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JOYous Nature PHOTO WALK
with Joy Krauthammer
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau (Journal, 5 August 1851)
On Joyous Nature Photo Walk (a slow walk special), with your favorite device, shoot consciously with your heart and mind, all the joy, wonder and sacred moments you ‘see', and dance with your soul as you experience Hod / beauty that inspires awe and gratitude.
Grasp essence of splendor that can’t be understood. Mindfully breathe in deeply and smile as you gaze upon The Creator’s gifts. Recognize and honor the Divine Presence, as you see a peacock, pomegranate, or feel your heart beat under a canopy of trees. Joy is delighted to be your guide.
Prepare for Tu B’Shvat / Birthday of the Trees, and take home a fig tree, gift from Joy.
Photos and videos by Joy fill her 80+ websites, are published in books, magazines, and on-line, and adorn spiritual and government websites. Revealing the Holy One, her photos have been exhibited at the Jewish Federation, Exodus Festival, Brandeis-Bardin, Mount Sinai Cemetery, and 2014 at American Jewish University, and Creative Soul Gallery, NY. Joy’s images are shared weekly online in 52 Frames, and Caffeinated Photographers, and daily in FaceBook.
Following in the footsteps of her artistic maternal ancestors (and daughter), since a child, Joy has used a camera as medium (as well as words, earth, fiber, and a drum) for joyous and personal expression.
"I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph." - Joy Krauthammer, Artist of Light
World Water Day, Belienson Park, San Fernando Valley, CA March 2018
Holy Spirit Peace Garden, Encino, CA January 2018
AJU Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA January 2017
Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA, January 2015
Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA, March 2016
Lake Balboa, San Fernando Valley, CA, April 2015
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA March 20, 2016
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA, May 1, 2016
Contact Joy if your organization wants to schedule a Photo Walk.
Holy Spirit Peace Garden, Encino, CA January 2018
AJU Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA January 2017
Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA, January 2015
Brandeis-Bardin, Simi Valley, CA, March 2016
Lake Balboa, San Fernando Valley, CA, April 2015
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA March 20, 2016
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, CA, May 1, 2016
Contact Joy if your organization wants to schedule a Photo Walk.
Artist of Light:
JOYous Nature Photo Walk
See,
Shoot, and Share
with Joy Krauthammer
Guidance, meditation, and prayer
Connect with the Source of
All BlesSings
For Tu B'Shvat,
Be a Tree, Shehecheyanu prayer
To see each flower as
coming, emanating, from the Holy One, The Source of All BlesSings,
I
try to manifest/reveal the expression of G*d’s beauty here on earth with us.
With
perception and awareness:
Early in the day, and
outside-- to the flower, I say, “Good morning". Be present.
The flower hears me. G*d
hears me. Have a conversation, look into
the Face of G*d. Into others’ eyes.
Separate from crowd, linger and/or go beyond path. Discover what is
beyond. (Don’t stay stuck at entrance.)
Be alert. See what others are peering at (i.e. peacock
high in a tree). Keep clicking.
Awareness for obstacles: poison
ivy, loose stones, holes, and snakes.
Be adventuresome, don't be
lazy, and don’t be late. Catch the guide
and tour bus. Charge batteries.
Consciousness: Missed bus in Russia, late in Bali, Tibet.
And hiding & shooting,
I’ve been caught by guards, gendarmes and gardeners in: Huntington Library’s
Rose Garden, CA, and shooting Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spain, and
vaulting* a Botanical Garden locked high gate in Texas after closing hours, and
then personally escorted out.
*(Studying in Hebrew U.
Jerusalem in an Art & Architecture of Synagogues summer course, I learned
this act.)
What is the intention of shooting the subject (flower, animal, tree, rock)?
What is your message? Feeling?
What do you notice that you
want others to see?
Themes:
Trees, leaves, flowers, insects, animals, humans, rocks, water, paths, gates,
fences, mountains, clouds, moon, sunrise, sunset.
Composition. Framing. 4 finger frame. Vertical Portrait or Horizontal Landscape. Brace camera.
Get close to be near to what is fascinating and inviting. Fill frame with subject.
Use Macro, move
into subject. Don’t rely on Zoom.
