FOTOfusion 2008 - Wednesday Schedule

FOTOshoot 210
Shoot Landscapes at Loxahatchee with Marc Muench
Dynamic landscape photographer Marc Muench will show you how to capture wonderful landscape images at one of Florida’s natural treasures, the Loxahatchee Wildlife Preserve, part of the Everglades. Marc will guide you through the refuge’s diverse wetland habitats considered to be among the Everglades most photogenic areas.

FOTOshoot 211
Fantastic Busch Wildlife Sanctuary with John J. Lopinot
In this special wildlife sanctuary field trip, award-winning nature photographer Lopinot will enable you to get close-ups of birds of prey, lots of snakes, and even a rare Florida panther Your images are guaranteed not to have that “caged zoo” look as you photograph animals without cages and have the opportunity to shoot wildlife handled by a “wrangler”.

Seminar 101
Travel Photography: Everything You Need to Know with Adam Jones, Rick Sammon, Brenda Tharp, Jim Zuckerman; Moderator: Sarah Leen
The key to getting great travel photographs is professional pre-production. The planning and research you do before your travel makes the difference between getting great photos or ending up with disappointing ones. This outstanding travel photography panel covers the necessary information you need on equipment to take and includes topics like: airports, security, packing, permits, property releases, weather and much more. Find out how you can quickly & thoroughly research locations to make it easier for you to return home with the images that you want.

Seminar 102
High Dynamic Range Photography with Ben Willmore
Learn how to bracket your exposures to capture the full range of a scene and produce images that go well beyond what could be done with film. You can do everything from creating an image that mimics what you saw when the image was captured to creating more illustrative images that do not even look like photographs. Learn to combine multiple exposures into a single full-range image and see how to enhance the brightness and contrast of your HDR images as well as other Photoshop processing that can take your images from full-range photographs to frame ready art. HDR will allow you to create compelling imagery any time of day, even when the contrast levels would usually be considered too high.

Computer Lab 301
Creative Photoshop Basics with Laurence Gartel
Digital guru Gartel will will cover several of the color adjustments that help make a photograph look better than it is: brightening, sharpening, etc. You will learn several creative ways of altering and manipulating images in terms of their color. Many people like to hand tint black and white photographs with soft colors while others like to create unique color transformations.

Computer Lab 302
Trouble Shooting Files in CS3 with Eddie Tapp
After the shoot, after the process, there are thousands of little issues that can become obvious. In this session you will explore a series of problem images and create solutions using a variety of techniques in Photoshop CS3, from quick and easy to a more advanced approach. Masking, Blending, Retouch and Specialized image enhancements and techniques will be covered using the powerful features and filters within Photoshop. Bring one of your problem images for the “stump the class” part of this session. We’ll take your image objective and create a solution. Silly if not fun prizes will be awarded to the most interesting objective challenge and for the coolest solution.

Community Event 601
The Canon EOS Single-Lens Reflex Digital Cameras with Michael Sheras Sponsored by Canon
An overview of the world of high-quality digital photography featuring Canon’s full range of EOS SLR digital cameras as it applies to all types of photography. Michael Sheras, a Canon Pro Markets staff member will go over the features of their digital cameras including the Mark III, EOS 40D, 5D and the digital Rebel XTI. Camera set-up and features will be discussed, as well as the use of Canon Speedlites and EF lenses. This lecture is designed for serious amateurs as well as professional photographers.

Community Event 602
American Landscape Photography: A History of Conservation & Creation with Robert Glenn Ketchum
This fascinating look at the American landscape and the creation of the National Park System will be presented by a man named by Audubon magazine as one of the 100 people “who shaped the environmental movement of the 20th Century.” Ketchum’s photography and writing for forty years have focused public attention on the politics of the environment, while helping to define contemporary color photography and pioneering new directions in digital imaging using extraordinary color applications with nature as his subject matter. Don’t miss this special event.

Seminar 105
The Portrait Masters Secrets with Jeff Dunas, Harrison Funk, Frank Micellotta, Bruce Talamon; Moderator: Beth Filler
Some of the world’s most exceptional people shooters, they are all known for creating exciting and powerful portraits, often under adverse conditions. Each with his own approach to this wonderful world, the panel will explore the secrets of photographing famous and ordinary people…with assistants, studios, and special lighting…and available light in everyday situations. They will answer the question “is it all really that glamorous?”

Seminar 106
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 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. Photographers attending Jack's sessions will receive complete sets of BOTH his Lightroom AND ACR Wow Presets. This seminar is a prerequisite to computer lab 318.

Computer Lab 303
A Basic Guide to Photoshop with J. Tomas Lopez
Designed to give an overview of Adobe Photoshop CS3, this workshop—and digital guru Lopez---will give you a complete introduction to the basic selection tools, how to navigate with layers, and the history palette.

Computer Lab 304
The Tools of Presence with George DeWolfe
This miniworkshop presents the tools in Photoshop and Lightroom that allow us to create Presence, or correct perceptual and emotional feeling, into black and white prints. These tools and their application are the result of years of experimentation and practice.

Seminar 107
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--from 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 will be discussed and their impact on the final print. 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 212
Guerilla Lighting for Portraits with Carlo Allegri
Guerilla war tactics are quick, unconventional, well planned and decisive. Using his wire and newspaper experience Carlo will demonstrate how you can make photographs executed in a minimum amount of time with a minimum amount of equipment that yield a surprisingly high end result that look like a planned photo shoot.

FOTOshoot 213
The Goodyear Blimp Exclusive with Marc Serota
An extraordinary photo-op with Reuters photo agency’s senior Florida photographer. You will have exclusive access to the Goodyear Blimp’s Pompano Beach home air base with experienced photojournalist Serota along to help you create special images.

