A lecture concentrating digital “sharpening” techniques from Photoshop to my explorations of Topaz Sharpen AI. This is a practical, down to earth lecture meant to enable students to create a greater illusion of focus in their digital images.
A lecture concentrating digital “sharpening” techniques from Photoshop to my explorations of Topaz Sharpen AI. This is a practical, down to earth lecture meant to enable students to create a greater illusion of focus in their digital images.
A half-day virtual workshop concentrating on Raw processing and Photoshop as straightforward photo processing tools rather than instruments of image alteration. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic interpretation with Steve as he demonstrates his use of editing tools, executed with restraint and finesse. This class is designed to break down the steps to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images.
Our photographic world has been shaped by what we’ve seen of others work, what we believed was possible, and what we’ve seen with our own eyes. Join Steve for this exploration of his influences and affections in this highly personal take on the history of photography through his eyes and photographic life experience.
This workshop is part of a series of classes concentrating on the tools within Photoshop critical to Photographers. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic editing with Steve. Help and demonstrations of his use of editing tools, executed with restraint and finesse, will benefit all of your digital photography work. This class is designed to break down the steps to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images.
A lecture concentrating on Raw processing. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic interpretation with Steve as he demonstrates his use of editing tools, executed with restraint and finesse. This class is designed to break down the steps to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images. Topics Include paying attention to revealing actual data content, methods for pulling the detail out of that data and how that processing connects to Photoshop. Both faithful and interpretive decisions will be explored.
Feedback on our work has proven critical to many of us involved in the arts. In this emerging age of digital photography, it is hard to find people knowledgeable in the technology and with a background and experience in the fine arts.
What makes a good photograph? Why do we point the camera in one direction instead of another when the subject matter might be very similar? Why does a photographer take so damn long to make a photograph? These and other such "compositional" questions will be discussed in this lecture on photographic composition.
There will be no rules of composition propagated here, but explorations and suggestions. A good nuts and bolts evening for improving your photographs. A question and answer period will conclude the evening.
This class explores the tools and techniques needed by photographers scanning, restoration and preservation of old photographs. This classic designed for honest restoration, not for filling in huge gaps in missing materials. Various dust scratch removal techniques at scanning and editing of your files will be demonstrated. Some color restoration will be discussed briefly as well as the archiving of your files.
Get guidance on your raw processing, your photo editing and give tangible physical existence to your photographs and create the only lasting form of your work, fine-art prints, as beautiful hand-made renderings.
This workshop focuses on improving your workflow all the way through to fine-art digital printing. Concentration will be Raw capable cameras, careful editing and on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during two days of lectures, Q&A.
Give tangible physical form to your photographs and create the only lasting form of your work, fine-art prints, as beautiful hand-made renderings.
This Virtual workshop focuses exclusively on improving your fine-art digital printing using pigment inkjet printers. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during our days of lectures, printing, and feedback.
The limitations of digital and film-based photography to capture the extreme highlights and shadows of a scene has been part of the opportunity of the traditional Zone System with film, and heavy tonal adjustments in digital interpretations. But with the ability to accurately combine very different exposures, HDR opens up a whole new world of holding a scene with a camera much more akin to the versatility of our eyes. Join me for this exploration of High Dynamic Range photography from exposure, to integration, and processing. HDR does not have to mean weird extraterrestrial looking photographs, it can be a beautiful melding of technology and technique that makes our photographs much more like our real world experience.
The digital age of photography offers unique opportunities to address longtime photographic issues and new opportunities to take photography to an even greater power to record what we see and react to with our hearts.
This lecture is an introduction to basic use of Adobe InDesign to create Print on Demand books. Topics include basic InDesign tools for page layout and typography together with placement and control of photographs. We explore design issues of themes, sequencing and book spreads, as well as basic use of fonts and their control. PDF creation and control for online upload is also reviewed.
A lecture concentrating on Raw processing and Photoshop as straightforward photo processing tools rather than instruments of image alteration. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic interpretation with Steve as he demonstrates of his use of editing tools, executed with restraint and finesse. This class is designed to break down the steps to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images. Topics Include paying attention to Natural Color, Realistic Contrast and Shadows in a Luminous World, Sharpening with Restraint and Image Aesthetics reflecting our real world experience.
An exploration of "With a New Eye" the digital photographic survey of selected American National Parks from 1994 through 2006. The project employs a BetterLight and modified Dicomed digital insert, a Sinar-X 4x5 camera, and the Macintosh PowerBook540c through MacBook Pro for completely portable digital photography of very high quality. The camera is capable of color, black and white, and infrared photographs of extremely high resolution and dynamic range (6000x8000 pixels, 140MB files with more than 11 stops of exposure latitude).
A half-day virtual workshop concentrating on digital inkjet printing of your photographs.. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic interpretation with Steve as he works though making a print, demonstrating his printing techniques, executed with restraint and finesse. This class is designed to break down the steps into understandable points of control and connection. Topics Include connectivity, color management, print settings, print evaluation and image aesthetics reflecting our real world experience.
An exploration of the nuts and bolts of Steve’s and robert Dawson’s major photographic project on California’s Great Central Valley. From inspiration to complex execution, this talk is the practical and aesthetic melded into a two-hour treatise of an honest photographic look at going home. From working with grants agencies, to publishers, museums, to collaboration, this is a broad-based look at the art and influencing land preservation issues,
Based on the exhibition: The Great Central Valley.
An exploration of the nuts and bolts of Steve’s major photographic project on California’s endangered Mono Lake.. From inspiration to insurance, this talk is the practical and aesthetic melded into a two-hour treatise of falling in love with a place and actively working to help preserve it. From working with grants agencies, to Congress, museums, to contributing photographers, this is a broad-based look at the art and influencing land preservation issues.
Steve will discuss his exhibition of new prints from over 50 years of Space Photography is joining the current Life Form Exhibition for a mind-blowing journey from the living world close-up to the depths of space. The Space Exhibit evolved out of Steve’s longterm interest in the space program and views offered of the heavens and by spacecraft far away. The concentration on the exotic form of the living world of the Life Form work inspired this expressive look at the wonders of the very large and distant in this print exploration of photographs Steve had been gathering for years.
An exploration of the sensuality and strangeness of flora seen in abstract form and beauty. Re-imagining the meaning of close up photography, Stephen Johnson has spent the last few years working on a series of very detailed, deeply focused photographic studies of the raw sensual beauty of plant life.
A lecture concentrating on Raw processing and Photoshop as straightforward photo processing tools rather than instruments of image alteration. It is a great chance to explore digital photographic interpretation with Steve as he demonstrates of his use of editing tools, executed with restraint and finesse. This class is designed to break down the steps to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images. Topics Include paying attention to Natural Color, Realistic Contrast and Shadows in a Luminous World, Sharpening with Restraint and Image Aesthetics reflecting our real world experience.
Getting your photographic workflow under control can be very helpful for gathering the data you need and building a sequence of processes that support your goals. This class will discuss some field photography issues such as HDR, but will mostly concentrate on offloading, metadata, file naming to start. The class then moves on to what is essentially an introduction into the Raw and Photoshop Straight class by touching on raw file evaluation, contrast, color balance and tone, moving into Photoshop for specific image editing needs. Archiving will wind up the presentation.
