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6:00 AM - 9:00 AM
 FOTOshoot 221 South Florida Water Birds – Up Close with John Isaac
Great Blue Heron, American Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Osprey and a myriad of other wild fowl await you at the South Florida Water Management Area. A newly accessible venue, the world of South Florida water bird photography is accessible without carrying gear over miles of uneven trails. From the comfort of your car, or just stepping out on to dry gravel roads, you can set up your tripod and shoot. Join noted photographer Isaac for this special shoot.
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
 Seminar 133 How to Make Your Portfolio Perform with Jay Colton, Kim Hubbard, Evan Kriss, Sarah Leen; Moderator: Bruce Jaffee
Find out how to target your market and create a good image with a presentation that will achieve the greatest effect. Learn about mistakes you should avoid, how to handle your “drop-offs,” and other inside information from this distinguished panel of editors and agents, who actually do the looking.
Seminar 134 Extraordinary Imagery with Ben Willmore
Learn to transform average photographs into extraordinary images that people have an irresistible attraction to. This is done by toning down distractions, enhancing the main subject of the image and guiding the viewer through your image without their conscious awareness of your manipulative efforts. This is where you learn to transform a mere photograph into fine art.
 Seminar 135 Creative Lighting Techniques with Glamour Impact with Rolando Gomez
Glamour guru Gomez will focus on creative lighting techniques using grids, reflectors, and beauty dish techniques while showing you how to use a ring-flash “without the ring.” He’ll discuss corrective lighting that gives you an edge in the private, in-home glamour business and teach you how to add impact to an image by changing the color of the sky or background. Other topics include subtractive lighting, Rembrandt lighting, and chiaroscuro. Learn how to make money with the explosion of glamour business, and how to build branding based on creative lighting, rapport building, business practices and more!
 Computer Lab 317 Essential Selections & Masking with Seán Duggan
In many ways, the quality of the work you do in Photoshop depends on the quality of your selections and masks. In this hands-on lab session, distilled from his popular “Secrets of the Mask” workshop, Seán Duggan shares some essential skills for making and editing selections and masks. Included are techniques for selections based on color and contrast, “automatic” selections, luminance masking, mask edge refinements and combining hard and soft-edged masks.
 Computer Lab 318 The Creative High Dynamic Range Image (Now what could possibly be more fun than this?) with Dan Burkholder
It’s one thing to read about how a new, exciting technique can add impact to your own photography, and another to actually do it! This hands-on session will teach you how to capture extreme contrast range scenes with your digital camera and craft them into images you’ll be proud to display and happy to sell. Learn how to go beyond the “recipe” steps of HDR, delving into the creative “art and craft” techniques that put soul and intrigue into your HDR images. See how easy it is to make stunning images that were impossible before modern digital cameras and software.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
 Community Event 613 From Afar & Up Close – Two Original Views of The 2008 Olympics with Robert Pledge
Don’t miss this spectacular presentation of images from the 2008 Beijing Olympics by award-winning photojournalists, David Burnett and Ken Jarecke. Burnett, a veteran of ten Olympiads, looks from afar with his medium-format camera and tilt and shift lens to display the choreographic beauty of sport. Jarecke, with eight Games under his belt, gets up close and tight to reveal the intensity of the individual athletic effort. On hand to present the pair’s original take on the Games is Robert Pledge, editorial director of the famed international picture agency, Contact Press Images. Pledge was in China with them, and will discuss their collaboration with China Daily, the largest English-language newspaper in the People’s Republic, which published sixty pages of their photographs and stories.
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON
Seminar 137 Lightroom Part 2 - Developing Images with Julieanne Kost
Let Julieanne Kost show you the power behind the new features in the Develop Module. Discover how to make non-destructive localized corrections as well as create special effects using the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, Post Cropping Vignettes and more! Then quickly save them as presets to synchronize across multiple images.
Seminar 138 Can Nature Photography Break Out of Its Mold? with Rob Sheppard
Nature photography today is very good, but also looks a lot the same. The average citizen doesn’t really look at a lot of nature photography today because it all looks so similar. Doesn’t nature deserve our best? With all of the threats to the natural world, shouldn’t we be offering images that grab audiences and take them beyond what they have already seen? Outdoor Photographer editor-at-large Rob Sheppard will discuss nature photography today and offer some ideas on how to take your work to a new level.
Computer Lab 319 Passion, Permission & Pixels: Igniting Your Creative Photography – Shaping Your Image with Creative Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 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 Camera Raw and Photoshop, there is the ability to do this digital alchemy almost effortlessly – and nondestructively, with an incredible amount of creative flexibility. This session will cover never-before-possible Adobe Camera Raw (and Photoshop) techniques for quickly, easily and nondestructively enhancing your photography. Seminar 118 is a prerequisite for this computer lab.
Computer Lab 320 Fine Digital Image Printing Made Simple with Gordon Brown
Discover how to set your camera and computer to make the best photographic prints. If you want your color and B/W prints to match what you see on your monitor consistently, then this lab is for you! Learn the ins and outs of digital photography and photographic techniques in Photoshop to make your images “pop.” Leave with the knowledge of how to use Adobe Photoshop software and Epson printers properly, together with notes of what you have covered.
