Thursday 29th

5:00 AM - 9:00 AM

FOTOshoot 215 Spectacular Sunrise at Blowing Rocks with John J. Lopinot

Join John at Blowing Rocks Preserve for spectacular sunrise images. A magnificent barrier island sanctuary on Jupiter Island, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River Lagoon, Blowing Rocks has a variety of natural habitats, including beach dune, coastal strand, mangrove wetlands, tropical hammock and oak hammock. Its rocky Anastasia limestone shoreline is the largest on the Atlantic coast. During extreme high tides, seas break against the rocks forcing water plumes up to 50 feet skyward, an impressive sight for which the preserve was named. John will conduct a follow-up critique session of your images on Friday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Everyone will have to prepare their images based on instructions that John will hand out during the shoot.

8:30 AM - 12:00 NOON

FOTOshoot 216 Glamour by the Pool: On Location with Shelly Katz

A beautiful South Florida location, alluring models and award-winning photographer Shelly Katz demonstrating his unique posing and lighting techniques. Put them all together and in no time you will be composing your own sexy glamour photographs.

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Seminar 117 Digital Printing No Longer a Mystery! with Douglas Dubler, J Tomas Lopez and Vincent Versace;Moderator: Gordon Brown

Don’t be confused with the many choices in digital printing. This expert panel will take the mystery out of digital printing and discuss the different processes, inksets, media types and new advancements in printers and papers. They will also cover how to handle and prepare your files to get the best quality prints from your images whether you do your own printing or send them to a service bureau for output.

Seminar 118 Passion, Permission & Pixels: Igniting Your Creative Photography – Part 2: Shaping Your Image with Creative ACR and Lightroom Techniques with Jack Davis

Just as in the days of the wet darkroom, the storytelling process doesn’t stop in the camera, but only when the image is incarnated into something that can be viewed and shared in all its intended glory. And now more than ever the capability to create imagery, to create art that would never be possible in camera alone, is limitless. And with the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, there is the ability to do this digital alchemy almost effortlessly – and nondestructively, with an incredibe amount of creative flexibility. This session will cover the latest and greatest Adobe tools and techniques for quickly and easily (and nondestructively) enhancing your photography. Seminar 118 is a prerequisite to Computer Labs 319 and 327.

Seminar 119 Constructed Photography with Paula Gillen

Noted editor and fine arts photographer Gillen will discuss the history of
the staged or “constructed” image and practices within the genres of still
life, studio portraiture, collage & photo montage, conceptual photography,
as well as the history of the altered image. This two part lecture and
demo will also cover copyright issues and the legal problems with
using appropriated imagery. Don’t miss this fascinating presentation.

Studio Demo 401 Introduction to Portrait Photography with Eddie Tapp

Lighting and Posing to Flatter your Subject: Learn the basics of how to analyze facial features to create the most flattering portraits. How lighting shapes your subject, and how the basic components of light control work. Working with simple lights and reflectors, Tapp will demonstrate techniques that you can put to work right away in making successful portraits.

Computer Lab 309 Panorama Stitching with Ben Willmore

Learn what it takes to combine multiple images into a seamless panorama.
From shooting considerations and adjustment techniques to stitching,
retouching and matching color – you’ll learn how to create professional
panoramas in no time.

Computer Lab 310 Working in RAW with Smart Objects with Kevin Ames

Take the power of RAW files a step further. Move the RAW workflow right into Photoshop using Smart Object to control contrast, extend dynamic range as well as back up your original digital negative in your working Photoshop Document. Discover the versatility of Camera Raw in the layers palette. Understand how RAW files work and how this translates into control and creativity.

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Community Event 606 Leica M8: The Digital Rangefinder Revolution! with Jason Stailey • Leica

Rediscover the freedom and spontaneity of rangefinder photography – and this time it’s digital! Introducing the Leica M8 – the world’s first professional digital rangefinder camera, a camera that truly crosses generations of impeccable craftsmanship and extraordinary optical performance. You’ve thought about it for years – now is your chance to find out why professionals and enthusiasts alike have made the leap to Leica!

