Saturday 31th

7:00 AM - 9:30 AM

FOTOshoot 228 People on Location with Ross Whitaker

Learn how to get the most out of a location shoot and have a fun adventure. Take this hands-on field trip to an attractive South Florida location with Ross Whitaker. Topics of discussion will include how to be an “engaged voyeur”; equipment and how it effects your relationship with your subjects; film and film speeds; to flash or not to flash; film/digital; and how your own personality can define your approach to a shoot. Whitaker will be right there with you to guide you and answer your questions.

7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

FOTOshoot 229 Shooting From the Hip; The Rewards of Digital Rangefinder Photography with Leica

This FOTOshoot can be added to your passport as an additional FOTOshoot without the extra $80 Fee. Ever wondered why so many photojournalist and documentary photographers still prefer rangefinder cameras? Don’t miss the decisive moment! Please join us for this opportunity to discover the rangefinder mystique for yourself! From seeing beyond what the lens “sees,” to making whisper-quiet exposures, this workshop puts you in command of what many photographers call the most rewarding and creative camera system available. Leica M-System rangefinder cameras will be provided for this FOTOshoot. Instructor’s WARNING: Rangefinder photography is extremely addictive! Participate at your own risk!

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FOTOshoot 230 Behind the Scenes at Wellington Equestrian with Karen Ballard

Here’s your chance to get access to Palm Beach’s Wellington Equestrian Center, home of the famed Winter Equestrian Festival. You’ll come away with wonderful images of riders practicing jumping and dressage and photograph horses being groomed, and other behind the scenes stable activity, with experienced photographer Ballard to give you pointers.

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Seminar 149 Inside Photo Agencies Today with Jeff Burak, Uri Davidov, Scott McKiernan and Carmin Romanelli; Moderator: Robert Pledge

You need help to keep abreast of the rewards and pitfalls of today’s radically evolving market for images, photographer’s rights and contracts, and the use of new technology. These leading agency insiders will be discussing what’s happening with photo agencies and stock today, and how to get your images seen and sold and what to do to get agency representation.

Seminar 150 Digital Lighting Techniques for the 21st century with Lee Varis

Lee Varis reveals his trademark lighting techniques for digital photography. Several idiosyncratic lighting effects will be explored including: White-light, rainbow lighting technique; Still life “layered” lighting technique; Digital and traditional light painting techniques; Slow-shutter, combo-lighting effects; Faux light painting in Photoshop. Special emphasis will be placed on techniques that are more easily accomplished with digital photography or are literally impossible to achieve without digital cameras.

Seminar 151 Environmental Photography for the Geographic with Peter Essick

Follow experienced National Geographic contract photographer Essick through several National Geographic stories. In recent years, Essick has specialized in stories about the environment. He has photographed both the pristine landscapes of Patagonia and the American Wilderness, as well as issues of environmental concern such as Global Warming, Nuclear Waste and High Tech Trash. Hear the details of how to produce a compelling National Geographic story.

Computer Lab 325 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. See Computer Lab 315 on page 14 for details.

Computer Lab 326 Healing & Cloning Gone Mad with Ben Willmore

In this session you’ll learn how to take control of Photoshop’s most powerful retouching tools. Techniques will include: Removing telephone lines from graduated skies in seconds; Healing to the edge of the frame without producing unusual artifacts; Removing stains and tears; Fixing odd adjustment transitions.

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Community Event 619 The Rolling Stone Sixties with Robert Altman

“Robert Altman’s photography was instrumental in portraying the look and feeling and vitality of the Sixties,” says Jann Wenner, Editor and Publisher of Rolling Stone. Don’t miss this fabulous presentation of former Rolling Stone photographer Robert Altman‘s Sixties from his new book which includes Rock ‘n Roll, the Flower Children, Politics and anti-war protests and the movers and the shakers of the era and everything in between.

10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON

Seminar 153 Lightroom Part 3 – Exporting, Working with Photoshop and Sharing Images with Julieanne Kost

Discover the new export options and streamline your workflow when handing off images to Photoshop as Smart Objects, Layers HDR, and Panoramas. Discover the new picture package layout engine and additional new features for print, slideshow and web output.

