FOTOfusion 2010 - Wednesday Schedule

Color Key
100 Series Seminar	200 Series FOTOshoot	300 Series Computer Lab
400 Series Lecture Demo	600 Series Community Events	Portfolio Review Technology Center
Special Events

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Note: Schedule is subject to change due to the busy schedule of our presenters. Changes will be posted at all sites during the week.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
8:30am-10:00am	101 Telling a story with your photos. What you need to know and the strategies you need to employ with Debbie Bondulic, Maura Foley, Scott McKiernan ; Moderator: Robert Pledge
	102 Close-Up Photography in the Digital Era with Joseph Meehan
	309 Lightroom Develop Adjustments -- Things you HAVE to know with Lydia Goetze
	310 Fantastic Portraits—It’s all Smoke, Mirrors and Photoshop with Kevin Ames
9:00am-12:00pm	208 Close-ups at Tropical World Nursery with Brenda Tharp +$20
9:30am-10:30am	601 “ReCapture Your Vision” - Image Enhancement Techniques with Janice Wendt
10:30am-12:00pm	106 Lightworks & Shadowplay with Seán Duggan
	107 A Journey to The Dark Side with Donna Ferrato
	311 Quick and Easy Portrait Retouching with Julie Adair King
	312 The Master Print Workflow: Creating Presence with George DeWolfe
10:30am-12:30pm	209 Using Available Light On Location with Bruce Talamon
11:00am-12:00pm	602 The decisive Moment: Introducing the LEICA M9 and rangefinder photography with Justin Stailey
11:00am-1:00pm	210 Marine Junkyard Shoot with Scott McKiernan
12:45pm-1:45pm	603 Snaps with Elliott Erwitt
1:30pm-4:00pm	212 The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens with Diane Farris +$20
2:15pm-3:15pm	604 Saddam to James Bond: From History’s Front Lines to Hollywood’s Back Lots with Karen Ballard
2:30pm-4:00pm	109 Creative Lighting on Location with Rick Friedman
	110 Becoming A Better Photographer: Tips And Tricks Of The Trade with Jay Colton
	111 Assembling a Photograph with Anna Tomczak
	313 Photoshop in Black and White – Shooting to Printing with J Tomas Lopez
	314 Photoshop Selections with Tim Grey
3:45pm-4:45pm	605 The Art of Seeing with John J Isaac
4:30pm-6:00pm	113 Negotiating The New Marketplace: Where To Sell Your Images Now And How with Cynthia Van Roden, Ruaridh Stewart, Debbie Bondulic; Moderator: Ben Martin
	114 Adventures in Luminosity; High Dynamic Range and other Tone Enhancing Techniques with Dan Burkholder
	315 Color Efex Pro 3.0 with Janice Wendt
	316 Light Painting Composites with Ben Willmore
5:00pm-6:00pm	606 Explore the Potential of Your Epson Printer with Shelly Katz
6:30pm-11:00 pm	Awards Dinner (Tentative)

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Descriptions

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Seminar 101
Telling a story with your photos. What you need to know and the strategies you need to employ with Debbie Bondulic, Maura Foley, Scott McKiernan; Moderator: Robert Pledge
Learn the art of storytelling through a picture story. These photographers and editors will explain how to build a compelling story photo by photo; what to look for in an opening photo; why the transitions explain the details and finally how to close a photo essay.

Seminar 102
Close-Up Photography in the Digital Era with Joseph Meehan
Digital technology has infused new lens and software techniques into the world of close-up photography.  Joseph Meehan, author of  “The Magic of Digital Close-Up Photography”, reviews these new developments and illustrates them showing examples of his own work. Among the topics covered are the new software controls for increased depth of field, shift-tilt lenses, the Lens Baby close-up approach, new ring light and multiple light close-up configurations, the extraordinary close-up capabilities of compact cameras and the use of flatbed and film scanners as macro cameras. This seminar is very much about expanding one’s perception of close-up photography to present new avenues for personal expression.

