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    • Photographic Projects
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    • Portraits
    • Guest Photographer: Ed Stone
    • On Stage Exhibition
    • Western Artifacts Exhibition
    • Resist
    • Urban Eden Preview
    • Events
    • Workshops
    • Consulting and Mentor Program
    • Techniques, Tutorials and Lectures
    • Media
    • Make Software Exhibit: Photoshop
    • Life Form Exhibition at Pacifica Center for the Arts
    • From the Archives 2024
    • Photo Chats
  • Fine Art Store
  • About
  • Visit the Studio/Galleries
 

Techniques and Tutorials

  • Color to Black and White

  • What I Do in Raw, What I Leave for Photoshop

  • Basic Principles of Scanning

  • Raw and Photoshop

  • Photoshop CS6 and RAW

  • Depth of Field

  • Perspective Correction

  • Artwork Copying

  • Long Exposures

  • Simple File Indexing

  • Photo Downloading

  • Contrast without Saturation

  • Chromatic Aberration

  • Sharpening

  • Monitor Calibration

  • A Compositional Checklist

  • An HDR Pro Approach

  • Dynamic Range Expansion

  • Depth of Field Expansion Hand Done

  • Real Image Dust Removal

  • Printing Tutorial: Paper Whites on Screen Modes

  • Comment on CS5 HDR Toning

  • Depth of Field Expansion

  • Color Balance in the Field on RAW files

  • Digital Exposure and Histograms

Technical

  • Printing and the Problem of Double Color Management.

  • 48 bit Color: Stephen Johnson and Bruce Fraser

  • Printing Fine Art

  • Camera Needs

  • Color Management Chapter from Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography

My Vimeo Video Tutorials Album

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Lectures now Online (a developing list)

  • New Options, New Habits. January 15, 2025.

  • A Journey Toward The Sacred Print. May 7, 2021.

Essays

  • In the air over Colorado

  • An Artist's Path

  • Passion and Commitment

  • The Intrigue of Complexity

  • Photography, Art, Inspiration and Rock and Roll

  • Antarctica 2005

  • Seeing, Feeling, Wandering

  • Bruce Fraser Remembered

  • Ralph Putzker

  • Light, Beauty and Exploration

  • The Real Experience, The Photograph

  • Interview by John Paul Caponigro

  • Antarctica 2007

  • The Impulse to Postcard

  • Notions of Beauty and Design

  • Light Out of Darkness

  • Thoughts on Photography Books

  • Travel, Photography and Home

  • Reflections on Mastery

  • The Arts, the Economy and Hope

  • Photographic Tools of Revelation

Tidbits

  • Loading heavy paper into Epson 2400/2800

 

 

Next Class

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Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class (New Added Session)
Nov 8
Nov 8, 2025 – Nov 11, 2025
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class (New Added Session)
Nov 8, 2025 – Nov 11, 2025

Give tangible physical existence to your photographs and create the only lasting form of your work, fine-art prints, as beautiful hand-made renderings. During four days of lectures, printing, and feedback, this class focuses on improving your fine-art digital printing in the fully-equipped Digital Lab. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers.

Nov 8, 2025 – Nov 11, 2025
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