Carl is a Kodak Mentor and part of the speaker team that lectures to other professional photographers around the country about how he creates portraits. This allows him to share what he has learned with his peers and to continue his own education.

"Artistic Elements of Portraiture, the Search for Light, Composition and Emotion"

This is a program designed to stimulate, energize, and stretch your imagination. Carl will share his views on such topics as: composition, lighting, color harmony, and more. He will show how depth is created; where and how to look for light; how to make portraits believable and interesting; how to choose the correct background and how to use it; how to use emotion to enhance an image; and how all of these pieces work together to create an artistic image.

This is a lecture style program with slideshows that will help Carl share his philosophies of artistic portraiture, what he looks for and what thought-process he goes through when creating an image. The photographic medium is discussed simply and interestingly with real life examples and analogies that Carl has experienced so far on his artistic journey. All levels of photography will benefit from this program.