5:00 am - 9:00 am
 FOTOshoot 217
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.
7:30 - 10:00 am
FOTOshoot 218
Mounts Botanical Gardens with Lydia Goetze
Noted landscape photographer Goetze will help you capture wonderful images in the 13.5 acres of Palm Beach County’s largest and oldest botanical gardens. With a lake and an island, planted with a large variety of native and exotic plants, and over 2,000 varieties of tropical and subtropical plants from all over the world you will have fabulous photo-opportunities.
8:30-10:00 am
 Seminar 117
How to Be Independent & Successful with Carlo Allegri, Nancy Brown, Rick Friedman, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Andrea Modica; Moderator: Scott McKiernan
These experienced and successful freelancers will discuss how to succeed in maintaining your independence and creativity, while getting editors to buy your images. In today’s highly competitive market you need to know how to develop and use good business practices and be original in selling your talents.
Seminar 118
Digital Capture for the 21st Century: Developing a new zone system for the digital photographer with Lee Varis
Lee Varis outlines an updated "digital zone system" that builds on the work of Ansel Adams. Beginning with a theoretical overview of digital exposure control and progressing through a practical step-by- step guide to calibrating digital capture systems, Lee shows how Photoshop/ACR/Lightroom and other available software tools can be applied to digital capture systems to identify usable dynamic range and pre-visualize the printed image. The basic principals of photography remain the same for digital capture – get it right when you expose the image and you will guarantee the highest possible quality.
Seminar 119
Truly Memorable Portraits with Harrison Funk
“The skill of the portrait photographer is in capturing the decisive moment at which the subject is defined.” For the past 25 years Funk has been shooting music and film stars, world leaders, and captains of industry (as well as some not-so-ordinary people) with great sensitivity and skill. He 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.
 Computer Lab 309
Creative Digital Darkroom: Hands-On with Sean Duggan
Seán will cover several of the essential digital techniques and procedures featured in his new book The Creative Digital Darkroom. You will learn how to evaluate an image to determine how it might be improved and explore several essential Photoshop techniques including sculpting with light and shadow, black & white interpretations, combining multiple images to control contrast, enhancing mood with custom toning, added textures, creative blurring and more.
Computer Lab 310
Streamlining your Camera Raw and Lightroom Workflow with Presets with Jack Davis
This session showcases how to get the most of the incredible breakthroughs pertaining to a streamlined, nondestructive - and even automated - workflow that have come to us in the new Adobe Camera Raw 4.1+, and Adobe Lightroom 1.1+. Jack with demonstrate quick and easy ways of maximizing the indispensable new Healing Brush, Highlight and Shadow recovery sliders, Vibrance, Clarity, targeted HSL controls, and the best Sharpening and Black & White/Tone features to be found anywhere - all by simply clicking on Presets that have already done the majority of the work for you. And when you do come up with your own "recipe" for an image that you want to apply to dozens, or hundreds, of other images, Jack will show you how to create and instantly apply your own sets of indispensable Presets so you'll never have to repeat yourself again. Seminar 106 is a prerequisite for this computer lab.
9:00 – 10:00 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 - 11:30 am
Community Event 607
Exclusive! The Best of Sports Illustrated by Jimmy Colton
In a special presentation, exclusively for FotoFusion, Sports Illustrated’s renowned, award winning picture editor will narrate the stories behind these fabulous photos. See the year’s outstanding, amazing sports images from around the world as featured in Sports Illustrated’s exciting weekly opening section, “Leading Off.”
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Seminar 121
Portraits that Tell a Story with Dirck Halstead, David Hume Kennerly, Jean Pierre Laffont, Debbie Fleming-Caffery; Moderator: Frank Micellotta
This celebrated group of famed, award-winning documentary photographers will reveal their approaches to both the technical and esthetic considerations of making outstanding documentary portraits. Listen and learn how they create strong and meaningful formal and informal portraits on location and on the street.
Seminar 122
High Dynamic Range Imaging – The Next Frontier in Image Capture with Dan Burkholder
Dan Burkholder pulls back the covers on how he creates stunning color prints from scenes that would be impossible to record on film or with a single digital capture. Dan used these HDR techniques for his New Orleans series to render amazingly detailed interiors that capture the post-Katrina destruction. See Burkholder reveal this vivid new approach to the photographic image. With a digital camera and tripod, he 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 virtual checklist of methods, software and hardware that will open this new frontier for your own creative photography.
