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This full-week photography workshop is an intense immersion into digital photography with one of its pioneers. In five days you will go from perhaps not even understanding what a RAW file is, to making well-crafted and thoughtful prints.

Fieldwork, extensive lecture and lab work will fill your time together. Every student will have full access to their own workstation in the lab. Class Topics:

All necessary materials will be provided, including a copy of Stephen’s latest book “Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography.”

Class will run Sunday through Thursday from 9am to 5pm. Lunch will be provided each day of studio work.

Overnight Accommodations

About Stephen Johnson
A photographer, teacher and designer, Stephen has been teaching and working in photography since 1977. His books include At Mono Lake, the critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland and Making a Digital Book. His Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography was published in 2006 by O’Reilly Media.He runs his own photography, publishing and design company–scanning and designing his photographic books using a Macintosh computer and since 1994 photographing in the field with digital view cameras.

Current projects include With a New Eye, his ground-breaking and historic all digital national parks project.

Stephen’s pioneering work in digital photography has included software and product development for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Eastman Kodak, Epson, Foveon, Hewlett Packard, Leaf, Ricoh and X-rite. His work with Adobe includes the creation of the duotone curves shipped with their Photoshop software.

Photographic clients have included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Friends of Photography and the National Park Service. Johnson’s photographs have been widely published and collected internationally.

He has recieved numerous awards and grants for his photographic work, including an NEA for At Mono Lake, awards from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, the Commonwealth Club of California and the Golden Light Award for the Great Central Valley. The New York Times named the Valley book as one of the eight best photography books of 1993. He was named to the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2003 and as a Canon Explorer of Light in 2006.

For more info see the workshop website here.

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Learn Lightroom 2.0 with D65

Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta which features enhancements such as dual-monitor support and localized dodge and burn corrections. It is the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs and Microsoft Vista 64-bit operating systems.

We are now teaching the transition to 2.0 and all the features.

Do you want to quickly process your files and have them look awesome?
Do you want to be able to find any image in a blink of an eye?
Are you keywording properly and using metadata to your advantage?
Do your prints look the way you want? Can you convert to CMYK?
Wondering how to set up a real archive?
Are you working in 16-bit and using ProPhoto?
Can you extend the dynamic range of an image?
Is your computer optimized for workflow, or is it running slow?
Would you like to blow your clients away with quality they rarely see?

If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, then D65 is THE Workshop for you.

The D-65 workshops teach bullet-proof techniques to increase workflow productivity and save time. These workshops demonstrate ways to automate, search, archive, present and deliver the zillions of images today’s photographers accumulate. Attendees will learn to create files perfect for reproduction; tagged, named, sized and sharpened correctly, along with attaching the appropriate metadata and keywords. You’ll learn the correct way to keep your images organized, and archived. The workshops are intensive, and focus on optimizing digital photography — from input to output.

D-65 totally immerses you in this four-day digital worflow workshop. Our days consist of hands-on training and lectures supplemented by a comprehensive D65 digital workflow textbook. By the end of the program, you will have the ability to create your own successful workflow, and better communicate with your clients.

The program centers around Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, going far beyond the basics of digital. It truly prepares the professional photographer, art director, photo editor or advanced amateur for the digital world.
The workshops are taught by Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer and cover:

* Adobe Lightroom & Adobe Lightroom Beta 2.0
* Photoshop CS3
* Digital Asset Management
* Optimizing Lightroom & Photoshop Preferences
* Color Spaces
* File Formats
* Digital Standards
* Exposing for Digital
* White Balance
* Color Management From Input to Output
* Profiling Monitors & Systems
* Using Lightroom: The 5 Modules
* Lightroom Catalog & Preferences
* File Naming Conventions
* Metadata & Keywording
* Rating Your Images
* “Tweaking” Your Files - the beauty of Parametric Editing
* Sharpening : Capture, Creative and Output
* Processing Files
* Custom Presets
* Austomating Workflow
* Ceating Actions for Lightroom
* Client Delivery
* FTP File Transmission
* Web Galleries, Slideshows, PDF Presentations
* Printing, Soft Proofing & ICC Profiles
* Converting to CMYK
* Archiving
* Retouching for Digital
* The Business of Digital
* Copyright and Security
* Digital Camera Maintenance

SCHEDULE
Los Angeles: May 16-19 Sold Out
Denver: June 20-23
Portland,OR: August 8-11
New York: Sept 12- 15
Chicago: October 3- 6
San Francisco: November 14-17
Austin, TX : December 12 -15

Workshop Fee: $1099.00

For more information go to: http://www.d-65.com/workshops

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The sunset view from Greg Gorman’s Mendocino home & studio.

GREG GORMAN’S MENDOCINO DIGITAL WORKSHOP - SPECIAL GUEST: JEFF SCHEWE
June 8-13, 2008

Delight your senses, hone your craft and maximize your technical expertise at the most unique photographic venue this June, 2008 in Mendocino, California*. Immerse yourself in the secrets of the pros within a small intimate setting during a week-long workshop at Greg’s personal studio adjacent to his home. Nestled in the picturesque coast of the Pacific, the studio offers an amazing backdrop for photography students – redwood forests, vineyards, and the spectacular local sites of Northern California.

