photo by: rob orchard
I am giving a free talk at the University of Sussex next week, its open to none students as well so no NUS card required! It starts at 5:30pm on Wednesday the 25th of November.
The talk was organized by University of Sussex Photography Society (facebook page)
Room 121
Silerstone Building
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9RG
The last Hot Shots Course of the year will be on the 21st and the 28th November in Hastings. It’s been a blast teaching them, 7 in total this year with the first in January. Each time I teach it, it slightly changes for the better, I think after running it twice back to back in San Fransisco I have really got it refined now. There are few spots left for the Hastings workshop but it is limited to 8 so if you are interested mail me info@lomokev.com.
Its been a great experience teaching it and I have already got three dates lined up at Grange Studios in Brighton for 2010. I am thinking about running Hot Shots in Manchester, London, New York, San Francisco, Madrid (or Barcelona) and Berlin. If you live in any of those places you can join my mailing list to find out when I am coming to your town info@lomokev.com, also if you e-mail me it will help me gauge potential interest.
The course has been drawing quite a lot of interest, as well as going international it also received a glowing 4 page review from Digital SLR user magazine!
This is how Charlie Griffiths from DSLR User Summed up the course:
“I learned a hell of a lot from Lomokev and his Lomo LC-As. Wandering the streets of Brighton with a bunch of like-minded people, nattering about photography in-between taking pictures, was a fantastic way to spend a weekend – and my photography improved massively I think with Kev and the group’s help, I’ve finally got myself a pair of photographer’s eyes that see potential images everywhere. This is going to be fun.”
I have also been getting great feedback from attendees, check what these hot shooters have to say about the course:
“The Workshop was very well worth my 500 miles trip from Kassel to Brighton”
- topfloor
“Excellent course. My photography improved a ton and I learned some new skills and techniques. I came away with some killer shots. Would take this course again and wish you were coming back to the states sometime soon.”
- Wendy laurel
“I became aware of the photography of Kevin Meredith through his Hot Shots book and later, his flickr photo-stream. Kevin uses a photographer’s keen eye and a poet’s sensibility to create a wonderland of stunning imagery. Taking the Hot Shots workshop is the best thing I’ve done to improve my own photographic vision and creativity.”
- Rob LaRosa
“Hot Shots: The Photography Course was awesome, not only for the actual photography course, but for all the additional photoshop/lightroom help and flickr/file organization tips. As a photographer just starting out, this was the perfect course to help bring me up to speed. The money spent was well worth the knowledge and good times!”
- Joel Maxey
“The talk and the class have been a huge kick in the butt to both my inspiration and out put. I’ve been shooting like mad for no other apparent reason.”
- Lori Orson
“Hot Shots is a Fantstic course. I had loads of fun and learnt a lot too. The group was small and LomoKev ensured everyone got some individual attention. The course has really helped me to think more creatively about my photography. Highly recommend.”
- Caroline Blake
If these testimonials have gone some way to convince you that the Hot Shots Course is worth doing you can out check future dates here of join my mailing list to be the first to find out when I am coming close to your town be e-mailing me on info@lomokev.com. It just leaves me to say a big thank you to everyone who has attended Hot Shots in 2009 and hope there will many more in 2010 and beyond!
Posted: November 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »This week Olympus announced the Pen E-P2 and it address a few features that where lacking from the E-P1. A welcome addition is the VF-2 viewfinder witch is very much like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1′s video view finder. Rather than the optional optical view finder that you could only use with the 17mm lens on the EP-1 this lets you see what the final image will actually be with the added bonus that you can angle it to 90°, grate for getting those low down shots. When recording video on the E-P1 the sound of the lens focusing could be picked up but now there is a microphone input and the optional EMA-1 microphone adapter that will solve this problem. There are 2 new art filters Diorama and Cross Processing I think the diorama is going to be a fake tilt shift although I can’t be to sure as Olympus have not released any images shot in this mode. I am also very intrigued to see how the cross processing pains out as I have been Known to dabble in some x pro my self. Its a shame that the pen is still lacking a built in flash witch is something the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 dose have.
The E-P2 will be out in early 2010 and will cost £850 and includes the new VF-2 viewfinder.
The Olympus Pen EP-1, E-P2 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 are micro 4/3rds cameras. Micro 4/3rds offer similar features to digital SLR cameras, like interchangeable lenses and having full control over shutter speed and aperture. The added bonus is that they are small enough to fit in your pocket. Other manufactures are planing there own 3/4 cameras so 2010 should be a interesting year for this format. You can read my full review of the The Olympus Pen EP-1 from earlier this year here.
Images from Olympus UK. View more E-P2 images on the Olympus’s flickr stream.
Posted: November 7th, 2009 | No Comments »As some might know I recently visited San Francisco, the reason I went on this trip was to attend something called Phoot Camp, which was a weekend camping with 20 super talented photographers. All the fruits of Phoot Camp are now online. If you want to know the full story, check out who attended or see the work that came out of it, just head over to http://phootcamp.com/
I shot lots of general lomo images of the whole event and a few digital but my mini project was shooting montage portraits of everyone:
Click on the images above to see the flickr version where they can be viewed larger or you can check out all of my portrait montage pictures on flickr here
Many good times where also had round the camp fire:
Posted: November 6th, 2009 | No Comments »