All you need to Know About Filtration in the Digital Age with Joseph Meehan Mar 13, 2010

© Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Members: $120 • Non-members: $170 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Most photographers think filtration is limited to the use of a handful of camera filters or a few software tools. But filtration is actually a fundamental process that plays a critical role in giving digital photography much of its power to control, correct and create different “looks”. This ranges from the basics of color control/correction to converting color to black and white as well as filtering for a mood, using unsharp filtration, filtering out noise, etc., etc. Even the recording of an image on the sensor is dependent on filtration. The purpose of this seminar is to build a general understanding of filtration as a system and how to best apply its various aspects to an image using very simple to understand principles, specialized software and specific camera filters.
 
The over all goal is to learn how to use the various filtration processes as efficiently as possible to obtain the highest possible image quality. Some of the topics covered include: What are some of the most effective software filter programs? What are the advantages of using camera filters vs. software filters? How does one produce the illusion of mood in an image? Is White Balance all that important or can I just fix it in Photoshop? What is this thing called non-destructive filtering? Is there a way of avoiding noise when I take the picture or do I have to rely on noise filtering programs? The seminar is illustrated with over 200 images, many of which are from the three books the instructor has published on filtration techniques.

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Biography

Joseph Meehan has been a professional photographer, writer and teacher for more than 35 years. Over a thousand of his images have appeared in books, magazines and advertisements as well as on Web sites all over the world. Meehan’s work has been profiled in many photography magazines including, Popular Photography, Outdoor Photography, View Camera Magazine, Shutterbug and the British Journal of Photography. He was also the Senior Technical Editor of Photo District News for over a decade, and the editor of the UK publication, The Photography Yearbook. In addition, he has written 25 books on photographic technique, several of which have received awards as well as being published in multiple languages.

You can visit his website at www.josephmeehan.com