Attended this exclusive photography seminar by National Geographic Photographer, Joe Riis on a lazy Sunday morning with Jess.
It was held at the LASALLE College of the Arts, The Singapore Airlines Theatre. Both of us find the architecture here rather interesting so we took some photos here. It's Joe Riis first trip to Singapore and it's my first visit to the LASALLE College of the Arts.
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A short bio about Joe Riis. He was born and raised in South Dakota on the Great Plains and is currently the youngest wildlife photojournalist for National Geographic. At only 29 years old this year, he has already won an Emmy in 2011 for his pronghorn cinematography which was featured in National Geographic Channel's Great Migration series.
In the seminar, he shared with us some of his vast array of experiences of photographing the wildlife animals.
Every photo tells a different story. From this seminar, we are seeing the wildlife through the lens of Joe Riis. For the Grand Teton pronghorn migration, it actually took him two years to complete this project. The photo above shows the antelope's feet getting caught in a fence. He believes that through these photos taken, it will helps to create awareness for the wildlife.
For example, creating a better route for the animals to migrate. I remember one slide shows how initially the animals have to cross over a road full of cars to get to the other side and it's quite dangerous but after a few years, they built a bridge for them to cross over.
Before he start on any project, he would first familiarize himself of the place first. To see what are the routes the animals would usually take. A wide angle lens camera is usually used to capture the background scenery too. For this photo, he set up his camera at this particular spot and leave it on with motion sensor for a few days. It happened to capture a lot of different animals coming to this spot.
The Gobi bears project is what he is working on now. In fact he will be going back to Mongolia after this Singapore trip for another 5 weeks. That's life of a wildlife photographer for you. After the seminar, there's the Q&A session. This is by far the most active Q&A session. There's just so many questions thrown at him from the ground which he tackled quite professionally. There's questions like what setting he likes best, whether he will try to mount a camera on an animal to get the animal's perceptive, etc, etc.
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| Contest website: http://www.celebrationofcolour.com/ |
This photography seminar was organized in support to the launch of the EOS Young Photographer Awards, an initiative between Canon and the National Geographic Channel.
The contest is open to all aspiring young photographer between 13 to 25 years old in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia from 28th March to 3rd June.
This is the summary of the attractive prizes!!! Seriously, if I'm not over-age, I would definitely join this contest.
Share some of the photo tips which Joe Riis shared during the seminar. So true, I think I'm gonna practice and bear this 6 sentences in mind!
Good luck to those who are joining and may the best photo win!
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