Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 25

2014 ANNUAL ART AUCTION Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s renowned Annual Art Auction and Community Picnic returns on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The event is the Ranch’s largest fundraiser of the year and is a festive highlight of the summer season, featuring Eric Cheng, Aerial image of snorkelers and whale sharks in the Gulf of Mexico (detail) France Scully Osterman, Sterling Taylor (detail) both silent and live auctions with more than 250 works. We thank all the artists, August 11 - 15 August 11 - 15 Aerial Imaging Using Wet-Plate Collodion Quadcopters & GoPro Cameras  Ambrotypes & Tintypes:  Eric Cheng SKILL LEVEL: Open to all CONCEPT:  Take off and gain a new perspective on the world below. This is a hands-on workshop focused on how to fly consumer quadcopters for the purposes of aerial still photography and video capture. We engage in intensive flight instruction, aerial imaging time in the field, lectures on digital workflow for aerial imaging and classroom photography critiques. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Still photography and video capture from GoPro cameras; aerial panoramas, aerial timelapse and aerial flight techniques. ACTIVITIES: Local hands-on flight training, travel to interesting destinations for aerial photography, lectures and/or classroom time. FACULTY: Eric Cheng is an award-winning photographer who specializes in aerial imaging and underwater photography. He publishes Wetpixel.com, the premiere online community for underwater imaging, and leads photography expeditions to remote locations around the world in pursuit of sharks, whales, pristine coral reefs and strange underwater critters.   www.echeng.com Tuition: $975 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1175 Studio Fee: $100  Code: P1130  Enrollment Limit 10 collectors and galleries who generously donate artwork, much of which was made at the Ranch or produced specifically for this with and without a camera event. The auction is free and open to the France Scully Osterman public. Funds raised support the creative and educational programs of the Ranch. We SKILL LEVEL: Open to all welcome online absentee bidding! CONCEPT:  Making collodion images without a camera is a fun and playful way to create ambrotypes and tintypes for fine art photography. In this class, we learn to employ the enlarger and transparencies, magic lantern slides and botanicals to make ambrotypes and tintypes. Special attention to selecting subject matter and using natural lighting is emphasized. Whether new to the process or honing basic skills, this workshop is a great fit for fine art photographers, educators and anyone else interested in the evolution of photography. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: How to cut and clean glass plates; coating glass and metal plates with collodion; sensitizing, exposure, several methods of development, fixing and varnishing. How to identify markings on the plate, fog and other artifacts peculiar to the process and when to use them to support the imagery. Tinting and special burnishing techniques, mixing chemicals and troubleshooting. ACTIVITIES: Demonstrations, lab work time and creation of images. FACULTY:  France Scully Osterman is an artisteducator and lecturer at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, both in Rochester, N.Y. She lectures and teaches nationally, and her work has been featured in Ar Ё