Community Events & Special Events

500 Series Lecture Demos are free to Gold Passport holders only. Members pay $50, non-members $90.

600 Series events are free to INFOCUS Members and Gold or Silver Passport holders, $10 otherwise. Community Events do not require advance registration and can be paid for at the door.

Special Events such as the Opening Reception, Awards Dinner and Farewell Bash are also described separately here.

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

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Special Events

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tuesday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Special Event S1

FOTOfusion Opening Reception and VIP Opening Reception for Full Of Grace Exhibition

Jump start FOTOfusion^® 2012 and meet everyone at this reception honoring FOTOfusion^® presenters, sponsors and participants.

Full Of Grace

Curated by Ray Merritt, this powerful exhibit chronicles the evolution of children in society, featuring more than 200 works of art, both photography and sculpture, from five private collectors. Advances and setbacks, both political and social, can be seen in these wonderfully descriptive images. Significant moments in child development - child labor and exploitation, the effects of intolerance, poverty, illiteracy, hunger, disease, war, societal roles and worldwide conceptions of children are all explored here, as well as a celebration of positive advances in child development and welfare. Join us for a journey of the last 150 years through the eyes of master photographers. Several panel presentations on this exhibition will be presented during the run at PBPC.
Gold Passport holders & VIP's: Free
All Others: $45

 

 

Location: Museum

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Wednesday 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Special Event S2

Awards Dinner

Join us for cocktails and dinner at the International Polo Club where we honor this year’s awards recipients. Ralph Gibson will receive the fotofusion^® 2012 fotomentor award and will present the 2012 rising star award to Renato D'Agostin.
http://www.renatodagostin.com/

gold passport holders: $75 • general admission: $150

 

Location: International Polo Club

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thursday 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Special Event S3

PBPC Museum – Full of Grace Exhibition Reception – Admission Free

 

Curated by Ray Merritt, this powerful exhibit chronicles the evolution of children in society, featuring more than 200 works of art, both photography and sculpture, from five private collectors. Advances and setbacks, both political and social, can be seen in these wonderfully descriptive images. Significant moments in child development - child labor and exploitation, the effects of intolerance, poverty, illiteracy, hunger, disease, war, societal roles and worldwide conceptions of children are all explored here, as well as a celebration of positive advances in child development and welfare. Join us for a journey of the last 150 years through the eyes of master photographers. Several panel presentations on this exhibition will be presented during the run at PBPC.

 

Location: Museum

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Saturday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Special Event S5

FOTOfusion Farewell Bash

Gold Passport holders: Free • All Others: $45.00

Say goodbye until next year to all your friends and make plans for FOTOfusion^® 2013.

Location: Museum

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500,600 Series Community Events

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tuesday 6:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Community Event 501

FOTOshoot: Photographing South Beach with Tom Smith, Leica USA

Discover the benefits of using a rangefinder for your Travel photography while exploring South Beach with Leica. Designed for novice as well as experienced photographers this morning tour meets in the heart of South Beach just as the sun hits the white and pastel-colored stucco buildings along Ocean Drive. Lead by Tom A. Smith and Jim Wagner from Leica, you will have access to the full line up of Leica lens allowing for the perfect opportunity to see first hand why Leica cameras are the choice of discriminating photographers.  Spend a morning in South Beach with Leica and understand how the full frame Leica M9 can help you to become a better photographer and differentiate yourself from conventional SLR photography.

Location: Courtyard

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Wednesday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 601

Floral Portraits with Barbara Ellison

There is more than one way to photograph a flower, as well-known flower and nature photographer Ellison will show. She will illustrate and discuss the many ways to create the floral portrait using various techniques including specialty printing and hand coloring.

Location: Library Auditorium

Wednesday 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Community Event 602

Some Of My Favorite Things... Curators Panel

with Denise Bethel, Virginia Heckert, Daile Kaplan, Justin Kronewetter, Janet Lehr, Ellen Tolmie and Roger Ward; Ray Merritt, Moderator - Admission: Free

A distinguished panel of preeminent art photography professionals and curators has selected their favorite images, and/or artists, in the Full of Grace exhibition and will discuss their selections. A rare opportunity to share the insights of the best and most knowledgeable in the field, including Roger Ward, former Chief Curator of the Norton Museum of Art; Virginia Heckert, former Photography Curator, Norton Museum of Art, currently Associate Photography Curator, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Denise Bethel, Head of Department of Photography, Sotheby’s; Justin Kronewetter, Photography Curator, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University; Brett Abbott, Photography Curator, High Museum of Art; Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs, Swann Galleries, and Ray Merritt, Curator of Full of Grace.