Seminar 154 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. Additional 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. You’ll leave with a head full of ideas to apply on your next photographic journey.

Seminar 155 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 327 Passion, Permission & Pixels: Igniting Your Creative Photography – Shaping Your Image with Creative Lightroom 2 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 Lightroom, there is the ability to do this digital alchemy almost effortlessly – and nondestructively, with an incredibly amount of creative flexibility. This session will cover never-before-possible Lightroom 2 (and Photoshop) techniques for quickly, easily and nondestructively enhancing your photography. Seminar 118 is a pre-requisite to computer lab 327.

Computer Lab 328 Photoshop in Black and White – Shooting to Printing with J Tomas Lopez

In a world of color made simple why is black and white still so seductive? Tom will discuss historical use of black and white vs color (examples of how images function and how they change when seen in B&W); exploring the visual and esthetic difference between color and black and white; what is gray scale?; software and hardware. For intermediate to advanced photographers.

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

FOTOshoot 231 “The Teen Portrait, Natural Light Portraits” with Fran Reisner

Follow along as Fran works on location to demonstrate her technique for natural light portraits. See first hand how she finds the perfect settings, backgrounds and natural lighting for the classic, timeless portraits she is best known for. You’ll have a chance to shoot as well, and get the feel for this extremely popular and profitable business segment.

11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON

Community Event 620 The Treasures at George Eastman House: Reading Photographs with Anthony Bannon

The distinguished Director of George Eastman House, Anthony Bannon, presents an appreciation of the icons of photography, as seen through the Eastman House collection. Renowned for its depth and breadth, the collection also holds an array of unusual images from daguerreotype to digital, that Bannon cites as instrumented in the history and allure of imaging.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 621 FOTOFUSION MASTER LECTURE SERIES: Forty Years in the Field: Highlights of a Life Well-Lived with Robert Glenn Ketchum

Over the last 40 years, Robert Glenn Ketchum has helped shape the environmental movement of the 20th Century. Having served as Curator of Photography for the National Park Foundation for 15-years, he will show his outstanding images and speak specifically about the medium of photography with an historical perspective that underscores its role in helping to foster the American public’s environmental consciousness.

2:15 PM - 5:30 PM

FOTOshoot 232 Capture Glamour Poolside with Rolando Gomez

Famous beauty and glamour photographer Gomez will provide clear-cut direction on how to capture the inner and outer beauty of your glamorous subjects. Learn how to light “the sunbounce way” and create “golden hour” qualities any time of the day, with portable lighting gear, filtration, scrim and the reflector techniques used by the masters.

FOTOshoot 233 Documentary Image Making with Lori Grinker

Award winning documentary photographer Grinker will get you looking at the world around you in a new and original fashion in this hands-on field trip in Delray Beach’s Haitian community. Lori will open your mind and eye to see the ordinary creatively, and will influence your image making in a positive way.

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Community Event 622 All About SHOWTIME with Peter Kellner

In this fascinating presentation SHOWTIME Network VP Kellner will tell you all about the field of photography for TV. From on-the-set (unit) photography as well as special gallery conceptual photography shoots for famous Showtime series (The Tudors, Californication, Dexter, Weeds), to production of key art, publicity campaigns and series advertising.

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Seminar 157 Different Approaches to Photographing People with Douglas Dubler, Harrison Funk, David Hume Kennerly, Bruce Talamon, Vincent Versace, Moderator: Dirck Halstead

This outstanding panel will explore the secrets of photographing both famous and ordinary people with assistants, studios, and special lighting and available light in everyday situations. They are some of the world’s most exceptional people shooters, and all are known for creating exciting and powerful portraits, often under adverse conditions, each with their own approach to this wonderful world.

