Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
February 16-18th, 2012, 10am - 4pm in Xalapa, Mexico
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom. As a special treat, this workshop will be held at one of Mexico's finest printmaking studios, Izote Editions.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of all RAW software available today
The story behind Lightroom and it's direction
The DNG format and…
Night Portraits of Night Photographers
I think it's important to show your work to your peers and get feedback, especially when it's new work you're experimenting with. In this spirit, I thought I'd share a few night portraits I've been experimenting with. At this year's Night Photography Festival in Mono Lake, CA, I had a blast teaching an advanced class and making images side-by-side with so many people. But it was all the guest speakers, instructors and fantastic night photographers all in one place that was so unique about this gathering. Lance and I reserved Bodie State Park for two nights instead of one this year so that our…
New Stack-A-Matic script now optimized for night photography image stacking
Night Photographers use a process called "image stacking" that allows us to (among other things) make extremely long, 1-8 hour exposures that would otherwise be impossible due to overexposure. We take several images that are "stacked" or combined into a single, composite image. Over the years I've used a variety of applications to stack these images together including Keith's Image Stacker, Startrails,exe, LR/Enfuse, "Open in Photoshop as Layers" and older…
Digital negatives for alternative printing processes: a new approach
I am huge fan of the hand-crafted print, and spent a lot of the 90s making digital negatives on imagesetters, as well as studying various 19th century printing processes. It was 1992, I was slinging images in Photoshop 1, cranking out imagesetter negs after hours at my local service bureau and taking them into wet photographic darkrooms to pursue that unique, and ever-satisfying handmade print. A few years later, I interned at Dan Burkholder's studio and helped put together the first book on creating digital negatives for contact printing processes - a process that he deserves sole credit for…
Full Moon Night Photography Workshop in Big Bend, Texas
October 9-12, 2011 in the Big Bend region of West Texas with Lance Keimig and Scott Martin Scott Martin and Lance Keimig team up again to present a four day/night photography workshop in the Terlingua ghost town in the Big Bend region of West Texas. The Big Bend region is 300 miles away from the nearest city and feels every bit of it. It's one of the country's best kept secrets, full of history and pristine landscapes
The Nocturnes Night Photography Festival: Celebrating 20 Years
June 12-15 2011, Mono Lake, Calfornia
led by Lance Keimig, Tim Baskerville and Scott Martin
with guest speakers Troy Paiva, Tom Paiva, Joe Reifer, Russell Brown, Stu Jenks, and more
2011 marks the 20th anniversary of The Nocturnes, and we're throwing a party at Mono Lake!
Onsight, The Night Skye, and The Nocturnes invite you to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Nocturnes together at Mono Lake in California’s Eastern Sierra this…
Luminaria Exhibition
If you're in San Antonio this weekend you won't to miss Luminaria - the citywide arts festival. Downtown goes nuts for this and Hemisfair park will be full of performances, music and exhibitions. It's a celebration of the city's artists and artwork be it visual, performance or literary. I have a few 3x5 foot prints up at the Instituto de Mexico in an exhibit curated by Kathy Armstrong at the Southwest School of Art.
Night Photography Video
WalleyFilms just released a video that highlights our Night Photography workshop in West Texas. It was really fun having Angela and Mark Walley out filming during our annual workshop in Big Bend, TX. They are super talented and do amazing work. Between the photographers and videographers the creative process was quite alive that week with image making all day and all night long. You can check out more about WalleyFilms at walleyfilms.com As a long time still photographer, I'm pretty blown away with the power of video as a communication tool. As our DSLR cameras gain HD video capability I'm…
Photoshop vs Lightroom and "Is it real?"
Q: "When I process a RAW file, I use the RAW image processor in Photoshop. I then save it as a TIFF file (and then to a JPEG for clients and stock agencies). This already seems like so many steps. Why would I want to use Lightroom?" A: Photoshop wasn't designed to work with camera RAW files - it was designed to work with film scans. IMO, the Camera RAW plugin and Adobe Bridge represent an inelegant approach to modernizing an application based on 1980's technology. Lightroom is the new Photoshop written from the ground up with Camera RAW imaging in mind. It's a paradigm shift. With it, we…
Student Work: PhotoMuse Austin Workshop
November 16, 2011commentary,workshops
I had the privilege of teaching an unusual photography workshop last week with two fantastic photographers I admire - Lynn Johnson and Penny De Los Santos. Our PhotoMuse workshop helps people find their inspiration and photographic eye through self-assigned photographic projects - finding their muse, if you will. We push participants outside their comfort zones and encourage them to make work they've never made before, and more importantly, to engage in the process of making images differently and more fully. This can be difficult. Sometimes people say they don't want to be pushed, but we…