DIGITALworkshops

Members: $895 • Non-members: $965
Prerequisites: Imaging Overview or equivalent experience

Digital photography can almost magically expand your working parameters, allowing you to convey visions that were previously a technical impossibility. But, to optimize your digital photography, you must learn new ways of making images. Working with natural subject matter, this step-by-step workshop will guide you to the best methods to capture the information, and then transform the data into your personal vision using Adobe Photoshop. The workshop structure includes lectures, field sessions, computer work and critiques. You will emerge with an understanding of how to extend the dynamic range and depth of field using multiple captures; how to judge the optimum exposure for digital captures; and how, to use channels, layers, masks, curves and different color spaces in Adobe Photoshop to edit your raw images in a non-destructive manner. You must bring a digital SLR camera and a good tripod made for outdoor photography. You must have at least a basic understanding of your camera and Adobe Photoshop.

Craig Blacklock is one of the country’s premier landscape photographers. He specializes on Lake Superior — the subject of several of his books including The Lake Superior Images, A Voice Within and The Lake Superior Nudes.. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Minnesota Book Award, and an Independent Publishers book award for the best photography book of 2005. His prints are in numerous collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Polaroid Collection, and the George Eastman House. He has taught photography workshops since 1982. A well-rounded and innovative nature photographer, Craig can help you realize your own vision in color or black and white - while working with flowers, landscapes, or nudes — both in the field and in Adobe Photoshop.