FOTOfusion 2011 - Friday Schedule

Color Key
100 Series Seminar	200 Series FOTOshoot	300 Series Computer Lab
400 Series Master Workshops	500 Series Lecture Demo / Computer Lab / FOTOshoots	600 Series Community Events
Portfolio Review / Technology Center
Special Events

>CLICK HERE for a description of the different types of events.

Note: Schedule is subject to change due to the busy schedule of our presenters. Changes will be posted at all sites during the week.

* FOTOshoot times indicate time that field trip leaves from The Centre and time that FOTOshoot ends at the location.  Please arrive at the Centre at least 15 minutes before departure time.  All FOTOshoots leave from Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s courtyard at indicated starting time. The FOTOshoot will end at the time indicated and additional time should be allowed to return to the Photographic Centre before your next event.

Friday, January 14, 2011
5:00am-10:00am	411c Florida Frontier with Carlton Ward FOTOshoot Session
8:30am-10:00am	133 Environmental Portraiture with Al Satterwhite
	134 Miracle Enhancing, Effects & Retouching - in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw!!! with Jack Davis *Prerequisite for Satrurday 417
	306 Photoshop at Warp Speed with Julie Adair King
8:30am-11:30am	413 Advanced Selections and Layer Masking in Photoshop with Tim Grey
9:30am-10:30am	613 Ease of Editing Using Capture NX2 with Janice Wendt
10:30am-12:00pm	137 Documentary Photography in the 21st Century with Carlo Allegri, Mary F. Calvert, Michael Sharkey, Louie Palu; moderator Wes Carson
	307 The Darkroom Called Lightroom with Rob Sheppard
	409c Adventure at Tropical World - It's Feathers and Flowers Galore! With Barbara Ellison
10:30am-12:30pm	138 Live Photo Shoot Demo in the Studio with Lee Varis
11:00am-12:00pm	614 Challenging Stories with Lucian Perkins
11:30am-2:30pm	FOTOfusion Technology Center
12:00pm-2:30pm	Portfolio Reviews
12:30pm-1:30pm	410c Nudes In The Everglades with Craig Blacklock Critique Session
12:45pm-1:45pm	615 Haiti - One Year Later, a film screening and discussion with Adam Stoltman
1:30pm-2:20pm	411c Florida Frontier with Carlton Ward Critique Session
1:30pm-5:00pm	210 Shoot Bountiful Beauties At Butterfly World With Raymond Gehman Additional Charge $20
	414 A Digital Black and White Experience with George Schaub Critique Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
2:00pm-4:00pm	211 Making Effective Daylight Pictures with Vincent Ricardel Additional Charge $20
2:30pm-3:30pm	616 Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest with Amy Gulick
2:30pm–4:00pm	141 The New World Of Online Magazines and Curated Websites with Jason Florio, Julie Grahame, Michael Itkoff, Alison Zavos,; Moderator Stella Kramer
	142 Action-Packed Adventures with Ben Willmore
	308 What’s so smart about Smart Objects and why should I use them? with John Reuter
3:00pm-6:00pm	415 Photoshop For Artists with Laurence Gartel
4:00pm-5:00pm !	608 The Best of 2010 – And What a Year it Was – A Year of Vampires, Victims and Volcanoes with Scott Mc Kiernan
4:30pm-6:00pm	145 Chambers Demystify Lighting --- Any Lighting!  with Ross Whitaker
	146 Open Up Your Photographic World with 3-d with Lynn H. Butler
	506 Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy Using Silver Efex Pro with Janice Wendt
6:30pm - ?	Auction Reception (6:30pm-7:30pm) and Auction (7:30pm until finished)

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Descriptions

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Seminar 133
Environmental Portraiture with Al Satterwhite
Learn how to move past the easy shot & look for the exceptional moment and evocative image with this master photographer. He will challenge you to find and capture the 'essence' of the subject. You will discover how to 'read' the light and use it to your best advantage, both available and controlled. It can be fun, and not a laborious affair, for both the subject and photographer.

