Renan Cepeda workshop “The light in his hand-an introduction to Light Painting”

The image Workshop opens registration for the workshop The light in his hand-an introduction to Light Painting based on the award-winning Brazilian photographer Renan Cepeda. Home 27 September, 18h30, limited availability. The image Workshop is on Avenida Pasteur 453, Urca.

"In the darkness the perception of light is much sharper. Every beam of light, whether it's produced by a match or a flashlight, the eyes are capable of measuring and dosing hands each ray of light ", explains Renan Cepeda.

Renan Cepeda will show their photography techniques for light painting, that is, lighting by light source by hand, in long exposures, where students practice the technique of playful way, photographing each other. On schedule, There will be outdoor outlet, where Cepeda will make your students "paint" with the light the facade of an abandoned Church of the 18th century, under various angles and with other elements, as trees etc.

Renan intends to show participants, a relatively easy and unusual way of photographing, breaking the paradigm of “snap shot”, the decisive moment, in an era when almost all of the photographs are made in a fraction of a second.

On the technique of Light Painting the author of the photograph is not behind the camera, He enters the scene, interfering with her and being protagonist in every trace of light recorded. Kind of playing God, the painter considers the light in his hands that he determines that will exist in the frame, condemning the eternal darkness what do not want to be enlightened.