Indulging each attendee with a combination of digital photography and comfortable hospitality, Greg Gorman begins the week with an evening “meet and greet” dinner in his home followed by an orientation meeting with the instructors and models. The dinner provides a platform of intimacy within the small group setting and enables Greg to familiarize and focus on the individual student and his/her portfolio and experience.

Daily workshops offer opportunities to shoot in studio and on location and each student may choose to concentrate on his/her individual preference of portraits, nudes or a wide variety of Northern California locations. Evening entertainment includes wine tastings and a final dinner.

Sessions feature both the expertise of Greg Gorman, plus one of his professional guests per quarterly workshop and provide:
• camera demos, including setup and download
• editing techniques
• color management training and tools for monitor calibration
• Photoshop/Camera Raw & Lightroom lessons
• fine art printing techniques
• actual printing of images for all students
• two models
• in-studio and location shoots
• gifts from workshop sponsors
• daily gourmet lunches prepared by Chef Ueli
• wrap-up dinner prepared by Chef Ueli with slideshow and presentation gifts

Students are required to bring:
• personal portfolio
• digital camera (power supply and battery)
• flashcards
• lap top computer with OSX or PC equivalent and a mouse and installed imaging software
(Photoshop CS3 and/or Lightroom suggested)

*Mendocino is located north of San Francisco/Oakland (the closest airports). The drive time from San Francisco/Oakland to Mendocino is three hours. We can offer hotel referrals and transportation suggestions.

About Guest Instructor Jeff Schewe

Jeff Schewe is a Photoshop Guru’s Guru. He’s on the inside of the development and testing of Photoshop and has helped guide and direct many features since Photoshop 4.0.

He is also the co-author of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3, the definitive book on Camera Raw. Jeff has also been involved with the development of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom since the very beginning. See this PSN story for more info.

Shots from previous workshops

The house…

…and the studio which serve as the base of operations for the workshop.

Greg and the crew getting prepared for the Sunday arrival of the attendees.

The opening orientation with the students in the studio.

Greg does an opening slide show before the class goes over to the house for dinner.

Chef Ueli prepares the dinner…

…and plates the main course.

Greg teaching how to work with models…

After taking several shots, he shows the students what the shot looked like on the back of the camera.

A variety of locations are available depending on weather. Here the class is at the dunes.

Greg talking and directing the class in the dunes.

A couple of shots from Jeff Schewe (above and below).

There are beach locations for shooting…

…as well as other locations where Greg has secured permission to shoot.

Here’s Greg checking exposure for a student. (Nice to have Greg as an assistant).

Greg also covers studio lighting and explains his signature “look”.

There are nightly critiques and imaging lessons.

There is a delicious lunch served each day.

There’s also plenty of time for students to work on their shots in Camera Raw, Photoshop and/or Lightroom.

Greg also covers shooting under natural light in the studio using the studio’s built in large windows with or without scrims.

Here some students shoot while others check their shots.

One of the best locations is down at the point on Greg’s property at sunset.

A shot by Jeff.

Greg shooting a model.

Greg also goes over each student’s work, helping prepare images for printing.

A variety of student prints in the viewing box.

Greg showing off some of the vino consumed the week Jeff Schewe was last at Greg’s Mendocino workshop.

GREG GORMAN’S MENDOCINO DIGITAL WORKSHOP
To register:
phone: 818.242.0102
Or email:
trish@gormanphotography.com
Price of week-long workshop: $4250

Hotel suggestions:
Fensalden Inn - 707.937.4042
Packard House B&B – 707.937.2677
Pacific Mists – 707.937.1543
Seafoam Lodge – 800.606.1827
Albion River Inn – 707.937.1919

About Greg Gorman
(Excerpted from a commentary by Peter Weiermair, Director, The Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria)

“Gorman is part of the classical tradition. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he concentrated heavily on details of facial features like eyes, etc. In recent years Gorman has attained the consummate mastery of light and lighting which also distinguishes the studio photography of Horst P. Horst, G. Hurrell, and George Platt Lynes. In Gorman’s studio portraits, the play of light lends faces and bodies to ethereal quality as if they glowed from within. His work looks back on a long tradition which has evolved from early 20th century fashion and portrait photography.

His photographs have the quality,­ a mark of all great portrait photograph, ­ of allowing the subject to unfold his or her own personality in front of the lens. We should always bear in mind that photography began as alchemy, a magical process. Particularly in the field of portrait photography, where the here and now is caught and transfixed, it has retained that magical quality. Most of Gorman’s subjects are people in the public eye,­ actors, artists and architects,­ people in the public at large. We experience them only in films and in the icons of photographic illustration. They and their bodies are figments of our imagination in a modern mythology. Photography is the projection of a figure, evoked, it is true, by reality yet, like all photographs, these are, in reality, fiction.” –Peter Weiermair

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During December, 2007, KelbyTraining.com launched a new subscription based online training that includes a lot of the top Photoshop/Lightroom instructors all in one online experience.

