Gold Rush Events

Join us for this online program from the comfort of your home on Saturday, March 14 @ 10:00 AM, as a warm-up for our in-person workshop on B/W Photography on Saturday, April 25th.

Presentation Description:
Rather than just converting your color images to black and white in post, wouldn’t it be better if you could see the potential of a scene, portrait or still life object as a black and white image while you were shooting? We will cover: visualization, scene evaluation, lighting, seeing contrast, understanding brightness values of colors as they convert to black and white, as well as some post processing tips. The goal is to get you thinking differently while shooting. The instructor will demonstrate how to approach an image from start to finish.

Presenter Biography:
Nancy Ori, holds degrees in Fine Arts and Visual Communications and spent 25 years as a corporate photographer for Ciba-Geigy and Novartis Pharmaceuticals as their in-house corporate photographer and manager of Video and Photography Services. She is the owner of NJ Media Center in Berkeley Heights, NJ.  A former student of Ansel Adams and a longtime affiliate ot the Ansel Adams Workshop in CA as a teaching assistant, Nancy has led workshops, tours, and exhibitions worldwide. In 1994, she founded the New Jersey Photography Forum, now the largest fine art photography group in New Jersey.  Her work has been widely exhibited and collected internationally, including by the Museum of Modern Art.

The Zoom link will be sent out to registered and paid participants the day before the program. The Zoom room will open at 9:45 AM. Early arrivers will be put in a Zoom waiting room until the host opens the doors at 9:45 AM.  

New Information and Process: Attending this presentation will be a two-step process: 

First, you need to register for the event. 

Secondly, you need to pay a $5.00 non-refundable fee to attend the event; This is a necessary change as we pay our presenters decently and we are spending $ faster than we are bringing it in.  Still a deal!  Please be aware there are no refunds if you cannot attend.  Within three days of the presentation, you’ll get a link to watch the recording for two weeks at your convenience.

Step 1: Register for the event. 

This adds your name to the list to ensure you get the emails with the Zoom link for attendance and the Zoom link for the recording of the event.  https://tinyurl.com/oriblackandwhite

Step 2: Payment

Payment options: send $5:00 in one of the following ways:

1. Venmo - https://venmo.com/u/Blair-Roy or search within Venmo for @Blair-Roy (there are a couple of Blair-Roy accts. Note that my account is the name only with NO numbers following the name.) 

2. Paypal - paypal.me/LynnBlairRoy

3. Zelle - To use Zelle, login into your account, and search for me using my cell (714) 642-9060 or my full name Lynn Blair Roy.

4. Check: Make the check payable to PSA Gold Rush. Send the check to Blair Roy, 3637 Marshall Avenue, Carmichael, CA 95608. Checks must be received on/before Thursday, March 12. 

PSA Gold Rush is committed to providing you with quality presentations to enhance your photography skills. If you have any questions, please email me at blairroy1313@gmail.com.