Computer Lab 309
Lightroom Develop Adjustments -- Things you HAVE to know with Lydia Goetze
Confused by too many tips and tricks?  This hands-on lab session will show you how to evaluate an image and decide what it needs, then to adjust it with a simple workflow that gives you consistently good results. Knowing what the sliders do and in which order to use them will provide a framework on which to build your ability to create ever better images.

Computer Lab 310
Fantastic Portraits—It’s all Smoke, Mirrors and Photoshop with Kevin Ames
How are regular portraits evolved into the fantastic images of fantasy and science fiction? Answer this question in Kevin’s newest session that shows how to use simple special effects to create unusual, illustrative, and surreal portraits.  Learn how to add the sci-fi effect to your work, illusion, magic and much more.

9:00 am - 12:00 noon

FOTOshoot 208
Close-ups at Tropical World Nursery with Brenda Tharp
$20 additional fee
Tropical World Nursery is unlike anything you have ever seen before. Its orchids and other flowering plants are great subjects for close-ups. Brenda Tharp will guide you through this tropical garden in the middle of Palm Beach County and teach you special lighting techniques to make dramatic images of flowers.

9:30 - 10:30 am

Community Event 601
“ReCapture Your Vision” - Image Enhancement Techniques with Janice Wendt
Ever wonder why your captured images do not live up to your expectations.  The exposure was right, the lighting was right, and most important, the framing was right.  But the image did not live up to what you envision.  Learn re-touching techniques that bring back the “alive” feeling, the mood, and all that inspired you when you committed to capture the image. Techniques that will be taught in this lecture will remove the need for tedious selections and endless numbers of steps.  Janice will teach how to get the most out of your workflow, optimizing raw images, noise reduction techniques, global adjustments vs. targeted adjustments, selective enhancements, bringing out detail, applying traditional techniques, black and white images from color capture and creating a style with your retouching.

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Seminar 106
Lightworks & Shadowplay with Seán Duggan
In this presentation, fine art photographer Seán Duggan will share his methods for evaluating a photograph so you can find the best path for creatively enhancing and improving the image to bring out the possibilities already inherent in the scene. The power of adjustment layers and layer masks is explored for sculpting with light and shadow, revealing how you can shape the image to guide the viewer’s eye or create an entirely different mood. Working with both digital captures and scanned photographs he will share his techniques for transforming the lighting, tonality and color in an image. Once you know these fundamental steps, you will look at your photos in an entirely new way!

Seminar 107
A Journey into the Shadows with Donna Ferrato
Donna Ferrato believes that everything is photographable - from the hard core reality of domestic violence to the tangible essence of ancestors who walked the world before. Her pictures are raw, rough and real. Through showing pictures and telling unscripted stories Donna will reveal how she gets into complicated situations and always comes away with photographs that boggle the mind. 
There is no illusion when the magic comes from the heart.

Computer Lab 311
Quick and Easy Portrait Retouching with Julie Adair King
Most portraits benefit from a little digital enhancement. And with the tricks you learn in this class, you don't need to spend all day behind your computer to apply the kind of subtle adjustments that make your subjects happier with their photos. Using just a handful of tools, Julie Adair King shows you quick, easy, and foolproof techniques for correcting skin tones, hiding blemishes, whitening teeth, softening wrinkles, and more.

Computer Lab 312
The Master Print Workflow: Creating Presence with George DeWolfe
The Master Print Workflow revives the idea of masterpiece. Using the new tools and a brand new workflow through Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 this mini workshop mines the intricacies of presence, the fundamental characteristic of a masterpiece.

We'll learn skills of Black and White tonal perception with exercises designed to improve our visual and emotional response to Black and White tonal values and Color.

The workflow travels from Global controls to Broad and then Local adjustments in both Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4. We'll learn the 4 basic adjustments are necessary in each one of the workflow areas - brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation.

