4/12/10 Thanks for your interest. This Santa Barbara workshop is full up!
email galeATgzuckerDOTcom to get info about upcoming workshops
or to arrange one at your yarn shop.
Gale Zucker • She Shoots
Sheep Shots
Photographing Your Finished Projects
Tuesday
May 4 10 am-12:30
at Loop & Leaf 536 Brinkerhoff Ave. Santa Barbara, CA
A 2.5 hour hands-on digital photography workshop for knitters. Gale
Zucker, professional photographer for knitwear and craft books, will teach you
to make better photos of your finished knit projects, and how to make them sing
online.
Bring your camera (dslr or point & shoot are both welcome) and finished
projects to photograph. Handouts will be provided.
Topics:
• Photographing yarn, fiber, and finished objects, both on & off people.
• Choosing backgrounds & colors.
• Simple lighting tricks and solutions to fiber & knitwear photography problems.
• Optimizing your images once they’re out of the camera and into a blog page
or website.
Workshop space is limited. Advance registration is required.
$ 55. via Paypal to [email protected]
Questions? email [email protected]
BIO:
Gale Zucker
is the co-author/ photographer of the knitting book Shear Spirit: Ten
Farms, Twenty Projects and Miles of Yarn (PotterCraft 2008) . She also
photographed Mason Dixon: Knitting Outside the Lines (PotterCraft
October 2008). She is working on a new book about handcrafters for Random House with her Shear Spirit
partner, noted Santa Barbara-based write
Joan Tapper.
Along with
her knitting/craft work, Gale
is an award-winning editorial and commercial photographer who’s
worked on assignment for Smithsonian, Yankee, Wine
Spectator, TV Guide, NBC, Discovery, CraftStylish, Womans
Day, and for The New York Times.
The
Photography for Knitters Workshops started in 2009. She’s taught them in
Minnesota, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with weekend workshops in Virginia,
Kentucky and Michigan coming this summer. Gale’s home base is Connecticut, with
her husband & sons.
Learn more
about Gale Zucker at
• her
professional website http://www.gzucker.com
• her knit
blog She Shoots Sheep Shots http://www.ezisus.blogspot.com
• Ravelry as SheShootsSheep
Testimony
from workshop participants:
"
A workshop with Gale is perfect for any knitter who wants to improve thequality of her
photographs. A knitter herself, Gale "gets it" when it comes to displaying and
photographing hand knits. Gale's enthusiasm for photography and
knitting is infectious and the result is a workshop full of instruction, tips
and techniques. Mostly, though, it's just fun!" - Carole of Carole Knits blog
"Gale shared
her professional expertise and some very concrete tips on how to make our
photos pop. It was fun to hear the back stories on some of her wonderful photos
and get ideas for different ways to showcase our knitting. We had a chance to experiment
for ourselves, and since taking the class, I have used her tips for my personal
photography. Thanks, Gale!" - Susan Rainey, of The Rainey
Sisters blog
“Photography for
knitters was such a fantastic class. I wished the class were a week instead of
a day! Gale is knowledgeable, patient and has a great sense of fun. I learned
so much, and would love to take a follow up. Your blog or Ravelry page will
never be the same!” - Mary Lou Egan, The Yarnery, St Paul MN