Leading lines. To connect elements to each other,
to journey visually, lead viewer's eye.
Use river and path lines in
nature. Frame with windows, archways.
Rule of Thirds.
Subject. Don't center. Use 3x3 grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
Vision. Turn self around to see the other direction,
and what’s behind you.
What’s in back of
subject/object?
Depth of field (DOF) for background, foreground, sense of
perspective.
Focus. BLUR the background or foreground, so center of
interest is what you focus on.
Negative Space. In image, discover shape outside subject form, the
area between and around objects.
What
Subject characteristics appeals to you?
What is the shape, form,
color (b/w) contrasts, texture, size, texture, smell, uniqueness?
Touch and
feel carefully and gently the subject--leaves, stem, moss, petals, bark, stone.
The flower, grass can touch you too. What is
tree saying?
Attributes, soul. What is: quiet, funny, loving, colorful,
meaningful, tiny, big, interacting, expressive?
Is there: beauty, joy,
surprise, scary, loving, sound, silence, movement?
See subject in their relationship to others, and their
environment.
(Shoot a lone flower in the field, and feel its importance.)
Simplify or exaggerate. Use scale, shutter speed, aperature, exposure, forced
perspective.
Elements. Limit, minimal may be best.
What new buds are opening,
full, or dying?
Adjacent subjects (animals, buds
and leaves) add interest.
See little bugs, and capture
them too.
Avoid unwanted backgrounds. Rearrange space with freedom to change.
Wait for non subjects to
pass. Avoid moving objects unless you want movement.
No trees and poles growing
out of people’s heads.
Delete. Remove what
you don’t want in picture. In shot or post
processing.
Pick out, weed out dead flora,
trash, feet, heads, and other unwanted debris.
Perspective. Move camera and/or body. Standing at eye, and
other levels.
Move camera to change
horizon height: lower or raise horizon.
Keep horizons level, unless
you want them skewed... Use unusual
perspective.
Body positions. Change to not only look down on the subject/flower,
but to look into it, up to it.
Shoot object from behind,
under and sideways, and even only partially to capture the essence.
Bend down, crouch low, lie
down, look up and closely into that flower or into sky to shoot.
Have camera so low or so high
to gain height, you can’t even see into the viewer.
Natural Light. Where is light coming from? Difference
in time of day.
Good before sunrise for color,
before sunset with softer Golden Hour, and virbrant after sunset.
Use directional lighting.
Move so that sun is at an angle to you, not only behind you.
How is light interacting with
subject and scene? See Silhouettes against
the light.
Flash to
fill in shadows. Shade has even
exposure.
Shadows. Visible
showing what? Create shadows purposefully.
May be positive and enhance,
or may detract.
Reflections. Seen in water, pool, raindrops, mirrors, windows, or
objects.
Weather. Shoot in the sun, in the rain. Protect
camera.
See in the raindrop or dew,
colors reflecting the plant and surroundings.
Break rules.
Be patient. Meditate. Have Gratitude.
Express your passion, creativity and joy.
Express your passion, creativity and joy.
YOUR ARTISTIC VISION
What inspires you? What is your vision?
Your intention? Your passion? Your
meaning?
Elements. What attracts you? Identify those elements
you like, their characteristics , and
why you like them.
How do you perceive? How can
you be more observant?
How do you feel seeing and
shooting? Create an image of that feeling. Share feeling image.
Identify Audience. Self, family, friends, organizations, photo
groups, blogs, FB, press, gallery?
Feel challenged. Create Art.
Have fun and joy in how you see and feel, and record the
world in photographs.
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s
what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau
(1851)
"I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph."
- Joy Krauthammer, MBA, Artist of Light
(2012)
BlesSings for seeing, shooting and sharing,
Joy
Krauthammer
“The primary talent of an artist is his ability to step
away from the externalities of the thing and, disregarding its outer form, gaze
into its innerness and perceive its essence, and to be able to convey this in
his painting (photography).
This is how an artist can serve his Creator.” -
The Rebbe
JOYous Nature Photo Walk ~ See, Shoot, and Share 10.18.2014 joyofwisdom1@gmail.com
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BlesSings, Joy