10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON

Seminar 121 Lightroom Part 1 - Importing and Organizing Images in the Library Module with Julieanne Kost

Discover how the Library Module’s layout has been refined to provide a more intuitive image organization experience. Learn the numerous enhancements made to filtering, searching, intelligent keywording, dual monitor support and smart collections.

Seminar 122 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 122 is a pre-requisite for FOTOshoot 227.

Seminar 123 Creating a One-Person Photographic Project with Gary Braasch

The full story of how a project was created from an idea hatched in a cold tent on the Arctic tundra, through travels in 22 nations on seven continents – to the writing, editing and publishing of a 90,000 word book. Famous photographer Braasch managed to cover a worldwide science story on almost no money, a lot of help from colleagues and scientists, and a great deal of luck and persistence. Along the way he established a website WorldViewOfGlobalWarming.org, which is now a top-10 internet source for information about global warming. Find out how he involved Al Gore, 45 NGO’s, 170 scientists, 80,000 caribou, migrating songbirds, and too many penguins to count.

Studio Demo 402 How to Photograph Everyone with Clay Blackmore

Fun and engaging, Blackmore has created a new program for those who wish to learn how to create great portraits of everyone. Consistent results are at the heart of this new program with an emphasis on posing, lighting, composition. and expression. Working in the studio, Blackmore will show you how to harness the light and create beautiful images of men, women, children, families, brides, individuals, couples and groups.

Computer Lab 311 Photoshop for Beginners with Laurence Gartel

Digital guru Gartel will cover several of the basic tools that help make a photograph look better than it is: color adjustments such as brightening, darkening and color tinting, sharpening, etc. You will learn several creative ways of altering and manipulating images, as well as preparing them for printing.

Computer Lab 312 Creative Collage with Adobe Photoshop with Seán Duggan

Learn simple but effective techniques for creating intriguing multiple-image composites using Adobe Photoshop. Included in this hands-on lab are procedures for collages based on blend modes and opacity controls, combining images using layer masks and the hidden power of the Advanced Blending controls, texture blending, matching tone and lighting, as well as tips for envisioning collage possibilities and for creating photographs specifically for multiple-image composites.

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

FOTOshoot 217 Creating Portraits on Location with Scott Wiseman

How do you create an environment for a portrait using materials at hand or create an interesting image of a person in a boring setting? An experienced award-winning professional, Scott will touch on techniques of lighting, available light with reflectors, available light with shallow depth of field and creating mood through light and poses while working under tight time constraints.

11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON

Community Event 608 How to Make, Manage, and Move Images and Information with Richard Mackson

In this informative presentation Eastman Kodak Co Divisional VP, photographer, inventor and entrepreneur, Richard Mackson, will show you not only how to access images and information in this digital age but how to preserve this content over time.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 609 FOTOFUSION MASTER LECTURE SERIES: Behind the Scenes of History with David Hume Kennerly

Pulitzer Prize winning photographer takes you behind the scenes of the historic events of the last 40 years that shaped his generation. Starting from his early days as a newspaper photographer in Oregon, through the war in Vietnam, the 1968 campaign with Robert Kennedy to the last election in 2008. Kennerly has been there watching, listening and photographing. He will share these exclusive images and fascinating stories with you.

1:15 PM - 5:30 PM

FOTOshoot 218 Nudes in the Landscape with Craig Blacklock

By placing a figure into a landscape, the photographer is able to express how he or she wishes us to view and interact with that space. We connect with the landscape through the senses of the model – envisioning ourselves in their place. Through a short slide show before the FOTOshoot, and with hands-on help during the field session, Craig will guide you to letting the landscape dictate the image, and how to avoid the pitfalls that can turn fine art photographs into glamour or porn.