 Seminar 139 The Fine Art Digital Print: Concept to Output with Douglas Dubler
This seminar will cover the wide spectrum of subjects and issues confronting today’s photographers and printmakers in the production of museum quality fine art prints. Particular emphasis will be paid to precise color control – how to create the “perfect” image, monitor calibration, custom profile production, outputting with the ColorBurst RIP and critical print evaluation. All aspects of a color critical workflow and their impact on the final print will be discussed. The considered point of departure will be the optimized “perfect” file and how to translate it onto paper. Prints will be output on the Epson Stylus Pro.
FOTOshoot 222 Guerilla Lighting for Portraits with Carlo Allegri
Quick, unconventional, well planned and decisive – those are guerilla ar tactics. You can make photographs that yield a surprisingly high-end result and look like a planned photo shoot that is executed in a minimum amount of time with a minimum amount of equipment. Using his wire and newspaper experience Carlo will demonstrate how.
FOTOshoot 223 Simple Set Ups, Super Results with Clay Blackmore
Clay will show you how to get amazing portrait results with a minimum of lighting equipment and reflectors. Clay shows how he interacts with the subject to put them at ease, get wonderful expressions and reactions, and how to show them at their best. A great session for beginners, or for experienced users who want to get “back to the basics” of portrait photography that pleases the subjects and increases sales.
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
FOTOshoot 224 Create a Picture Story at the Zoo with Ben Martin
Over 1,500 exciting animals from all over the world living in natural habitats within 23 acres of lush tropical environments, the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park is a natural for interesting images. Its colorful carousel and interactive water play fountain will help as you produce a fabulous picture story guided by noted photographer Ben Martin.
11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON
Community Event 614 Retouching Secrets of Master Photographers with Janice Wendt
Hanson Fong, Matthew Jordon Smith, John Isaacs, and more. Learn some of their favorite retouching techniques from Janice Wendt, the leading retouching artist and Nik Software authority. This seminar will feature some of her time saving techniques. Learn how to retouch without using the “stamp tool” or the “healing brush” on your image. Directing the viewer, enhancing elements and subduing distractions are some of the retouching “tricks” that will be covered. She will also be showing some Photoshop techniques along with Nik Software tools that will speed you along to stunning results.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Community Event 615 FOTOFUSION MASTER LECTURE SERIES: Water for a Thirsty World with Dennis Dimick, Executive Editor, National Geographic
Americans think themselves immune from water crisis, but Floridians and the southeast United States increasingly are vulnerable to drought and water supply shortages, especially in years without replenishing tropical storms. Finding adequate clean water is a rising global challenge, and Dennis Dimick will use dramatic documentary photography from National Geographic to take you on a visual journey into this emerging crisis: how little water we have, where we find it, what we use it for, and how we can do a better job using and conserving our supply.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
FOTOshoot 225 Digital Flower Photography at the American Orchid Society Gardens with Craig Blacklock
Take a field trip to lovely gardens where master nature photographer Blacklock will guide you through the application of each technique. You will learn to: Select the proper lens and perspective for any situation; Control available light and wind with a simple-to-make device; Juxtapose a perfectly focused subject against a soft background; Achieve depth-offield beyond the optical limits of your lens and more. Seminar 110 is a prerequisite for this FOTOshoot.
2:15 PM - 5:30 PM
FOTOshoot 226 On Location: The Digital Nude with Kevin Ames and Vincent Versace
You’ll love this FOTOshoot if you love shooting figure studies in nature. On location with celebrated digital image makers Kevin Ames and Vincent Versace, in a beautiful tropical Florida setting, you will become skilled at how to pose, light and photograph beautiful models with your digital SLR.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Seminar 141 Understanding Legal & Business Issues in Photography with Jeff Burak, Eric Isicoff, Shelly Katz, Cynthia Van Roden; Moderator: Harrison Funk
Whether an advanced hobbyist, weekend warrior, or seasoned professional, at one time or another every photographer faces some legal and business questions. This panel of photographic and legal experts will discuss issues relating to copyright, work-for-hire, exclusivity, right to publicity, public domain, derivative works, and using images on and from the internet. They will explain the ins and outs of model releases, estimating, and how to understand the terms and conditions stated in many standard contracts.
 Seminar 142 Digital Creativity with Eddie Tapp
Redefine your final image creations. Get motivated from a host of Photoshop specialized techniques that include blending, masking and layer features. Learn how easy it is to implement these techniques to achieve outstanding imaginative effects, produce superb print quality and break away from your normal process. Go ahead…create something different, impress your viewers, have fun and enjoy a more productive creative enhancement workflow.
