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FOTOfusion 2024 - Wednesday Schedule
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.
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Descriptions
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
FOTOshoot 205
Making Good Images in Bad Situations with Adam Stoltman
©Adam Stoltman
We have all encountered situations where it is nearly impossible to make a good picture. The background is awful, the light is bad, the subject is uncooperative, there is too much going on, the situation was not as expected… these are some of the difficulties and challenges photographers face each day when confronting the world with their cameras. Using real examples from both students and professionals we will seek to turn liabilities into assets by developing strategies to create beauty and visual impact where it may not be readily apparent. We will dissect images and real-world photographic situations in a way that will allow you to confront nearly any environment and you will come away armed with a newfound confidence. Lighting, composition, people skills, and learning to step back in order to see a situation from other angles will all be a part of this engaging and interactive workshop.
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Master Workshop 407
AI Masking in Lightroom Classic, Precision Masking in Lightroom at Last with John Reuter
© John Reuter
AI masking has been upgraded with new tools such as Select People, Select Objects, and one-click Select Background. The Select People feature can automatically detect and create layer masks in high detail. Once these masks are created you have access to a full set of development tools such as color temperature, the entire set of exposure controls and the presence controls such as texture, clarity, and dehaze. Learn how Lightroom’s new AI masking tools solve the problem of creating masks. Select Objects will similarly detect and mask objects using the Brush Select tool or the Marquee Tool. AI will then automatically refine the edges of your selection to create a mask, which can detect fine details such as stray hair and eyelashes. One-Click Select Background will use a similar AI-powered feature to eradicate the need to invert a mask of a subject to change its backdrop, allowing you to directly generate a background mask with a single click. Explore all these exciting new tools in detail. You don’t want to miss this chance to see new features in action.
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Seminar 101
Write Your Ultimate Artist Statement with Jari Poulin
©Jari Poulin
You will write a compelling artist statement that can be used on your website, PR, your bio, and in exhibitions. Learn to describe and articulate your work in your artist statement so that others can understand and relate to your intent. You will also learn how to verbally describe your work and photographic practice in one or two sentences so that you will always be prepared when someone asks you to tell them about your work.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Community Event 601
Copyright: Know It or Blow It with Debra Weiss
COPYRIGHT = $$$
Understanding how to put copyright to work for you is crucial to your success as photographer. Predatory image rights demands and widespread image theft can leave a photographer's business in jeopardy. Learn what you need to succeed. Knowledge is power.
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminar 105
Landscape With Nude with Craig Blacklock
© Craig Blacklock
Since 1996 Craig Blacklock has incorporated the nude figure into his wilderness landscapes, allowing the viewer to experience the environment vicariously through the model. His nudes have been published in the award-winning book, A Voice Within; The Lake Superior Nudes, and in many magazine articles, including in American Photo, Fine Art Photo, Focus, Model Society, The New Nude, and recently in Good Light, and shown in several solo museum exhibitions. Through stills and videos, Craig will cover everything he covered in years of teaching workshops on Lake Powell and show examples from several locations.
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
FOTOshoot 206
Slow Shooting with Susan Currie
Additional Fee: $20.00
©Susan Currie
Take a pause and join photographer and author Susan Currie for an “unplugged” outdoor shoot at the Norton Gardens. Employing Currie’s signature creative approach, which fuses together mindfulness and simple prompts to enhance presence behind the lens, we’ll saunter the botanical and sculpture gardens and take our cue from the natural world’s mild pace. In this field trip, we’ll experiment with the practice of “dharma art” as a tool for bringing a greater awareness to shooting person, place, and thing. Photographers of all levels will discover heightened detail and space in their focus range as they tap into the spiritual qualities of making photographs.
FOTOshoot 207
Easy Studio Lighting with Mickey Strand
Additional Fee: $30.00
In this hands-on shooting workshop in a studio, we will talk about lighting and how to work with a client. Let's light the client to get a dynamic outcome. Use studio lights and simple flags and reflectors to make your next session captivate the viewer. Learn how to get a look with broad, butterfly, and side lighting. Everyone shoots during this small studio session and everyone walks away with images of the model. These simple lighting modes work well for many studio projects.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Community Event 602
Iridescence - The Art of The Iris with Douglas Dubler
This lecture offers a detailed discussion and slide presentation of his recently published book on Irises and an in-depth technical and aesthetic background on his transition from an editorial beauty photographer to the world of macro flower photography.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Computer Lab 302
Photoshop for Beginners with Laurence Gartel
Gain knowledge of the basic tools of photo manipulation and enhancement. This lab will cover selection tools to isolate component parts of a picture then take advantage of adjustment tools to brighten, darken, color enhance photos, then conversions of black and white to color. Learn how to hand tint black and white photos and create collage photos by cutting, pasting, and adding pictures from multiple sources. Use layers to place component parts of a picture with gradients, patterns and learn to change their opacities. Learn to resize pictures for a variety of purposes. Use the text tool to add creative lettering
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Portfolio Review / Tech Center P2a
AFTER THE SHOT Town Hall with Angelika Hala, Scott McKiernan, Ruaridh Stewart
©Ruaridh Stewart
Behind the Scenes of Picture Editing: What Really Happens!
