2003 Luau: Get Off That Computer & Back To The Light Table by Robert Beck

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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2003-09-05

2003 Luau: Get Off That Computer & Back To The Light Table by Robert Beck
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter

Photo by Robert Beck / Sports Illustrated

The California 500 with a Lomo.

(Note: One in a series of stories on breakout leaders at the upcoming Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau.)

Bit Depth?
Gigabyte?
RAW+JPEG?
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor?
Lateral Buried Charge Accumulator and Sensing Transistor?
Chimping?

Technology? Robert Beck says "enough already!" ... and doggone it he wants to do something about it.

Beck will be leading one of 15 breakout sessions at the Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau 2003, Nov. 7 - 8. His class, "Get Off That Computer & Back To The Light Table" will take participants back to the basics -- when the image was what we all talked about, not the technology that made it.

Photo by Robert Beck / Sports Illustrated

Bub Beck with a Graflex 4x5.

Beck, a Southern California - based staff photographer with Sports Illustrated, will share his insights, exceptional photography and humor in this 90 - minute class.

"How about a Holga ... 16 bucks a pop and shoots 120. Sound good to you?" Beck says about going retro.

"Graflex with a 137mm ... 300 George Washingtons to shoot 4 X 5? Oh yeah. Good enough to run in magazines from Polaroid too." he adds.

What Beck wants to emphasis in this unique class is getting back to what's in the viewfinder and not how big a chip the camera uses.

How about a little bit of fun (what? fun in a Robert Beck class?) ... he suggests another "toy camera".

"Lomo multi image cameras? Thirty bucks. No one picture out of these cameras even looks the same as the one preceding it. There you have it. Inexpensive, unique and publishable (Is that a word?)."

Beck challenges those who sign up for his class that have an older film camera to "bring it with you and share it. Come think outside the box with us!"

Photo by Brad Mangin

Robert Beck

The Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau will be held at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Nov. 7 - 8. Main speakers include Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jose Villegas, of the Sacramento Bee, freelance photographer and film maker Ben Van Hook and Vincent Laforet from The New York Times.

For details and on-line registration, click on "Workshops" on the SportsShooter.com web site. The Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau is sponsored by Nikon.

"All you need to do is GET CREATIVE. Re-learn how to make a picture with me," Beck says, "Or maybe I'll learn a little from you!"

For more information and on-line registration for the Sports Shooter Workshop & Luau:

http://www.sportsshooter.com/workshops.html

Related Links:

Robert Beck's member page

Workshop & Luau Info