Seminar 143 Photographers and the WWW; The Electronic Portfolio with Ross Whitaker
Is your Portfolio available on the Worldwide Web? We have come so far from the early days of the web. You need to make sure your site is fresh. Does your Web presence reflect your business in a concise and positive way? How do you lure customers to your site? Is your site retail or wholesale? Design it yourself or get help? Whether you are new to the Web, have a longtime presence, or are just beginning to consider exploring the Web, this fast-paced, non geek/non technical, meeting is the place to check it out! Ross Whitaker is a New York-based commercial photographer whose longtime web presence contains over 350 images.
Computer Lab 321 The New Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2 with John Reuter
Explore the versatility of the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2 and bring added efficiency to your digital workflow. This brush makes adjustments without layers that are completely non-destructive and barely increase the file size. Now you can do more of your final image corrections in Lightroom 2 without having to export to Photoshop. This allows you to make technical corrections and creative transformations quickly and intuitively. Individual settings such as Flow, Auto Mask and Density offer new mastery over burning and dodging and selective sharpening. Enhancing the eyes and softening the skin in portraiture can also be achieved with this powerful tool.
Computer Lab 322 Digital Printing: Perfect Workflow – Perfect Print with J Tomas Lopez
Printing a digital photographic image begins with a properly exposed image, a calibrated monitor and a good print profile. The Epson profiles make printing much easier but you still have to follow a step by step process that is meticulous. This class will address each step and explain how and why it must be done this way. The end result will be a complete understanding of the steps you need to follow to produce a perfect print.
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Community Event 617 You and Your Digital Camera with Julie Adair King
Julie King, author of “Digital Photography for Dummies,” will show you how to get to know your digital camera as she walks you through the basics of setting up your camera and taking your first pictures. You will learn how to take advantage of your camera’s convenience features, such as auto bracketing, scene modes, flash modes and red-eye removal and be introduced to features such as white balance, EV compensation, file format, resolution, and ISO. Bring your camera and your manual so that you can take notes on how to adjust settings on your model.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
FOTOshoot 227 Creative Lighting on Location with Rick Friedman
On location, Friedman will demonstrate his principles of lighting for location photography covered in Seminar 122. He will cover the difference between auto, TTL and manual modes, slow shutter flash effects and flash metering, exposure and camera and flash exposure compensation. Discover how easy, effective and creative outdoor fill and main light flash photography are. Seminar 122 is a pre-requisite for this FOTOshoot.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminar 145 Landscape Photography: What You Need to Know with Gary Braasch, Dennis Dimick, Peter Essick, Joseph Meehan, Robert Glenn Ketchum; Moderator: Steven Nestler
This renowned panel of some of the world’s master landscape photographers and editors will discuss how to interpret the natural landscape and create stunning images. A MUST for the concerned landscape photographer. All the important details you need to know for location shooting will be covered and your questions answered by this informed panel.
Seminar 146 Tone Mapping for Fun and Excitement with Lewis Kemper
We have all seen HDR images that look like illustrations, but besides just having fun with Photomatix Pro software you can also use its Tone Mapping feature to improve your realistic work as well. Lewis will show you how to use Photomatix to create stunning HDR images, how to turn those HDR images into the illustrative look and how to use the software to take your “finished” normal images and make them even better! It will be a fun and informative session giving you new ideas on how to process your digital images.
Seminar 147 Artist Bookmaking with Anna Tomczak
This seminar will concentrate on the methods of integrating photographs into the surface of art papers, cloth, and canvas. The intent is to express a visual idea in the form of a unique book with wide creative latitude. A variety of binding styles and bookmaking methods will be discussed. Non-silver processes be will be emphasized and will include examples of Blue and Brown print, photocopy transfer, Polaroid emulsion lifts and transfers. Text methods will be highlighted, such as rubber stamp and embossing. Surface treatments will be introduced, such ascoating with wax and hand painting. This seminar will include other modes of book creation expression – including poetry and collage.
Computer Lab 323 Getting The Most Out of Your Images With Viveza with Janice Wendt
Janice Wendt, the leading authority on retouching and Nik Software, will conduct a hands-on seminar that will guide you through Viveza. See Computer Lab 307 on page 10 for complete program description.
Computer Lab 324 Color Correction – Secrets to Skin Tone Reproduction with Lee Varis
A to Z color correction for all types of people photography. Lee Varis explores professional PhotoShop color control techniques based on the material in his best selling book “Skin, the complete guide to digitally lighting photographing and retouching faces and bodies” Topics covered include: Pre-cooking skin color in Adobe Camera Raw; Info Palette numbers for the perfect skin color; Professional application of Curves in color correction; Hue/Saturation technique to “get the red out”; Several variations on portrait glow technique for great salon portraits.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
 Community Event 618 Moving To Video (not a dance class) with Dirck Halstead
Media of all kinds – editorial, advertising, and corporate – is rapidly migrating to the Internet, and the Internet itself is turning into Nobody is really all that sure, just yet. One thing that is sure, however, is that multimedia – and video – presentations are expanding at the speed of moving electrons. Dirck Halstead, Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist, who has thrived by staying ahead of the curve, will describe how these changes can be embraced by photographers, writers, and radio producers.
6:30 pm
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