Epson Focal Points

Find out what Bambi Cantrell, John Paul Caponigro, Douglas Dubler, Greg Gorman, Jay Maisel, Steve McCurry, and Jeff Schewe have to say about the Epson Stylus Pro 900 Series printers. You’ll hear personal stories and real world case studies of how these printers are making...

Print Aesthetics

What do people look for in fine art photographic prints? One of the most important things we look for is … Detail. What kind of detail? At least five kinds. Detail – Focus Detail – Dynamic Range Detail – Gradation Detail – Low Signal to...

Prints Survive Floods – Tina Freeman

Inkjet prints survived floods where silver gelatin prints didn’t. It’s one of the worst situations. Your life’s work is immersed under water. Tina Freeman found herself in that situation. She was amazed to find that many inkjet prints had survived where many silver gelatin prints...

FADP Highlight – Print Presentation

Print presentation is the final aspect of fine art printing. Mounting, mats, framing, portfolios, bodies of work, environment, light. All of these things affect the way a work of art is perceived by viewers. They might seem like incidental after thoughts but they’re actually integral...

FADP Highlight – Special Guest – Chris Orwig

Chris Orwig shared many insights in an inspiring lecture during our FADP workshop at Brooks. Chris collects great stories from photographers and shares them in his new book Visual Poetry. In one story, a man has written a novel and decides it’s no good so...

FADP Highlight – Svetlanda Tepavcevic – It's Printmaking Not Just Photography

Svetlana Tepavcevic makes abstract black and white images of waves that look like ink paintings. We discussed the importance of scale and presentation agreeing that classic photographic small scale matted approaches reduced the impact of the images. A larger scale with a different presentation format...

FADP Highlight – A Sense of Destination

One of the key concepts Mac Holbert and I emphasize in our digital printing workshops is developing a clear sense of destination before you start editing a file. Once you have a sense of destination what you need to do to an image becomes much...

Fall Foliage Workshop Highlights

The participants in my recent Maine Fall Foliage workshop discovered many creative solutions that helped them focus on their personal vision. The inspiration and new perspectives they found are ultimately more important than the images they made; these new insights will influence all the images...

Namibia – Justin Hartford – A Quiet Mind

A Quiet Mind by Justin A. Hartford In May of this year I traveled with JP to Namibia to photograph the vast deserts and endlessly untouched areas of such a remote location. I grew. I grew as a photographer and a person during that time....

Namibia – Let Color Carry The Day

Sometimes color, pure and simple, is all you need. Catch it while you can. Find out about my 2010 Namibia workshop here.