Limited Editions – Should You Limit?

Should you limit your editions? It depends. It depends on you. It depends on your level of productivity. It depends on your age. It depends on the kind of work you produce. It depends on the market you’re targeting. It depends on your representatives and...

HDR Aesthetics

HDR imagery is expanding today’s photographic aesthetics. Identifying the characteristics of contemporary HDR images will help classicists and pioneers alike. The basic ingredients are desirable for both sensibilities, but in varying combinations and to different degrees. As with solving any problem, it’s easier if you...

Photoworkshop.com Photography / Imaging Contest

I’ll be co-judging this year’s Photoworkshops.com Photography and Digital Imaging Competition. Here’s more information. Deadline May 1, 2009 Entry Fee $25 for the first image, all additional images – $10 (up to 5) Eligibility Open to everyone 18 years of age or older except where...

Lightroom & Photoshop

During the Epson Print Academy today, Jeff Schewe does a great job detailing how to set up an optimum relationship between Lightroom and Photoshop. Use LR (or ACR) for parametric edits. Use Photoshop for processing pixels. The lion’s share of image processing happens during Raw...

Epson Print Academy – Chicago – 3/14/2009

The Epson Print Academy comes to Chicago tomorrow. Both tracks 1 & 2 are full day information packed seminars offered at an unbeatable price. I’ll be processing one of my new files from Antarctica live during my demos. Henry Wilhelm will be making a special...

Illuminating Creativity – Lecture at the College of Dupage

Tonight, for the first time, I’ll be showing new work from my Antarctica January, 2009 voyage. I’ll also reveal a lot about my creative process; camera, software, drawing, and writing technique and how it all goes together. The lecture is at 7 pm at the...

New Adobe Updates

Adobe has recently released a number of updates to their core photographic imaging products – Lightroom, Photoshop, and Camera Raw. Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update – February 24, 2009 * A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed. * Pen barrel...

Kathy Beal – Alumni – Antarctica

Kathy Beal has a thoroughly unique approach to making images, capturing out of focus fields of color on location and using them as a jumping off point for creating unique compositions in Photoshop. Though still inspired by specific places and their palettes, her images take...

William Eggleston

“Eggleston is the beginning of modern color photography.” – John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus, Photography, MoMA “It would be difficult to imagine a world according to David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Juergen Teller or Sofia Coppola without the world according to William Eggleston.” – The Observer...

Resonance in Red and Gold

July 18, 2003 “Many meditation practices suggest gazing at the flow of water, in some cases watching or visualizing a drop of water hit the still surface of a greater body of water. Like many mandalas, Resonance in Red and Gold has a rhythmic centering...