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Spring 2014 Digital Photography Program with Stephen Johnson

Lectures and Saturday One-Day Seminars

Introduction to Digital Photography Lecture
Tuesday evening, 7-10pm. March 11, 2014
$45


Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery
Pacifica, California.

A lecture exploring Digital Cameras and getting the basics in place to understand digital photography. We will discuss the tools really needed by photographers for fundamental image acquisition, control and finishing. Camera controls, file formats including RAW acquisition, basic Color Correction, Sharpening, tonal control, and preserving options will all be discussed. Software concentration will be mainly on Adobe Photoshop or Elements. This seminar is not about compositing or faking photographs, Some familiarity with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements is recommended.

To Register online click here, or call 650 355-7507


Raw Photo Processing Day
April 19, 2014. 9am to 5pm.
$195

Lab day option: April 20, 2014 (very limited space)


Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery
Pacifica, California.

For the first few years of digital cameras, JPEG was the only picture saving option in many cameras. As a compressed format with permanent data loss, this was not acceptable. Eventually, many of us working in the industry were able to convince camera makers to support uncompressed files, but they were implemented as fully processed TIFFs and therefore were big and slow to save.

In the early 1990s, Kodak, Leaf and BetterLight pioneered in what has generally become known as a “RAW” format—holding onto their camera data and building software to process these “sensor dumps.” In response to many of our requests, additional camera makers have started incorporating a raw archive format into the file saving options in many cameras.

Preserving the data that the camera sensor can record is a very high priority for pulling every nuance of photographic information from the camera and for long-term options to reprocess and later improve the image as software improves.
Camera RAW is Adobe’s contribution toward a universal interface for accessing and interacting with a variety of camera manufacturers raw/archive formats. This one-day seminar explores this process with Adobe's Photoshop CS6/Lightroom 4 Camera Raw processors.


To Register call 650 355-7507

Lab Day: $250. Full lab access and hands on instruction covering Raw Processing working on your files.


Photoshop Editing for Tone and Color using Adjustment Layers with Selections and Masks
May 31, 2014. 9am to 5pm
$195

Lab day option: June 1, 2014. (very limited space)


Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery
Pacifica, California.

This concentrates on the tools within Photoshop critical to Photographers. Discussinos and demonstrations of Steve's 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.

This day will be spent exploring the tools really needed by photographers for fundamental image control and finishing. Color correction, careful tonal control, and preserving options into archive versions of your files will be our primary concerns. Software concentration will be mainly on Adobe Photoshop CS6. This seminar is not about compositing or faking photographs. Some previous exploration of Photoshop is recommended.

To Register call 650 355-7507

Lab Day: $250. Full lab access and hands on instruction covering Photoshop Editing for Tone and Color using Adjustment Layers with Selections and Masks.


Beauty in Photography: Inspiration and Composition
June 14, 2014
$195

Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery
Pacifica, California.

Talking about Art is hard. There either doesn't seem to be words to describe the motivations or reactions, or there are too many words obfuscating meaning. Learning contemporary language and references of modern art criticism may help some understand art history, but “art-speak” is rarely a tongue I hear used by artists themselves. Plain talk, real dreams and real passions are what drive us forward, sometimes irrationally, sometimes with a plan. Photography fits neatly into this long and confused history.

Why do some images move us, and other leave us cold?
What makes a good photograph? What makes us pick up the camera at a particular moment? How do we work toward understanding our momentary visual curiosities and turn them into strong photographs? 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 long to make a photograph?

These and other such inspirational and compositional questions will be discussed in this seminar on photographic composition. Sources of inspiration will be explored, from photography to other art forms, ideas and people. There will not be rules of composition propagated here, but explorations and suggestions. A good nuts and bolts day for improving your photographs.

Register Online or
call 650 355-7507



Full Program Tuition Discount: $600

Full Program Tuition with Lab Days Discount: $900 (limited to 8 students)

There are no make-ups or refunds for non-attendance available for this series.

 

For information on these seminars email info@sjphoto.com or call 650 355-7507.

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