FOTOfusion 2010 - Friday Schedule

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

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

Friday, January 22, 2010
6:00am-9:30am	218 - Grassy Waters Wetland Nature Preserve with Adam Jones
8:00am-10:00am	219 - Palm Beach's Worth Avenue with William Manning
8:30am-10:00am	133 - Taking the Mystery out of Digital Printing with Shelly Katz, Dan Burkholder and J Tomas Lopez
	135 - Expanding your Photo Story for the Web and Multimedia with Lucian Perkins
	325 - Manipulating Focus Using Photoshop with Julie Adair King
	326 - Basic Imaging Workflow in Adobe Lightroom with Lee Varis
9:30am-10:30am	613 - Photography---A Way of Seeing with Richard Zakia
10:30am-12:00pm	137 - Lightroom Part 2 - Developing Images with Julieanne Kost with Julieanne Kost
	138 - Creative Nature & Travel Photography with Brenda Tharp
	139 - Photography and Narrative: Then and Now, Theirs and Yours with Diane Farris
	327 - Constructed Imagery with Ben Willmore
	328 - Photomontage with Photoshop CS4 with John Reuter
10:30am-12:30pm	220 - Portraits Using Available Light with Karen Ballard +$20
11:00am-12:00pm	614 - Ease of Editing Using Capture NX2 with Janice Wendt
1:30pm-5:30pm	221 - Picture Essay Development with David Burnett +$20
12:00pm-2:00pm	405 - New York Fashion Takes Palm Beach DEMO with Douglas Dubler !
12:45pm-1:45pm	615 - Hollywood Secrets to Working in the Movies with Bruce Talamon
2:30pm-4:00pm	141 - The Power Players: Meet the Editors with Jimmy Colton, Sarah Leen, Evan Kriss, Kim Hubbard; Moderator: Pete Cross
	142 - Believing is Seeing: Lighting on a Laptop: How to Light Like a Sunbeam with Vincent Versace
	143 - A Unique Approach to Portraiture with Andrea Modica
	329 - Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy Using Silver Efex Pro with Janice Wendt
	330 - Layers, Layer Masks and Unlimited Undos Forever with Kevin Ames
2:30pm-3:30pm	616 - Getting the Most from your Digital Camera with Lewis Kemper
2:30pm-5:30pm	222 - Glamour by the Pool: On Location with Eddie Tapp +$90
4:00pm-5:00pm	617 - A Woman's Point of View with Ruth Fremson
4:30pm-6:00pm	145 - The Art of Landscape Photography with Craig Blacklock, Lydia Goetze, Joseph Meehan, Steven Nestler; Moderator: Claudine Laabs
	146 - New Media and the Still Photographer with Ross Whitaker
	147 - Tabletop Still-Life Photography with Monica Stevenson
	332 - Creative Collage with Adobe Photoshop with Seán Duggan
6:30pm - ?	Auction Reception (6:30pm-7:30pm) and Auction (7:30pm until finished)

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Descriptions

6:00 am – 9-:30 am

FOTOshoot 218
Grassy Waters Wetland Nature Preserve with Adam Jones
Capture wonderful landscape and wildlife images at one of Florida’s natural treasures.
The prairie, marsh and man-made canals attract great blue, little blue, little green and tricolor herons, wood storks, great egrets, ibises, limpkins, turtles, alligators, and more. A bald eagle nest is active yearly and Rosette Spoonbills have been seen on several occasions feeding on the abundant shrimp.

8:00 am - 10:00 am

FOTOshoot 219
Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue with William Manning
Join William Manning as he takes you thorough Addison Mizner’s landmarked tropical ‘Vias,’ winding between the chic shops in Palm Beach.   William will dispense advice and point out how best to shoot the Spanish Mediterranean styled coquina stone architecture lurking behind the blooming bougainvilleas.

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Seminar 133
Taking the Mystery out of Digital Printing with Shelly Katz, Dan Burkholder and J Tomas Lopez
Small Format Printing:  Learn everything you need to know to make perfect prints up to 17 inches wide. This expert panel will discuss the different processes, inks, papers and profiles. and new advancements in printers and papers. They will cover how to handle and prepare your files to get the best quality prints from your images and they’ll answer all your questions to help you understand the process for making small format prints, covering inks papers and profiles.

Seminar  135
Expanding your Photo Story for the Web and Multimedia with Lucian Perkins
Be motivated to consider new ways to tell a story with photography as Pulitzer prize-winner Perkins introduces you to the powerful and effective tools you will need to give you an expanded repertoire to better express and tell your story. In this rapidly evolving Internet and multimedia age, the “classic” photo story can be widened to include sound and video. Perkins will show inspiring examples by photographers in the art, documentary and photojournalism communities explaining how they use the Internet to take their stories to a new level and walk you step-by-step to show how multimedia projects can be created in Final Cut Pro.

