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The Trip Join us on a ten-day trek through the visual wonderlands of southern Utah and northern Arizona. We'll visit Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Monument Valley and end up at Canyon de Chelly National Monument. The trip is designed to be a complete immersion in landscape photography and its digital evolution with the pioneer in digital landscape photography. |
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This digital landscape workshop explores these national parks with the new tools of digital photography, including on-site visualization, and technical evaluation. Lectures will include digital exposure, composition, visual distillation, archiving, color management and fine-art printing. We have been discussing technical and aesthetic issues, tapping into participants emotional response to this landscape, working toward images that are uniquely their own. The emphasis has been improving the composition and technical finesse of the participants, empowering the individual photographers to better pursue their vision, from image-making to print-making. We have been holding group and individual critique sessions, using a digital projector and workstations to display selections of the day's work. |
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The Magical Digital Bus We have been employing a specially-built digitally equipped eBus operated and sponsored by The Community College Foundation. This eBus will be a 10 workstation digital classroom, complete with Macintosh PowerBook G4 17" computers, Apple HD 23 LCD
displays, inkjet printers and paper, archiving stations and digital projection for our evening critiques. A high speed satellite internet connection will provide continuous access to email, websites relevant to our fieldwork, and provide daily opportunities to post images from the workshop onto a special website we'll build. Sharing workshop experiences in a variety of media is being encouraged.
This unique field photography workshop capability will gives us a
freedom to make our photographs, inspect and archive them, critique,
print and publish the images, all from the field.
Digital cameras from Foveon and BetterLight have been available to borrow during the workshop.
It is turning out be an unparalleled experience.
Galleries
(some of what we've done so far)
Betty Blecha
The Workshop Program Individual problem solving has been a high priority in this workshop program all through its 25 year history. Classes are kept small to maximize individual attention. Students bring some of their work to demonstrate how they see, what they are happy with, and photographs that indicate problems they are encountering.
Corporate Sponsors
We are very grateful for the help of the following institutions and companies for their help supplying equipment and software for this workshop. Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, BetterLight, Community College Foundation, Epson, Foveon, GretagMacbeth and Hewlett-Packard. |
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Details
Arches NPS Website
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Stephen JohnsonA photographer, teacher and designer, Stephen has been teaching and working in photography since 1977. His books include At Mono Lake, the critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland and Making a Digital Book. He runs his own photography, publishing and design company--scanning and preparing his photographic books using a Macintosh computer and now photographing in the field with digital view cameras.Current projects include With a New Eye, his groundbreaking and historic all digital national parks project. Stephen's work in digital photography, desktop color separations and digital imaging has included software and product development for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Eastman Kodak, Leaf, Ricoh and SuperMac. His work with Adobe includes the creation of the duotone curves shipped with their Photoshop software. Photographic clients have included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Friends of Photography. Johnson's photographs have been widely published and collected internationally. 
Stephen Johnson Biography
Last updated on August 12, 2003. Mail comments to: sjphoto@aol.com Photographs and Text Copyright ©2003, Stephen Johnson. All Rights Reserved. |