FOTOfusion Master Lecture Series
Light and the Timeless Moment with David Muench/ FotoFusion 2008 FOTOMentor

How do you choose light in the landscape? How do you respondtolight?
What does working with the light require of the photographer? What does it give the photographer? The patience required in waiting for that single instant of light that is the timeless moment--the moment between past and future stopped forever in the camera--is the photographer’s most importanttechnique. By understanding the timeless moment, the photographer enters into the timeless landscape as well. Master photographer David Muench will discuss the importance of light for himself– and for every photographer willing to get up too early, walk throughstorms, and miss dinner.

FOTOshoot 214
The Digital Nude – On Location with Kevin Ames and Vincent Versace
IF you love shooting figure studies in nature you’ll love this FOTOshoot! Fine Art and Commercial fashion meet with famed digital photographers Kevin Ames and Vincent Versace on location in a tropical Florida setting. They will show you how to pose, light and photograph beautiful models with your digital SLR.

FOTOshoot 215
Beauties on the Beach: On Location with Shelly Katz
Fabulous models, a beautiful South Florida beach location, and renowned, award-winning photographer Shelly Katz demonstrating his unique posing and lighting techniques. After Shelly’s personal instructions you will be composing your own sexy glamour photographs in no time

Seminar 109
Survival Strategies for Fine-Art Photographers with Anthony Bannon, Penelope Dixon, Marjorie Neikrug, Charles Stainback and Dieter Steiner; Moderator: Dr. Richard Zakia
These notable, knowledgeable museum and gallery directors and owners will tell you how artists are selected and whom to contact and will give you insights that will help you to successfully present yourself and your work in the fine-art photography world. Find out how things really work in the behind-the-scenes world of museums, galleries, collectors and dealers.

Seminar 110
Digital Flower Photography with Craig Blacklock
A “see and do” workshop, which explores everything from the basics of close-up photography to digital magic tricks that have revolutionized the way this master nature photographer works. This seminar is a pre-requisite for FOTOshoot 227 Digital Flower Photography. In the lecture Blacklock explains his techniques, and if you sign up for FOTOshoot 227, Blacklock will guide you through the application of each technique.

Seminar 111
Meaningful Personal Portraits with Debbie Fleming-Caffery
Internationally respected fine art and documentary photographer Debbie will help you develop the ability to create more intimate images with sensitivity and awareness and show you techniques to help personalize your portraits. You will be inspired to make stronger and more meaningful portraits as Fleming-Caffery deftly guides you through the process.

Computer Lab 305
Creative Collage with Photoshop CS3 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

Computer Lab 306
Capturing the 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 impact 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 software. More than just a recipe session, you’ll see how easy it is to make stunning images that were impossible before modern digital cameras and software.

Community Event 604
Film to Digital- What’s On the Horizon of This Amazing Evolution with Richard Mackson
The evolution of Photography from film to digital has been an amazing ride. Photographer, inventor and entrepreneur Richard Mackson will reveal how he has personally made this transformation as a sports photographer and how the Eastman Kodak Company is making its successful transformation, after more than 100 years in a highly profitable film business, by re-inventing itself. Now, Kodak’s digital areas of focus are in image science, materials science (pigments & papers) and semiconductors--and digital earnings are growing faster than film’s decline! Kodak’s future for photographers means some exciting capabilities are on the horizon.

FOTOshoot 216
Creative Hand Held Flash Outdoors with Rick Friedman
Discover how easy, effective and creative outdoor fill and main light flash photography
are as award-winning photojournalist Friedman demonstrates their use on location.
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.

Seminar 113
Your Digital Images: Keeping them Safe and Preserved with Robert Farber, Julie Adair King, Joseph Meehan, Ross Whitaker; Moderator: Lydia Goetze
One of the most important issues facing photographers in this digital 21st Century is how do we keep our precious – and rapidly growing – digital photos safe and preserved for now and the future. This eminent panel will tell you the best ways to download, store, and share your digital photos. The discussion will include storage solutions for prints and digital files and their stability, how often you should copy/transfer to a new technology, offsite storage and many other thought provoking ideas.

Seminar 114
The Photographer's Toolbox for Photoshop – Black Hides White Shows with Lewis Kemper
With this one simple concept Black Hides, White Shows you can do 90 percent of all image editing in Photoshop. 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. A must for anyone using the digital workroom to improve their images!

Seminar 115
Lighting for Impact with Rolando Gomez
Glamour guru Gomez discusses in detail how to use the double-grid, photofoil, sunbounce and beauty dish techniques and discusses the shaping, seeing and sizing of light for impact. Learn how to use Rembrandt and chiaroscuro techniques to add “glamour attitude” to your photography. You’ll also hear how to make thousands of dollars each month in the private, in-home glamour business as well as the application of glamour photography in other genres. Gomez will cap the seminar with directions on how to imitate a $4,000 magazine cover lighting source for under $150.

Computer Lab 307
Creative Photoshop with John Reuter
Adobe Photoshop is undoubtedly the most important software program for photographers today. An amazing production tool for image processing and enhancement, it can also create intricate and complex composite images. In this seminar we will explore the creative tools of Photoshop. Among these are the new Quick Select Tool in Photoshop CS3 for composites, Smart Objects and Smart Filters that allow non-destructive effects on layers and Layer Styles Blending for unique image blends. We will also explore using the History Palette and History Brush for creative effects. To learn more about Johns approach to Photoshop, check out his podcast on Creative Photoshop in iTunes.

Computer Lab 308
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.

Community Event 605
Photographing Flowers with Barbara Ellison
Flowers can be revealed through several sources – from scanning to photographing, in black and white and hand coloring. You will see how to enhance your flower images through different printing techniques and display options.

Wednesday 16th

Color Key