Fifi Leigh
Thursday, April 19, 2018
At 7 pm, I went to another Photography Meetup at Canon. This workshop is about Fine Arts Photography. Cheryl Walsh displayed some of her photographs, which includes underwater portraits of mermaids, goddesses, maternity, faeries, and merman. It looks artistic and fancy. She provided some tips creating photo art.
It is important to have your heart, a story, and a purpose behind your art. Start with an idea, photograph that idea in many ways, and the print it to see the outcome.
Creating fine arts is all about expressing your thoughts and feelings about a story and subject. For every idea that pops inside your head, ask yourself why, and take your time with photographing that idea.
A particular art piece might not be your taste, but it isn’t considered bad. Everyone has their own style and ways to express their thoughts and feelings. It is all about personal and unique style.
She tells everyone to check out YouTube videos, Adam Ruins Everything, especially the one about Fine Arts. I posted one in this post. There are many on different topics, in which Adam exposes the truth on different topics.
She lists some of her favorite photographers and artists who inspire her, which include Kate Scott, John Michael Cooper, Heather Thur, and Christy Mitchell.
To create interesting art, you should play with the composition, change the mood of the picture, change lighting for mood, and use models or other people in the composition. Be open to try different things.
Be inspired by other artists to learn from others, but also be genuine to yourself by create your own unique style and art. Express your unique style by creating your artistic voice. You might need to mediate and be introspective to decide how you will shoot the subject in a cool way.
She likes making photographs that look more like paintings. (I really thought the huge one displayed in the room was a painting).
Use other people’s stories, but re-interpret them in a different way, which will create a different story from the original. (For example, a couple of years ago, I was considering using the children’s fables and Disney stories, but creating my own stories for them and giving them a different ending, which is nothing like the lame original that I never really liked as a child anyway; I haven’t yet because I got started on my novels. Who knows, maybe I will do it in the future…).
She adds that toothpaste is the best defogger, especially for goggles before you go underwater. Interesting…I need to remember to try it…I wonder if it is a specific toothpaste brand or any toothpaste will work as defogger. She states that Venmo Card is good for doing business because it doesn’t use fees or refunds, although it is owned by PayPal; so, I am not sure I can trust such card, even though she likes it).
Eric Joseph from Freestyle Photographic talked about printing. He states that the trick to create a good photograph is by carefully picking the right paper for your image. There are many photography papers, but some include Canson, RC Lustre, Baryta, William Turner (rough paper), metallic resonant, soft texture natural white cotton, Moab Juniper Baryta Rag (I noticed Freestyle Profile is better than Moab Profile), Slickrock Pearl, Baryta Photographique, and Hahnemuhle William Turner. No printers will print the same. So, choose your papers wisely for the look you want. I also think picking the right frame adds to the photograph because it makes the image pop out.
If you want to check out her work, you can go on CherylWalshPhotography.com and CherylWalshFineArt.com
At 9 pm, as I walked out of the building to my car, I noticed a discarded cookie message on the ground. I decided to picked it up because I consider it a sign of some kind. “You Create Enthusiasm Around You.”
yeah, because i noticed there are a lot of artists on here. we need to be careful….