Seminar- and Supporting ProgramFriday, 28 October 2016

hotel, seminar room Beethoven 1, 1.00 p.m.– 4.30 p.m.Seminar 1: Landscape photography with Hans StrandFacilitator: Hans Strand

This seminar will be held in English.

This year we proudly present Hans Strand as a seminar facilitator, one of the world‘s leading landscape photographers of our time. For years the intense as well as sophisticated and poetic landscape images of the Has-selblad Masters Award winner have been among the best that is currently available in this line of work.In this compressed seminar held in Lünen for the first time, Hans Strand will talk about his approach to photography and address the important topic of image composition. To round off the entire creative process, he will also share his image editing strategies

with you. There will of course be room to pose your own questions during the seminar. Don‘t miss the chance to learn from a renowned master of the trade and soak up inspiration and motivation for your own projects.

Hans Strand was born in 1955 in Marmaverken, Sweden. After a nine-year career in mecha-nical engineering, he decided to go for a dramatic change and devote his life to landscape photography, which until then had been his long held hobby and great passion. It is a change he has never regretted. Hans has always felt himself drawn to the untamed and unmanipu-lated that he finds in Nature. As Hans always says: „The wilderness is the mother of all living things. It is always true and never trivial“. Over the years he has made the entire world his workplace, photographing everything from the vast expanses of the Arctic to steaming rain-forests and dry deserts. His work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions and published in many international photography magazines. He has also received several awards for his photography. Among the most important ones is the Hasselblad Master Award in 2008. He

has published 7 books with landscape photographs. The two latest ones are ICELAND Above & Below and INTIMATE I.

www.hansstrand.com

hotel, seminar room Beethoven 2, 9.30 a.m – 3:30 p.m.Seminar 2: Of first ideas, central themes and an accidental encounter with a white rabbitFacilitator: Robert Mertens

This seminar will be held in German.

Photography and creativity belong together like desert and sand, like the oceans and tides or like rabbits and eggs - this last one at Easter at least. One without the other: absolutely unthinkable. Creativity in an image is usually easy to spot, perceptible through a particular idea, the central theme of the pictorial language or a highly imaginative visualisation on behalf of the photogra-pher. But how are we going to find our very own creative language in photography? For it is not on sale in a value pack! The good news is: every one of us can be creative, and we can nurture and strengthen this skill. The bad news is: without a lot of training it is usually very difficult.

In this workshop, I will give you an idea what individual creativity actually means and how you can develop new ideas in a fun way. But watch out: this class will invite for change, ask many questions and prompt unexpected effects. So be prepared and bring plenty of curiosity. I look forward to seeing you. Note: This workshop is not entirely focused on nature photography, but talks about creativity and pictorial language in more general terms.

Robert Mertens, photography artist, author of specialist books and photography trainer, has been taking photographs since his early childhood. After his training in product and advertise-ment photography he joined the legendary Manfred Rieker Studio as an assistant photographer. Robert Mertens has lived and worked as a creative freelancer since 1989. He appears regularly in public with his exhibitions, like in Stuttgart, Salzburg, Linz or Tübingen. He has run workshops focusing on creativity and photography since 2007, among others for LEICA ACADEMIE Master-Class. As an author of the renowned publishing house Rheinwerk, he has successfully published two books: »Kreative Fotopraxis« (2011) and »Der eigene Blick« (2015). In these books Robert Mer-

tens talks about creativity and pictorial language in realistic descriptions and lessons. He currently works on his third book with co-author Heidi Simon in Graz. His latest projects include the visualisation of operas, concerts and plays in abstract collages for the programme cata-logue 2016 of the Salzburg Festival. At the end of July, a common Leica exhibition with Heidi Simon „Boards that mean the World“ will be opened at the Salzburg Festival Theatre. www.mertens-simon.com

Hotel, seminar room Liszt/Haydn, 9.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. Seminar 3: Adobe Photoshop LightroomFacilitator: Frank Treichler

This seminar will be held in German.

You are already using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom but keep stumbling over the same questions? You are not sure that there mightn‘t be room for improvement in your Lightroom workflow ? Well, then you will be pleased with this seminar. Frank Treichler, trainer for Adobe products, will show you every step from preparing to importing to image editing to exporting and printing of your images. Shortcuts and tricks of the trade will help to make your work with Lightroom more efficient. In addition Frank Treichler will explain the latest improvements in Lightroom 6 / CC and show you how to prepare your images for further editing, e.g. in Adobe Photoshop Elements.Some experience using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is recommended, but newcomers to the software are also wel-come to this seminar. You are kindly asked not to video- or audio-tape this seminar.

Frank Treichler has been a trainer for Microsoft Office and image editing with Ado-be products for many years. With publishing house Vierfarben he has published two comprehensive guides on Photoshop Elements, on designing photo books and handling digital images under Windows 10.He is a member of Adobe‘s Prerelease-Programme for Photoshop Elements, Lightroom and Adobe Acrobat.Hands-on teaching and clear instructions provide the foundation for his trainings.

www.help-edv.de or www.fototrainer4you.de.

Theater, 6.00 p.m.– 7.15 p.m. Award ceremony “GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016” and “Fritz Pölking Prize 2016“Official presentation of the winning images of the international competitions GDT European Wildlife Photogra-pher of the Year 2016 and Fritz Pölking Prize 2016 (admission free)

Galerie Hansesaal, 7.30 p.m.Exhibition opening and champagne reception“GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016” and “Fritz Pölking Prize 2016” (admission free)

Saturday, 29 October and Sunday, 30 October 2016

TheatreLectures by top-level photographers of the international wildlife photography scene (For details see program, fee required)

Exhibition of our members‘ competition GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2016 (admission free)

Galerie HansesaalOpening Exhibitions of the international competitions GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 • Fritz Pölking Prize 2016 • Fritz Pölking Junior Prize 2016 (admission free)

HansesaalExhibitons in the BildersaalIndividual exhibitions of national and international photographers in the Hansesaal. (admission free)

Socializing The image gallery and foyer of the Hansesaal form a large exhibition and social area, a central meeting place for all festival visitor. (admission free)

Sports hallPhoto Market On 1286 sqm you will find our large photo market with its own unique stage programme. (admission free)

Check & CleanCamera manufactures Canon and Nikon offer a free Clean & Check-Service for you equipment.

Stage ProgrammeAs part of the photo market, we also offer a supplementary mixed stage program. In addition to the well-known product presentations, short lectures on all aspects of nature photography will complete the program (admission free).