DC: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S PARADISE

We live in an amazing area with lots of public spaces and public art. How can we learn to appreciate and take advantage of this in our photography? How can we get beyond the classic snapshot of a monument? Well that is what photographer E David Luria http://edavidluriaphotography.com/ will help us to do. He is the founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari. He has many other photographic credentials including being a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), the Association of Independent Architectural Photographers (AIAP), and the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). On Tuesday, April 29 at 7 PM, he will take us on a 90 minute tour of the Washington area. In consideration of the NIH Camera Club’s competition topics, he will place a special emphasis on night-time photography of these special areas. The location is the 5 Star Residence, 8100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.

George Lea is the Club contact for this event.

John Milleker, a Baltimore based photographer practices, demonstrates and teaches nearly every photographic process from the early 1800’s to modern digital photography and post processing.

In the Art Studio at the 5 Star Residence (8100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase) on Saturday March 29th at 12:30  to 4 time, he will give a presentation on the history and a live demonstration of wet plate photography.
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2012/12/old-school-new-school-photography-chat-with-local-photographer-john-milleker-jr/

These are also known as ‘Tintypes’ and ‘Ambrotypes’, depending on what substrate was used to make the image. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in the late 1840’s and allowed photographers to extensively cover the battlefields of the Civil War  which gave citizens real images of the carnage at the front lines for the first time in history. The process is a little dirty and smelly, but you will be able to see the images appear before your eyes. We may be looking for some volunteer models.

If people catch the bug and want to learn and do the process themselves, John will be teaching a full two day workshop in Lower Town Harpers Ferry on October 11th & 12th 2014. (There will be a fee.) http://harpersferryhistory.pinnaclecart.com/living-history-workshops/