Seminar - May 16, 2010

              - Imaging

 William G. Hartshorn

May 2011- Wildflowers, Barns & Montana de Oro (Central Coastal California) Photo Adventure William G. Hartshorn - Class Fee $515. (3 days)

Film & Digital shooters - Film & Digital shooters this is a two day adventure with the "Master Of The Picture Perfect Postcard Image."  

"Rain or Shine"

(Get away from your problems.) 

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 Looking Back

"Keep searching, keep shooting. Film is cheap, art is long, time is fleeting." 

My first photography teachers were the writers and editors of Popular Photography, Modern Photography and U.S. Camera. I studied their advice religiously, and it was apparently pretty good, because a month or two after graduation from high school I was hired as an assistant to a respected New York City photo-illustrator.

It was exciting, like being in graduate school. Slowly, I learned to come to grips with the demands of a large and complicated view camera, learned to tray-develop a dozen sheets of 8x10 film as a time without calamity, got to know the inner workings of large color labs, and who was who at some of the Madison Avenue advertising agencies. I was almost starting to feel professional.

My heroes were Halsman, Rawlings, Penn and (a bit later) Avedon. I noticed that if they were not using a view camera they were not using a view camera they were all shooting with a Rolleflex. That was good enough for me. So in 1952 I bought my first, wore it out and bought another, then another. Along the way I tried a 6x7 Pentax and a Hasselblad, but they never felt as right as my Rollei.

It wasn't until 1975, a full two decades after I had left New York for points west, that I succumbed to the lure of 35mm. I bought a Nikon and a raft of lenses. Today, I have to admit, I used the Nikon more than the Rollei or my 4x5 view camera.

Looking back, I do not feel nearly as bad about the shots that didn't quite make it as much as I do about the subjects I could have shot and should have shot, but didn't. Opportunities are usually short-lived. You can look back, but you can never go back.

So here's my advice: Find the camera that's right for you and carry it with you often. Keep searching, keep shooting. Film is cheep, art is long, time is fleeting. And I realize that if you are going digital you can shoot all day without running up a bill. So much the better. But I'm still sticking with film.

ABOUT JEROME K. MULLER
 
Photographer, art director, designer, dealer, collector, and teacher, Jerry Muller now celebrates his 50-year involvement in the arts. His career began in midtown Manhattan, where he worked as assistant to some of America's great photo-illustrators. At age eighteen he was teaching photography and contributing to national magazines.


He received his formal training in fine art at New York University, the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, and Brandt Painting Workshop in Corona Del Mar, but he learned photography as an apprentice behind an 8x10 view camera with a 14" Kodak Ektar lens, the standard for every commercial photographer in New York City at that time. Outside the studio he used his Rolleiflex almost exclusively, shooting cityscapes, character studies and environmental portraits.


After graduating from Marquette University he went to work for Teen Beat in Milwaukee, where he shot his first magazine cover. Upon his arrival in California in the early 1960's he was named editor and art director of Orange County Illustrated. His fashion photographs for the magazine and his portraits of its illustrious contributors and local celebrities represent the bulk of his photographic output during this period.


In the past few years he has had solo exhibitions of his photography at the University of California, Irvine, Portland State University, Image Control, National Telephone and Communications, and the Robert Mondavi Wine and Food Center, Costa Mesa.


Muller has taught the history of comic and animation art at the University of California, Irvine and for years taught publication design at Orange Coast College. He currently heads Museum Graphics and keeps busy working on various photographic and fine arts projects.


Formerly editor and art director of several national and regional magazines, including Country Beautiful and Reproductions Review, Muller has won numerous awards for his writing, editing, art direction and photography. He has long been listed in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Art.

Masters Of Imaging Photo Adventure

Additional Hartshorn Workshops

"Special - Wild Wildflower Workshops - in May & June"

• May 2011 - Wildflowers, Barns & Montana de Oro (Central Coastal California) Photo Adventure - William G. Hartshorn  - Class Fee $515. (3 Day)
• July 2011 - Zoo Day & Fireworks over LA Photo Adventure - William G. Hartshorn - Class Fee $325. (1 Day)
• August 2011 - Wine Country Photo Adventure (Sonoma, Solvang & Santa Barbara) - William G. Hartshorn -  Class Fee $635. (3 Days)
• September 2011 - Sierra Photo Adventure (Lone Pine, Independence & Bishop) - William G. Hartshorn - Class Fee $635. (3 Days)

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