Clickers & Flickers Photography Network: Robert Kawika Sheer - Spirit Shadow Photography: No Digital. No Multiple Exposures...

SPIRIT SHADOW PHOTOGRAPHY: NO DIGITAL. NO MULTIPLE EXPOSURES...
Presented By: ROBERT KAWIKA SHEER * Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 * Time: 6:30 - 10 p.m. * Location: The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, CA 91501 MAP * Reservations: (626) 794-7447 (Required at least 5 days prior to the event)
Mr. Sheer’s award-winning “Spirit Shadow Photography” takes the viewer on a unique “down the rabbit hole” experience to witness a world of nighttime darkness turned up-side-down with brightness and color with images of ethereal spirit-figures flirting across the landscape. Sheer has captured “Spirit Shadow Photographs” and star trails at various locations including Stonehenge, Southwestern ghost towns, Hollywood, national monuments, seashores, and of course, a few graveyards along the way… Robert Kawika Sheer fell in love with photography and cinematography as a high school freshman at Oahu’s Punahou School, in Hawaii. He came to the mainland to attended Loyola Marymount University’s Film School where he also studied photography and earned a Bachelor of Communication Arts in 1985. While working in Hollywood as a cinematographer, videographer, and producer for the next 15 years, Robert developed his mastery of photography by taking various advanced photography classes. In 2000, while shooting a nighttime motion picture time-lapse shot in the Mojave Desert, Robert discovered the “Spirit Shadow” photography technique that soon had his fine art photographs hanging alongside the works of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Rembrandt during an exhibit on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Robert’s pictures are all performance-art photographs: no digital manipulation or multiple exposures are used in their creation. They’re all taken at night with long single exposures lasting from 45 minutes up to six hours using a large-format 4x5 camera. After Robert opens the shutter of his camera, he enters the frame of his picture (sometimes accompanied by his wife Ingela) and becomes a performer within the scene. Because he is using low-intensity moonlight to slowly illuminate the nighttime scene, he is able to journey in front of the camera without the negative being able to record his movement. In order for you to see his presence in the form of a “Spirit Shadow”, Robert carries a small portable lighting device hidden in his hand and stands facing a wall. He quickly creates a circle of bright light on the wall and partially blocks the bounce of this light trying to reach back to the camera with his body. The result is a black silhouette surrounded by an illuminated aura. Over the course of the lengthy exposure, the moonlight makes the black silhouette translucent while it brightens the entire scene.
RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE C&F members: $49 at least (5) days in advance. $55 less than 5 days prior to the event. Non members: $59 at least (5) days in advance. $65 at the door, only if space is available.