Yannick Michaud

Yannick Michaud has a passion to create images that evoke emotion and thought. He began his career in the early 1990s when, studying history and literature at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, he woke up one early spring morning and decided that he enjoyed creating images more than studying in a stuffy room.

After finishing a degree in Commercial Photography, he decided to follow his Danish wife back to Denmark where he immediately began working for some of Scandinavia’s most prestigious commercial studios and had an impressive client list that included Lancôme, L’Oreal, Givenchy. He worked on a multitude of projects for magazines, brochures, large-scale commercial work and also for the Danish Royal House.  

After many years away from home, Yannick decided to return to Canada and embark on a new phase in his photographic journey, this time becoming a Technical Representative for Olympus America. Since then he has dedicated his photographic life to capturing images from all over North America, Europe and even Japan. Teaching photography and technical innovations to an audience with varied photographic interests and abilities is exciting, especially now when photographic technologies have come so far in a very short period of time.

Yannick’s presentation style is highly entertaining and informative and covers many different aspects of photography: the technical, the artistic, the emotional and all of the post production work in order to capture the image in its entirety.

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Class
Landscape Photography

In this class, Yannick will take you through the entire process of creating beautiful Landscapes. Beginning with the composition, lighting, and lens selection Yannick will discuss other important technical features and Tips & Tricks that will benefit your photographic interests. Yannick will discuss the use of filters and other tools that will alter the image’s look and feel. A live demo using Photoshop will show you how to use Quick Masks, Blending Layers, and other interesting methods to help you ameliorate your photographic images. There will be also a section of the presentation dedicated to teaching you how to transfer images from color to Black & White in the best possible manner.