“Impressionistic Photography: How to Use Your Camera (or Smartphone) as a Paintbrush”
Description: Unlock your creative potential and discover how to craft Impressionistic-looking photographs using nothing more than your digital camera or smartphone. Charles will describe the process of using long-exposure and multiple-exposure techniques to transform everyday scenes into unimaginable visual masterpieces.
Using an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach, he will define and illustrate techniques such as, Long-Exposure Pan/Tilt, "Multiple-Exposure Monet" (a technique Charles invented), Multiple-Exposure Rotate & Zoom, Soft-Glow Montage and Composite Montage. He will also explain how to use a free script in Photoshop to accomplish this same look if your camera does not have built-in multiple-exposure capability. You’ll learn how to see in new ways and take your photography to an entirely new, mind-blowing level!
Charles Needle Biography
Charles Needle is an award-winning, Colorado-based fine art photographer, author, speaker and
workshop leader with a unique eye for design and artistic interpretation. His popular “Art of
Nature” creative macro workshops have attracted students nationwide.
In 2024, Charles made the shortlist for the Close-up Photographer of the Year international contest. And in 2018 and 2021, he earned honorable mentions in the Macro and Visual FX categories of the prestigious Annual International Mobile Photography Awards Contest. Charles was also a semi-finalist in the 2014 Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards photo contest. In 2011, Charles was selected as a finalist, among 15,000 entries worldwide, in the International Garden Photographer of the Year photography contest, sponsored by The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London, England). This exhibition traveled
throughout the United Kingdom.