The Daily RUSHES of FOTOshoot classes will have a Daily Editing Session by Master top Professional Picture Editors. Learn how picture editors think when they review your work. Ever wondered why one picture is selected over another? What is the process? Come One and Come All, and bring your work from your FOTOshoot class. Learn from the masters and learn from your work and fellow students’ work.
Under the guidance of three top picture editors each student will show work from the FOTOshoot they did. Bring a maximum 9 images, at a least one image from the FOTOshoot and rest can be existing work of one topic, concept or story. Also editors will show examples of stories they edited from beginning to the final selection and sequence. Learn from the masters and learn from your work and fellow students.
Master Picture Editors:
Angelika HALA from Stern Magazine, Europe’s top Magazine
Ruaridh STEWART and Scott MC KIERNAN award winning picture editors from wordless largest independent wire service: ZUMA Press
Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Community Event 603
A Unique 50 year career of Capturing Beauty… from fashion to conceptual from beauty to Nudes with Robert Farber
©Robert Farber
The most rewarding way to appreciate Robert’s work, is to personally visit his studio and to hear the stories behind the images. In this presentation Robert will take you on a 5 minute video tour of his studio — an entertaining journey of the story behind some of his iconic images and how his career evolved From Fashion to Conceptual… from Nudes into Beauty… to Re-Imagined, Conceptual to Video Art. Now 50 years later this unusual career path has been the impetus to the launching of a unique online Mentorship and Coaching Center whose mission is to inspire and motivate serious photographic artists to reach their goals, both creatively and financially.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Master Workshop 408
Take a Walk on the Cargo Side! with Stephen Mallon
©Stephen Mallon
This workshop is a unique opportunity to join industrial photographer Stephen Mallon for this unusual and exclusive FOTOwalk at The Port of Palm Beach. 15 billion dollars of materials move through the port every year, and this is a unique chance to photograph the day-to-day operations. Follow Stephen Mallon, and capture the inner workings of the port as he walks you through his process as well as some of the massive infrastructure that supports the international commerce in Florida. We will start with a lecture before heading out to the port for the shoot.
Critique Thursday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Master Workshop 409
Cyanotypes in the Sun with Jill Enfield and Brendan Bannon
Additional Fee: $30.00
©Jill Enfield
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 into the sun to make blueprints (cyanotypes).
We will use already coated cotton squares and your images then let the sun do its 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.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Community Event 604
Photographing an Environmental Story with Peter Essick
© Peter Essick
Peter Essick will share insights into 30 years of photographing natural areas, human altered landscapes, and ecological restoration.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Seminar 109
Adobe’s Miraculous AI Retouching and Enhancing Workflow with Jack Davis
©Jack Davis
You’ve heard all the AI buzz. You’ve seen the plethora of miraculous samples. But have you actually witnessed firsthand HOW to incorporate this Adobe generative alchemy into your own photography? And in a way that’s quick, easy, fun - and that doesn’t compromise your own personal (and very human) creativity? Come enjoy this fast-paced lecture/demonstration by Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Jack Davis. This lecture is a prerequisite to Computer Lab 412.
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Master Workshop 410
Crafting Your Photographs in Lightroom Classic & Photoshop with Ben Willmore
©Ben Willmore
If you feel that your images don’t measure up to the photographers you admire, then the difference just might be in your post-capture processing skills. If your images feel a bit bland, while you find others' work to be inspiring, lively and beautiful, then this class is for you. Learn to make your images come alive and be transformed into something you can truly be proud of. Ben Willmore has spent over 30 years refining images that he’s captured in all 50 US states and more than 85 countries on all seven continents. He has been using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop since the first day they were available to the public and has been pushing its limits ever since.
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Community Event 605
Photographic Seeing – Constructing and Deconstructing Images with J. Tomas Lopez
©J. Tomas Lopez
This PowerPoint presentation uses photographs of the past to engineer and reverse engineer what makes them iconic and how to use that to make your images have more impact.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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 Keith Carter.
FOTOmentor Award: David Burnett
Cocktail and dinner party starting at 6:30 pm at the Photo Centre's Museum
Admission
$200.00 - General Admision
$100.00 - Gold Passport
Registration
For registriation information, see the registration page.
You may download the 2023 catalog by clicking the link below.
> Download FF23_CATALOG.pdf
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