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SEMINAR 1: Light, Camera, Action
Friday, July 1 (6pm-8pm) and
Saturday, July 2 (6pm-8pm) |
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Light
is the primary subject of all of our photographs. In this
illuminating, four-hour seminar, we'll discuss the properties
of light and how to use an understanding of light plus the
various camera controls and features to produce a technically
proficient photograph.
• Understanding the properties of light
• Effective use of traditional camera controls
• Metering and exposure
• F stop/depth of field
• Shutter speed/motion control
• ISO
• Understanding digital camera menus
• Resolution
• File format and JPEG compression
• White balance
• Tone control
• Sharpening
• Putting it all together when shooting pictures |
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SEMINAR 2: Making Better Photographs
Monday, July 4 (6pm-8pm) and
Tuesday, July 5 (6pm-8pm) |
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How
do you put a little bit of soul into your pictures? Having
control of your equipment is necessary, but only the first
step.
In this seminar
we will discuss how to move beyond technically well-executed
documentation photography to exciting images that allow
us to share, in an artful and interesting way, the experience
of the moment we chose to record.
• Human
vs. camera vision
• Perspective and point of view
• Camera position and lens choice
• Understanding the frame
• Organizing the visual elements
• Keep it simple
• Design tools for "drawing" the photograph
• Clues to three-dimensionality
• Exploring the subject
• Photographing people
• Travel photography techniques
• Close Up photography techniques |
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SEMINAR 3: Digital Workflow
Wednesday, July 6 (6pm-8pm) and
Thursday, July 7 (6pm-8pm) |
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You've
captured images in your camera. Now what? Digital photography
has given us some wonderful tools for improving our photographic
skills and output. At the same time it has added a number
of new technical issues we must learn to manage in order
to enjoy our pictures. Digital workflow — the process
of digital photography from click to display — is
our focus in this seminar.
We will discuss
the essentials of a good workflow that allows us to work
smoothly and efficiently, producing the best results for
output while maintaining control of, preservation of, and
access to our image files.
• Good image capture
• Downloading and organizing files
• Asset management
• Archiving
• Cataloging
• Color management
• Monitor calibration and profiling
• Understanding color spaces
• Basic editing techniques
• Prepping for good output
• Saving your work
• Sizing
• Sharpening
• Printer dialogue boxes for best results
• Using printer profiles |
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OPTIONAL FIELDTRIP 1
Visby — Photographing Urban Landscapes
Thursday, July 7 (8am-10am) |
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Enjoy
the morning light and join Bill Durrence as he shares techniques,
tips, and tricks of photographing urban landscapes in this
roving, hands-on tutorial. The ring wall and historic streets
of the UNESCO World Heritage Site city of Visby are our
laboratory. Attendance is limited to 10 attendees and participation
is only open to those taking at least one Northern Light
seminar. |
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OPTIONAL FIELDTRIP 2
Visby — Closeup Photography
Thursday, July 7 (10:30am-Noon) |
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Visby's
DBW Botanical Garden and the streets of Visby are our workshop
for a tutorial on closeup photography. Bill Durrence will
cover approaches to optimizing closeup photographs, and
give us artistic and technical pearls for capturing fine
images. Attendance is limited to 10 attendees and participation
is only open to those taking at least one Northern Light
seminar. |
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WRAP UP: Putting It All Together
(Open to all Northern Light participants)
Saturday, July 9 (6pm-7:30pm) |
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We'll
cover take-away points on cameras, composition, and preserving
your images. In addition, Bill Durrence will discuss, in
brief, "the Rules", and how and when to break
the rules.
After a week of
digital photography in splendid surroundings, we'll submit
samples of our work to the group, and Bill will offer his
comments and hints on further refining our work. |
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THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO BOTH
BALTIC BLAST AND NORTHERN LIGHT ATTENDEES
SPECIAL: Rock
Bottom Leadership
Speaker: Martin Hedley
Whether you run a company, family, or community organization
your ability to lead is crucial. In this seminar, Martin Hedley,
a Chief Operating Officer and Mac Fanatic who has worked with
leadership development for 20 years, will show you the results
of recent research -- data that will blow your current ideas
of leadership development out of the water. Learn:
• the 16 competencies that really matter
• the five fatal flaws
• the two stages of leadership development
• how much the bottom 20% is costing you
• what competencies you need to develop
If you're nice, he'll give you
a personal 30 minute coaching session that fits your needs
precisely (not nice -- 60 minutes).
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Essential Photo Optimizing —
Getting it Right (half day)
Speaker: Jack Davis |
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The experienced
user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust
your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best,
work fastest, and are most "photographer friendly"?
In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow-enhancing
techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create
nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray-scale
conversions, eyedropper color correcting, stained teeth whitening,
red-eye neutralizing, blotchy skin unifying, and the only
way to use Photoshop's healing brush -- all with an emphasis
on quality, flexibility, and speed.
• Which editing tools are
best to use when
• fixing images -- and
which ones to avoid.
• Quick tone and color adjustments that
• leave your original image
intact
• How to quickly fix under and over exposed
• images using Photoshop
features like
• Shadow/Highlight.
• Creating nondestructive, fast, and flexible
• repair layers for fixing,
dodging and burning,
• and color correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves, and
• sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray-scale conversions using
• Channel Mixer
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Creative Photo Enhancing —
Going Beyond the Capture (half day)
Speaker: Jack Davis |
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Here is a session to help you
get especially creative in the "digital darkroom."
Sometimes your photographs have a strong subject but lack
the unique "execution" that will allow that subject
to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate
what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated
that can exaggerate, enhance, and elaborate on the concept
of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions -- from
creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand
coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment
layers, layer styles, and advanced blending techniques.
• How to create stunning
dark room effects
• using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Creating soft focus and density effects
• Focusing attention by changing the focus of
• an image after the fact
• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques
• to tie disparate images
together
• How to composite panoramas and multiple
• image collages
• Hand coloring and tinting effects |
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