Photopolymer Gravure Printmaking from Calibrated Digital Positives
October 22-24,2015, 10a-4p at Flatbed Press in Austin Texas
with Scott Martin and Byron Brauchli
Scott Martin of Onsight and Byron Brauchli of Izote Editions team up for 3 days of photopolymer gravure printmaking from calibrated digital positives. This is really two workshops in one as participants will learn how to make calibrated positives and negatives for any alt-photo printing process, and photopolymer gravure…
Breathing Color Podcast
Yours truly featured in today's Breathing Color Podcast #20 talking about RIPs, printer drivers, nesting, layout, workflow and the big "to RIP or not to RIP" question.
Night Photography Workshop in the Eastern Sierras, Mono Lake and Bodie Ghost Town
July 2nd-5th, in Lee Vining, Eastern California with Scott Martin and Lance Keimig This Night Photography workshop will feature two nights of photography at Bodie Ghost Town, one at Mono Lake, and one on the Conway Summit. Each day we will have hold a critique and classroom instruction in the community center from 11a-5pm and will enter the field afterwards staying out past midnight. The workshop is suited for those with limited NPy experience, but at least basic photo skills, and familiarity with shooting RAW in manual mode with a DSLR. More advanced students and alumni are welcome too, we…
A quick introduction to Lightroom 6/CC
When you first install Lightroom 6/CC you may find yourself asking "Wait, how is this different from Lightroom 5?", which is to say it's an easy upgrade and familiar on all counts. But as you use it you'll notice lots of meaningful new features everywhere - some small and some big. Here are five things in LR6/CC that I find significant: Photo Merge The "Merge to Panorama in Photoshop" and "Merge to HDR in Photoshop" features have both been brought natively to Lightroom. And let me tell you, the process of combining frames in LR6 is so fast, easy and friendly that it'll make…
What my days look like as a consultant
I thought I'd show everyone what my days often look like as a consultant. For 20 years, I've traveled around working with people in their studios on issues like color management, workflow, and print quality. A lot of the time this means working on big printers like these.
HP Latex printers at New Era Portfolio
In addition to common aqueous inkjet printers, I spend a lot of my…
Night Photography Workshop in Mono Lake and Bodie Ghost Town
July 31st-August 3rd, in Eastern California
with Scott Martin and Lance Keimig
Schedule:
July 31st - Optional Lightroom 5 Class in Lee Vining
August 1st - Tioga Pass or Mono Lake
August 2nd and 3rd - Bodie Ghost Town
Tioga Pass, Mono Lake and Bodie ghost town are not only some of our favorite locations that we've been making images in for decades, we've also been leading night photography workshops here for the past ten years. We think you'll find Mono…
Commentary: Monitors are bad and noise (can be) good
We'd like to think that todays $1000+ LED LCD displays are great but I'm going to say they're not. They suck actually. We just don't know better because we haven't seen anything better - yet. Today's displays are like cars from the 1970s - much better transportation than a decade prior but still horribly polluting, underpowered and unsafe in comparison to what's coming in the next few decades. Today's desktop computer monitors are fairly low resolution ranging from 72-150ppi. While this works fine for 95% of the people out there communicating via email and browsing the web, its having some…
Night Photography Workshop: Death Valley
March 19-21, 2014 in Death Valley, CA
with Scott Martin and Lance Keimig
Lance Keimig and I invite you to join us in Death Valley in March. Unlike our usual Full Moon Night Photography workshops, this one will take place in the waning stage of the lunar cycle which will offer us some dark skies full of stars. I've come to love this time of night after the sun has gone down and before the moon comes up. It will be a great chance to rely upon light painting and make some 'galactic…
2014 Iceland Photography Tour
February 2 - 11,2014 in Iceland
with Scott Martin and Lance Keimig
Iceland has been a popular destination for photography workshops for the last ten years or so, and for good reason. We'll have 9 days and 8 nights to explore and photograph this amazingly beautiful country, and all expenses except international airfare, gratuities, and alcohol are included. Having two instructors<!--more--> promises lots of…
Celebrating 20 Years of Color Management Consulting
February 9, 2014articles,commentarycolor management,ICC profiles,xrite,Knoll Gamma,Display calibration,Photoshop 1
20+ years ago I was splitting my time between a job where I was a Leaf45 scanner operator and an apprenticeship with a master printmaker. In the printmaking studio we were making large digital negatives on an imagesetter and using them to make hand-coated platinum/palladium prints in a wet darkroom. Back then everyone was using Photoshop 2 and had CRT monitors. While the color scans coming off the Leaf45 seemed pretty decent after a little color correction in curves, I was frustrated with how different the handmade B&W platinum palladium prints looked in comparison to the same images…