Ken Kipnis
795 Prairie lane
Evans, GA 30809

kkipnis@knology.net

706-869-8424

Ken Kipnis has been a Commercial Photographer for over 70 years. A graduate of the New York Institute of Photography since 1934.

Ken ran a very successful commercial photography business on Miami Beach, FL for over twenty-five years, and was also well known in the Public Relations Field. He opened the first Color Lab in the Bahamas in 1965 and spent 10 years there doing all types of commercial photography, from climbing smokestacks to photograph progress pictures of an oil refinery being built, photographing super tankers at sea transferring oil to smaller vessels for delivery in the U.S. to photographing groups in conventions and the products they were promoting. He also taught a weekly photography course for several years at the YMCA in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. In the normal course of operating a commercial photographic business, he had many occasions to photograph items to be used in ads in newspapers and magazines. Many of the things were also used in brochures to promote the business. Macro photography was the only way to be able to complete the assignment.

In 1975, Ken moved back to the U.S. and settled in Atlanta, GA where he opened one of the first one hour color labs in the city while continuing his work in the commercial field for his new customers.

His extensive experience in all facets of photography will be put to good us in his instructions on building and using items needed to display your lapidary work to good advantage in this Film/Digital Camera course.

His course covers the following: You and your digital camera. How much do you know about it? LIGHTING is the most important part of your photograph. What do they mean when they talk about Aperture or Shutter priority. Why do I use manual setting instead of the Automatic feature on my camera? Setting up and using the Photographic Tent and the lights that come with it. We will delve into rear projection, where we can use a different background to place the picture at a different locale. For further information contact Ken Kipnis at 706-869-8424 or email: kkipnis@knology.net

LAB FEE: $75.00 includes 2-9 inch aluminum clamp-on reflectors, 2-100 watt daylite fluorescent bulbs and a 16-inch square photographic tent with floating background. The only other expensethe student might incur is the cost of materials used in printing about 40 pictures during class which amounts to about $10.00.

Maximum No. of Students: 8

Pre-requisite: A digital camera