Seminar 123
Create a Video Documentary in 3 Hours with Lucian Perkins
With video more in demand in today’s market, Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lucian Perkins will show you how to shoot a quick three minute documentary video. He will demonstrate the whole process of creating a documentary including videotaping a quick interview with the subject, editing and producing using Final Cut Pro software and how to produce high quality stills from the video.
Computer Lab 311
Use Photoshop to Manipulate Focus and Exposure with Julie Adair King
Some Photoshop tools work wonders, but some can make a bad situation worse. Learn which tools work best to solve different exposure and focus problems. Of the basketful of tools available learn how to get the best results from the exposure and contrast filters – Curves, Levels, and Shadows/ Highlights – as well as the Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen filters. You’ll also learn tricks for using the Dodge, Burn, Blur, and Sharpen tools.
Computer Lab 312
Understanding Curves with Ben Willmore
Curves is the most powerful adjustment in all of Photoshop, but it's also one of the most underutilized and misunderstood features. Once you learn how simple curves can be, you'll start to use it on every image you open and the quality of your imagery will improve to a level you currently cannot imagine.
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
FOTOshoot 219
Shooting Portraits on Location with Scott Wiseman
How do you create an interesting image of a person in a boring setting? Wiseman, an experienced award-winning professional, will show you how to create an environment for a portrait using materials at hand. 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.
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Community Event 608
FOTOFusion Master Lecture Series: Hollywood Behind the scenes - From Jazz to Movies, Action to Portraits with Bruce Talamon
A fascinating look at some of the exciting images and unique portraits of Music, Movie and ShowBusiness personalities created by Hollywood photographer Bruce Talamon during his thirty-five year career, including a foray into photojournalism as a contract photographer for Time Magazine covering Jesse Jackson's run for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination. From managing not to inhale until after his first photo session with Bob Marley, to shooting Christopher Walken throwing Johnny Depp off a balcony in Los Angeles, to squeezing three generations of comedy, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy into the sameframe at 3:00 AM on a Hollywood backlot, to hanging a five pound remote camera over the head of a Twenty Million Dollar Actor and not dropping it, Bruce Talamon has always come back with the shot. Listen to his personal behind the scenes stories as you watch his presentation of distinctive photographs
2:00 – 4:00 pm
FOTOshoot 220
Digital Flower Photography at International Orchid Center Gardens with Craig Blacklock
Master nature photographer Blacklock will take you on a field trip to beautiful gardens where he 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 devise; Juxtapose a perfectly focused subject against a soft background; achieve depth-of-field beyond the optical limits of your lens and more. Seminar 123 is a prerequisite for this FOTOshoot.
2:15 - 5:30 pm
FOTOshoot 221
The Female Form: On Location with Jeff Dunas
Widely recognized for his outstanding creative work with the nude, Dunas will direct this hands-on field trip shooting the female form on location, in an exclusive tropical setting on Florida’s Gold Coast and show you how to take advantage of the availability of open and broken light.
FOTOshoot 222
Capture Glamour at The Beach with Rolando Gomez
Learn how to light “the sunbounce way” with fabulous models on beautiful Delray Beach. Create “golden hour” qualities any time of the day, with portable lighting gear, filtration, scrim and reflector techniques used by the masters. Noted beauty and glamour photographer Gomez will provide clear-cut direction on how to capture the inner and outer beauty of your alluring subjects.
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Seminar 125
Creating Dynamic Images That Sell with Pete Cross, Bruce Jaffe and Cynthia Van Roden
Moderator: Ramiro Fernandez
This distinguished group of top editors and photo agency directors will guide you in how to create compelling news and feature photographs, and how to put words and pictures together for successful picture stories that will sell your images and help land you a staff or freelance job.
Seminar 126
The Professional Photographer’s Guide to Bulletproof Workflow with Kevin Ames
In this seminar Kevin shows you how to manage digital negatives using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. He covers importing to multiple external hard drives, naming conventions, automatic metadata addition during import, photo enhancement, creating and verifying archives on optical discs. Detailed demonstrations show how to use Lightroom’s powerful import features including renaming and adding metadata while copying photographs from memory card to two hard drives at the same time. Enhancing photographs using Lightroom’s develop module and applying them to multiple images follows. Then you see how to create custom collections and turn them into slideshows, Internet galleries and even prints. Finally you learn how to use a separate Lightroom catalog to verify that created archive discs contain valid data.
Seminar 127
Absolutely Terrific Kid Pics! With Ross Whitaker
New York-based photographer Ross Whitaker, withy expertise gained from long experience in shooting commissioned portraits, shows you how to get most out of your Kid photos. Ross will present his personal and commercial work with a lively discussion that will touch on equipment, film, digital, relating to your young subjects, lighting, and more!