Seminar  134
Miracle Enhancing, Effects & Retouching - in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw!!! with Jack Davis
Glamour retouching in Lightroom? Incredible Hand Tinting in Adobe Camera Raw? Blurring your background with a non-destructive brush? That’s right - you don’t NEED Photoshop for the vast majority of your photographic magic! As a matter of fact, NOT using Photoshop, but instead using it’s included Adobe Camera Raw, OR the latest Lightroom 3 (that uses the same processing engine as Camera Raw) gives you incredible speed, flexibility, and the ability to share whatever you do with other images instantly! This session with award-winning author and Photoshop-Hall-Of-Famer Jack Davis will revolutionize your creative workflow and have you leaving with a huge smile (especially when Jack gives all attendees his latest and greatest Wow Presets!)!

>CLICK HERE This is prerequisite for Saturday 417

Computer Lab 306
Photoshop at Warp Speed with Julie Adair King
Photoshop offers lots of features designed to reduce the number of hours you spend in the digital darkroom. In this computer lab, Photoshop guru Julie Adair King shows you  time-saving tricks you can use every day as you retouch and enhance your photos.  Find out how to apply filters and make other corrections by pressing a few keys instead of slogging through menus and dialog boxes, how to quickly modify the behavior of the primary editing tools, how to create actions to automate routine chores, and even how to create your own shortcut keys.

8:30 am - 11:30 am

Master Workshop 413

Advanced Selections and Layer Masking in Photoshop with Tim Grey
The ability to create selections and layer masks in Photoshop enables some of the most powerful capabilities of your digital photography workflow. In this hands-on master workshop, Tim Grey will share some of his favorite techniques for creating selections. He will then show you how to utilize layer masks to create composite images, as well as how to put layer masks to use in conjunction with adjustment layers to apply targeted adjustments  --- with remarkable control.

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Community Event 613
Ease of Editing Using Capture NX2 with Janice Wendt
This lecture explores Nikon Capture NX 2, one of the most useful image editing platforms available today. Photographers can streamline the way they work with digital files with selectively editing of light and color.  Learn to utilize the nondestructive editing of Capture NX 2. Learn to adjust and enhance imagery while eliminating the large files often created by the multiple steps required in traditional editing software. Analyze images for optimizing and retouching, set up raw adjustments to maximize image quality and details using the intuitive editing options and tools offered by Capture NX 2.

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Seminar  137
Documentary Photography in the 21st Century with Carlo Allegri, Mary F. Calvert, Michael Sharkey, Louie Palu; moderator Wes Carson
This panel will discuss how documentary photography is defined today and the ethical concerns of digital manipulation within the genre.   How has the advent of high quality consumer cameras (including camera phones) changed our approach to documenting the world?
How have social networking sites and blogs contributed to the genre of documentary photography?  The panel will address these concerns, the function of both amateur and professional photographers --- as well as photography’s accessibility to the average person and the role of photography in contemporary society.

Computer Lab 307
Darkroom Called Lightroom with Rob Sheppard
The traditional darkroom as Ansel Adams and W. Eugene Smith knew it returns with lightroom. Doing darkroom work with color, such as true dodging and burning in the tradition of Adams and Smith, was always difficult, and only a little easier in Photoshop. Lightroom expert Rob Sheppard will show off Lightroom’s tools needed to take this step back to the future for better photos today.

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Seminar 138
Live Photo Shoot Demo in the Studio with Lee Varis
Lee Varis will demonstrate a complete digital photo workflow system for studio photography in a live photo shoot. Lee has developed an approach to studio photography that generates high-end results using readily available equipment that is accessible to the average photographer. Lee will re-create a photo shoot he recently did for video game packaging and demonstrate a dramatic action lighting setup as well as a complete shooting workflow. This 2 hour demonstration will include Action stopping photography; A "tethered shooting" strategy that doesn't rely on computer "tethering"; Ingesting, renaming, duplicating and converting images on the fly; Creating a Job Archive and managing the images from the shoot; Selecting/rejecting images and building a web gallery.  Through out the shoot Lee will talk about how he works with the talent, art director and client to create the best quality images for their needs. He will show how all of this works with modest equipment and software like Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop using only one laptop computer in the studio!

11:00 am - 12:00 noon

Community Event 614

Challenging Stories with Lucian Perkins
This year Lucian Perkins has embarked on a number of challenging journeys. He and a group of ten photographers have started Facing Change: Documenting America. They embarked on an FSA style project to explore the issues facing America today. Lucian's first project for them is on Obesity in America, which he will show in part during his lecture. He will also show work he is doing on his documentary  "Joseph's House," a story about the volunteers who work at a hospice in Washington, DC for homeless people dying of HIV/AIDs.  And finally, he will show work from Sept/Oct on Southern Sudan for the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum.

