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Rock and Pool. Pt. Lobos. 1977.
Landscapes of California Photography Workshop Series
Point Lobos, Carmel and Big Sur.
A Digital Photography Field Workshop with Stephen Johnson
$750 through July 29, $850 after.
Enrollment limited to 8 people
Three Days in Point Lobos, Big Sur and Carmel. Fieldwork at the park and visits to Carmel Galleries. Lectures and presentations.
Pt Lobos and Yosemite made me love landscape photography. It is a privilege to share my love of Pt. Lobos and experience the rich photographic history of this reserve.
9am to 5pm with some optional evening critiques on Friday and Saturday.
Registration fee must be paid in full to secure a spot in the class. Additional information will be sent upon registration.
Ansel Adams called Pt. Lobos "the greatest meeting of land and sea" on earth. It is truly an amazing combination of rock, surf, wildlife, changing light and abstraction...aqua surf, orange lichen, organic rock forms and waving sea palms. We'll walk the trails, wander the rocks, get lost in form and light
Pt. Lobos is synonymous with west coast landscape photography. It is where so many of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston's photographs were made. It is where so many photographic pilgrimages have been made. It is where Friends of Photography and countless other workshops have concentrated their attention. It is, to say the least, a spectacular and well photographed location. It remains a place of great allure, wonderful rock formations, floating kelp forests, and amazing color of surf and wave.
" I learned more in those two and half days at Pt. Lobos about digital photography than I have in a lifetime! Just understanding how to use the gray card to get white balance right alone was worth all of it!! Thanks, Steve. Even though I live quite close to Pt. Lobos and have visited the park so many times over the years, you gave me a perspective of the beauty of this great place that I had never seen before. And just that one shot of the curious seal made my trip. Steve is a great teacher, artist and wizard!"
Jagi Shahani
Point Lobos Photo Gallery
"Point Lobos has a revered place in the history of photography. Stephen helped me see the present beauty of Point Lobos and shared much of its former glory. I will always treasure meeting Al Weber and spending the afternoon at his studio.
There is no better teacher than Stephen Johnson. YOU are the reason for the workshop and he is passionate about helping YOU become a better photographer. Honest, kind and always willing to help make a Stephen Johnson workshop a remarkable experience. Stephen Johnson is a great photographer- and a greater friend. His love of nature and its beauty will inspire your work."
Paul Tornaquindichi
The Weston Gallery.
We'll explore this great location over the period of a few days, review our work and then go back. As part of exploring the photographic and exhibition history of the region, we'll visit Carmel photography galleries, likely eat well, and may run into career photographers in this three-day immersion into classical California landscape photography.
from the 2016 workshop.
The workshop will be a dynamic combination of a traditional landscape photography workshop while diving deep into the digital age. Technical and aesthetic considerations will be discussed in detail. Our concentration will be on controlling your camera's operation to achieve your desired technical results, while building composition and visual skills to make the photograph what you want it to be. Digital exposure and dynamic range, composition, emotion and amazement-all will be part of our 3-day excursion into the evolving world of digital photography.
Lodging and meals are not included.
"Last year I went to Point Lobos with Stephen Johnson for a photography workshop. He is very approachable. Stephen is involved with every student during a workshop. He strived to help me see what what he sees. His help examining my choices in difficult compositions has helped me considerably. I credit my time spent in Stephen's workshops with helping me to see beyond documenting a scene. It was my third workshop with Stephen. I am sold on his style.
Pt Lobos is one of the most spectacular coastal locations anywhere. Combine the location and the hands on advice from a master photographer and digital photography pioneer and you can't help but have an incredible experience. Meeting Mr, Weber was a special treat. We also visited a few Carmel Galleries including the Weston Gallery. In a word - inspiring!"
Steve Harris
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.
Registration
Registration fee must be paid in full to secure a spot in the class. Additional information will be sent upon registration.
Credit Card Registration online or by phone 650 355-7507
Photography Workshops with Stephen Johnson
info@sjphoto.com
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.