Monday, March 28, 2011

BugShot 2011: Improve your insect photography with John Abbott, Thomas Shahan, and Alex Wild


I am pleased to announce BugShot, a first-of-a-kind weekend workshop for arthropod photography. The event is a photography course and weekend retreat scheduled for Labor Day Weekend 2011 (September 2-5) at the Shaw Nature Reserve outside of St. Louis, Missouri. We have chosen a long weekend and a central location to make the event as accessible as possible and have limited enrollment to 35 to keep the participant/instructor ratio manageable.
Depending on how the event unfolds, we may make BugShot an annual event similar to the famous Ant & Bee Courses, with rotating instructors and locations.

Who should attend?

  • Entomologists who aspire to improve their photographic skills for work or pleasure
  • Photographers who wish to learn arthropod- specific techniques
  • Naturalists & gardeners who enjoy the little things outdoors
  • Bug bloggers & bugguide.netters who’d like to spice up their online imagery
  • Anyone looking for an excuse to hang out at the beautiful Shaw Nature Reserve for a long weekend
Attendees are assumed to have an understanding of simple camera functions, including shutter speed & aperture, and should be able to operate the basic functions of their equipment. The course is geared towards SLR equipment, but most topics will also be applicable to digicams that offer manual control of important functions.
We are offering up to three registration fee waivers to current students, please email (alwild [at] myrmecos.net) for details.

Who are the instructors?

We have arranged an instructor list that spans a diversity of photographic styles.
  • John Abbott, of Texas, loves to photograph insects, especially in action
  • Thomas Shahan, of Oklahoma, is a master of close-up arthropod portraiture
  • Alex Wild, of Illinois, is an ant photographer extraordinaire

What will you learn at BugShot?

  • Macro-& microphotography equipment
  • Digital asset management & workflow
  • Composition
  • Lighting & flash
  • Working with live insects
  • Special techniques: focus-stacking, time-lapse & video
  • Field sessions in prairie, woodland & aquatic habitats
  • Evening photo-sharing presentations
  • and more!

click to register for BugShot 2011
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I'm Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the last 15 years I have focused on dragonflies and damselflies. I recently wrote a book on this group in Texas and the South-central United States that was published by Princeton University Press. It contains many of my photos. I am currently working on two field guides for Texas dragonflies and damselflies to be published by the University of Texas Press. I have had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Latin America, Africa and other parts of the world where I enjoy taking photos of pretty much anything that will allow me to capture its image.