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500, 600 series presentations: Free to everyone
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100 Series Seminar |
200 Series FOTOshoot |
300 Series Computer Lab |
400 Series Master Workshops |
500 Series Lecture Demo / Computer Lab / FOTOshoots |
600 Series Community Events |
700 Series: Free to Public | Portfolio Review / Technology Center |
Special Events |
>CLICK HERE for a description of the different types of events.
Note: Schedule is subject to change due to the busy schedule of our presenters. Changes will be posted at all sites during the week.
* FOTOshoot times indicate time that field trip leaves from The Centre and time that FOTOshoot ends at the location. Please arrive at the Centre at least 15 minutes before departure time. All FOTOshoots leave from Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s courtyard at indicated starting time. The FOTOshoot will end at the time indicated and additional time should be allowed to return to the Photographic Centre before your next event.
Master Workshop 407
Postcards from the Imaginarium: Combining Images with Photoshop Compositing with Seán Duggan
This hands-on Master Class computer lab takes an in-depth look at using Photoshop compositing techniques to create surreal and dreamlike images. We’ll examine strategies for determining what type of images work best for a composite, as well as shooting new photos with a specific composite in mind. Then we’ll dive into creating several fictional scenes by combining multiple photos to create a new image. Along the way we’ll work with various selection and masking strategies, explore the magic of blend modes, and master the power of layers and layer masks to create the perfect composite image.
Seminar 101
Master Indoor Natural Light with Ginny Rose Stewart
Learn to harness the light inside to make beautiful images every time you shoot!
Explore the secrets for using indoor light creatively as you learn how light and shadows make a photograph, how to understand different qualities of light, learn how to use alternative light sources to create unique images, and discover the techniques of creating special light effects including sunburst, silhouettes, and shadow play!
Seminar 102
The Art of the Self-Published Book with Sal Taylor Kydd
Join poet and fine art photographer Sal Taylor Kydd to hear about her process in self-publishing her books and learnings along the way. Through sharing her work Sal will discuss topics such as publishing options, financing, marketing and distribution.
Community Event 601
Senescence and Photographic Botany by J. Tomas Lopez
“Senescence” is the process of aging or decay, the term for how vital cells and tissues deteriorate. Certain actions can prolong the life of a flower, but decay is inevitable. Artist have long looked for the beauty in this process.
Beginning with Anna Atkins and Fox-Talbot, in the 19th century to Andre Kertesz and Irving Penn in the 20th C. photographic botany has been the subject matter for photographers and artists. A forty-five minute presentation with images discussing the trajectory of the early cyanotypes of flowers and leaves to the large format decaying flowers of Irving Penn. Why are we so attracted to this kind of images?
Seminar 105
Survival Skills with Anthony Bannon, Mark Maio, Robert Pledge Moderator: George Schaub
Learn from insiders how to make it in photography. Call it survival skills or simply the tricks of the trade. Veteran stars in the business have worked on both sides of the fence. They have networked for success themselves and they have provided opportunity to those who network to them. They will tell you how it worked for them; plus, an artist who recently created a life-changing opportunity for himself will tell his breakthrough story. This is a popular panel every session, and not one to be missed by either beginner or pro.
Seminar 106
Creating Compelling Compositions with Ben Willmore
Refine how you conceptualize and compose a photograph by learning to inventory a scene and create a composition that emphasizes the positive while rendering unattractive elements less prominent. See how changing your shooting distance can dramatically change how a scene is rendered. This is all about mindset and being able to create compelling compositions in challenging situations.
FOTOshoot 205
Stunning iPhone Portraits in Minutes: Portrait Editing App Tips & Tricks with Jari Poulin
During this FOTOshoot experience you will learn to unleash the potential of your iPhone’s camera and create stunning portraits as well as editing tips and tricks to take your images from capture to extraordinary in minutes using Snapseed and/or your photo apps.
Community Event 602
A Visual Journey: My Story with Adam Stoltman
My career in photography has taken me to some unexpected places……from photographer, to covering the Olympics, to editor at national publications, to internet publisher, to project manager and consultant for large corporations and foundations, to managing collections and more. In this candid and intimate talk, I will share stories, many quite humorous, and insights from various projects and assignments in each of these arenas. The connective tissue of visual storytelling is a constant in all.
Computer Lab 302
Custom Camera Profiles for easier and more accurate image processing with Lewis Kemper
Learn the importance of having a custom camera profile and how to incorporate into your workflow. If you process using Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop then you are basing everything you do on a generic profile that is provided to you from Adobe. This profile is not how your camera sees color or contrast. My creating a custom camera profile you not only save time processing but you do because your image has richer more accurate color, and better dynamic range. This simple process will make a world of difference in your images and your workflow.
Event 401c
The Memorable Portrait with Mickey Strand - Critique Session
This is the critique session for Master Workshop 401. You do not need to register for this. It is shown here for your time scheduling convenience.
Prerequisite: Master Workshop 401.
Event 501
Land as History's Witness: Photography of Our Everyday Landscape with Dennis Dimick
Landscape images of nature offer photographers a chance to document vanishing wild places yet photographs of our everyday world can offer rich visual potential for the curious. Dennis Dimick, who spent decades at National Geographic editing images of altered landscapes, will show and discuss his and others’ photographs of domesticated American landscapes, and how these images serve as visual markers of our history. He will cite two recent books that focus on the power of land use photography: American Geography – Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius); and American Silence, the Photographs of Robert Adams (Aperture.)
