Applications are now closed for this session of Tamara Pruessner's program.

Applications are now closed for this session of Tamara Pruessner's program. Check back regularly and circle our page G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers  To keep updated on future program announcements

Tamara Pruessner is mentoring!! Go to the original post to sign up (comments will be disabled here.)

Please note that Tamara has created her own curricula and her program is different than the one's offered by Ron Clifford, Beth Akerman or Robin Griggs Wood –– don't miss out!!

We are also looking for people who can help mentor with the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers.  There are so many types of programs possible, you can call the shots! Contact us: Tamara Pruessner, Ron Clifford, and Robin Griggs Wood!!

Originally shared by Tamara Pruessner

I am now working on the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers project with Ron Clifford and Robin Griggs Wood.  I am super excited about this and can't wait to show you all the ideas that the three of us are putting together!

Right now, I am announcing my own photography mentorship program - "Building An Image with Tamara Pruessner".  I am super excited about it and will be accepting signups. 

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This will be a 6-week program, working on design elements of a photograph that will make you "FEEL", which to me, is the single most important job a photograph can do.  Make emotion. 

If you would like to participate in a highly interactive, community-based learning project, then please read on and APPLY! 

Tamara Pruessner will be taking on a handful of people for a special mentorship program called "Building An Image".  This mentorship is designed to help you learn, search for, and apply design elements of a photograph to bring forth the emotions that make images memorable.  It will focus on rules and when to break them as well as elements such as color and when not to use it, patterns, lines, shapes, etc. 

This course is NOT how to use your camera, but IS how to see and build and image with the camera and skills you already have.  I will be happy to give some guidance on technical aspects as it relates to the weekly lessons, but I will not be focusing on f-stops and apertures. 
 
Up to 10 photographers will be selected for a 6-week on-line apprenticeship program which will include lessons, assignments,  Google hangouts are possible, and informal discussions are encouraged. Mainly, the goal is for everyone to have fun, collaborate, and learn from each other.

Selections will be announced on Wednesday, June 20th  for the mentorship beginning within days of the announcement of selected mentors. I will be coordinating with Robin Griggs Wood, Ron Clifford, and Beth Akerman on their mentorship programs and will work with them if you have signed up for one of their mentorships already to see if they have accepted you into theirs. Please, if possible indicate whether or not you signed up already on one of their posts.

Selection criteria will include:

• You should be taking and posting photographs regularly -- a maximum of three days between PUBLIC posts here on G+; more increases your chances of being selected. (The class itself will be private to the group  except for the option of a public display album of your best work at the end.) you may publicly post your own achievements of course, and I encourage it!!
• You should be interactive here at G+, as you will be expected to participate in this program giving feedback and comments to others.
• You have little previous art studies, as this program is designed for those who have not had the opportunity to add this skill set to their knowledge base.

To be considered for selection, please comment to this main post only: (not to any reshares)


and answer the following questions in your comment: 
1) Photography skill level
2) Photo editing software used most
3) Favorite subjects to photograph
4) Aspirations within photography
5) Current job or profession (or favorite hobby outside of photography)
6) Previous art studies


EXAMPLE ANSWERS
1) Intermediate hobby photographer
2) Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS3
3) Trees, landscapes, waterfalls
4) To sell prints of my work
5) Full-time grocery store clerk, and I collect bottle caps.
6) I have no previous art studies

The mentorship program  is a lot of fun and has great interaction, it also requires a commitment to complete the weekly assignments.  If you feel you won't have time to dedicate to going out and taking lots of pictures, then please consider allowing others the chance to participate