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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

 

 

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Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class
Sep 17
September 17, 2026 – September 20, 2026
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class
September 17, 2026 – September 20, 2026

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 my studio. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and fine art cotton papers.

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September 17, 2026 – September 20, 2026
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class. November 2026
Nov 7
November 7, 2026 – November 10, 2026
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class. November 2026
November 7, 2026 – November 10, 2026

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 his studio. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and fine art cotton papers.

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November 7, 2026 – November 10, 2026
Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Jan 23
January 23, 2027 – January 26, 2027
Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
January 23, 2027 – January 26, 2027

Since 1979 I have led winter photography workshops to Death Valley. I keep returning to this desert because there is a magic here, a quiet and vast expanse of sensual and strange earthworks, remarkable in color, resting under the soft winter light of January.

We will spend our first half day preparing for our outings. Topics covered will be optimal digital camera use in a variety of formats, file size and printing considerations. We will open files, review success, returning to the field to put into practice lessons learned.

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January 23, 2027 – January 26, 2027
Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Feb 6
February 6, 2027 – February 8, 2027
Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
February 6, 2027 – February 8, 2027

Winter in Yosemite Valley is a transformed world. Trees are wet and dark, the oaks are bare. The cliffs are blanketed with snow. Weather moves through in waves of clouds and mist. Ponds and river edges are frozen. There is usually snow on the valley floor. Visitors are dramatically fewer in number. Our three days together will likely be cold, but we will no doubt be warmed by the special beauty that winter brings to this grand valley. Although we will carpool to various locations, I hope our basic mode of transportation through the valley will be our feet. There is really no other way to come to know a place. 

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February 6, 2027 – February 8, 2027
Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra Field Photography Class
Oct 14
October 14, 2027 – October 17, 2027
Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra Field Photography Class
October 14, 2027 – October 17, 2027

Join us for four days exploring photography in the stark and beautiful scenery of this legendary lake, unlike any other landscape in the world. Its alkaline water, desert vistas, volcanoes and unusual tufa towers make it a remarkable place. The workshop will be taught by the pioneer in digital landscape photography, Stephen Johnson. Also the organizer of the "At Mono Lake" exhibition from which selections are currently on display at the National Forest Visitor's Center. Steve has been teaching at Mono Lake for more than 40 years.

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October 14, 2027 – October 17, 2027
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