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Community Event 615
Haiti - One Year Later, a film screening and discussion with Adam Stoltman
Please join us for a community event where we will discuss conditions in Haiti one year after the tragic earthquake.   Using a series of short films shot and produced in late 2010, as a touchstone for discussion, we will examine present conditions at this critical anniversary -- which has seen the nation emerging from the emergency phase only to be confronted with a new crisis in the form of a cholera epidemic.  While social and economic conditions will certainly be part of the discussion, the extraordinary spirit, grace and dignity of the Haitian people will be first and foremost as will the hope for the future and where it is hoped conditions will be one year from now.   Adam Stoltman, a veteran photographer, editor and new media publisher will show excerpts from a series of short documentaries he is producing as well as still photographs.

1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

FOTOshoot 210
Shoot Bountiful Beauties At Butterfly World With Raymond Gehman
Additional Charge $20
Join National Geographic photographer Raymond Gehman at South Florida’s famous Butterfly World in Pompano Beach as he shares his expertise with you at this extraordinary world famous ten-acre site.  Gehman will teach you how to put the natural light to best use, as well as when to throw in some easy fill-flash. He will help you capture some fantastic butterfly pictures, and make sure you have a great time while doing it!

Master Workshop 414

A Digital Black and White Experience with George Schaub
Lecture & FOTOshoot Friday 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Critique Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
George Schaub, editorial director of Shutterbug magazine and author of Digital Photographer's Guide to Black and White Landscape Photography (Lark Books), will guide you in seeing, photographing, and processing digital images in black and white. You will learn how to set your cameras for optimum results including tone curve and contrast control, digital filter selection, use of the RAW file format, and the best use of metering patterns and modes. The workshop will include an introductory tech session and field shoot followed by a next-day critique and discussion. The tech session will include easy edits and Lightroom processing for conversion of RGB to black and white mode.  This is an opportunity to learn a host of insider tips from a master black and white printmaker, photographer and teacher.

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

FOTOshoot 211
Making Effective Daylight Pictures with Vincent Ricardel
Additional Charge $20
Daylight can be harsh, especially at mid-day. This workshop will introduce you to practices and methods of making effective daylight images. There will be an overview and demonstration of tools such as light modifiers, reflectors, the light meter and portable strobes. Special emphasis will be made using the existing environment and daylight  conditions. This is an intermediate level class and ideal those who wish to explore location photography. Prior knowledge of lighting is recommended.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Computer Lab 616
Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest with Amy Gulick
Join acclaimed nature photographer Amy Gulick on a journey to one of the rarest ecosystems on Earth - the Tongass rain forest of Alaska. Humpback whales, orcas, and sea lions cruise the forested shorelines. Wild salmon swim upstream into the forest, feeding some of the world's highest densities of grizzlies, black bears, and bald eagles. Native cultures and local communities benefit from the gifts of the forest and sea.

The Tongass is America's largest national forest, and comprises nearly a third of the world's rare old-growth temperate rain forest The decisions we make today will determine if it will continue to be a place where there are salmon in the trees. Gulick's book, Salmon in the Trees, won a 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award.

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Seminar 141

The New World Of Online Magazines and Curated Websites with Jason Florio, Julie Grahame, Michael Itkoff, Alison Zavos,; Moderator Stella Kramer
Tumultuous changes in the photography industry over the last 5 years, both in publishing and advertising, have reduced many avenues for emerging and even mid-career photographers to gain entry into the business.  However, as some doors close, others open --- specifically with the new online curated websites and online photography magazines.  These generally open-submission platforms are creating new ways for photographers to show their work and to place their photography in front of the eyes of photo editors, art buyers, gallerists, museum curators, and others with a love of photography.  Free from the constraints of advertising demands, these online destinations offer photographers a way for their work to be seen as they like, and the chance to be seen by people all over the world.

