LPC Speaker Night – Nov. 8, 2012 – Travel Photography: From Museums to the Outback (Tom Ramsay)

Every trip can be an adventure. A museum in Paris, a game park in Africa, a conference in Sidney, or a cruise in the Caribbean:  each can provide the opportunity for new and exciting experiences and the potential to create images that capture the uniqueness of that trip.  This introductory level presentation is for photographers who want to create images that are optimally exposed and focused, while also conveying the passion, beauty, excitement, or poignancy of their experiences.

Award-winning photographer/cinematographer Tom Ramsay will present a program on travel photography. He will cover photo tips everyone should know in order to “bring a trip back alive” and share it with others.  Panoramas, composition, effectively handling extreme indoor and outdoor lighting conditions, equipment care, lens choices, and image stabilization are among the topics that will be covered.

For those interested in more in-depth study of this topic, Tom offers a 4-hour workshop, which this presentation is based on, at Art Square in Leesburg.  Tom has won more than 30 national and international production awards including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and the CINE Golden Eagle award.  He has photographed and directed for Time-Life’s “Wild Wild World of Animals,” Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” the U.S. National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His films have been seen worldwide on ABC, BBC, CBS, and PBS television networks.  Tom is currently teaching photography classes at ArtSquare in Leesburg, Virginia.  A list of current classes is available on the Art Square website, www.loudounacademy.org.  Samples of Tom’s work can be seen at www.momentwithnature.com.