Creative Photography with the iPhone
Week of August 12, 2023
I just shoot my life, stay present and watch what develops.
The opportunities are endless.
– Karen Divine
Traveling with the iPhone
Travel is much more than simply seeing new things. It is the desire to change our usual and comfortable perspectives of life. It is a desire to grow in spirit. These journeys all have gifts that we may not even be aware of until long after it’s over. And, when you travel to countries that are very unfamiliar, it pushes you off balance and forces you to be in the moment. One of the ways to capture these moments is by using a Smartphone. It’s much less conspicuous and user friendly than the large cameras. Come join Karen through her travels in India using her iPhone. She will share her beautiful and images as she took many small groups of iPhone Photographers through India. You will be amazed at the quality of the imagery you can capture using an iPhone. Karen will also share her signature composite imagery and the apps she uses to create them.
The Fundamentals for Creative iPhone Photography
This week we will spend the first 20 minutes of each class learning basic new skills and the second part of each class we will go outside and practice. These classes are practical and hands-on and focus on having fun. Students need an iPhone or an iPad, (sorry, no Androids). If you want to download Snapseed App, we can try to cover a little of this as well. Be sure your phone is fully charged before each class or bring a back-up charger.
The First Class will cover basic iPhone photo settings and ways to shoot with the iPhone which includes focus, exposure, and playing with perspectives and angles to create more interesting photos.
The Second Class will cover shooting Portraits and Pano mode and then practice outside, shooting landscapes, our friends, flowers and how to create more abstract imagery.
The Third Class will cover filters and two formats, 4:3 and 16:9. as well as briefly showing you additional apps you may download and play with in the future.
Armed with an iPhone and an imagination, Karen Divine creates surrealistic scenes crafted through her photographs and illustrations. She brings to life a world of color, symbolism, and imagination that are often reflections of her own personal experiences.
In her presentation, Karen will share with you the beautiful imagery you can capture using your iPhone as she takes you on her travel journeys to India. In addition, she will share with you the creative, multi-layered imagery she is best known for using the iPhone and iPad. It’s an exciting visual presentation of storytelling, travel photography and portraits.
In the early 70’s she was invited to NYC to pursue modeling as it seemed like a potentially good source of income but within six months, she realized that the idea of creating the image was far more exciting. She returned to Boston, bought a Nikon Camera with her savings, and signed up for a darkroom class. Over the next 40 years she studied painting, drawing, woodworking, ceramics, and photography. In 2010 she transferred her skills of compositing imagery from Photoshop to various apps on the iPhone.
Karen has won numerous International Photography Awards and has been in galleries all over the world. She has been at the forefront of the Mobile Photography world since 2010, speaking at MacWorld, teaching at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Maine Media Workshops, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Co., as well as taking groups to India using the iPhone. Her first self-published book, A Small Amount of Courage, has won several awards for Inspiration. It is a book of 64 iPhone Composited images each based on her personal interpretation of the iChing. For more information, her website is www.karendivinephotography.com