Level: intermediate

Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2024

Wednesdays

6:00 - 7:30pm

4 weeks

Instructor: Thom Williams

Instructor's website

Fee: $100

Now that you’ve mastered shutter speed, aperture and ISO in Beginner 1, and have gotten your feet wet with composition in beginner 2. It’s time to uncover your creative voice in photography. This 4 week class will guide you through the process of creating a photographic series of images based on your specific interests. Open to anyone with a camera, an understanding of composition and exposure.

Note:  This class will be taught online using Zoom.  Please have the Zoom app uploaded to your device and become familiar with it prior to joining class.   Invites to the Zoom meetings will be sent a few days before the class begins.

About the Instructor: Thom Williams

Thom Williams is a photographic artist currently living in Troy, NY.  Thom earned a B.F.A. from SUNY Oswego with studio conentrations in Graphic Design and Photography.  He has taken photographs ranging from fashion editorials, portraits, architecture, athletic events and street photography. Whether a gesture, expression, or angle of architecture, Thom is inspired by capturing images not otherwise seen in ordinary moments that can have profound reflective meaning for the viewer. As an artist, he is interested in experimenting digitally with images and more recently in presenting images in a unique multidimensionally way.

His fashion editorials have been published in Saratoga Living, The Muse and Tatoo Envy Magazine among others. Thom’s work can be viewed on TM Williams Photography through Facebook or Instagram. Below is a list of shows participated in.

Teaching at multiple art centers for the past 3 years in person and virtually beginning in 2020 he has found an avenue to share his passion and foster growth for others interested in photography.

SHOWS

Faculty/Student Show, Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga NY 2019

Fence Creative Spirit Award 2018, Capital Region Art Center

TRASK Juried Show, Canfield Casino Saratoga NY 2017

Solo Show, Photographic Expressions Troy NY 2017

Juror Selection 2017, Photo Regional Albany Center Gallery

BUILT Juried Show, NYS Museum Albany NY 2016

TRASK Juried Show, Canfield Casino Saratoga NY 2016

Photo21 Juried Photography Show, Photographic Expressions Troy NY 2016

2 pcs Fence select 2016, capital region art center

Juror Selection 2016, Photo Regional Fulton Street Gallery

Solo Show, Stiletto Gallery Binghamton NY 2016

Top ten best in show, Albany Center Gallery Home Show 2016

TRASK Juried Show Canfield Casino Saratoga NY 2015

Fence select 2015, capital region art center

RAC is excited to be working with Thom on this venture. He has mastered the art of teaching online and has in depth knowledge of his subject. He’s smart, funny, accessible and wonderful to work with. We think you’ll thoroughly enjoy any workshop you take with him.