Computer Lab 313
The Photographer's Toolbox for Photoshop with Lewis Kemper
Just as a carpenter decides which tools are necessary to build a house, a photographer needs to know which tools in Photoshop will accomplish the task. Lewis Kemper will demonstrate various Photoshop tips and techniques that he uses to enhance his nature photography. Lewis will teach you how to control exposure, contrast and color in your images in a simple and logical fashion. Using adjustment layers, blend modes and layer masks we will explore ways to work both globally and locally on an image without the need for complicated selections and masking techniques. (For participants with basic knowledge of Photoshop).
Computer Lab 314
Digital Fine Printing with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop with George DeWolfe
With Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 photographers now have at their disposal a quick and easy workflow for digital fine printing in both Black and White and Color. All Global operations are done in Lightroom. The image is then exported to Photoshop where Broad controls, such as the Gradient tool and Gradient Map, are applied, and then Local adjustments made with the History Brush. Printing is done through the easy Lightroom Print Module.
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Community Event 609
The Way it Was with Ralph Morse, Richard Mackson; Moderator:Arnold Drapkin
How were late-breaking news stories handled in the pre-digital transmission days of film? The inaugural flight of the first Space Shuttle blasted off from Cape Kennedy 27 years ago, before the advent of digital photography. See an exclusive film clip of how TIME magazine spent a year planning its coverage of the historic event in the days of film and hear the never-told-before tales of what went right and wrong directly from those who made and edited the images that recorded history. Also get the inside scoop of how exclusive film images of President-elect Reagan on election night made the deadline from Los Angeles to New York. You won’t believe how it was done!
4:30-6:00 pm
Seminar 129
Digital Color Printing: No longer a Mystery! with Douglas Dubler, J. Tomas Lopez, Eddie Tapp and Vincent Versace; Moderator: Gordon Brown
Don’t be confused with the many, many choices in color digital printing; inks and papers and lots of buzzwords – LightJet, Lambda, ink jet, giclée, Pictography, Iris, pigments, and dyes. This expert panel will take the mystery out of color digital printing and discuss the different processes, inksets, media types and new advancements in printers. These master printers will share how they handle and prepare their 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 130
The Essential Elements of Creative Outdoor and Travel Photography with Brenda Tharp
Great light provides you with the opportunity to make memorable photographs. But when combined with strong composition, visual design, perspective, personal vision and more, you have the control to create outstanding images. Join Brenda and learn how to utilize these essential elements to take your own photography to a new level of creativity.
Computer Lab 315
Digital Collaging with Laurence Gartel
In this workshop we will look at how collaging makes for a storytelling experience. One picture cannot tell a full story anymore thus by adding multiple pictures it is a cinematic experience in one image. - A sequence of cohesive ideas and icons. We will learn to use layers to organize and create our collage images. Using various methodologies of cutting and pasting, using transparent layers, we will come away with a finished project.
Computer Lab 316
Creative Lightroom with Presets with John Reuter
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an amazing production tool for organizing, editing and processing your digital images. It isnt really a creative tool, right? Well, you might think again when you explore the creative possibilities of Presets in Lightroom. Presets allow you to save any of the adjustments available in the Lightroom Develop modules and apply them to any other images. We will explore creative adjustments such as Black and White Conversion, Split Toning, Faux Infrared as well as settings to enhance color or black and white portraits. We will then explore how to save, organize, edit and use our created presets on new images. Lightroom is indeed a creative tool!
4:30 - 9:00 pm
FOTOshoot 223
South Beach Neon Spectacular with Ben Martin
In the early evening as dusk turns to night and the lights go on capture spectacular nighttime art deco images with experienced, award-winning, photographer and photo book publisher Ben Martin. Trendy South Beach’s extravagant array of myriad designs and the varied hues of the hotels, bars, restaurants, and their signage, make fabulous photographs. Bring a tripod.
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Community Event 610
Travel Photography with a Digital Camera with Jim Zuckerman
Noted travel photographer Zuckerman will explain how you can be more creative in the field using the immediate feedback of the LCD monitor. He will speak about a wide range of issues specific to digital photography in the field, from cleaning your sensor to handling overexposed highlights. Zuckerman will show dozens of his favorite images and he’ll share with you how he gets such amazing results.
6:00 - 8:30 pm
FOTOshoot 224
Fabulous Photo-Ops at Art & Jazz on the Avenue with Marc Serota
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, it also becomes an exciting evening full of fabulous photo-ops. Noted award-winning photographer Serota will guide you in capturing unusual images under challenging lighting conditions.
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