Admission: FREE

Location: Museum

Wednesday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 603

The Intimate Portrait / A Life in Photography with Joyce Tenneson

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see world renowned Joyce Tenneson show images from her retrospective book, “A Life in Photography,” as well as behind the scenes assignment work and never-before-seen 20x24 inch Polaroids, and give insight to her multi-faceted 40 year career as one of the top portrait photographers working today. You will have the opportunity to ask her about her working process and how she is able to engage her subjects to create her signature “intimate portrait” style.

Location: Library Auditorium

Wednesday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Community Event 604

Photography and the art of seeing with John Isaac

This presentation will include select images from John’s 40 years in photography to show what he calls the “art of seeing”, how he follows the rules but also breaks them. The final image is what he hopes will make people stop and take notice. Zen teaches us to “Stop, look and listen”, to recognize the familiar scenes that surround us and that we take for granted. This applies also to the exotic places we travel to. Whether it is photojournalism, art photography, or wildlife and nature, the “art of seeing” is the key to make good photographs. Sometimes one has to capture the image from the heart. As Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes in the Little Prince, “essentials in Life are not visible to the eye, but only with the heart one can see clearly”.

Location: Library Auditorium

Wednesday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Community Event 605

“ReCapture Your Vision” Image Enhancement Techniques with Janice Wendt

Admission FREE

Wonder why your images do not live up to your expectations. The exposure, lighting and framing was right, but the image did not live up to what you envisioned. Learn re-touching techniques that bring back the “alive” feeling, the mood, and all that inspired you when captured the image. Her techniques remove the need for tedious selections and endless numbers of steps, and save you countless hours in front of your computer screen. Learn how to get the most out of your workflow, optimizing raw images, noise-reduction techniques, global adjustments vs. targeted adjustments, selective enhancements, bringing out detail, applying traditional techniques, black and white images from color capture and creating a style with your retouching.. A must attend for anyone wanting to take their images to the next level.

Location: Library Auditorium

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 606

Why Don't My Prints Look Like My Screen? With C. David Tobie

Admission FREE

The classic conundrum we all face: our prints don't look like what we see on screen; and may not even look the same from one screen to another. The causes and cures of this dilemma are discussed in this session, offering photographers a series of options for increasingly accurate screen to screen to print matching, using Datacolor Spyder solutions.

Location: Library Auditorium

Thursday 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Community Event 502

Computer Lab 502 Color Efex Pro 4 with Janice Wendt

Janice Wendt, Nik Software’s leading authority on image retouching will teach you retouching techniques using the Nik Software tools. She will provide tips on how professional photographers obtain the final look on their images. Everything from getting the perfect sky to glowing soft skin will be covered. Techniques will include how to stack filters, how to create and save Recipes, use smart filters and using Control Points to speed selective enhancements.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Thursday 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Community Event 607

`The Sure Rewards of Knowing` with Jock Sturges

Distinguished photographer Sturges will show a retrospective of his famous images and discuss its cultural and academic background and the importance to him of autobiographical information as produced by other artists. Referencing his studies in perceptual psychology and anthropology (thanks to his wife) and art history in general, he will stress how vital it is for aspiring artists to be well and broadly educated--in art history specifically and in all culture more generally.

Location: Library Auditorium

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 608

The Next 50 Years with Ralph Gibson

Inherent in the eye of every serious photographer lies his or her unique individual visual signature. How this may be nurtured is one of the major issues facing the committed devotee of the medium. Showing his work from 1960 thru 2011, legendary photographer Gibson will describe his visual evolution as seen in his photographs compositional structures and recurring forms, found migrating from one image to the next.

Location: Library Auditorium

Thursday 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Community Event 609

Collectors Panel: The Art of Collecting and Disposing of Art

with Joe Baio, Joe Cohen, Henry Buhl, Peter MacGill, Joel and Sherry Mallin, Tom Morrisson, Loretta Ippolito, Sebastien Laboureau and Howard Greenberg; Ray Merritt, Moderator

Some of America’s most respected private collectors, Joe Baio, Henry Buhl, Joseph Cohen and Joel and Sherry Mallin will share their experiences and insights. Not only why, but how, they garnered their treasures and what the future holds from those works. New York attorney, Loretta Ippolito, will discuss the estate and tax ramification for transferring art today.

Location: City Commission Chamber

Thursday 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Community Event 503

Available Light Photography with the Leica M9 - Clematis at Night with Tom A. Smith, Leica USA

Take the LEICA M9 for a spin on an evening full of music and lights.. Experience why the world’s first digital rangefinder camera with a full-format 24 × 36 mm sensor continues the legendary heritage of the Leica M system, known for its outstanding available light capabilities. Tom will explain why the M-System is the tool to shoot in low light. Find out why great photographers like Elliott Erwitt and Henry Cartier-Bresson made the M camera their camera of choice.

