Color To Black & White Conversions – A Strategic Overview

  There are many ways to convert color images to black and white. Here’s my preferred method. 1       Optimize Color Start with an optimized color original; set black point, white point, and lightness; clear color casts; boost saturation to reasonably high levels; avoid...

Create Amazing Distortion With Photoshop’s Liquify Filter

Awareness of the distortions produced by angle of view and lens choice is the beginning of using them creatively. Curiously, permission is the beginning of using distortion in post-processing creatively. Many people have been told that it’s inappropriate to do so. Why? Why accept an...

Free eBook – Maine Destinations

Download your free copy here. From the solitary summit of Katahdin, to the deeps of more than 22,000 lakes and ponds, to the 3,500 miles of tidal coastline, the wild beauty of Maine is irresistibly beautiful. Inland you’ll find sweeping mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, and...

Alumni Scott Tansey Featured On Leica Blog

Alumni Scott Tansey describes his recent feature on The Leica Camera Blog. “I took these images on a Fall Color Workshop given by John Paul Caponigro at Acadia National Park. I had recently completed a huge five-year project taking panoramic images of Los Angeles (my home...

iPhones Invite Experimentation

I find making images with my iPhone extremely stimulating. For me, the device implicitly offers an invitation to play, reminding myself how important spontaneity is in making good images, and to experiment, growth and innovation require risk. Doing this offers me an opportunity to make images in situations, of things,...

Play With Your iPhone To Improve Your DSLR Photography – Charles Adams

Every year, during my Acadia Maine Fall Foliage Workshop my assistant Charles Adams and I explore making photographs  with our iPhones. Charles talks about his experience. “Making images with an iPhone can be a terrific creative exercise. If you regularly shoot with a DSLR, the iPhone can simplify...

MMW's Creative Storytelling Contest

“Maine Media Workshops + College is pleased to present our Annual Photo and Video contest, sponsored by B&H Photo Video. At MMW+C, we believe in the power of stories to change the way people think about the world. We teach and inspire storytellers of all...

Tips & Strategies For Mastering Color In Photoshop

OPTIC 2015 featured dynamic presentations by the world’s top outdoor photographers and gear from the premier manufacturers over three days in New York City brought to you by B&H and Lindblad Expeditions. Couldn’t attend in person or want to review at your own pace? Now you can view...

Making Saturation Masks

Wouldn’t it be great if you could selectively adjust colors based on how saturated they are in Photoshop? You can! How? With a free plug-in Adobe provides called Multiplugin; it hasn’t been updated since Photoshop CS5, but it still works with current versions. Why Would You...

Julianne Kost Demo's Lightroom CC's Hidden Gems

“Discover new features and enhancements in Lightroom CC including faster performance, improved local adjustment tools, HTML 5 compatible web galleries, and more!” View more Lightroom videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops here.