Computer Lab 325
Manipulating Focus Using Photoshop with Julie Adair King
You've got a winning shot. Or at least it would be a winner if only you had been more careful about focus. No worries: Learn simple PhotoShop techniques that you can use to rescue those poorly focused shots. You'll learn the best way to apply sharpening filters such as Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen and discover a few ways to create the illusion of sharper focus without touching a sharpening tool at all. You'll also try out blur techniques that you can use to realistically shorten depth of field and make distracting background objects less noticeable.

Computer Lab 326
Basic Imaging Workflow in Adobe Lightroom with Lee Varis
Lee leads you, step-by-step, through a basic Lightroom set up to learn how to: create a new Lightroom catalog, import images from an existing folder, rename files, add copyright metadata, delete from catalog, rate "selects" , and set up and export a slideshow & make a web gallery from the selects. (Designed for beginners)

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Community Event 613
Photography—A Way of Seeing with Richard Zakia
"The question is not what you look at but what you see."--Thoreau Photography is not just a way of looking - more importantly it is a way of seeing. Seeing can be thought of as a skill, a skill that can be improved by practice. Photography is a way to improve that skill. Professor emeritus Zakia will introduce you to some concepts that he has found useful and can also be helpful in discussing and critiquing photographs. Come and improve the way you see!

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Seminar  137
Lightroom Part 2 - Developing Images with Julieanne Kost
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
Creative Nature & Travel Photography with Brenda Tharp
In this lively, information-packed program, Brenda will share her experienced-based knowledge on how to create artistic photographs of travel and outdoor subjects. She will discuss the essential steps for making outstanding pictures - working with available light, advanced composition concepts, creating visual depth, photographing people while traveling, and capturing the moment. Additionally, topics include techniques for mastering technical excellence, employing impressionistic techniques, capturing the essence of the subject, and workflow in the field and on the road.

Seminar 139
Photography and Narrative:  Then and Now, Theirs and Yours with Diane Farris           
Images and words have danced together since photography’s earliest days.  Maybe you have such a dance in mind for your images.  This seminar looks at this rich tradition with particular attention to the long tradition of photographic children’s books and invites participants to reflect on and further their own projects.  For those who plan ahead, bring an image or two from a current idea or project.

Computer Lab 327
Constructed Imagery with Ben Willmore
Learn how to composite multiple exposures into a composite image that would be difficult or impossible to do in a single exposure. This can be as simple as stitching a panorama or as complex as a 100 shot composite image. This is a session full of creative ideas that should get you to think differently about photography when you're behind the camera knowing that you can composite your images in Photoshop.

Computer Lab 328
Photomontage with Photoshop CS4 with John Reuter 
Photoshop has long been regarded as the re-eminent image combination tool.  Learn to create intriguing combinations of your images with Photoshop’s powerful Selection, Masking and Layering tools. Photoshop CS4 offers so many refinements to aid in image combination such as the Adjustments and Masks panel as well as powerful additions to the capabilities of Smart Objects.  This seminar is for those photographers who are comfortable with Photoshop’s basic image adjustment tools and wish to take their imagery to another level through these exciting but often-neglected special tools of Photoshop.

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

FOTOshoot 220
Portraits Using Available Light with Karen Ballard
$20 additional fee
A hands-on session to help you create outstanding images using the challenging conditions of available light. Work with master photographer Karen Ballard as she demonstrates her techniques for producing award-winning portraits under difficult conditions.

11:00 am - 12:00 noon

Community Event 614
Ease of Editing Using Capture NX2 wth 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.

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm

FOTOshoot 405

New York Fashion Takes Palm Beach DEMO with Douglas Dubler !
FREE ADMISSION: Fashion Shoot in the Courtyard
This is a valuable opportunity to learn from one of the acknowledged masters of the genre of fashion photography. With over forty years of experience and hundreds of magazine covers and ads, Douglas will reveal what it takes to produce the stunning fashion and beauty images he is so well known for. All of the talent for the shoot (model, hair & make-up and stylist ) will be experienced professionals from Miami's South Beach. Get a real world glimpse into this exciting aspect of commercial photography. Whether you are a working professional, an aspiring beginner or just a curious voyeur you will be sure to be inspired by this unique FOTOshoot.  All of the aspects of the shoot will be discussed from creative concept, casting, directing talent, lighting, digital capture and file processing. State-of-the-art equipment from Broncolor, Eizo, Integrated Color Corp., Lexar Media, Nikon, Nik Software, X-Rite and Apple will be used for the shoot. A once in a lifetime opportunity to watch a real master at work!

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Community Event 615
FOTOFusion Master Lecture Series:
Hollywood Secrets to Working in the Movies with Bruce Talamon
Bruce will show some of his own portraits and action shots done in movie sets, but much of the presentation will focus Bob Willoughby, the “Grand Master” Hollywood. He worked in the 50's and 60's-Brando, Taylor,Burton, Dean, Hepburn, Lemon, Curtis, Monroe, Sinatra, Garland, the list is long... And along the way, he invented the Sound Blimp (the box that all movie photographers must have to work on a set). He was a true photographer of Movie Stars, and set the standard for anyone who walks on a movie set or lifts a camera to photograph a celebrity today. He was the first Hollywood "Special".

