Workshop Descriptions
Keynote Speakers: Zack Arias | Bruce Hucko
Color-Managed Printing - Chris Blackburn
Printing, color calibration, paper selection, & framing
Starting point: Understand why photographers need color management, and an open mind to the world of paper.
Ending point: attendees will be able to use color management principles more effectively and better identify what papers to print with and why.
Chris Blackburn is the owner of Blackburn Studio. Mild Mannered Photographer by day, Batman by night. Lead Photographer for Riveted Agency, and recommended photographer for the McCarty Agency.
http://blackburnportrait.com
http://blackburnwedding.com
http://blackburnindemand.com
Food Photography for Marketing - Quinn Curtis
What Makes an Image Delicious Enough to Sell the Food Behind It (FYI just a pretty pic won't cut it)
Starting point: Attendees should be able to take photographs using their digital cameras (DSLR or point-and-shoot), fully aware of how to adjust and customize functions (i.e. ISO, White Balance). At least a basic understanding of photo-editing software such as Photoshop Elements/Photoshop.
Ending point: identify and know better how to achieve elements found in quality food photography, especially to be used for marketing purposes.
Quinn is a professional food photographer who finds crumbs tantalizing and sees personality in just about every dish she photographs. She gets a kick out of giving her clients lick-the-picture-delicious photographs. Quinn is also a mother of three, blog-site designer and Creative Director for the local business review group, SassyScoops.com.
http://limelightfoodphotography.com
Getting Started with HDR
- dav.d daniels
How can I create realistic High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs? What are the steps from capturing photographs to editing them on the computer. What are the pitfalls that can screw things up? And how can I make HDR photos that rock?
Starting point: know how bracketing works on their respective cameras. Attendees should be able to use a tripod. Attendees should have a basic understanding of levels, saturation and other photo editing techniques.
Ending point: After the workshop attendees will be able to implement an HDR workflow that begins with properly bracketed photographs. They will know how to use Photomatix Pro to create a tone mapped photograph. Finally, they will know how to edit the tone map photograph using Lightroom or other photo editing program of their choice.
dav.d daniels is a lifestyle and wedding photographer who spells his name funny because it looks internet-ish.
http://daviddanielsphotography
http://davidweddingphotography.com
The Art of Modifying Light - Danette Holley
Learn how to use light modifying techniques and see side-by-side examples of the results using each. We will be discussing softboxes, umbrellas (reflective and bounce), ring lights, beauty dishes, snoots, and grids: Plus a few creative and inexpensive ways to create these sources without breaking the bank.
Danette Holley is a portrait and wedding photographer from Draper Utah. Her work has been published in USA today and Readers Digest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/20198430@N00/
Fashion Photography - Amy Howton
Putting together a successful fashion shoot collaboration team
Starting points: Attendees possessing a sense of fantasy, who enjoy creating stories with other artists, and who fancy big productions will get the most out of this presentation. I'll cover aesthetics and production logistics; technical info will be very minimal.
Ending points:Participants will leave the workshop with resources which will enable them to more easily assemble and work with a production team on a conceptual shoot.
A California native working in Salt Lake City, Amy Howton is a lifelong photographer and clotheshorse. Naturally, she shoots fashion and beauty to justify her shopping habit.
What Lightroom Can Do - Scott Jarvie
The focus is to show examples of what Lightroom can do, in the process show editing styles and lightroom tricks and tools.
Starting points: No prerequisites for this class
Ending points: After the workshop attendees will be able to know what's possible in Lightroom
Advanced Lightroom Tricks - Scott Jarvie
Highlighting and demonstating more advanced tools and tricks in Lightroom.
Starting point: familiar with lightroom’s basic functions (or have attended "What Lightroom Can Do")
Ending points: attendees will be able to work more efficiently and creatively in the Lightroom environment.
Scott Jarvie is a wedding and portrait photographer and host of the Utah Photo Editing Showdown series of friendly Lightroom competitions.
