Monument Valley. 2014. Canon 5D III. Click to order a print. Next Workshop Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on November 15-18, 2014
Welcome to the October 2014 Edition of the Stephen Johnson Photography Newsletter.
This month's View From Here column recounts some of our experiences on our recent Southwest Journey workshop. We hope you find the column interesting and will consider sending us some comments. Our Tutorial Section goes through image stitching to expand field of view or resolution. LATEST NEWS:
Steve with Fine Art Printing class students and guest Ted Orland. 2014. Scholarships and Mentoring As part of our ongoing commitment to photographic education, there is one student scholarship spot in many of our classes. Please pass the word along. For discounted time studying with Steve, keep in mind our Mentoring Program. With all of our busy schedules and limited budgets, destination workshops or classes become a challenge, but many of you still have questions you need answered, or feedback on some new work. We want to remind you of our Virtual Online Consulting Program. This service allows all of you out there around the globe to consult online live with Steve on technical, aesthetic and workflow issues using Skype and your webcam. Our Essays and Tutorials from the past couple of years can now be found on Google Blogger. We hope you can come by the gallery and see the new Panoramic Prints we've added to the National Parks Gallery, and the Exquisite Earth exhibition with its accompanying very special Exquisite Earth Portfolio 1. We invite you to join us on a workshop, rent lab space, or just say hello and let us know what you are up to photographically and what you might like to see us offer. We value your input.
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FEATURED PRINT October 2014
Montara Fog and Sunlit Hills. 2014.
9x14 Pigment Inkjet Print on Cotton paper Sunlight breaking through a deep fog bank on the hills south of Devil's Slide and Montara Mountain.
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Milky Way from Mexican Hat. 2014. It was so nice to be away from city light and in the clear desert air.
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THE VIEW FROM HERE A Southwest Journey 12 days across the southwest on a photographic journey, both exploration, teaching, learning, discovering. From driving rain and spontaneous waterfalls, to searing heat and mystical dwellings and wall art, it was a very special couple of weeks. I'm writing now, before details are lost, and to celebrate the trip we just completed. The stacked experience-on-top-of-experience just becomes too much to hold onto without setting down a few thoughts and photographs near in time to the trip.
Sudden Waterfall with Clouds. 2014..
We started in Zion, and were blessed with some beautiful clouds and the full moon the first day. The adventure into Zion Canyon the next day could not have been anticipated. We rode the shuttle all the way into Zion Canyon to the "Temple of Sinawava" when rain began to fall. It started in the middle of a depth of field demo I was doing, which I finished. The droplets soon became sheets of rain, and like everyone else, we headed for the shelter near the bus stop. Our workshop, and about 200 other people, running from the Narrows or elsewhere. It was crowded, but good spirited.
Sudden Waterfall Torrent. Zion. 2014. As the rain let up a bit, we naturally peered out into the transformed world around us, which was now layered in mist and dripping with water everywhere. But on the north side of the canyon, a torrential waterfall had appeared out of nowhere. It was about the most dramatic sudden appearance I had ever seen in the natural world, other than light itself. The next day brought more surprises with seas of clouds and mist floating through the canyons as we climbed toward the tunnel for the east side of the park. As we emerged from the tunnel, the raid had restarted, but the rainstorm of the day before turned out to be small by comparison. As I headed for the basin I wanted to stop in, the rain got so bad, there was no choice but to pull over and wait. The rain got worse, water started pouring off every rock face in sight, It was wondrous, humbling, amazing and explained perfectly all of the erosion around us.
Cliff and Clouds. Zion National Park Utah. 2014
Rain Falls on Cliffs. Zion National Park Utah. 2014.
Petrified Dune Ridges and Rain Falls. Zion. 2104.
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We all watched the dawn light moving down the towering varnished streaked cliffs. Some saw the tree silhouette, others just light and cliffs. From the colder blue light along the Virgin River below, the yellow light seemed very warm indeed. Some vultures circled above, with speculation they might be California Condors which had been spotted in the area during previous months.
Workshop at Mystery Valley, Monument Valley. 2014.
Arch with Ruins. Monument Valley. Utah. 2014.
Arch with Ruins. Monument Valley. Utah. 2014.
Rock Art. Sego Canyon Utah. 2014
Dinosaur Outside Zion. 2014. Somehow, the southwest seems to evoke the prehistoric, and it is more than just the 1000 year old cliff dwellings. It is the exposed, encoded geology, cutting through time, a pervasive of sense of the past revealed in almost any direction. |
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Consulting Programs and Speaking Events Virtual Education: Our Virtual Consulting and Mentoring Program is working well. Readers of this Newsletter can still get a discount by mentioning this reference when you enroll. Our One on One Program links you up with Steve at his bay area studio, or when he is on the road near you. Keep an eye on when Steve will be near your town. Catch Steve Live: Steve will be speaking here and there over the next few months, such as his up coming talks in New York City at PhotoPlus.
Canon Sponsors Steve to speak at Universities, Colleges, Photo Groups and various events around the country. If you would like more information on arranging for Steve to do a Canon sponsored event, go to: Canon SJ EOL talks
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The Lens You Have I'm always carrying my 70-200mm lens. But sometimes it is simply too long, and shorter lenses are often back at the car or at the bottom of the hill. Many of us have settled into a routine of simply making a set of images to stitch together to make a wider field of view in such circumstances. It makes for more work later, but also for higher resolution photographs, providing they line up well. Manual exposure helps to make the set consistent, as well as plenty of overlap between the images in the set. I generally use the PhotoMerge feature in Photoshop directly from Bridge to assemble the set together, allowing both Vignette Removal and Geometric Correction to be used in the assembly.
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Six Image Stitch. Monument Valley. 2014. |
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2014 Life Form Note cards 12 image Note card set with envelopes featuring photographs from Steve's new Life Form work. Printed by Steve in his studio in very limited numbers on a color laser digital press |
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National Park Note cards
National Park Color Note card Set From "With a New Eye" Beautiful 300 line screen offset reproductions with envelopes in clear box. A great gift. |
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