The Art of Light Digital Imaging Workshops at Ellington School of the Arts

OVERVIEW

From it's beginnings, Light continues to be photography's magic ingredient, its secret sauce. The Art of Light: Digital Imaging Workshops perseveres this legacy using photography's newest tools. This workshop series is comprised of four different classes. The workshops location is the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in northwest Washington, DC. Each course is two hours long.

The Art of Light will be getting down to the real Nitty Gritty. Over the past year, I’ve been asking and you’ve been telling me what you want to learn. So this year’s Art of Light classes at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts is offering great new courses with great new instructors, Neil Adams, Ken Hipkins, Fran Scott, and Lorenzo Wilkins and . I’ll be offering classes in the Art of the Digital Printmaking, Photoshop: Beyond the Basics, and Photoshop for Beginners. Neil Adams presents the ins and outs of creating The Cinematic Portrait, Lorenzo Wilkins will be offering his seminar on Moving from Photography to Video. New this season, Ken Hipkins and Fran Scott will be offering insights into bringing the worlds of film & digital photography together! Stay tuned for these exciting workshops All of these seminars focus on helping photographers, artists, and creatives in acquiring the skills enabling them to increase their creative potential.

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Photoshop for Beginners

In this workshop, students will be introduced to the essentials of working with Adobe Photoshop. Whether you’re a photographer wanting to get more from their images or an artist needing to process their images for a variety of final uses, this workshop will make Photoshop accessible and comfortable.

Photoshop Compositing Basics: Part 1

Photoshop Compositing Basics: Part One introduces you to the fundamentals of Selections, Masks, and Channels. Whether using a single image or multiple images, understanding how to isolate portions of an image is the essential skill for creating a composite, and is the perfect first step to building your confidence using Photoshop to complement your artistic vision, workflow, and creative practice.

This workshop was developed with both photographers and artists with a working knowledge of Photoshop in mind, teaching participants the proper workflow for meeting their individual imaging needs.

Food Photography Basics

Food photography is a still-life photograph genre used to create gorgeous photographs that involve detailed and specific knowledge, experience, and training to tell a powerful visual story. Capturing great culinary imagery that mirrors advertisements, in magazines, packaging, menus, cookbooks, and social media also requires planning to highlight the artistry in this targeted sector.

Whether the client’s a chef, cater or restaurant; I have developed packages telling their story of specific cuisines and cultures with passion, purpose, and flair. Skilled food treatment deserves powerful imagery designed around the core values of their business.

In this workshop I’ll walk you through the process of how to make cuisine, no matter how simple, a photographic reality. Creating a visual statement reflecting the chef’s passion a feast for the eyes as well as the palate.

Medium Format Film Photography

Many people have been bequeathed, gifted, or re-discovered 35mm small format film cameras. For those hardy folks that want to embrace a hardier next step: 120-size medium format film cameras.

This course will explore and extol the benefits (and drawbacks) of medium format vs small format cameras, centering on the venerable 6x6 single-lens-reflex Hasselblad camera, and the even more venerable twin-lens-reflex Rolleiflex/Rolleicord cameras.

Being familiar with desktop scanners lets film photographers the opportunity to produce digital files to create beautiful prints. Learn how!

The Photograph & the Art of Seeing

The intent this workshop is to guide students on what to look for when making photographs. What are you seeing, not necessarily literally, that will transform to the photograph and make your viewer stop and look? Can you make the viewer take on an emotional or abstract involvement as well as a literal meaning? As you stated, going beyond words.I will demonstrate how to decipher that skill of transcending one’s involvement with the environment and capturing the moment at hand, successfully.

Topics include camera operation, principles of exposure, image development, printing, and picture content.

Intro to Video Production for Photographers

Intro to Video Production for Photographers As a designer and photographer in this digital age of new equipment and new ways of "processing" images, the challenge is keeping up with the countless models of cameras, software packages, plug-ins and such. The list is endless! Lorenzo Wilkins learned to just keep it simple and focus on improving the "eye" and to avoid getting caught up in the torrent technology race and focus on developing the skills that allow him to stay relevant as a creative professional. In this workshop he offers insight on how to add video production to your creative arsenal by focusing on the essentials of getting started in video

Learn more about Lorenzo by visiting his website & YouTube channel

Crafting the Fine Photographic Print

Artists and photographers are realizing that getting their digital vision off the monitor and onto a sheet of paper is essential. This Fine Art Digital Printmaking workshop offers advanced hands-on experience using Adobe Photoshop and Epson inkjet printers. Students will learn what makes a great print as the workshop explores interpreting traditional photographic language and practice with digital tools.

Workshop students will take a sophisticated exploration of the fundamentals associated with digital imaging processing, a recommended workflow, and a variety of techniques and tools to broaden their relationship with making photographic imagery. Plus students will start the process of creating their print portfolio.

Check out the video link below to see an example of what you can learn.

Have questions? To learn more about the workshops and registration information, please email, The Art of Light

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