DIGITALworkshops

Members: $1025.00 • Non-members: $1095.00
Prerequisites: Photoshop^® for Beginners or equivalent experience

Description

The Digital Fine Print presents you with the opportunity to learn a 16-bit workflow from digital image capture to the fine print. The first day is spent shooting digital images preferably with a digital SLR camera that can capture RAW files. We’ll talk about RAW conversion, White Balance, Contrast Issues, and Color and Black& White workflows using Adobe Photoshop CS Camera RAW. The next four days are spent in the lab discussing the 16-bit Digital Fine Print Workflow that covers Input, Optimizing Contrast and Detail, Overall Contrast and Color Balance, Local Contrast and Color controls, Sharpening, Interpolation, and printing with the Epson print driver for color and the ColorByte ImagePrint RIP for B&W. Special emphasis will be placed on Optipix software. Please bring your digital camera, tripod, lots of memory cards, lots of batteries, and other camera accessories. Please bring some method to store your images and the camera instruction booklet. You will be responsible for the operation of your camera.

Biography

GEORGE DEWOLFE has been a photographer since 1964. He studied with Ansel Adams and Minor White in the 1970’s and holds an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. George has published widely, most notably At Home In The Wild, on New Hampshire’s White Mountains edited by David Brower and George DeWolfe’s Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions, is in several permanent collections, is currently Senior Editor for Camera Arts, and consultant to Epson, Adobe, Hahnemühle and other companies. He teaches The Digital Fine Print Workshop, Black and White Master Print and Contemplative Photography throughout the United States. George’s new book, Black and White Master Print, will be published in 2008.