This weekend workshop in digital photography is motivated by the growing sophistication of cameras and the wide variety of accessories and lighting devices available.
Through a series of practical exercises, photographer Alain Lefort will propose different artistic and technical strategies using a variety of equipment. The workshop will adopt a creative and participatory approach, allowing participants to experiment freely in small teams. Participants will have access to TOPO's equipment – see the list online - but they can also bring their own cameras, as well as objects and accessories with which to experiment. Over the course of the weekend, a variety of experimental spaces for shooting and lighting control will be progressively set up in the TOPO studio. A wide range of equipment will be made available to participants, with the support of artist Maxime-Alexandre Gosselin, a trained photographer.
Content
- Exchange and experimentation
- Understanding new cameras and capture technologies
- Control of settings and menus for various appliances and devices
- Overview of the basic techniques involved in shooting and capturing images
- Overview of technical concepts: photosensitivity, white balance, light meter reading, shooting, control of various exposure modes, file formats, etc.
- Control of different types of lighting for different situations
- Flash operation and synchronization
- Post-production techniques
We invite you to express your wishes for this workshop on the registration form!
Alain Lefort
Alain Lefort lives and works in Montreal. He has more than twenty years of professional experience in photography. Since 1995, he has held various positions in the field: professional photographer, professional artist in visual arts, teacher, and technician specializing in darkroom printing, as well as assisting numerous Montreal-based and foreign photographers. He holds a master’s degree in visual and media arts from Université du Québec à Montréal and a major in photography from Concordia University.
As a professional artist, he has been showing his work regularly since the beginning of the 1990s. He has more than fifty individual and collective exhibitions to his credit in Québec, elsewhere in Canada and abroad. His work has been acquired by Cirque du Soleil, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Loto-Québec, the Conseil des arts de la ville de Montréal and UMA (The House of Image and Photography). It also been the subject of numerous articles and publications.