FOTOshoot 206
Food is the Most Shot Thing after Selfies with David McIntyre
So bring your visual appetite and ‘Chef’ David McIntyre, who shoots meals at restaurants for a living will visually wine and dine you! How do you make a plate look good enough to eat? David will show you his special styling and methods to tell the Culinary Tale.
Master Workshop 408
Cyanotypes in the Sun with Jill Enfield and Brendan Bannon
Additional Fee: $30.00
Use your digital images and go back in time to get beautiful handmade prints. During this workshop we will make digital negatives from your digital captures and go outside in to the sun to make blue prints (Cyanotypes). We will use already coated cotton squares and your own images and let the sun do it’s UV magic and expose the sensitized cotton. We then simply wash them in water and you have a beautiful handmade image that started with a digital capture! Jill will help you make the negative and explain how you can do this on your own once you are back home.
Community Event 604
Smartphone Photography Essentials with Jack Davis
Learn the indispensable, but often hidden foundations to getting the most gorgeous photos from your smartphone - both in terms of maximizing the SHOOTING miracles your phone is capable of, as well as the quick and easy ENHANCING options that are at your fingertips as well. And now with the advent of all the mobile apps that are taking advantage of AI, the possibilities are truly endless! From dreamy slow shutter seascapes, to powerful portraits, to starry night skies, to macros, to enhancing challenging landscapes to resuscitating old family photos - this demonstration from award-winning author Jack Davis will not only empower you to take better breathtaking photos RIGHT NOW, but will also show you THE FUTURE of photography that’s knocking at the door!
©Jack Davis, Mobile Photography Collage
Seminar 109
Smart Sell: How to Create, Target and Market Your Work with Angelika Hala, Veronika Lukasova, Robin Rayne, Micki Strand; Moderator: Evan Jane Kris
Join these panelists as they discuss methods to effectively market your work. Before you can start an effective marketing campaign, you must be sure you have defined your style and that you have a great portfolio of work ready to show.
Know your market – target your clients, know that the work that they do is compatible with the work that you do – do your research. Look at their websites, and/or their print publications. What you want to do is to show the client that your work reflects their aesthetic, their brand, and demonstrate your expertise and value to their organization.
Master Workshop 409
Getting Comfortable Photographing Strangers with Peggy Peattie
We look at, and discuss, examples of the different scenarios in which we might be photographing strangers. In my case that means individuals experiencing homelessness or other vulnerabilities, people at protests, street photography, portraits, events, etc. We then interrogate what it is that makes us uncomfortable taking pictures in these situations, and discuss how to manage and reframe that discomfort. We then head out and practice what we have learned.
Takeaways: Participants will identify their own inner resistance. We will do some role playing, then do an activity and rejoin to discuss our experiences as well as what lessons will guide our work going forward.
Critique Thursday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
Master Workshop 410
Advanced Lightroom: Local Adjustments, The Key to Power with Jean Miele
with Jean Miele
If you’ve been limiting yourself to overall image adjustments in Lightroom, or if you think Lightroom isn’t for “serious” photographers, you’ve been using it wrong. ;-) Learn how Lightroom’s super-powerful local adjustment tools can help you get the most out of your RAW files. Lightroom’s Masks: Linear Gradient/Radial Gradient/Brushes are the keys to power in Lightroom, and if they’re not a primary part of your workflow, you’re missing out. Learn how to re-direct attention where you want the viewer to look, and to make your pictures really “sing.”
Community Event 605
Self-Publishing for Photographers with Daniel Milnor
Photographer, explorer, and avid self-publisher Daniel Milnor, Blurb’s “Creative Evangelist” will provide insight into how to approach self-publishing for both personal and professional needs. Milnor, who has self-published since the early 1990s, both experimental and award-winning, will give tips on how best to enjoy the self-publishing process in addition to how to strategically utilize the wide range of options available today. From books to Zines, he will walk through formats, software, and pricing strategies for projects of all sizes. Milnor will also show an assortment of case studies illustrating how self-publishing works for a variety of authors.
You will leave this lecture with an understanding of basic self-publishing options, but more importantly, with an understanding of print in general and why print is such a strategic and entertaining aspect of photography.
Special Event S2
FOTOfusion Awards Dinner
Each year, the PBPC Awards Committee selects a photographer to receive the FOTOmentor Award in honor of his/her lifetime achievements in the world of photography. Among the previous recipients of this prestigious award are Ruth Bernhard, Joyce Tenneson, Carol Guzy, Ralph Gibson, Duane Michals, Arnold Newman, Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Douglas Kirkland and Maggie Steber.
FOTOmentor Award: Keith Carter
The recipient of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s FOTOmentor Award during FOTOfusion 2023, Keith Carter has explored time, place, and vernacular culture for over 50 years, as well as having been exhibited in over 115 solo exhibitions in 13 countries. Sixteen monographs of his work have been published, along with two documentary films: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, and Ted Forbes and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A new monograph, Ghostlight, was just published by the University of Texas Press, which released Keith Carter/Fifty Years in 2018. He also contributed to nine other anthologies and received the Lange-Taylor Prize in 1991 from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Texas Medal of Arts in 2009.
Described as a “Poet of the Ordinary” by The Los Angeles Times, his work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House, and more. For mor information, please visitwww.keithcarterphotographs.com.
Cocktail and dinner party starting at 6:30 pm at the Photo Centre's Museum
Admission
$200.00 - General Admision
$100.00 - Gold Passport
For registriation information, see the registration page.
You may download the 2023 catalog by clicking the link below.
> Download FF23_CATALOG.pdf