- Class: PHOTOGRAPHY…”SoFoBoMo”
- “Solo Foto Book Month”
- Students should bring their cameras & MANUALS.
- Weekly lessons will cover:
- • Understanding different settings on your camera & utilizing the good light at
- this time of day.
- • What makes a good composition
- • Homework: taking about 30 photographs
- * Putting together a book of your own excellent photographs.
- Charlie's notes on the September class: This time I am going to do something called SoFoBoMo
or, Solo Foto Book Month. I will hold discussions on camera use, photographic composition and
creating an image that tells the story that you mean it to tell. All of this will be surrounding a project to
create a soft book consisting of one picture a day during the length of the course which is five
sessions. We will meet five times on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. I will introduce the
concept and discuss cameras and composition during the first session and we will critique the
weekly photos that the students bring to class each week. The second to last class will deal with
creating the book, using either Microsoft Word or another program that can create an Adobe
Acrobat file, and the last class will be a critique of the books. I have Acrobat Pro on my computer so I
can construct the books for those that do not have access to that software. I am going to try to get
the books published in a section of the FCAL web page.
- Bio: I was born in Englewood NJ. I have lived in Norfolk, VA; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and
Stuttgart, Germany before retiring to Palm Coast.
- I have always had an interest in beauty. When I observe something that is perfect in form and light it
strikes a note in my heart.
- It seems like I have always owned a camera but in the past I only took snap-shots of things and
places that I visited. Ten years ago I started to record these observations in digital image files using
a 1.3 megapixel camera, today I use a 21 megapixel camera to do most of my work. Even then I
began taking snap-shots of things but, over the years through reading books, searching through the
internet for information about why perfect form and light affect me like they do, and luckily finding a
real photographer and artist, Uka Meisner-DeRuiz, in Stuttgart to mentor me, I have learned to
present an image that I find satisfying and, it seems, others agree.
- I shoot digital images in the camera’s RAW format and I use Adobe Photoshop and plug-ins from
various sources to develop them before I print them.
- I have won many awards in the local photo contests held in Stuttgart, Germany by the US Army and
also in the All-Army contests that these local contests feed. I have been commissioned to produce a
series of photographs depicting sights and scenes of the German State of Baden-Württemberg for
the Computer Sciences Corporation European division offices in Stuttgart, Germany. I produced
fourteen 12 x 18 inch black and white museum framed images that were used to decorate the halls
and conference rooms of that office. I did a series of photographs for Kimberly Einmo’s latest book
on quilting, “Jelly Roll Quilts and More” that was published this year. I did the in-store pictures of the
web site http://www.metacomp.de/.
- I have done a reasonable business, in the past, selling prints through the Stuttgart Crafts center that
allowed people to take home memories of their assignment in Germany. I retired and moved to Palm
Coast in July 2009 and hope to be able to continue doing that in the St. Augustine/Flagler Beach
area.
- Except for the web and publishing work I print and sign all of my images in my home studio. My
website www.badalati.com holds galleries of my past and present work.
- Photography is a never-ending journey of discovery and skill building that gives pleasure to the
practitioner and observer at the same time.
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