Do you love farm animals and want to learn how to capture
their personalities in photographs? If so, join us for ASA’s first Farm Animal
Photography for Kids workshop series and learn how to take great photos of your
favorite animals.
Photographers Dona Ann McAdams and Cliff Oliver will teach you the fundamentals of photographic composition and lighting, and will begin
to explore photographic techniques including how to get close to your subject (safely!)
for that terrific shot.
This three part series will begin with visits to two local
farms which ASA has helped protect. In
our final session we will review work from the first two outings and choose the
best photos from each photographer to hang as a special exhibition in ASA’s
booth at the Washington County Fair.
The first session will take place on June 5th, from 9:30 to
noon at Tiashoke Farm on Route 40 in Easton. This 343-acre farm is one of two
properties that support a 500 cow dairy operated by the Ziehm family. Protected
in 2008, the Easton farm houses the young stock and replacement heifers and is also
home to Alpacas of Easton, a great pumpkin stand and corn maze. Here you will
have an opportunity to photograph young dairy cows and alpacas.
From 9:30 a.m. until noon on June 19th we will be
at Elihu Farm on Beadle Hill Road in Easton where Bob and Mary Pratt raise
sheep, about 100 adults and 150 lambs (give or take a few, it’s hard to count
that many sheep without falling asleep!), for food and fiber. They also have
laying chickens and geese on their 150-acre farm, which was conserved in
1995. This will be an excellent opportunity
to get shots of spring lambs in action as well as goslings and Rhode Island Red
laying hens.
In our final session on July 10th, we will meet to review
the work you have produced. If you are shooting film, please bring slides or
negatives and prints from your processed film. If you are shooting digital,
come with a CD or prints. We will have a discussion on the work and our teachers
will help you to decide what makes a successful photograph and choose the best
works from each participant to hang in the exhibit.
This series is recommended for kids ages 8 and up
and parents are encouraged to attend. The cost to participate is $20/photographer
and the class is limited to 24 participants. You may use digital or film
cameras and must have enough experience to work your camera. If you don’t have
a camera, let us know ahead of time and we can provide one for you. Space is
limited so please register.