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

FOTOshoot 221
Picture Essay Development with David Burnett
$20 additional fee
Distinguished award-winning photographer David Burnett will show you how to develop a theme and make unique and distinctive photographs that will tell a story. Work with David on a picture essay in the country fair atmosphere of the South Florida Fairgrounds.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Community Event 616
Getting the Most from your Digital Camera with Lewis Kemper
In this constant flux of technology get some tips on how best to set up your digital camera: make use of the exposure triangle, create custom white balances, decide which format is correct for you, understand why your camera has a lens crop factor and how to use that to your advantage.  Lewis Kemper will help you understand all the new lingo and learn how to get the most from your new camera!

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Seminar 141
The Power Players: Meet the Editors with Jimmy Colton, Sara Leen, Evan Kriss, Kim Hubbard; Moderator: Pete Cross
A great opportunity to meet and listen to a group of five-star distinguished editors from national magazines and international agencies as they share with you the secrets of how to market yourself effectively. Find out what impresses them, what works in attracting and keeping their attention in today’s competitive environment, how to get important assignments, and what NOT to do. Only at FOTOfusion can you get a group like this together.

Seminar 142
Believing is Seeing: Lighting on a Laptop: How to Light Like a Sunbeam with Vincent Versace
In this step-by-step lesson you will be guided through the process of believably replicating the most fleeting and beautiful light of all – a late afternoon beam of sunlight streaming through a window. Starting with initial image capture and lighting considerations, this series of progressive Photoshop lighting techniques gives you the essential skills to emulate
brilliant, realistic lighting.

Seminar  143
A Unique Approach to Portraiture with Andrea Modica
A very unique approach to portraiture by an acknowledged master of the art.  With little distinction between her personal projects and her commercial assignments you will see examples from both groups and get helpful hints about culling a portfolio from your personal work to show to editors. Andrea will show, and talk about, the realities of what happens after the photographer hands commissioned work over to the client. It will be very upbeat and fun and Andrea will answer any and all questions candidly.

Computer Lab 329
Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy Using Silver Efex Pro with Janice Wendt
Miss the wonderful black and white images you achieved with black and white film? Get it all back with award winning Silver Efex Pro. You will learn 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. Create Black and White Images that are full of drama and intensity using techniques you will learn in this workshop.

Computer Lab 330
Layers, Layer Masks and Unlimited Undos Forever with Kevin Ames
Once a Photoshop file is saved and closed, the history is gone forever and so are your undos. Learn how to replace those destructive dialogs using adjustments and pixel killing tools like the eraser with layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, layer groups and Smart Objects. This workshop will fill you with ideas that will not only take your post-production techniques to the next level you’ll do them so you can always remember what you did and be able to change it even years later. If you use Photoshop this will change the way you work forever!

2:30 pm - 5:30 pm

FOTOshoot 222
Glamour by the Pool: On Location with Eddie Tapp
$90 additional fee
A beautiful South Florida location, alluring models and award-winning photographer Eddie Tapp demonstrating his unique posing and lighting techniques. Put them all together and in no time you will be composing your own sexy glamour photographs.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Community Event 617
A Woman’s Point of View with Ruth Fremson
A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruth will show and tell what it is to be a woman, a photographer, and a journalist, in today’s Mans World. She will concentrate on her work in the Third World: India, The Himalayas, and the Middle East, and will convey her passion and compassion to the audience.

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Seminar  145
The Art of Landscape Photography with Craig Blacklock, Lydia Goetze, Joseph Meehan, Steven Nestler; Moderator: Claudine Laabs
These great artists show you their imagery and talk about the relationship of the photographer to the landscapes they capture. The strategies they employ and the spectacular vision they let us all share. Take a vacation through the eyes of these great photographers and learn how they are able to produce such captivating images. All the important details you need to know for location shooting will be covered and your questions answered by this informed panel.

Seminar 146
New Media and the Still Photographer with Ross Whitaker
Stills, video, sound, do you need all of this to be a still photographer? Ross will talk about his journey that includes the adding of “New Media“ to his photo studio. What are the requirements? What do you need to learn? What do clients expect? Future or fad? This lively discussion will explore these questions and more.

Seminar  147
Tabletop Still-Life Photography with Monica Stevenson
Successful New York commercial still life photographer, Monica, will teach a beginner’s class on tabletop and still life photography. She will succinctly cover the basics in lighting, composition, cameras, background and surface choices. You will be exposed to techniques for shooting glass, metal, gemstones, and moving liquids. Join Monica for a class that will inspire and energize you and be sure to bring questions and dilemmas to solve together.

Computer Lab 332
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.

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.

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