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The Basics, and Way Beyond
February 1-2,, 2020
Stephen Johnson Photography Studios
Pacifica, California (near San Francisco)
$395
To Register:
Online Credit Card Registration (preferred) or by phone 650 355-7507
photo by Jerry Mullins
Topics Include
Origins of Electronic Imaging
What is a Digital Image
Hardware Choices
Input/Scanning
Digital Cameras in the Field & Studio
Software: The Electronic Darkroom
Basic Tools of Image Editing
Color & Contrast
Digital Photography Tools & Techniques
Introduction to Color Management
Calibration
Image Compression
Digital Printing
This is an exciting exploration of photography's powerful new digital tools with one of the most knowledgeable artists in the field. This class is designed to provide you with the background and understanding to transition your work into the digital realm. The digital basics are covered here, in real world terms, with care to make sure the concepts are understood and the complications simplified. Those basics are built on to tackle the thorny issues of camera design and choice, data storage, color management and printing.
These two days are designed to breakdown misunderstanding, build enthusiasm and make clear fuzzy concepts that can hold your work back from feeling comfortable and in control. Many experienced photographers have taken this class and raved about its helpfullness in their digital transition and understanding.
In this digital era, slides or negatives can be scanned and cellphone and digital cameras can make your vision able to be seen on site, all new capabilities that can set you on a course that could be the visual equivalent of never-never land. You'll walk in with your photographs and your imagination, and walk out with a new vision of where photography is headed, and how to help shape that future to your vision.
Digitized photographs are almost infinitely malleable, tunable to your vision of the scene, or your imagination. Montage and collage is seamless. Restoration of damaged and faded photographs is a joy. Funky color balance can be faithfully corrected. Archiving takes on whole new meaning. Strange new worlds can form before your eyes. With digital cameras, the moment captured is seen only moments later.
This workshop is about taking control of your work, from the recording of light, to the image on paper. Even in graphic arts reproduction, imagemakers can control what happens to their reproduced work, create beautiful duotones, tritones, or even quadtones, making a reproduction imitate the depth of a silver print or stay true to the carefully controlled color of your original.
This workshop will explore photography's evolution into a digitally based medium, demonstrating the technology and discussing the implications and opportunities of this dramatic change.
Learn The Possibilities
The workshop will concentrate on digital photography's possibilities as a fine-arts photography tool, using Macintosh computers, Adobe's Photoshop software and inkjet printers for the demonstrations. All necessary equipment will be provided during the workshop and topics will be discussed in non-technical terms. This class is presented seminar style, and is not a hands-on class with a machine for each student to use.
This is not a beginning photography class, but a fundementals of digital photography class. Basic familiarity with photography is suggested.
You'll leave having a good grasp of the kind of equipment you need to accomplish your goals, budgets, priorities, and best of all, what you can do with these ever more capable and amazing tools.
The nearby Pacific Ocean beach should provide a fairly nice field trip opportunity if we have time. Workshop fee includes lunch for both days.
photo by Jerry Mullins
Stephen Johnson
Steve at Pebble Beach. Photo by Fiona McDonnell.
A photographer, educator 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. He runs his own photography, publishing and design company--scanning and designing his photographic books, pioneering the transition into digital photography including the field use of a Macintosh laptop and digital view cameras in the early 1990s. Stephen founded his Photography Workshop Program in 1978.
His work has included With a New Eye, his groundbreaking and historic all digital national parks project, the 2006 book Stephen Johnson On Digital Photography for O'Reilly, ongoing portfolio development and extensive lecturing. Current work features a concentration on the abstract and sensual qualities found in flora for his new project, Life Form.
Stephen's pioneering work in digital photography, desktop color and digital imaging has included software and product development for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Epson, Kodak, HP, Leaf, Ricoh and SuperMac. His work with Adobe includes the creation of the duotone curves shipped with their Photoshop software.
His photographic clients have included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Friends of Photography. Johnson's photographs have been widely published and collected internationally.
In 1999, Folio Magazine declared the publication of Johnson's digital photographs in Life Magazine to be one of the Top 15 Critical Events in magazine publishing in the twentieth century. Stephen Johnson was named as a 2003 inductee into the Photoshop Hall of Fame, recognized for his achievements in Art. Canon named Steve as one of their Explorers of Light 2006-2021.
In 1997, Life Magazine described Stephen Johnson as an artist that "...applies science to nature and creates art." His images create "...an intimacy that brings subject and viewer close in ways conventional photographs cannot."
The Photographer’s Gallery wrote in 1998: “Stephen Johnson's photography rides on the "bleeding edge" of photography's transition to a digital media. Schooled in the traditions of fine-art western landscape photography, Johnson has taken his understanding of traditional photographic processes and brought those skills to bear on the emerging technologies and aesthetics of digital photography. He has pushed technology companies to rise to the best of what imagemaking can be, and pushed his own vision of how we see and record light in the natural world. This has led him to conclude that the way we have traditionally captured images with silver-based photography has been a poor and distortive view of the real and rich world before our eyes. His photographs look almost "unphotographic" in their clarity and purity of color. He shows us a world we know, but rarely see on paper. His is a truly remarkable vision.”
Stephen Johnson Biography
Workshop Testimonials
Stephen has received 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.
Refunds and Cancellation (note changes)
This workshop is financially dependent on adequate class registration. Where minimum enrollment requirements are not met, the class will be canceled, and a full refund given. You will be notified at least one week in advance if a workshop is not going to take place. Student initiated cancellations received prior to one month before the workshop will receive credit for a future workshop of similar value, a 50% credit will be given for notice received at least 2 weeks immediately prior to the workshop (a full credit less a $50 overhead fee will be given if another student is able to fill the spot from a waiting list). No credit will be given if cancelled less than 2 weeks prior to the workshop. Credits need to be redeemed within one year.
We recommend that you purchase refundable airline tickets as we cannot guarantee adequate enrollment to conduct the workshop.