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Community Event 610 Photography – A Way of Seeing with Richard Zakia

Photography is not just a way of looking but more importantly it is a way of seeing. Thoreau said it well: “The question is not what you look at but what you see.” Seeing can be improved if you have a vocabulary you can apply for the capture and critiquing of photographs. Here is some of that vocabulary: Archetypes, common contours, Gestalt, morphics, notan, peripherals, personal space, pupillometrics, secondary images, synesthesia, visual field dependency. RIT Professor emeritus Zakia will show how this vocabulary can be helpful in discussing photographs and therefore in seeing.

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Seminar 125 How the Web Can Change Your Life as a Photographer with Jay Colton, Dirck Halstead, John Lopinot, Lucian Perkins; Moderator: Scott McKiernan

Understand how the revolution in multimedia and the web can level the playing field in the only market place where photography is growing. Learn from the progenitors of multimedia and discover the possibilities the internet offers creatively and economically.

Seminar 126 Truly Memorable Portraits with Harrison Funk

“The skill of the portrait photographer is in capturing the decisive moment at which the subject is defined.” Funk will explore how to capture those moments, and how using the location and a “gift of gab” are just two of the tools he employs in creating dynamic images of people. For the past 25 years he has photographed music and film stars, world leaders, and captains of industry (as well as some not-so-ordinary people) with great sensitivity and skill.

Seminar 127 Moods, Ambience and Dramatic Effects in Photography with Joseph Meehan

Call them winners, call them keepers or just call them great photographs. They are the images that photographers strive to produce. The ones viewers will find appealing at the very least if not fascinating or even emotionally moving. Such pictures often rely on a critical mood, the capture of a particular ambience or present the subject in some dramatic fashion. In short, these are images in which the photographer moves beyond just recording a subject by using the power of light and lens to make powerful visual statements. This seminar explores the specific methods and techniques that provide the means for such individual expression.

Studio Demo 403 Glamour Photography Rock Her World! with Rolando Gomez

Acclaimed glamour photographer Gomez will demonstrate his creative lighting and posing techniques in a glamour portrait studio setting. He will show seeing, shaping, and sizing the light for impact with various light modifiers designed to show the model at her best. Rolando will show how the photographer’s “Beauty Dish” is used to create spectacular portraits that really rock! Rolando will demonstrate how to produce a great series of photos and give you tips that you can use as a profitable part of your business.

Computer Lab 313 The Power of Raw with Lewis Kemper

The Raw file holds many advantages for the digital photographer. Learn the best ways to shoot and process Raw files. Unleash the power of Raw processing and file management using Adobe Photoshop/Bridge as well as Adobe Lightroom. The Raw image has been described as the digital negative but that negative needs to be processed. Using the tools found in the Raw processor, the photographer gains full control of the image. We will learn how to use the Raw processor to its fullest capabilities and how to apply these changes to groups of images to expedite the digital workflow. We will check out the differences between the Adobe’s Photoshop/Bridge or Lightroom solution.

Computer Lab 314 Creative RAW Processing in ACR/Lightroom with Lee Varis

Go beyond standard digital workflow options and turn your images into works of art using only Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom. Lee Varis explores advanced raw processing features including: The new DNG Profile Editor; Secrets of creative white balancing; Faux HDR techniques; the Vibrance- Saturation-Clarity trinity; Curves; Creative Vignetting; Hue-Saturation- Luminance Color Sliders for ultimate color control; All about B+W; Split Toning - the key to color crossover issues. Lee shows solid image enhancement techniques as well as secret “extreme” effects utilizing unusual combinations of slider settings. He will work through several different types of images to demonstrate creative applications of RAW processing controls.

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Community Event 611 Uma Sanghvi’s “Walking With Angels” with Pete Cross

After more than a year of challenging reporting and observing and capturing the most intimate of moments, from the slums of Haiti to South Florida, an amazing story by Diana Smith, with powerful photographs by Uma Sanghvi, ran in The Palm Beach Post. See this moving presentation in the best traditions of documentary photojournalism presented by Pete Cross, the Post’s assistant managing editor for photography.

