Controlling the Unconscious Eye: An Exploration of ExDR (Extending Dynamic Range) through the Use of Image Harvesting with Vincent Versace Dec 5-7, 2011 9:30am - 5:30pm Feb 20-22, 2012 9:30am - 5:30pm

© Vincent Versace

Members: $725 • Non-members: $795

Prerequisites: Digital Photography or equivalent experience

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Dynamic range does not only apply to exposure. In this three-day workshop, Vincent Versace will show you how to apply a new concept, ExDR, to focus, blur and image structure. Starting with image-harvesting to the image-editing process, Vincent will teach you the most aesthetic choices to make regarding light, shape, gesture, and color when you first take a picture. Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth." With that in mind, you will also apply techniques to create an aesthetically satisfying final image rather than a "historically" accurate one. You will also learn the approach of how the human eye "sees" to guide the viewer's eye through the image.

During fieldtrips and in the studio, you will start by learning how to actually shoot for ExDR. Specifically all the considerations you need to think about when harvesting for, focus blur and image structure. Then, in the computer lab, you will learn how to assemble, as well as all the considerations you need to think about when assembling an ExDR image. The workshop will end with a printing session.

A workshop based on his newly revised book “Welcome to Oz”, this workshop is for digital photographers that want to learn the secret of how to be taken by photograph rather than merely taking a pictures. This workshop teaches participants the why to, how to, and when to technical skills to create the photographic images and prints that convey the same feeling as experience behind the camera.

Participants explore new ways of seeing and how to make these composition and framing choices at the speed of life, without hesitation, in the moment as it happens. Vincent works with students in the field as well as in the lab exploring:

• Exercises to improve compositions skills
• How to control the viewer’s eye to move through an image they way you want it to be seen
  Lighting on a Laptop
• How to practice preemptive Photoshop - getting it right in camera so as to make life easier in post processing
• Image Harvesting - capturing multiple images for focus, exposure and blur and putting them together to look like one image

You will receive a URL to download Quicktime Movies of all the techniques used and will also receive the Versace Edition set of 3 plug-ins from NiK Software as well as all of Vincent Versace's Wacom tablet and Radial Dial presets for the Intuos and Cintiq tablets. Vincent will also give you signed 8.5x11 print.

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Biography

VINCENT VERSACE is a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment, the Shellenberg fine art award, a six time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and is the author of the best selling book, Welcome to Oz: A cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop which was chosen as Shutterbug Magazine's best how to book of the year. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History. Vincent is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go Team. He is a member of the Epson Stylus Pros, a a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens, an Xrite Colorotti, Lexar Elite Photographer, an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek and Master Class instructor and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team teaching regularly at Photoshop World and the Maine Photographic and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. Vincent was the original host of the Epson Print Academy. Articles about his work in conjunction with digital workflows have appeared in American Photo, Popular Photography, Shutterbug, Outdoor Photographer, Pro Digital Imaging, PDN, What Digital camera, Petersen's Photographic, PC Camera, Studio Design and Photography Professional Photographer and Digital Imaging magazines.

Website: http://www.versacephotography.com