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Our personal vision courses offer students already comfortable with their technical skills the opportunity to explore different avenues in their image-making. Heavily project and critique-oriented classes, identify and realize their own unique artistic vision.
You will have full access to NESOP's black and white darkrooms, color printing rooms and digital imaging lab access to the digital imaging facility is restricted to students taking or who have taken other courses in our digital imaging classrooms or lab). Facilities are available to workshop students after 5 p.m., Monday–Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. Access to these facilities is based on your workshop status and your compliance with the policies and procedures regarding use of our facilities.
Click here to view the current workshop schedule. To download a printable registration form, click here.
Personal Vision Course Descriptions
The following is a list of workshops that we currently offer at NESOP and have offered in the past. If there's a workshop in which you are particularly interested, please let us know!
• Advanced Color • What The Moment Has To Offer • A Kick In The Pants [ Offered Fall 2008 ] • The Toy Camera • The Documentary Project [ Offered Fall 2008 ] • Street Photography I [ Offered Fall 2008 ]
[ Advanced Color ]
This advanced printing course is designed to assist students in honing their color printing skills while also offering them one-on-one critique of their work, guiding them in the development of a cohesive body of color images. Critiques will address and solve aesthetic concerns and encourage students to “think outside the box” and take visual risks with their image making. Students are required to bring color negatives and color photo paper to the first class. Prerequisite: The C-Print: Learning to See and Control Color
[ What the Moment Has to Offer ] Photographs with the power to astonish can be found anywhere. What is required is a skilled photographer who is visually aware and ready to capture the fleeting moment. This workshop is designed to open up the photographer to the photographic moment in the everyday, offer guidance in equipping oneself for it and provide invaluable critique of work created throughout this course. Being open to what the moment has to offer photographically requires a delicate balance of social engagement and visual awareness and preparedness. This workshop will offer an ongoing dialogue concerning social responsibility and artistic creation.
[ A Kick in the Pants: A Critique Workshop ]
| Instructor: | Dana Smith | | Day and Time: | Tuesdays, 6:00-9:30 p.m. | | Dates: | [12 weeks] 9/16 - 12/9 | | Tuition: | $540 for registration and payment in full received by 9/12/08 $575 for registration received after 9/12/08 | To download a printable registration form, click here.
As artists, we all need a kick in the pants. No matter how passionate or how dedicated we may be, it takes practice and commitment in order to reach that next level. Maintaining that discipline is perhaps the biggest obstacle we face in becoming better photographers. This workshop is designed to guide, stimulate and motivate those who love making pictures, but often find it hard to get out there and shoot.
Through intensive weekly critiques and class discussions, we will explore new ways of going about making pictures while continuing to refine our own existing creative process. Discussions and demonstrations will occasionally focus on different technical aspects, like being resourceful with portable lights, keeping shooting situations simple yet effective and developing the ability to solve visual problems with creative solutions. Most importantly, this class will provide a forum for students to show their work on a regular basis and receive individual feedback from their instructor, their classmates and occasionally from visiting professional artists— feedback that is honest, productive and geared toward the weekly progress of each photographer.
If you’re looking to begin a longterm project, or are in need of a new perspective on your current project, this course is ideal.
[ The Toy Camera ] Explore the creative possibilities of the non-conventional camera, from the plastic “toy” Holga to the homemade pinhole. Get back to the basics of film photography, utilizing simplified photographic tools which will allow you to arrive at a poetic and sensitive handling of light as a key element of composition. Discover how a “lack of control” process can result in a sophisticated image.
Required Equipment: Students are required to purchase a HOLGA camera for this course.
[ The Documentary Project ] | Instructor: | Michael Hintlian | | Day and Time: | Mondays, 6:00-9:00 p.m. | | Dates: | [8 weeks] 9/15 - 11/3 | | Tuition: | $365 for registration and payment in full received by 9/12/08 $400 for registration received after 9/12/08 | To download a printable registration form, click here.
As documentarians, we are in the “point of view” business. How do we tell our stories with integrity, clarity and honesty? Where does personal vision come from and how do you tell a story with your unique point of view? What makes a story valid or worthy? What are the practical considerations and how do we keep a long-term project on track? This is a workshop about telling a story with pictures and having it bear your unique vision. We will explore personal style and vision, the elements of editing, the concept of process and how to solve the basic picture problem. Audio will also be explored.
The goal of this workshop is to develop skills needed to become an effective photo documentarian. The course will generate complex questions for the serious photographer and provide a framework to fulfill future projects. Each photographer will select a project that he/she will photograph throughout the workshop. Weekly critique of the ongoing work is at the heart of this workshop.
[ Street Photography I ]
| Instructor: | Bill Franson | | Day and Time: | Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | | Dates: | [8 weeks] 9/19 - 11/8 | | Tuition: | $450 for registration and payment in full received by 9/12/08 $475 for registration received after 9/12/08 | To download a printable registration form, click here.
This course brings students onto the streets of Boston to capture the pulse of this exciting city. Discussions will cover both the history and practice of street photography and will focus on such topics as approaching strangers, candid, unobtrusive and confrontational shooting techniques, subjective vs. objective imagery, controlling light and exposure on the street and telling the story you observe or choose to create from your surroundings. Assignments will include candid shooting, street portraiture and urban landscapes and will focus on anticipating the moment, developing a sensitivity to lighting conditions and framing the shot. Street Photography is open to both digital and film photographers.
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