Live Online Workshop about Tiny Planets with Griffin Museum of Photography
Online Workshop:
“Invoking the Infinite Possibility of Tiny Planets with Matt Hill”
via the Griffin Museum of Photography
Join me for a live, intimate, small-class online workshop focused on creating Tiny Planets via the Griffin Museum of Photography July 31 – September 18.
This will be presented in four sessions, with ample time for assignments in between, plus image reviews.
Session 1: July 31, 7:00pm-9:30pm, ET
Session 2: August 19, 7:00pm-9:30pm, ET
Session 3: August 26, 7:00pm-9:30pm, ET
Session 4: September 18, 7:00pm-9:30pm, ET
Registration URL: https://griffinmuseum.org/event/invoking-the-infinite-possibility-of-tiny-planets/
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Are you ready to fit the whole world into a single photo?
Spherical Panoramas (a.k.a “tiny planets” or “photospheres”) are part of our everyday life, including street view in Google Maps, online realty listings and most recently the advent of Apple’s Vision Pro virtual reality computer headset. Yet one application of this practice has proven to be especially attractive to artistic photographers around the world, the 2D stereographic projection commonly known as “Tiny Planets.”
When applied as an art form the 360º x 180º view of a location becomes a 2D square, circular or rectangular frame. Depending on the artist, it can be full of whimsy, a serious or dramatic depiction of architecture or even an incredible opportunity for portraits, group or otherwise. What make Tiny Planets stand alone is certainly the alternative to our standard photographic reality– a sphere with landforms and objects thrusting into the air (or night sky) or the opposite inverted as a tunnel with the perspective in the extreme pointing into a single center point.
In this ONLINE course, Matt Hill will share his entire process from choosing gear, to planning, capture and post-processing inventive and thoughtful tiny planet panoramas. Through his own examples and group image reviews, this workshop will help attendees gain insight into their work on tiny planet photographs and come away with insights on how to expand and develop their own creative practice in the future.
Outcome:
Each student has greater knowledge of how to achieve the projects and how to best use the gear they have, or have purchased for this course, plus a starting body of work and creative guidance on developing it further.
Requirements and Tools:
You can use simple photographic tools, perhaps the photographic tools you have, or advanced gear such as a panorama rig to capture a tiny planet. Matt prepared this gear primer for potential students to self-evaluate if they have the correct equipment. Please read before registering.
A desktop computer or laptop (not touch devices, as PTGUI will not run on those).
Software: Access to, or your own license all of the following software: Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, and PTGUI Pro. Arriving at the first lesson with basic working knowledge of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop is strongly suggested.
Class Price: Member Price, $895.00 / Non-Member Price, $950.00 (Non-member price includes a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
Sessions include: lectures, technique demonstrations, Q&A, group image review (2nd-4th sessions) and software demonstrations. All sessions will be recorded and available to attendees to watch on demand afterwards.
