Upcoming Exhibits
• Hotel Preston now rescheduled for Jan-Apr 2021
• JCC is October 2 through 10/31
Stephen Coppell for “Self-Expression through Imagery”
Newsletter at https://stevenkoppel.com
Business consultant
Creative Expression
Image from Cape Cod
Self-Expression – EDI (Expressive Digital Imagery)
Have been out with his camera daily during the pandemic – it’s about the experience of taking the images
Robert Henri – painter – Quote about connection
Guy Tal – More than a Rock – quote
Quote from facebook follower
Brewster Flats – sand, water, sky formed by glacial flow in the elbow of the cape. 7 x 1 mile and water is still up to knees
Allow the moment to evolve, become inspired
About:
· Ripples – change on the Brewster Flats
· Follow the dropping tide – island
· Same composition in different times of year – fall/summer/winter/low tide/frozen/flowing lines
· Freedom/space
· Each tide changes the sand
· Tide pools
· Clouds and sky mirror the sand formations
· Mary Oliver
· Toni Morrison – beauty
· Drone photography – grace of the flowing water
· Incoming tide sunset creates different shapes
· Aaron Siskind
· Sunset / crescent moon
· Reflections when wind is low
· Angel’s wings in the sky
· Albert Einstein – mysterious
· 30 seconds – camera can see what eyes can’t
· Fog / storms
· Neowise
· Henri Cartier-Bresson – it is the photo that takes you
· Offered vs Capture
· Birds gather in fall
· Abstract form – ICM to accentuate
· Sand swirls – drone
· Abstract with clouds
· Drone – river flow
Nikon D850 / 14-22mm lens
Lightroom luminosity masking
Guy Tal reference
Ansel Adams – Moonrise – SOOC vs darkroom
· Negative is score / print is performance
· Print is artistic performance
Does print match your creative vision
ND – 6-stop just the right brightness/darkness – Breakthrough
Drone DJI Mavic 2 w/Hasselblad 24mm?
Mostly on tripod / and many longer exposures
Sense movement and flow of water
Weathly – pristine surf and wonderful dunes / national seashore
In the surf to immerse in the experience
Can take shots down the coast, out to sea, back toward shore to the dunes
Sometimes camera gets wet
Rumi – the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
20 sec exposure at dawn
Running retreats – try a 30 second exposure
Sand patterns
Watch for footprints
4” off the ground – intimate wide angle
Loren Eiseley – If there is magic on this planet, it is in water
Water – brushstrokes of nature, the landscape and water flow guides shot selection
Uses live view to take images
Shutter speeds are important to create the right effect
Clouds in the water – use burst mode to capture variety
Waves at the beach – walk out 100 ft at low tide
“Nothing to photograph here” can create inspiring image
Parallel movement of water to shore
Sand bar created look of river rapids
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Patience quote
Panning camera along with waves with slower exposure to express movement of water
6 stop ND filter with ½ second shutter and panning
Water looking like clouds, started using waterproof casing
Dorothea Lange – instant out of time
1/20th shutter speed creates fireworks effect
New work:
Underwater housing – wave tunnel / splashing / dramatic surf
1 splash fireworks
Position yourself where the water is crashing
Dancing water
Tripod maintenance – Really Right Stuff – cleans it every couple of months
Lick your lens – the saliva forms a barrier
The principles apply regardless of location
• Return to same places and capture different images
• Use your creative vision
Books
The Cape Cod National Seashore
Brewster flats
EDI – enhancing self-expression and connection for patients and caregivers
Cancer institute – Dana Farber
Used Snapseed – create images to reflect journey of cancer
• Created non-profit institute to have art therapy for many conditions
• Cancer / addiction / psychology
• My road to renewal – layers told story
• Picture of her sandwich
• Finding peace in uncertainty – tree
• Addiction – path least traveled
• Bereaved trials – express outside vs inside
• Light in times of darkness – burnout
• Recovery plan
• Medical staff wearing images
• Ted talk – Steven Koppel
• I started noticing colors again
• My Moments is the name of the app
• ExploreMyMoments – password
Overall takeaways: more inspiration!