Location: Atrium

Thursday 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Community Event 504

Computer Lab: Viveza 2.0 with Janice Wendt

Janice will reveal some special tricks she has developed using Viveza and will show you how to visualize and get the mood, depth and excitement that you saw during capture. Topics include getting the most out of your workflow, optimizing raw images, noise reduction, global & targeted adjustments, selective enhancements, bringing out detail and developing a personal style.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Community Event 610

From the Wall to the Towers (Berlin 1961—New York 2001) with Robert Pledge

From the Wall to the Towers (Berlin 1961—New York 2001) with Robert Pledge, With 160 b & w and color photographs from the internationally renowned Contact Press Images’ exceptional collection, Pledge, legendary co-founder and president of the agency, will present a four-decade photographic history of the world and photojournalism, representing the work of a select group of preeminent photographers, including America’s David Burnett and Annie Leibovitz, Great Britain’s Don McCullin, France’s Gilles Caron, and China’s Li Zhensheng, focusing on major international events, personalities, and social currents.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday, January 27, 2012

Friday 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 505

Computer Lab: Dynamic Black and White Images Made Easy Using Silver Efex Pro 2 with Janice Wendt

Do you miss the wonderful 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& white art. Learn how use Selective Color techniques using Silver Efex Pro 2.Topics 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.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 611

Buying Your Next Digital Camera: What's Your Best Choice? With Julie Adair King

Ready for a new digital camera but confused about all your options? “Digital Photography For Dummies” author King helps you narrow your choices by explaining the pros and cons of different camera types, from pro-caliber dSLRs to rangefinders to the new mirrorless interchangeable lens models. Get answers to such questions as how many megapixels you really need, what features make a real difference, which ones you can easily live without, and how to get the most camera for your money.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Community Event 612

Capturing Culture: Using Visual Media as a Tool with Adam Stoltman

Experienced editor and photographer Stoltman will present Capturing Culture, a multi-year project documenting Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in American Culture and Society. See the ways in which visual media can inform our perceptions and prejudices, and how it can shift those perceptions. It is instructive in how to build a long-term documentation project of this type, work with not for profits and funders, and retain the overall narrative direction of the work.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 613

Fashion/Beauty, and Fine Art with Robert Farber

Follow the evolution of a non traditional career path...from its beginning, where Farber sold his photography on the street, and how that evolved into a successful career in both fashion/beauty, and fine art.

From his first book of fine art nudes in 1976, while shooting men’s fashion for GQ, women’s beauty for Revlon & Ponds, fashion for Saks Fifth Ave and at the same time exhibiting in Galleries worldwide. With half a million books sold Farber’s story and images will inspire you whether you're a photographer or just someone who enjoys viewing beautiful images.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Community Event 614

iPhone Artistry: the Newest Exciting Frontier in Photography with Dan Burkholder

Lurking under the iPhone’s LCD is one of the most inspiring, capable and fun imaging systems in all of photography. More than just a snapshot device, the iPhone is a powerfully creative tool right in our palms. Watch digital pioneer Burkholder demonstrate his iPhone capture and image stylizing techniques to control color, tonality and detail in his iPhone images. Witness photography’s next revolution in this energy-packed hour presentation.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Community Event 506

Appraisals: What’s It Worth? Photography Appraisals by Daile Kaplan

Join Daile Kaplan, vice-president/director of photography at Swann Galleries, Inc., and photography expert on the television program, Antiques Roadshow, for a step-right-up photography appraisal. Travel, sports, celebrities, dogs, cats, flowers, family pictures, and photojournalism. You name it! Bring individual photographs, albums, photo jewelry, photography books, and framed pictures for evaluation. Nothing is too big or too small for consideration!

Location: Iris Room

Friday 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Community Event 615

Sports Illustrated presents Snapshot and Big Ticket with Jim Colton

Jim Colton will share the newest web and mobile photo applications Snapshot and Big Ticket. Snapshot features the Ten Best Sports Pictures of the Day...every day...from around the world as well as keeping the user in touch with current sports, scores and photography features. Big Ticket is a mobile photo app featuring photo galleries from live premier sporting events such as the World Series and Super Bowl. As new technology develops, see how SI keeps the user engaged with timely high quality sports photography from all corners of the earth.

