Acadia National Park -- A Digital Photography Field Workshop

Stephen Johnson, who is one of our presenters at NECCC this July, is offering a two day workshop the very special Acadia National Park June 22-23, 2013. I'll be conducting this class just before my printing Printing Photographic Beauty class at the Maine Media workshops, June 24-28. There are still a few spots one in the printing class at MMW.

Acadia

http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-photo-wksp-lnd-acadia.html

Maine Media Workshops Fine Art Digital Printing Class

http://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/photography/printing-photographic-beauty

We hope some of you can join us.

Regards to all,

Steve

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Stephen Johnson Photography 

1220-C Linda Mar Boulevard, Creekside Suites 5-7, Pacifica, California 94044

studio: 650 355-7507email: info@sjphoto.com        website: http://www.sjphoto.com 

Acadia National Park -- A Digital Photography Field Workshop

June 22-23, 2013
2 days $450
Class is limited to 12 participants.
Come join us at Maine's Acadia National Park with it's dramatic seascapes, dense forest dells, majestic views from granite peaks, on this visually rich two-day workshop with photographer and author Stephen Johnson.
We'll spend one day on Mt. Desert Island and another on the Schoodic Peninsula where Stephen will lead participants to some of his favorite Acadia locations bathed in Maine's unique light. The variations of this light as it as plays on the unusual pink granite boulders, and surging surf can be quite beautiful. We'll photograph the area's natural landscapes sculpted by the tremendous forces of Atlantic Ocean waves as well as its man-made constructions of traditional New England villages. Acadia NPS website and Acadia Map

The Workshop

The first morning, we will spend a couple of hours preparing for our outings. Topics covered will be optimal digital camera use in a variety of formats, file size and printing considerations. Fieldwork with intensive presentations and assistance will fill our days. We will photograph in some of the most spectacular places in the park, see a variety of landforms and work on our photography, An evening critique will be conducted, opening files, review successes and challenges of the photographs made during the day, going back in the field the next day and putting into practice lessons learned.

The advent of the digital age of photography provides unique opportunities for field photography instruction. We will be reviewing work on camera screens as it is made and on portable computers, examining exposure, composition and emotional impact.

Field instruction will concentrate on technical and aesthetic issues, working to develop a personal vision of these places. We will be doing some walking and hiking.

Weather can be variable, and Maine does have rain during the summer. The workshop will adapt as the weather creates and blocks opportunities, always providing more instruction and often beautiful light.


Stephen Johnson (CA) Twelve Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography

Common problems make for common grief. In this lecture Stephen addresses many of the problems that come up for people, often with the user not even knowing what is going wrong. These issues are covered with clarity and in context so that their purpose and problem causing potential is understood and able to be applied to a photographer's workflow immediately.  Due to time constraints, Part I will be presented and includes the importance of monitor calibration, using RAW to preserve bit depth, imitating RAW capabilities with the camera histogram, how to use the histogram, and color encoding grey balance. Steve will also cover how to customize RAW presets for interpretation and data preservation, and the use of metadata to name, label, add keywords and archive your files. The NECCC conference has a great line up of speakers this July! Find out more and Register Here.