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Seminar 129 Everything You Need to Know about Travel Photography with John Isaac, Adam Jones, Rob Sheppard, Brenda Tharp; Moderator: Sarah Leen

The difference between getting wonderful travel photos or ending up with second-rate images is professional pre-production. The planning and research you do before your journey makes it easier for you to return with the images you want. This exceptional travel photography panel covers the necessary information you need to quickly & thoroughly research locations, what equipment to take, and includes topics like: airports, security, packing, permits, property releases, weather and much more.

Seminar 130 Taking it to the Streets: Workflow on the Road with Serge Timacheff

Taking your cameras out of the studio, whether it’s locally or somewhere exotic, can be a challenge. An established workflow pattern adapted to travelling will help insure you get the best images consistently, safely, and methodically. From transporting gear to shooting in difficult situations, archiving in unsafe areas to uploading images where the Web is less than available, this interactive session will help you create a digital photography workflow plan suited to your own style and interests.

Seminar 131 Creating Books Using Photographic Tools with Diane Farris

Explore the history of photography in children’s literature with noted photographer/writer Farris. Dating from photography’s earliest days she will also discuss the current publishing scene and resources. This is appropriate for individuals interested in this take on photo history and those involved with creating original children’s books – or other narratives – using photographic tools.

Studio Demo 404 The Family Portrait: Treasured Heirlooms for the 21st Century with Fran Reisner

In this demo session Fran shows the classic style that has made her one of the country’s leading portrait photographers. Using conventional studio lights and a variety of reflectors and props she will reveal the lighting and posing techniques she uses to create timeless portraits that become her clients’ treasured heirlooms. Find out how to shoot a group of four or five people when everyone needs to be picture perfect! And find out how to make those profitable framed prints that proudly hang on family walls and offices.

Computer Lab 315 Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy! with Janice Wendt

Janice Wendt, Nik Software’s leading authority on retouching will guide you through the Silver Efex Pro Program to obtain stunning black and white images. Learn how to create depth, textures, and more in your images. Soften skin, smooth skies, define clouds, and bring detail into your image with a few simple clicks. This amazing seminar will show you how to create your own Black and White film emulation that includes accurate film grain. Also included in the seminar is a section on creating the perfect toned image with controls on both “silver” and split toning.

Computer Lab 316 The New Photoshop CS4 Adjustment and Masks Panels with John Reuter

The new Adjustment and Masks Panels take your Photoshop work to new levels. With the Adjustment Panel you can simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images. The new Masks panel will allow you to quickly create and edit masks. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel and vector-based masks, adjust the mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more. Working with masks is better than ever in Photoshop CS4. These two feature sets alone will inspire you to new levels of creativity in Photoshop.

4:30 PM - 9:00 PM

FOTOshoot 219 South Beach’s Dazzling Neon with Ben Martin

Trendy South Beach’s extravagant array of art deco designs and the assorted hues of the hotels, bars, restaurants, and their signage, make marvelous photographs. As dusk turns to night and the lights go on, capture spectacular nighttime images with the guidance of experienced, award-winning, photographer and photo book publisher Ben Martin. Bring a tripod.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Community Event 612 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” and the latest installment of Sly Stallone’s “Rambo.” Most recently she was the main unit photographer for the upcoming James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace.”

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

FOTOshoot 220 Fabulous Photo-Ops at Art & Jazz on the Avenue with Marc Serota

An exciting evening full of fabulous photo-ops as Delray Beach’s Atlantic Avenue turns into a pedestrian mall with live street entertainment, food kiosks and open house for shops, restaurants and art galleries. Noted award-winning photographer Marc Serota will guide you in capturing unusual images under challenging lighting conditions.

6:00 - 12:00 am

Art & Jazz on the Avenue

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