy and social conscience. The first African American staff photographer at Life magazine and the first to direct a major Hollywood film, he created iconic images like American Gothic and directed The Learning Tree and Shaft, using his art as a “weapon” against injustice.

“A photographer can be a storyteller. Images of experience captured on film, when put together like words, can weave tales of feeling and emotion as bold as literature.… [Photographers] bring together fact and fiction, experience, imagination, and feelings in a visual dialogue that has enormous impact on how we observe and relate to the external world and our internal selves.” —Philip Brookman, “Unlocked Doors: Gordon Parks at the Crossroads,” Gordon Parks: Half Past Autumn, 1997

“I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America—poverty, racism, discrimination,” Gordon Parks