Location: Library Auditorium

Friday 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Community Event 507

Computer Lab:The iPad and iPhone as Presentation and Portfolio Tools With C. David Tobie

The iPad and iPhone are up-and-coming answers to the needs for both photographic portfolio tools, and presentation devices when attached to a digital projector or large display screen. This session covers a range of issues involving importing images to the iPad and iPhone, color correcting them for use in any application, and displaying color corrected images on the iPad or iPhone itself, or an external display or projector, using Datacolor Spyder solutions.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Friday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Community Event 616

The Year In Pictures 2011 with Scott McKiernan

Presented by Zuma Press & ThePicturesofTheDay.com

Zuma Press & ThePicturesofTheDay.com Present The Year In Pictures 2011 with Scott McKiernan
Award Winning Picture Editor Scott Mc Kiernan will present this special multimedia presentation designed for Fotofusion 2012, that shows the highs and lows of a challenging year for America and the world--what a year it was--the year of the Arab Spring and The Fall of the World Economy. See it thru the eyes and minds of the top photojournalists of ZUMA Wire Service and its partner newspapers and wire services around the globe, including a special bonus tribute look back, to those who made a difference in the world of arts, entertainment, society and politics who passed away in 2011.
 

 

Location: Library Auditorium

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Saturday 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 508

Shooting From the Hip; Benefits of Digital Rangefinder. Photographing the Green Market with Leica

Ever wondered why so many photojournalists 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.

Location: Courtyard

Saturday 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 509

Computer Lab: Creating Natural Looking HDR Images Using HDR Efex Pro™ with Janice Wendt

A full review of Nik’s HDR Efex Pro will be covered: the tools that are available inside the program, how to use it in Lightroom, Photoshop, and as a stand-alone program. A full review of how to use the U Point technology built inside the program to control your images will be explained. Best workflow practices will be used including the best way to capture your images and what time of day creates the most dramatic images. A brief history of HDR will also be covered to review how long HDR has been used to create stunning images.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Saturday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Event 617

The Photo Icon – A Selection Of The Greatest Images Ever Made- The Pictures That Changed How We See And Remember With Tony Bannon

ANTHONY BANNON will present a visual treat, the legacy images of photography: the outer and inner space of the medium: The unforgettable icons of art and science and spirit which have changed and shaped history and culture - and the story behind them. Dr. Bannon, the Ron and Donna Fielding Director, is the longest serving director in the history of George Eastman House, the first museum of photography and holder of the world's largest independent photography collection from which his presentation is drawn.

Location: Library Auditorium

Saturday 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Community Event 510

Computer Lab: Tools and Techniques for Capture Control With C. David Tobie

New tools make it possible to assure razor-sharp auto-focus on your advanced DSLR cameras, create camera color calibration presets to assure correct color in your images, and optimize both the camera settings you use to shoot, and the RAW adjustments you use to correct your captures. This session will cover all of these techniques, including cutting edge methods seldom described, including ground-breaking techniques for analyzing camera histograms and previews using Datacolor Spyder solutions.

Location: Digital Lab 2

Saturday 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Community Event 618

Master Of Balletic Motion with Douglas Dubler

The subject of my talk will be the recent project I completed with American Ballet Theater in New York City. The shoot was a continuation of my decades long fascination with dance and my efforts to combine both sharpness and movement in the process. Starting with performance photographs and evolving to studio sessions my focus has always been to give a three dimensional representation to a two dimensional art form. A portfolio and feature article on my approach and technique is featured in Digital Photo Pro magazine this month. http://www.digitalphotopro.com/profiles/douglas-dubler-master-of-balletic-motion.html

Location: Library Auditorium

Saturday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Community Event 619

Environmental Photojournalism at National Geographic with Dennis Dimick

See outstanding recent environmental photography from the pages of the authoritative National Geographic magazine and hear noted Executive Editor for environment Dennis Dimick discuss how top ranking photographers interested in the environment produced these insightful reports, including behind-the-scenes details on the creation of the Geographic’s acclaimed April 2010 Freshwater issue.

Location: Library Auditorium

Saturday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Community Event 620

Creative Composition: Telling Stories with Photographs with Gordon Brown

Gordon will discuss his approach to taking compelling photographs that tell stories by using composition techniques. The emphasis will be using techniques that illustrate ideas and emotions in your photography. Gordon will describe in detail how each of the included photographs were made and the reasoning behind making them..

Location: Library Auditorium

Saturday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Community Event 621

How Journalism Changed the NFL Position on Head Injuries with Brad Smith

NY Times Senior Sports Picture Editor Brad Smith will give a fascinating presentation outlining how the official stance of the NFL, and it's outlook on players with head injuries, was literally changed by a series of articles in the Times. The coverage, highlighting the effects of head trauma in football, led to the NFL altering the way players are treated on the field and their subsequent treatment.select work and stories about these many projects and what they were expected to accomplish.

Location: Library Auditorium