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

FOTOshoot 209
Using Available Light on Location with Bruce Talamon
Become skilled at achieving great image quality while using a minimum of equipment. Learn how to “write with light” on location as Bruce demonstrates the techniques he uses to get his memorable award-winning images for worldwide marketing and publicity in motion picture film production.

11:00 am - 12:00 noon

Community Event 602
The decisive Moment: Introducing the LEICA M9 and rangefinder photography with Justin Stailey
Learn how the Leica M rangefinder system sets the LEICA M9 apart from the market-dominating SLR and compact digital cameras and makes it particularly suitable for vibrant reportage photography, ‘available light’ exposures and discreet portraiture. Justin will explain how Leica M photographers become part of the action and still perceive what is going on outside the viewfinder frame. The decisive moment can be anticipated, and can therefore be captured at precisely the right instant. This results in particularly authentic images that are in no way impaired by the presence of the photographer. Understand how the full frame Leica M9 can help you to become a better photographer and differentiate yourself from conventional SLR photography.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

FOTOshoot 210
Marine Junk Yard Shoot with Scott Mc Kiernan
The Culpepper & Company Salvage Company in West Palm Beach has got tons of cool stuff. You will attack the junkyard - reportage boot camp style, shooting as if you were feeding a major magazine, newspaper or web outlet, and behave like a floating news gathering agency… shooting a story under the direction of Mc Kiernan, ZUMA photo agency director, editor, photojournalist and founder. To give direction and edit results with Scott will be Ruaridh Stewart, ZUMA Wire Service, Picture Editor. Bringing your images back, you will edit and create a slide show, getting immediate feedback and one on one direction. The edit will be fed unto the back end of ZUMA’s website so that you can see your work afterwards. (Group limit: 12)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Community Event 603

FOTOFusion Master Lecture Series: Snaps with Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt, one of the living legends in photography, takes you on the journey of his life through the photographs he has made. Do not miss this master’s photographs which have captured the pathos and passion of our lives. A truly eloquent visionary with the ability to define the moment, His photographs are our visual history.

1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

FOTOshoot 212
The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens with Diane Farris
$20 additional fee
Visit and shoot in the gardens and studio of renowned sculptor, Ann Norton. Set against West Palm Beach’s Flagler Drive, within wonderfully bricked walls, the gardens are filled with 20 foot high totemic sculptures full of texture, form and light. Also visit her 1930’s studio whose interior is filled with ceiling glass filtered light that drapes down on the ghostly half finished sculptures.

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Community Event 604
Saddam to James Bond: From History’s Front Lines to Hollywood’s Back Lots with Karen Ballard
Award-winning photographer Ballard photographed Saddam Hussein during his arraignment, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Iraq visits, as well as landing in Baghdad with General Tommy Franks. In Afghanistan she was embedded with the 101st Airborne in the desert for weeks and spent time shooting at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, and sailed in the Persian Gulf aboard USS John F. Kennedy during combat operations. Among her movie credits are Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”,the latest installment of Sly Stallone’s “Rambo and the James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace.

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Seminar 109
Creative Lighting on Location with Rick Friedman
If you want to light with more than just strobe on camera, and capture subjects in their environment, this seminar is for you.  Friedman, a 25-year veteran magazine, newspaper and corporate photographer, will introduce you to the basic concepts and principles of lighting for location photography. With theory kept to a minimum, he will show how to tackle difficult lighting conditions and manipulate light for mood and atmosphere using basic and advanced lighting equipment.  Seminar 109 is a pre-requisite for Thursday's FOTOshoot 217.

Seminar 110
Becoming a better photographer: Tips and tricks of the trade with Jay Colton
You will learn composition, lighting, how to prepare for a shoot, as well as workflow and storage options.  Learn what makes a great photograph and how to develop a distinctive look. Recommended for beginners to intermediate photographers. Though I challenge anyone to come and not be a better photographer when they leave.

