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Studio Portrait WorkshopNovember 6 - 10, 2006 John Running 
"I love making portraits because I believe that when I
— John Running I want to teach a portrait workshop that will reveal to you the secrets of Portrait Photography. The secret is — There are no secrets! And I will share them all with you. A photograph is the collaboration between photographer and subject. It doesn't matter if the subject is a still life, a landscape, a plant, an animal or another person. I make photographs of people; I make portraits. Here are some of my thoughts about making portraits. A portrait is the result of the interaction between two people — photographer and subject — a collaboration with the possibility of sharing the results of that collaboration with an audience. I don't pretend to believe that when I make a person's portrait I manage to capture something spiritual or an inner soul. It would be presumptuous on my part to think so. Most of what I do is simple. More often than not I don't know the person I will photograph. More often than not they will be a stranger and this will be our first and perhaps only encounter. So what is a photographer to do? I often think making a good portrait is a design problem. Take control of the things we have control of: the setting, the light, the composition, and the frame. Simple light, outdoors or in the studio, and I usually try to emulate window light. The portrait tradition begins with painting. When I think about portraits I go back to the painters of portraits, beginning in the Renaissance. They show me how to see light, composition, and design. We will explore their influence. Learn to recognize and use sweet light to avoid dull light. Make simple compositions. Take control of your frame, every edge, every square centimeter of film or sensor. We have a rectangle, or a square space to use. We will talk about the interaction between a photographer and subject. I love to make pictures of people, portraits of babies, children, young people, couples, old folks, my neighbors, people from the town I live in or people living in faraway places and exotic locations. For me it is people and their faces that make a great photograph. To do this I bring my tools — cameras, lenses, film, and these days digital cards, Photoshop and digital printers to the task and I apply all I know about design, composition and framing and then "press" the shutter. For me the camera is just a tool, an extension of my eyes, an extension of my feelings and experiences. I will share these experiences with you in this workshop. Biography Give him 1/125th of a second and he will give you so much more. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Running studied Earth Sciences at the New Mexico School of Mines and then spent four years in the United States Marine Corps, where he served in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and West Indies. Afterward he studied for and received a degree in Anthropology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Now he shares his downtown Flagstaff studio with his daughter Raechel Marie. Photo assignments have taken him to Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Scotland, The Galapagos Islands, Jordan, The West Bank, The Gaza Strip, and South America. His clients include Eastman Kodak, Polaroid, Nikon, Ilford, Coors Beer, Lee Jeans, U S West, Sterling Commerce and Canyon Records. He has also published seven books including Honor Dance, Pictures for Solomon, Dancer, Halo of the Sun and Navajo Weaving Way. John Running's Web site address is www.johnrunning.com. Tuition $1,000
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