330 Schmidt Place SW
Tumwater
Join us at the Schmidt House in Tumwater on Sunday, August 25, 11 AM to 3 PM for a Rose Photography Workshop!
Learn how to take calendar-worthy photos of roses with Rich Baer, nationally-recognized expert in photographing these iconic flowers.
Rich will discuss lighting, backlighting, focusing, background manipulation, and more. Once you learn how best to photograph a rose, you can transfer those skills to other flowers, foliage, and so on. The workshop will consist of a beginning lecture and PowerPoint program by Rich. Attendees will then visit our onsite rose garden, where they can practice their newly-acquired skills with one-on-one tips from Rich. Following the garden session, we’ll reconvene inside for a critique of attendees’ photos.
About our guest lecturer: Rich Baer, of the Portland Oregon Rose Society, has been shooting exclusively rose photos since 1991. His photos have appeared on the covers of no less than 47 issues of the American Rose magazine, and in roughly 2,000 articles, catalogues, newspaper articles, and textbooks. Rich is clearly one of the premier rose photographers in North America and, arguably, in the world. In 2018, his photo of the Peace rose was given the honor of appearing on a U.S. postage stamp.
