Mind over Motion
© Bill Frakes
Controlling motion means more than simply being able to stop motion. It involves the ability to create, imply, blur, slow, freeze or indicate movement. This workshop will deal with the techniques and the tools required to visual harness motion and make the subject of the photograph the object of the movement. More importantly, it will revolve around the thought process necessary to anticipate, pre-visualize and execute the image. All photographic genres can benefit from using motion to enhance or modify the central subject matter of the photograph, and in many occasions the motion will be the subject matter. Like light and color, motion can be the message. Learn how to control it.
On Friday evening, Bill Frakes, a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated, will share his personal approaches and techniques to capturing motion. Participants are encouraged to bring work for review and critique. For the remainder of the weekend, students will put ideas into practice by working in the field at a location to be determined.
Bill Frakes (www.billfrakes.com) is a Sports Illustrated staff photographer based in Florida. He has worked in more than 100 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients. His advertising clients include Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Champion, Gitzo, Elinchrome, Isleworth, Stryker, IBM, Nikon, Kodak, and Reebok. Editorially his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world. He has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work, including the coveted “Newspaper Photographer of the Year” award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition and the “Gold Medal” by World Press Photo. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press club for distinguished foreign reporting. Bill is married to broadcaster Paige Kelton and they have a seven year-old daughter, Havana.
