The second SOM Photography Seminar arrived in Chengdu on August 15th 2016. 4 photography masters were invited to share at the seminar, they are CM Leung, Lito Sy, Jeremy Chan, color management expert Rainy Xia, and guest speaker Jesse.
This is a grand photography sharing and exchange event. The masters demonstrated shooting, lighting methods, photography career development planning, and Q&A session. There was also a photo comment session to comment on photos submitted from the audience. submissions based on international competition standards, and improvised creative shooting of master students.
The event began with a sharing session by famous Chinese photographer from the United States, Jeremy, also a photo retoucher. With his superb photo editing techniques, he is named the “retouching hand”.
In order to create our own unique style, photographers must first discover what they really like. I personally like oil painting.
Jeremy Chan
It is precisely because of Jeremy’s love for oil painting, he integrated the characteristics of oil painting style into digital images, thereby creating a unique and intriguing style of oil painting and film style!
Next, it was the young photographer, Jesse, who is popular all over China with his series of grandpa photos. He shared his photography insights through his travel experience, his feeling being an amateur photographer, his photography experience, and his trip to Fiji.
Images come from life, photographers who don’t understand life are not good photographers
Jesse
Excellent works come from love, loving the family, in love with society, and love in photography
Don’t forget your original intention, think about why you chose photography? Break through yourself and live better!
The next speaker in the afternoon: He once shot Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse wedding, and Dicky Zhang’s wedding, he is the photographer of the family of Philippine Vice President, and holder of WPPI double honor master. He is the Philippine famous photographer Lito Sy!
I began as an assistant, changing batteries and lighting was my duty. Later, I decided to be a professional photographer. I participated in many workshops. SOM workshops are good learning opportunities.
Participate in more international competitions, such as: WPPI, WPPA …
Take less photo job to spare your time for building your own brandLito Sy
Then, Rainy Xia, a color management expert who has been engaged in image color management for many years, shared post-processing techniques and blind spots, and analyzed the pain points of photographers during post-processing.
Color tone needs good color control on your monitor, which reduces a lot of repetitive time. Right coloraturas doesn’t come from luck.
Rainy Xia
When selecting paper, not just paper texture, but also sufficient color gamut performance.
Grandly debuted is CM Leung, the world’s first Chinese photographer who won the WPPI honor, and one of the top ten wedding photographers in China
CM shared his experience and skills in photo documentary, as he found that more than half of his many WPPI award-winning works are documentary photography.
Learning the skill of documentary photography gives you many advantages for wedding photography, as you cannot use flash for documentary photography, find and use good natural light.
CM Leung
It doesn’t matter what ISO you use for documentary photography, you don’t need a good camera, don’t be too shy .
3 elements of a good documentary photo: Light + Composition + Story
I am now learning to do videography and add value to myself so that I will not be easily eliminated