Take Hotshots not Snapshots - Todd Keith and Renee Lee
A photo may be technically sound but with sub-par composition falls short. Review our lighting, composition techniques and examples for getting a hotshot and not just a snapshot.
Starting point: Be familiar with general camera settings and passionate about creative photography.
Ending points: Have a good understanding of steps to making your images composed for high impact.
Todd and Renee are Co-Owners of BellaOra Studios, a professional full-time and full-service commercial photography studio based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both Todd and Renee shoot commercial stock images exclusively for iStock Photo and Getty Images. Renee is founder and president of the Salt Lake City Photo Club.
http://www.bellaora.com
Success in Microstock Photography - Rich Legg
Briefly recapping last year's "Getting Started...." talk and delving into more advanced ways to be successful.
Starting point: No prerequisites
Ending point: Atendees will be able to know what it takes to not only get accepted as a microstock photographer but understand several strategies to successfully create good stock images and have them sell.
Rich Legg is a commercial stock photographer, prolific blogger, and founding member of Photowalking Utah.
Sports and Action Photography - Breaking it Down
- Trent Nelson
Learn the tricks to photographing action and sports. You will leave this class a better photographer no matter your skill level, style, or genre.
Starting point: This program is suitable for photographers of all levels and many of the skills and ideas taught are applicable to all types of photography.
what people will know
Ending point:
You will learn how to scope out any action situation and find the best photo positions for your skill level and equipment.
Trent Nelson is Chief Photographer at The Salt Lake Tribune, where he has covered the Olympics, NBA Finals, Final Four, MLS Cup, and much more. http://trenthead.com
The Magical Color Engine - Robert Marc
Explore how film, digital sensors, human eyes process color in different ways and the implications for photographers.
Starting point: A beginner's background in the concepts of pixels, filters and Photoshop.
Ending point: Attendees will be able to make choices about color composition with an awareness of the power of scene context, imaging technology and biological variation in generating perception.
Robert Marc is Director of Research for the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and began his career in vision research before Intel released the first microprocessor. He published the first map of color-coding photoreceptors in the eye while Elvis was still alive and currently heads the one of the world's largest computational neuroimaging programs.
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~marclab/
Photoshop's Channels and Masks - Diane Pebley
We will explore the affects color spaces have upon channels, develop various ways to use channels in basic photo processing, and build fast accurate masks without fringing.
Starting point: An understanding of various selection tools in your photo editng software arsenal.
Ending point: Understand the relationship color spaces/models have upon channels and be able to move through them with confidence, use channels to build masks and save complex masks, finally use masks in creative processing techniques.
This class is designed to introduce channels and masks to the aspiring artistic photographer.
Diane Pebley is a founding member of Photowalking Utah and blogs at DelightfulLight.com
High speed photography at Home - Harley Pebley
Starting point: Just the basics. No specialized knowledge needed.
Ending point: Know what's needed to freeze the action and the basics of setting up a light trap trigger.
Small Lights, BIG Lighting – Ben Sant
Get your flash off the camera and learn to obtain studio-quality lighting from using little more than your speedlights. Learn about the Strobist approach and non-budget breaking methods to get big results from small lights.
Starting Point: Attendees should have a general knowledge of their camera and be comfortable with the basics elements of obtaining a proper exposure i.e. Apeture, Shutter, ISO, etc.
Ending Point: Attendees will have learned the pros and cons of using speedlights compared to monolights and strobes for both on location and studio environments.
Resources, tips, and tricks will help you get the most out of your speedlights and best lighting for your dollar. Ben Sant is a conceptual photographer and filmmaker. Known as "Big Ben" to his peers, he shoots full time between his careers in emergency medicine and firefighting. He specializes in fashion, beauty, and tasteful vintage pinup photography. http://www.BTSphotography.com
Photoshop Demonstration - Nicole Young
Nicole will givie a live Photoshop presentation on doing composites and "advanced" material in Photoshop CS4. Items covered will be layers, blending modes, masking, color/tonal adjustments, and a few other techniques.
