Creative Image Making Workshop by Yannis Souris

Jan 29-30 / Feb 19-20 / May 21-22 / June 11-12 / Sep 24-25 / Oct 22-23

Creative Photography Workshops by Yannis Souris

2010/11 season

Creative Image Making

Design Elements in Photography • Creative Image Making • Marketing for Photographers • Photo Creativity (Mt.Tremblant) • Photo Creativity (Crete) • Photo Creativity (Havana)

2010/11 SEASON

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

Creative Image Making The Byward Market, Ottawa, Ontario / Chelsea Quebec

Format: 2-day weekend, offered six (6) times a year.

Jan 29-30 / Feb 19-20 / May 21-22 / June 11-12 / Sep 24-25 / Oct 22-23 Join Yannis for a weekend of creative exploration in photography that will expand your vision, refine your techniques, and get your creative juices flowing. Learn what you can do to transform your images into striking and memorable photographs. Yannis’ eye-opening lessons, challenging assignments, and truly helpful and professional critiques provide you with the essential tools for creating outstanding images.

This course is designed to help learn specific creative techniques. Students learn to think in an alternate space and explore creative possibilities following specific criteria.

Duration:

2 day weekend, 9 am- 5 pm

Capacity:

12 people

Focus:

Cost:

Creativity, creative techniques, composition, creative risk, perspective, field work, assignments $285/person

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

2010/11 SEASON

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

CREATIVE IMAGE MAKING: 2-day weekend, offered 6 times a year Jan 29-30 / Feb 19-20 / May 21-22 / June 11-12 / Sep 24-25 / Oct 22-23

What can you gain? > Realize your creative potential as applied to photography. > Become more creative by applying simple, effective creative techniques > See frames from a different perspective. > Learn to take creative license without bridging over into abstract. > Learn to take creative risks. > Much more.

What is the format? > First part: theory, colour, angle, perspective, alternatives, degree of risk. > Second part: exercises and hands-on creative work. > This is NOT a Photoshop or image manipulation workshop.

What to bring: Photo equipment and your imagination.

(Stationery items and visual aids will be provided.)

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

2010/11 SEASON

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

CREATIVE IMAGE MAKING: 2-day weekend, offered 6 times a year Jan 29-30 / Feb 19-20 / May 21-22 / June 11-12 / Sep 24-25 / Oct 22-23

Day 1.

Introduction to out of the box thinking. How to see versus what you see.

Discussion, debate, problem solving, team exercises, assignments.

Applied creativity Practical creativity. Creativity as applied to photography. What constitutes a creative image. Learning to see from an alternate perspective. Learn to use your imagination, then your camera. Applications.

Discussion, debate, problem solving, team exercises, assignments.

Field Work Shapes and Spaces

Day 2.

Creative images adhering to high production values.

Creative image execution and construction.

Metaphors and symbolism in photography Discussion, debate, problem solving, team exercises, assignments.

Field Work Portrait, street photography

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

Creative Photography Workshops

by Yannis Souris

About

2010/11 SEASON

/ Ottawa Havana / Crete / Mt. Tremblant

YANNIS SOURIS

Yannis has presented seminars and workshops to hundreds of amateur and pro photographers in Canada and abroad, motivating and inspiring beginners and advanced photographers alike for over a decade. His professional background includes a successful commercial art career, as an award-winning advertising art director, ŠSothea Kham

but it was his interest in photography as an art medium that led him to considerable exposure the past seven years. Yannis has won more than 250 national and international awards both in art direction and photography and he has been recognized three years in a row with Photographer of the Year awards in Ottawa. His photographs and articles on the subject of creativity have been published internationally in magazines like Photo Life, Canadian Camera, Photo Art Magazine, and PhotoDigital. Yannis has also judged several photography and design competitions over the past ten years. As a fine art photographer, he has exhibited his work in more than 20 galleries.

Official web site:

www.yannisfoto.com

Photo Workshops:

www.ysworkshops.com

Prints for sale:

www.moodscapesgallery.com

General photo art:

www.persistenceofmemory.ca

Marketing site:

www.yannisouris.com

Register: www.ysworkshops.com / yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540

2011 season Creative Photography Workshops by Yannis Souris Register: www.ysworkshops.com Contact and info: yannis@ysworkshops.com, 613.986.5540