Webinar: Macro Photography: Finding Zen with a Lightbox with Alan Shapiro by NOVOFLEX

About This Webinar

Whether seeking an escape from the challenging times we are all living through or simply looking for an easy-to-master indoor photo activity, photographer and educator Alan Shapiro has a fun-filled class utilizing a lightbox, some inexpensive and readily available items you likely have in your home or can easily find in a craft supply store.

Alan has long been a proponent of photography as stress reliever and in this webinar, he’ll share some easy to master tabletop macro techniques designed for maximum impact and maximum relaxation.

As Alan likes to say “If you’re not smiling, you’re doing something wrong.”

Agenda

Staging scenes and controlling chaos
Exploring the Unknown
Overcoming challenges
Reveling in Mistakes
Shooting soap bubbles
Shooting with oil, water and ink
Shooting with paint and milk underwater
Alan will show examples, share his in-home setup and share a little of his post processing workflow

Matt Hill

Partner, co-founder of National Parks at Night.

Alan Shapiro

Passionate, award-winning photographer. Advertising Chief Creative Officer, too

I grew up on the creative side of the advertising world, working with clients around the world; telling their unique stories in very unique ways.

Along the way, I've had the pleasure of working with many, many talented photographers, directors and content creators. I became envious of their art and craft. At first, I saw it as a means of reducing my stress-filled life. As a Chief Creative Officer at the world's largest Advertising Agency Network, I needed a distraction. A friend gave me a camera. Then I bought another. And then another. My new hobby and daily "creative exercise regimen" quickly turned into a joy-filled and all consuming passion. Then my first photo client called. Then another. And then, many more. Lockheed Martin, GM, Cadillac, Apple, Ritz Carlton, Bose, Scholastic,...

I love talking to all sorts of people and seem to have a knack for getting them to open up and share themselves despite the intrusion and intimidation that a serious-looking camera often represents.

I like finding and sharing things I find.
Beautiful things. Powerful things. Poignant things.

I also enjoy taking something ordinary and making it something well beyond that.

Illustration and painting are other passions and I love creating unique "painted" photographs and photocompositions inspired by the Renaissance Masters.

My work hangs in corporate and private collections. It graces retail environments, editorial spreads, TV show sets and has been featured on products from housewares to clothing to puzzles.

Happiness.

So here I am; open for any adventure that needs an image or two. Or twenty.

Call me at (914) 536-9923
E-mail me at alanshapiro@me.com