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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2003-03-12
Peter Read Miller to teach at Denver workshop in May
Intense Moments: Photographing Sports. May 1-4, 2003 in Denver CO.
By Brad Mangin, SportsShooter.com
Photo by Brad Mangin
Peter Read Miller in action covering the Packers and 49ers in December of 2002 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
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Sports Illustrated staff photographer and SportsShooter.com member Peter Read Miller is presenting a rare opportunity to study and learn with him and his good friend Grant Leighton at a wonderful workshop in Denver, Colorado in early May.
This is a unique setting to study with one of the best sports shooters in the country in an intimate setting where you won't get lost in the shuffle and are sure to get some quality one-on-one instruction from Peter.
Following is a press release from Working With Artists Photographic Workshops with all the details:
Working With Artists Photographic Workshops presents a photographers' workshop with internationally known Sports Illustrated photographer Peter Read Miller. Also instructing will be Denver's own Grant Leighton.
Sports Illustrated staff photographer Peter Read Miller has worked for the magazine for over 20 years, with more than 85 covers to his credit. In addition to shooting 25 Super Bowls, he has covered 14 NBA Finals, six Olympics, the Stanley Cup Final, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four, Men's and Women's World Cup Soccer and the World Championship of Freestyle Wrestling in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
Peter's other editorial clients have included Time, Newsweek, LIFE, Playboy, People, USA Today, Runner's World, Money Magazine, and The New York Times. His commercial clients include Coca-Cola, addidas, Panasonic, Footlocker Stores, Kodak, Warner Brothers, Visa and NFL Properties.
Among the celebrities he has photographed are Rich Gannon, Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, John Wooden, Steve Young, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jason Kidd, Troy Aikman, Gabirelle Reese, David Robinson, Emmitt Smith, Maurice Greene, Tiger Woods, Bill Walsh, Ken Griffey Jr., John Elway, Karem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry Rice, Magic Johnson, Marion Jones, Terrell Davis, Mike Ditka, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, and Kathy Ireland.
Photo by Peter Read Miller, Sports Illustrated
Inga DeBruin, Portland, OR 2000
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Peter has been an instructor at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Rich Clarkson's Sports Photography Workshop in Colorado Springs. Peter has also been a guest speaker at UCLA, San Jose State, the University of Tennessee and The Eastman Kodak Corporate Headquarters in Rochester, NY. Peter lives in Manhattan Beach, California. Samples of his work can be seen at www.peterreadmiller.com.
Workshop topics will include:
* Camera and lens selection
* Angles and positioning for various sports
* Use of remotes
* Exposure for night and indoor events
* The action portrait
* Use of strobes for indoor events
* The business aspects of sports photography
* How Sports Illustrated covers an event
* Covering the Olympics
Mornings will be devoted to slideshows, lecture, discussion and demonstration. In the afternoons students will have the opportunity to photograph various amateur athletes and sporting events in and around the Denver area. Participant work will be reviewed each morning.
MAY 2 SPECIAL PUBLIC EVENT:
Lecture and Slide show $15 Location TBD
4 DAYS TUITION: $675
LOCATION:
Working with Artists Photographic Workshops
1836 Logan Street, Studio 307 in downtown Denver, and local sporting events facilities TBA.
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION:
303.477.5128 or 303.870.2408
Email < info@workingwithartists.org >
ABOUT GRANT LEIGHTON:
Edgy and thought provoking, Grant's work ranges from street photography to studio portraiture. After working intensively at ICP in New York, Grant became committed to fine art photography. On arriving in Colorado, he started working and instructing at Denver Center for Fine Photography, and has continued teaching as well as photographing professionally in Denver for several years. He is now the premier instructor and program advisor for Working with Artists Photographic Workshops. He has been teaching The Fine Portrait, Camera Formats & Lighting, and Defining Personal Vision workshops for WWA since its inception in 2001. Grant has taught photography now for over 6 years, inspiring exceptional student work. He works with Peter Miller regularly and the two have become good friends. To see more of Grant's work, please visit www.workingwithartists.org and click on the INSTRUCTORS link.
ABOUT WORKING WITH ARTISTS:
Working with Artists is a nonprofit educational organization that provides year round photographic workshops, classes and educational events for adults and young people. Unique to Denver in our mission to encourage established and aspiring photographers in their endeavors, our emphasis is in the art of photography and its value as creative expression that moves, motivates and inspires the human spirit.
We have a saying, "Passion is contagious! Work with artists to intensify your involvement in fine art photography." For more information about WWA, please visit www.workingwithartists.org or call 303.477.5128.
Related Links:
Peter's member gallery
Peter's personal website
Working with Artists
Related Email Addresses:
Working with Artists info: info@workingwithartists.org
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