Starting point: Have a basic understanding of Photoshop, but any level of experience will benefit from my workshop.
Ending point: Apply some new creative techniques in their Photoshop workflow.
Nicole Young is a full-time photographer for iStockphoto.com and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS4.
Business Planning for Photographers
- Brody Dezember, Rich Legg & Mike Tittel
Panel members will share how they created, adapt and measure their business goals.
Starting point: for photographers who want to run a profitable photography business
Ending point: understand principles of goal-setting and business metrics in a variety of photographic genres
Brody Dezember a wedding and portrait photographer based in Salt Lake City. His images have been showcased in national and local magazines, including Destination I Do and Utah Bride and Groom Magazine
http://dezemberphoto.com
Rich Legg is a commercial stock photographer, prolific blogger, and founding member of Photowalking Utah
http://leggnet.com
Commercial and editorial photographer Mike Tittel specializes in adventure and action based sports as well as active lifestyle images. In addition to shooting assignments worldwide, he maintains an ever-growing rights managed stock library currently containing over 50,000 images. His work can be viewed at www.miketittel.com.
On-location Photography: from scouting great locations to delivering results with BIG light techniques
- Kevin Winzeler
This class will focus on what it takes to achieve stellar imagery on-location. We will review two location based "BIG light" shoots and the resulting imagery as well as discuss why sometimes speed lights just won't cut it and when to pull out the BIG lights.
Starting point: Please come with a basic understanding of the technical side of working with off-camera lights (i.e. Camera aperture controls power, shutter controls ambient, what the max sync speed of your camera is, etc.). A love for the outdoors and location based work is a bonus.
Ending point: Getting past the technical stuff and finding greater vision when shooting on location including the use of big lights.
Kevin Winzeler is a commercial and advertising photographer known for his distinct location work and lighting style. Kevin is based in Utah and working worldwide.
http://kevinwinzeler.com
Storytelling Panel
Panel members will discuss how they record events and how to tell a story that pulls you in. Relating the people, places, events and circumstance is an element intimately tied to photography. How to craft the story and how to piece together photographic elements that relate the story is what this session will be about.
Starting Point: No prerequisites. This program is for anyone that is interested in using the camera to document and tell stories.
Ending point: Attendees will learn how to establish a story within the context of photography.
Biosketch
Suzanne Plant found her interest in photography and bought her first DSLR almost a year and a half ago. Since, she has dedicated hours to learning the science as well as the art of photography and editing. She is a wife and mother to 3 children who have been the inspiration of most of her work which has now turned into a passion and business for her called Lookie Loo Photography.
http://www.lookieloophotography.com
James Duncan Davidson is a former software engineer turned freelance photographer currently specializing in stage photography for events like TED and the Web 2.0 Summit. In April, he'll be on site to cover the Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands.
http://duncandavidson.com
Mike Terry is a staff photojournalist at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. He has worked in the American West, Southern States as well as Germany, India and Haiti. His narrative focus has covered a wide spectrum including religious issues, rodeo culture and teenage homelessness.
http://miketerry.blogspot.com
Eric Beecroft has been a photojournalist and documentary photographer and is also the founder and director of Foundry Photojournalism Workshops, a grassroots international yearly workshop for regional photographers.
www.ericbeecroft.com
Bryan William Jones is a vision scientist at the Moran Eye Center studying retinal structure and function in health and disease. He is also a sometime photojournalist focusing on the aerospace and defense industries.
www.bryanwjones.com
From DSLR to Video
As technologies and professions collide, photographers can now become filmmakers with the flip of a switch. This session will cover the basics, the need-to-knows of how to use the Hybrid DSLR in the video mode. We will talk about the tools of storytelling along with the tools of the trade to make your videos more professional.
Pete Hansen is the owner of ProvoCreative and has been in the TV/video business for 30 years. Also an avid photographer, he is the founder and organizer of three different photo clubs. Crazy? Right on!
petehansenphoto@gmail.com
www.meetup.com/provophoto
www.meetup.com/provocreative
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