Starting with Scott Kelby, some of the other instructors involved include:

• Katrin Eismann
• Bert Monroy
• Dan Margulis
• Dave Cross
• Ben Willmore
• Matt Kloskowski
• Eddie Tapp
• John Paul Caponigro
• Terry White
• Moose Peterson
• Joe McNally
• Rich Harrington
• David Ziser
• RC Concepcion
• Fay Sirkis
• Corey Barker
• and Vincent Versace

More instructors will be added in the future. The pricing is by year or by month with the pricing set to offer discounts for NAPP members. Unlimited access for non-members is $199/year or $19.99/month with NAPP Members paying $179/year and $17.99/month.

Over 30 individual classes are already available with more classes expected to be uploaded as they become available. If you are new to Kelby Training, you can “test drive” the online training library right here and see the first 3 lessons of each class for free. A subscription allows unlimited views of each class for the period of your subscription. Each class also comes with the class materials that may include download files as well as additional notes.

System Requirements

• Available for both Windows and Macintosh
• Flash Player plugin for viewing the videos (Free Download)
• Some courses may include additional content for Adobe® Acrobat reader (Free download from their website)
• Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari to gather course materials and track status
• Broadband Internet access

Visit KelbyTraining.com for additional info. Click here for subscription details or here for class details.

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This is an opportunity to take a workshop with Jay in his own environment, a historic landmark bank building in Lower Manhattan.

This is a workshop about seeing and expanding your capability. It is not about performing or getting your ego stroked. It is definitely not about technical things and absolutely not about Photoshop. You will shoot, get critiques, look at Jay’s work and talk about photography all day long.

It will take place Mon. Dec. 17 to Fri. Dec. 21, from 9am to 10pm each day. All meals are included. The cost is $5000. It will be filled on a first come, first served basis and will be limited to 9 participants. Payment in full, in advance must be made in order to secure a spot.

The workshop is sponsored by SanDisk. Please call 212.431.5013 or email jay@jaymaisel.com for more information.

The following quotes are from people who have taken Jays workshops and will help explain different aspects of the experience:

• …Life changing experience….I would take it again, for the critiques.
• …Expanded my awareness of what is out there
• …Sharpened my ability to evaluate and edit.
• …Gave me the vision and critical eye I was looking for.
• …Thinking outside the box. I will look at color differently.
• …Opened my eyes to opportunity.
• …Liberated me in where and when and what I could shoot.
• …I appreciated the time and detail of the criticism.
• …His remarks on editing will have a profound impact on my work.
• …Saw new ways of appreciating what is there.
• …The creative juices are flowing again.
• …You have definitely raised my bar. And I have learned how to wait.
• …I was pushed to explore areas and I expanded my vision.
• …Opened me up to new ways of seeing and thinking about my work.
• …I’ll never take an “easy” picture again.
• …I now know to “see”before the camera even goes to my eye.
• …I received the kind of honest criticism that will help me improve.
• …Learned to photograph people.
• …Great balance of shooting and talking.
• …Some of the best shooting information I’ve had.
• … Pushes and inspires his students to grow –everyone in the class improved…I grew beyond my expectations, and now see differently.
• …There was not one moment of bullshit from Jay – everything was brutally honest and thus extremely helpful.
• …I think magic was made this week.

Portraits of Jay by Jeff Schewe

Call 212.431.5013 or email jay@jaymaisel.com for more information.

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Noted photographer Stephen Johnson leads a Summer Digital Boot Camp From RAW to Print (in a week) in Pacifica, California.
This full-week photography workshop is an intense immersion into digital photography with one of its pioneers.
In five days you will go from perhaps not even understanding what a RAW file is, to making well-crafted and thoughtful prints. Some fieldwork and extensive lecture and lab work will fill our time together. Every student will have full access to their own workstation in our lab. Topics include practical experience with digital exposure, RAW processing, image editing, color management and printing.
All necessary materials will be provided, including a copy of Stephen’s latest book Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography.”
WHEN: June 25-29, 2007 $1250
WHERE: Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery and San Mateo Coast Pacifica, California.
For more information, please see the workshop page or contact the gallery at 650 355-7507
Click here to register now with a credit […]

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Available as Online Courses or Instructional DVD Featuring Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Corey Barker
Press Release: TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the foremost training and educational authority on Adobe® Photoshop®, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is proud to announce the release of three new Photoshop® CS3 training classes: Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 for Beginners, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Power Session and Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Channels.
Created by NAPP education and curriculum developers Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Corey Barker, these new courses are available in either DVD format at www.photoshopvideos.com or as a 21-day online course at www.photoshoptraining.com, giving Photoshop users of all skill levels the opportunity to customize their Photoshop CS3 curriculum, as well as the freedom to choose the most convenient and effective method to learn to master the newest Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Beginners a perfect jumping-on point for new and relatively inexperienced Photoshop users. Dave Cross goes over a […]

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