When Ansel Adams developed the Zone System with Fred Archer in 1940, he gave photographers a great tool for controlling their images - but only with black-and-white film, and only with view cameras, where sheets of film could be processed individually. Today any photographer with a digital camera can have even more control, in black and white or color.
Such unprecedented power creates wonderful opportunities, but can also lead to confusion. How do you apply these controls? This workshop will explore the techniques for making great digital prints. You'll learn how to use the Zone System in the field with digital cameras, and how to apply sophisticated processing to images in Photoshop. The heart of the Zone System is controlling image contrast. We'll investigate methods for mastering this vital aspect of printing, starting with Photoshop's most powerful tool, Curves, and continuing with techniques for expanding dynamic range, either by blending multiple images in Photoshop, or with HDR (high dynamic range) software. Here's a partial list of the topics covered:
- Zone System Exposure for Digital Cameras -Color Management
- Overall workflow
- Raw Image Processing
- Making a Master File
- Using Layers for Flexibility -Controlling Contrast
- Mastering Curves
- Dodging and Burning
- Retouching
- Making Difficult Selections Easy
- Converting to Black and White
- Sharpening
- Combining Images for Greater Depth of Field
- Combining Images to Expand Dynamic Range, both with HDR and Photoshop
In addition to learning digital print-making tools, we'll also explore the esthetic choices that face serious digital printmakers. How much contrast is enough? How do you know when an image has enough color saturation to give it life, but not so much that it seems fake?
Students must have a working knowledge of Photoshop and camera fundamentals.
MICHAEL FRYE is a professional photographer specializing in landscapes and nature. He has written numerous magazine articles on the art and technique of photography, and is the author and photographer of The Photographer's Guide to Yosemite and Yosemite Meditations. He was also featured in the book Landscape: The World's Top Photographers. His photographs have been published in over thirty countries around the world; magazine credits include National Wildlife, Outdoor Photographer, American Photo, Sunset, and Texas Highways. Michael lives with his wife Claudia and son Kevin in Mariposa, California, just outside Yosemite National Park. Michael has lived either in or near Yosemite since 1983.
Please email or call us at 888-361-7622 for more information
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