Guest Photographer, Life Form and With a New Eye parks exhibitions now on display at his Pacifica Center for the Arts Galleries.
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Join Stephen Johnson, a pioneer in both large-format black and white photography and digital imaging, for a hands-on workshop that delves into the transformative possibilities of black and white photography in the modern digital era. This course will explore how new technologies and software allow photographers to experiment with and customize black and white imagery in ways never before possible.
This is a great chance to explore digital photographic editing with Steve in his custom built digital lab. Full lab access and your own work station with hands-on help and demonstrations of his use of editing tools with restraint and finesse will benefit all of your digital photography work. This class is designed with the time to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images.
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.
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.
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, constantly going back in the field putting into practice lessons learned.
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.
From rocky shorelines to eroded cliffs, long beaches, redwood forests, and small towns, the coastline south of San Francisco in San Mateo County is complex and dramatic. We'll roam the coastal and mountain roads, stopping at state and county parks, and checking out the lunch options along the way. The workshop will be a dynamic combination of a traditional landscape photography workshop while diving deep into the digital age.