DIGITALworkshops

Members: $645 • Non-members: $715
Prerequisites: Imaging Overview or equivalent experience

Description

This celebrated award winning photojournalist and digital photography expert will take you into the field and show you his special techniques for creating memorable portraits and capturing people on location with a minimum of effort. Then we return to our up-to-date, well-equipped, digital labs where you will download your images to the computer and make beautiful prints. A master teacher, Shelly will cover, in easy-to-understand terms, how to successfully use digital camera technology to archive your images, preserve all the information that digital files contain, techniques of using software to enhance your images, file formats and compression, pixel resolution and preparing files for e-mail. Your digital prints will be outstanding as you benefit from Shelly’s printing mastery and learn why Epson calls upon him to demonstrate their products at trade shows and photo workshops.

SHELLY KATZ has won awards and worked in the world of editorial photography for such publications as Time, Life, Fortune, People Weekly, and Sports Illustrated, and for commercial accounts that include Apple Computer, AT&T, BellSouth, General Motors, IBM, Mobil Oil and US Steel – just to name a few. He has photographed every major presidential candidate since 1959 and has both photographed and coordinated electronic transmissions of other major news stories such as Presidential debates, NASCAR races, and the Branch Davidian compound siege in Waco, Texas, that led to his TIME magazine cover photo of the explosion. Katz also is a veteran of several Day in the Life projects and was part of the team that produced the highly acclaimed book and multi-media production Passage to Vietnam and recently America 24/7. Additionally, for his digital ink-jet printing mastery, Epson calls upon him to demonstrate their products at trade shows and photo workshops. Throughout the world, in museums, the Smithsonian Institute, and private collections, his images are preserved, displayed and admired.

Visit Shelly on line at www.shellykatz.com