In this seminar you will hear from some of the biggest names in this new photography world.  Moderator Stella Kramer, a Pulitzer prize-winning photo editor, brings these stars of the online world together to tell you the essentials of how they choose the photography they feature, what the submission guidelines are, and what increases your chances of being selected.  They will also discuss other online sites and the future of photography through the increasing prominence of these online magazines and curated websites

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Seminar 142

Action-Packed Adventures with Ben Willmore
Add some action to your life by learning the ins and outs of Actions in Photoshop. Learn to automate multi-step processes while ensuring that the resulting actions are universally applicable to any image regardless of size, mode, layers, or other factors that commonly cause them to fail.

Computer Lab 308

What’s so smart about Smart Objects and why should I use them? with John Reuter
Smart Objects preserve an image’s source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the layer.  Hand in hand with Smart Objects comes Smart Filters. Because you can adjust, remove, or hide Smart Filters, they are nondestructive. This allows you tremendous flexibility in utilizing filters, particularly with the ability to assign Blending Modes to the filters.  Adding Masks to Smart Objects has become much easier and allows tremendous flexibility if you enjoy creating multi layer compositions.  We will explore in ins and outs of Smart Objects, when to use them, when not to use them.   We will utilize Smart Objects right out of Camera Raw, allowing you to return and adjust raw file data once your file is inside a Photoshop composition.  We will investigate transformations and filtering techniques.

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Master Workshop 415

Photoshop For Artists with Laurence Gartel
The all new Photoshop CS 5 has a myriad of new drawing and painting tools which adds a new level of depth for the creative Computer Graphic Artist. The all new brush set allows for paintery techniques as well as new unique tools giving an abundance of possiblities. In this workshop we will go through the myriad of brush tip points and drawing features. What appears to be simply is just one level of functionality and skill. We will go on to look at how we can design our own custom brushes, color sets which will give each of us our own personality. Photoshop CS 5 has introduced far more than what meets the creative eye.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Community Event 617
The Best of 2010 – And What a Year it Was – A Year of Vampires, Victims and Volcanoes with Scott Mc Kiernan
Scott is the picture editor of DOUBLEtruck Magazine, winner of best picture magazine and numerous awards over the years. This special multimedia presentation designed for Fotofusion on 2010, shows the highs and lows of a changeling year for America and the World thru the eyes and minds of the top photojournalists of ZUMA Wire Service. Also as a bonus a special tribute look back, to those who made a difference in the world of arts, entertainment, society and politics who passed away in 2010.

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Seminar  145
Demystify Lighting --- Any Lighting!  with Ross Whitaker
Demystify make a difficult or esoteric subject clearer and easier to understand… That’s exactly what you’ll learn about lighting in this fact filled talk. Ross will quickly show you the simple, basic lighting “rules” that are at the root of all lighting scenarios.  If you want to understand how to control light instead allowing light to control without your input, sign up, you’ll have fun, Ross is never dull!

Seminar 146
Open Up Your Photographic World with 3-d with Lynn H. Butler
The world’s not flat; your pictures shouldn’t be either. Learn how to enhance the immersive quality of your photographs using 3-D technology. Use methods, materials, and applications for stereoscopic photography to produce 3-D prints or projections for computer screens to the Imax.
Topics will include learning to adjust contrast and color balance of images, registration of the pairs stereoscopically, and with the use of Adobe Photoshop or a comparable program, creating your vision. Only one camera is necessary to produce 3-d, but the new available 3-d cameras or just shooting two simultaneously, will produce that “Avitar style” experience.  3-d photography, back to popularity with the impact of digital technology, can transform the way to make images, from initial conception to the final form.

Computer Lab 506
Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy Using Silver Efex Pro with Janice Wendt
Gold Passport Holders Only: FREE • General Admission: $25. 

Do you miss the wonderful black and white images you achieved with black and white film? Get it all back with award winning Silver Efex Pro. Learn New Tools to develop your color digital images into stunning black and white art. Topics covered will include the Zone System, Control Points and custom toning and how to make your own custom presets including custom film type. Discover the inside parts of creating great black and white images better than anything you could get in a Darkroom.

6:30 pm – ?

Auction Reception and Auction
The photography auction reception runs from 6:30pm until 7:30pm. The cost of the reception is $25 to passport and non-passport holders. The $25 fee is refundable from your purchase of $100 or more. The auction starts at 7:30pm and will continue until all items have been auctioned. Proceeds from the auction go toward the Centre's Outreach Program for children.

>CLICK HERE for more on the Centre's Outreach Program.

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