Seminar 111
Assembling a Photograph with Anna Tomczak
Anna takes you step by step through the process of collecting the wonderfully quirky objects and materials that make her photographs so deeply personal yet so universally verbal.  She will advise you on the elements you should seek when making your own still life photographs whether they be shells, old dolls, discarded memorabilia, or flowers.
Seminar 111 is a pre-requisite for FOTOshoot 227.

Computer Lab 313
Photoshop in Black and White – Shooting to Printing with J Tomas Lopez
In a world of color made simple why is black and white still so seductive? Tom will discuss historical use of black and white vs color (examples of how images function and how they change when seen in B&W); exploring the visual and esthetic difference between color and black and white; what is gray scale?; software and hardware.  For intermediate to advanced photographers.

Computer Lab 314
Photoshop Selections with Tim Grey
Selections open the door to a variety of advanced techniques in Photoshop, but all too often the prospect of creating a high-quality selection can be daunting. In this session you’ll build a strong foundation for creating selections using the various tools available to you in Photoshop. More importantly, you’ll learn a variety of helpful techniques that allow you to create selections of the utmost quality with very little effort. As a result, you’ll be able to employ selections to great effect in a variety of ways in Photoshop.

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Community Event 605
The Art of Seeing with John Isaac
John will present a portfolio of images ranging from Nature to Photojournalism and concentrate mainly on the elements of composition and how they can work together to improve your photos.  He will edit the factors that work and will focus on making an individual and unique photograph and show you how to develop a photo essay.

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Seminar 113
Negotiating The New Marketplace: Where To Sell Your Images Now And How with Cynthia Van Roden, Ruaridh Stewart, Debbie Bondulic; Moderator: Ben Martin
In the age of a shrinking marketplace photographers must become creative about the alternative outlets for selling their work. Each panelist brings their own areas of expertise to create a viable strategy for developing new outlets.

Seminar 114
Adventures in Luminosity; High Dynamic Range and other Tone Enhancing Techniques: The New Frontier in Image Capture with Dan Burkholder
Dan Burkholder pulls back the covers on how he creates stunning prints from scenes that would be impossible to record on film or with a single digital capture. See Dan reveal this vivid new approach to the photographic image. With a digital camera and tripod, Dan makes multiple exposures of the same scene and uses special software to meld the expansive tonal range through a technique called High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR). Dan’s final prints reveal lush detail from the darkest shadows to the most brilliant highlights. You’ll leave with a checklist of hardware, software and digital techniques that will open this new frontier for your own creative photography.

Computer Lab 315
Color Efex Pro 3.0 with Janice Wendt
Janice Wendt, Nik Software's leading authority on image retouching will teach you retouching techniques using the Nik Software tools. She will provide tips on how professional photographers obtain the final look on their images. Everything from getting the perfect sky to glowing soft skin will be covered. Techniques will include how to save settings, use smart filters and using Control Points to speed selective enhancements.

Computer Lab 316
Light Painting Composites with Ben Willmore
In this session, you'll see how to shoot and composite your images using creative and exciting light painting techniques. You'll see examples of painting with flashlights, sparklers and other light sources and how you can combine multiple exposures with a little bit of Photoshop magic and dazzle to create very refined results.  Bring your ideas for light sources.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Wednesday

Community Event 606
Explore the Potential of Your Epson Printer with Shelly Katz
Under the expert guidance of famed digital photographer Shelly Katz you will explore the remarkable potential of your Epson Stylus desktop printer. You will learn how you can originate output, ranging from fine-art prints to exciting promotional materials. Don’t miss this special presentation.

6:30 pm – 10:30 pm

FOTOfusion^® Awards Dinner

Passport Holders: $50 • General Admission: $100
Join us for cocktails and an elegant buffet dinner where we honor this year’s awards recipients. Elliott Erwitt will receive the FOTOfusion^® FOTOmentor award. He will present the Rising Star Award to an up-and-coming artist.

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