If you’ve been thinking about pursuing your dream of becoming a professional photographer and have been looking into our 20-week Career Training program, we have an event coming up that will point you in the right direction. We will be holding a Career Training Information Day and Open House in our facilities in Missoula, MT, [...]
A few years ago, we created what is now called our Free Evening Lecture Series. As it sounds, this program is a series of lectures which are provided once a month by a variety of instructors and touch on a wide variety of photographic topics. Since the inception of this program, we have seen new [...]
In terms of press, the Ansel Adams: A Legacy exhibition at the Missoula Art Museum continues to garner its fair share of local attention. This past Sunday, a wonderful article was published in The Missoulian newspaper written by arts & culture columnist, Joe Nickell, consisting of an interview he had with Neil Chaput de Saintonge [...]
So, as we’ve been bragging about all week (and are quite excited about), our school patriarch and founder, Neil Chaput de Saintonge, had at one time studied with Ansel Adams in the early 70s. In light of this fact, and tonight’s opening of the exhibit “Ansel Adams: A Legacy“ at the Missoula Art Museum, I [...]
Ever since I heard that an exhibit of 130 signed Ansel Adams photographs were going to be shown at the Missoula Art Museum (MAM), I wanted to be part of the experience. As it turns out, I get to be part of two cool experiences. I am beyond excited at the upcoming opportunity to be a [...]
As we mentioned in our post on Monday, this entire week Paper Airplanes is dedicated to Ansel Adams. Not only did our very own Neil Chaput de Saintonge study with Ansel back in the day, but RMSP is now a proud (ahem, a VERY proud) sponsor of a show at the Missoula Art Museum titled “Ansel [...]
If you’re in the Missoula area anytime during the next few months, you may want to check out an exciting new exhibit opening this week at the Missoula Art Museum. “Ansel Adams: A Legacy” is a selection of over 130 prints from a private collection that will be publicly displayed for the first time ever. [...]
One of the hallmarks of landscape photography is learning to imagine what your photo of the scene will look like as a printed picture. This process is called “visualization,” a term coined by Ansel Adams. I recently discovered this video that features Adams talking specifically about this technique: Another technique that Adams taught in his [...]
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” -Ansel Adams The photographs of Ansel Adams’ have played a major role in making Yosemite arguably one of the most photographed National Parks in the U.S. His iconic black and white images [...]
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