From OZ to Kansas 2.0: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man with Vincent Versace Dec 8-10, 2011 9:30am - 5:30pm Feb 23-25, 2012 9:30am - 5:30pm

© Vincent Versace

Members: $725 • Non-members: $795

Prerequisites: Digital Photography or equivalent experience

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Black and white conversion techniques are like politicians making election promises; every one of them claims to be the penultimate solution to your needs. Regardless of their claims, you still need to create images that look like photographs and not like something the viewer sees as "something you did in Photoshop." Fortunately, there are numerous ways to convert an image from color to hues of gray with natural looking results. In this three day workshop Vincent Versace will show you some of the best ways to convert an Image to black and white without ever leaving the RGB color space. You will learn which methods give you the best results and when to choose a simple or a complex solution.

The challenge of photography is to create still images that move the viewer the same we were moved when committed to the moment and the image was captured. All too frequently, the attempt to reveal the image on a monitor or paper as the image was experienced becomes a laboring and frustrating, specially in a black and white image. This workshop reveals the methods and techniques for overcoming these challenges both out in the field and in the digital darkroom.

This workshop is based on Vincent Versace's upcoming book From Oz to Kansas 2.0: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Know to Man.

Participants explore new ways of seeing and how to make their 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 composition 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
• Black and White conversions that replicate the look of silver prints
• The key techniques to making the best prints

 

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