David Julian | Instructor, Winter & Spring
About this Artist
Dave’s artistic career began with a BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in NY. His work has included corporate art direction, graphic design, photography, photo-illustration and assemblage. His images have appeared in public and private collections, and publications including Nikon World, Outside, NY Times, The Baltimore Sun, LA Times, National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer, Orion, PRINT, Islands, Zoom and Rangefinder. He has collaborated on eight episodes of “Hit The Streets” and other podcasts and books on the arts.
Since 2001, Dave has instructed photography with the renown Santa Fe Workshops, Maine Media Workshops, Vancouver Photo Workshops, Photographic Center NorthWest, The Anderson Ranch and also at sea with UnCruise. He also leads his own annual cultural travel photography workshops in the US, Mexico, Europe, India, Asia and annually in Cuba since 2015.
Dave has a passion for inspiring and guiding emerging and advanced photographers to understand the nature of light, to discover their unique personal vision and to reach new creative goals.
He is an adjunct instructor at University of Washington and former instructor at Photographic Center Northwest, The Art Institute and Seattle Central College’s Creative Academy. Dave consults for product developer including Adobe, Wacom, Topaz Labs and Lowepro; and he is a member of the Fujifilm X/GFX CREATORS pro photographer team.
About this Work
My 2024 photo contribution symbolizes finding new perspectives, playful experimentation and having patience.
As we tend to view the world around us from our standing height, and we tend to shoot from that familiar position.
But when we lower our camera, we can view subjects from more varied angles and create new perspectives. When I photograph, my primary goal is to make images I have not seen before, and to capture familiar subjects in a new way.
When in the Keukenhoff Gardens in Holland, I was floored by the sheer beauty of the gardens, and color groupings that led my eye through the rolling landscape.
I wanted something unusual that is not typically seen, perhaps with a different point of view.Borrowing a step ladder, I started playing with shots from above and from low angles. I had recently discovered the Multiple Exposure settings on my Fujifilm X camera, and decided to try that.
I placed my widest lens directly under the Tulip pointing up. I made the first exposure, rotated the camera 180º, aligned the overlayed first frame, and made a second registered exposure. I could not actually see the results in such brightness, so I made over 20 sets of double-exposures.
Once in Lightroom, I chose this frame, added some contrast and was delighted with the results. This photograph remains one of my most playfully colorful experiments, and has been a best-seller as licensed stock and as large prints
