After spending three hours in customs and immigration, Fred arrived from Los Angeles. Wendy drove from Rochester, New York, and Sarah flew in from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mike landed and went straight to bed after a long...
Los Angeles, Day 6: The Music Story For our last day of photographing, the students went over to the music building on the Heart of Los Angeles campus. Our teams split into groups and photographed in different departments of...
This morning was the culmination of the entire week’s work, with a ceremony and exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As we set up the presentation of the student’s work at LACMA, the students began to...
Along with a documentary crew, we also have a writer (who previously wrote for a major newspaper) covering the workshop experience. About three-quarters of the way through the morning she pulled me aside and asked, “Isn’t this a lot...
Faculty member Wendy Walsh arrived this morning, coming in on a 5 a.m. flight from Peru. The team assembled as we launched another episode of the Fred Roberts Photography Workshops – this time in Los Angeles. Our inaugural workshop...
Of course, when we look back we now, the work we put in all week is what gets us to Saturday: all of the hours the students put into the classroom learning the technique, the hours looking at images...
The day started like they all do, with us gathered in the classroom, in the dark, looking at all of the brilliant images these guys shot yesterday. Their exposures are coming into line, they are more comfortable with their...
After today, we have the most taxing of the week behind us. We had our second long day in the classroom and this time we solidified our understanding of exposure and then worked on, composition, blur, and depth of...
Fred begins every class with a talk about photography as our ability to write with light. But like writing with pen or pencil, it’s not the “writing” that is important but what the author or photographer is trying to...