Select the Best! with Claudia Howell

You’re back from your photo shoot with hundreds of images. Now what?

This class will help you edit your images down to a manageable number. You’ll learn to look at your photos with a critical eye for composition, the story they tell, and their final use. You’ll get tips on how to shoot more selectively resulting in fewer images to edit.

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. Bring a camera to shoot on campus. We’ll have a hands-on editing exercise in the afternoon.

“Editing your images is the next most important step after making them. I want to help you get to the essence of what you saw in the viewfinder. The difference between an average photographer and a good photographer is that a good one doesn’t show the bad stuff. Take charge of your outtakes. Select the best and save disk space.”

Photographer Claudia Howell borrowed a camera for a college trip to Europe and has been hooked on photography ever since. She earned a degree in photojournalism and began her photography career at the former Oregon Journal in Portland. “I was just amazed. They actually paid me to do what I love to do. What a deal!”

Howell has photographed all aspects of news, sports and features including some of the region’s major stories, such as the Mt. St. Helens eruption, Eastern Oregon’s Rajneeshee cult invasion, and edited most of the Civil War games between Oregon and OSU.

In the late 80’s, she moved to The Oregonian, editing and shooting news, sports and feature photographs for 25 years.

“As a news picture editor, I learned to select the best work as quickly as possible. I also learned that most of us overshoot. There’s an old saying, ‘film is cheap.’ Well, digits are virtually free and that leads to even more overshooting.”

See Claudia’s work at www.claudiajhowell.com

Contact PEG via this email and phone number for more information of this workshop and others.

pegphoto@comcast.net

503-789-1802

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