Bulletins and Notes Archive

On Sunday, August 27, and Sunday, September, 10, internationally renowned bird photographer Arthur Morris will present a full day How-To Seminar. More than ten thousand of Mr. Morris' technically perfect, artistically designed images have appeared in virtually all natural history, photography, and birding publications, as well as in many general interest publications, prestigious calendars, advertisements, and on posters and web sites as well, usually above his most-fitting BIRDS AS ART credit line.

Artie has been a Canon contract photographer since 1995. He was featured in a worldwide television commercial for the EOS 1N and has appeared in six episodes of the Canon Photo Safari (which airs October through January on ESPN). He is a contributing photographer with VIREO (Philadelphia), Windrush Photos (UK), and The Stock Market, New York.

All nature photographers, not just those who concentrate on birds, will learn a lot from attending either of these presentations. Artie will describe the methods and techniques that he has used and developed since 1983 to produce simply designed yet stunning images on a consistent basis. His comments on equipment, film, autofocus, light, exposure, composition and picture design, image sharpness, getting close to free and wild subjects, and his tips on photographing action and behavior will benefit anyone with a macro or telephoto lens who wishes to improve the quality of their photographs.

Attendees will learn:

To see and think like an artist.

About modern autofocus cameras and lenses as well as the pros and cons of both the Canon and Nikon systems.

How to get closer to free, wild and unrestrained creatures than ever before.

The secrets of consistently producing razor sharp images.

About Artie's two favorite films and how and when he uses them.

How and when to use flash and projected flash both as main light and as fill.

How the quality and the direction of natural light affects your images.

How to come up with the pure, clean, out-of-focus backgrounds that are the hallmark of Artie's style.

How to use your camera’s multi-segmented meter to consistently come up with good exposures and why Artie is one of the few pros who rarely spot meters anything.

The cost of the Seminar is $65.00 with advance registration (recommended), or $75.00 at the door) To sign up, fill out the registration form below and send it along with a check for $65.00 made out to Arthur Morris to BIRDS AS ART/DEPT ML  PO Box 7245, Indian Lake Estates, FL 33855. (Please do NOT make checks out to BIRDS AS ART. Thanks.)

FIELD SHOOT, JBWR, QUEENS, NY SATURDAY, AUGUST 26.                           $125.00

FIELD SHOOT, JBWR, QUEENS, NY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.                     $125.00

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Seminar location(s), directions and registration confirmations will be sent to all registrants upon receipt of payment. We will use e-mail (preferred) or US mail.