Seminar 158 Painting with Light & Shadow with Seán Duggan

In this presentation, fine art photographer Seán Duggan will show you how to evaluate a photograph so you can find the best path for creatively enhancing and improving the image to bring out the possibilities already inherent in the scene. The power of adjustment layers and layer masks is explored for sculpting with light and shadow, revealing how you can shape the image to guide the viewer’s eye or create an entirely different mood. Working with both digital captures and scanned photographs he will share his techniques for transforming the lighting and tonality in an image. Once you know these fundamental steps, you will look at your photos in an entirely new way!

Seminar 159 A Date For Three – A Modern Approach to the Engagement Session with Riccis Valladares

Paris, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, a junkyard... These are some of the locations where Riccis Valladares travels for his lifestyle sessions. Join Riccis on this seminar where he will share his avant-garde approach to the art of the engagement session.

Computer Lab 329 Advanced Photoshop with Laurence Gartel

Layers, Channels, Masks. Using advanced parts of the Photoshop program, learn the basics of how layers, channels and masks are used to create more advanced photo and special effect techniques.

Computer Lab 330 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.

FOTOshoot 234 Shooting Indoor Sports: Low Light and No Flash! with Serge Timacheff

Indoor sports can present some of photography’s greatest challenges. Learn what equipment you need, how to position yourself, getting the best shots, dealing with white balance and sports lighting, interacting with athletes, officials, and spectators, and more. We’ll have some indoor sports athletes on-hand to provide you with the chance to develop and practice new skills.

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Community Event 623 Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World with Gary Braasch

Acclaimed American environmental photographer Braasch tells the story of climate change in a new way, bringing together startling and breathtaking imagery with personal accounts and the best available scientific evidence. Don’t miss this important presentation by the winner of the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography, and the Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Assn.

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Seminar 161 How to Think Through an Editorial Story: Developing a Style and Point of View with Sue Brisk, Jay Colton, Ben Fernandez, Beth Filler; Moderator: Evan Kriss

This panel of prominent editors will discuss the concept of having a complete vision for your story to produce a cohesive project which reflects your style and point of view as a photographer. Among the points covered will be how to hold an effective creative discussion with your editor, define what you are trying to say visually, the idea you need to communicate to your audience, as well as budgets, deadlines, captions, releases and more.

Seminar 162 Adventures in Luminosity; High Dynamic Range and other Tone Enhancing Techniques – The New Frontier in Image Capture with Dan Burkholder

Dan Burkholder pulls back the covers on how he creates stunning prints from scenes that would be impossible to record on film or with a single digital capture. See Dan reveal this vivid new approach to the photographic image. With a digital camera and tripod, Dan makes multiple exposures of the same scene and uses special software to meld the expansive tonal range through a technique called High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR). Dan’s final prints reveal lush detail from the darkest shadows to the most brilliant highlights. You’ll leave with a checklist of hardware, software and digital techniques that will open this new frontier for your own creative photography.

Seminar 163 Motion and Time in Still Photography with Joseph Meehan

A photograph is a representation of the three-dimensional real world compressed into just two-dimensions – length and width. Photographers will often use illusions produced by different types of lighting or forms of composition to add the appearance of depth. There is, however, another way of introducing an additional visual dimension. Visually representing the movements of a single subject or different separate motions in a scene as well as using clues indicating the passage of time to expand the impact of the photograph. This seminar explores some of the most effective ways of interpreting the concepts of motion and time in still photography using a wide variety of human and natural subjects.

Computer Lab 331 Correcting Exposure in Adobe Photoshop with Julie Adair King

Some Photoshop exposure-correction tools work wonders, but some can make a bad situation worse. Photoshop expert Julie Adair King shows you how to pick the right tools for solving common exposure problems, from blown highlights to seriously underexposed images. You’ll learn tricks for successfully using traditional exposure tools such as Levels, Curves, and Shadows/Highlights along with a few techniques for hiding exposure flaws when the usual solutions don’t do the job.

Computer Lab 332 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 under Images > adjustments and pixel killing tools like the eraser with layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, layer groups and Smart Objects. This comprehensive tour-de-force through Photoshop’s most powerful palette 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!

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Farewell Bash

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