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FOTOfusion 2023 - Thursday 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 - 11:00 AM
Master Workshop 412
The Develop Module in Lightroom Classic CC with John Reuter
Adobe Leverages AI to Bring Masking to a Whole New Level
©John Reuter
This is what we have been asking for since the early days of Lightroom, Photoshop-level masking tools to make precise selections for image correction and enhancement.
AI masking is being 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. The face, body, skin, eyes, teeth, lips, hair, and more can be detected with a single click, eliminating the time-consuming need to carefully create your own masks. 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 "de-haze."
Select Objects will similarly detect and mask objects in Lightroom using the Brush Select 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.
Lightroom CC is more capable than ever, so you don’t want to miss this chance to see new features in action.
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Seminar 117
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.
Seminar 118
The New Instant AI Workflow of Photoshop and Lightroom! with Jack “Wow” Davis
©Jack H Davis
By now you’ve heard about some of the incredible features of the new 2023 versions of Lightroom and Photoshop - but what you probably haven’t seen is how to instantly string these new mind-bendingly powerful selecting, enhancing and retouching features together into an all new streamlined workflow! Yes, these AI miracles can be customized and automated to get a HUGE jump on perfecting every photo you will ever edit - on the desktop or even on your phone! Join Jack "Wow" Davis for this game changing lecture on the future of photograph editing - that’s here now!
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Master Workshop 413
Secret Life of Plants with Veronika Lukasova
Additional Fee: $15.00
©Veronika Lukasova
Did you know that plants have rudimentary 'eyes' – a particular way of detecting light? Join Veronika for a short lecture and then on to Mount’s Botanical Gardens to photograph plants and trees and learn more about what these unsuspicious creatures are capable of. You will create a series of photos of plants in the botanical garden setting including close ups. You will meet the next day to experiment with the photos creating collages reflecting on the plant powers.
Critique Friday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Community Event 607
How to Talk and Write About Your Work with Jean Miele
©Jean Miele
Do you get stuck when people ask you what your photographs are about? This hands-on, everybody-participates, mini workshop will take you beyond talking about the technical details of your photographs, and show you how to describe your work in a direct and meaningful way. In- class exercises will have you engaging people as dynamically with your words as with your pictures.
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminar 121
Discovering the Visual Story Behind Decisive Moments with Peggy Peattie
©Peggy Peattie
When we are able to anticipate and document the decisive moments in our communities, we are photographing an entry point, not an end point. By asking meaningful questions -- the how and why of engaging emotions like joy, sorrow, awe, and trauma -- we uncover unique, authentic visual narratives.
Takeaways: This seminar discusses reframing moments as entry points into essential visual narratives. We talk about what is essential for respectfully documenting someone's story.
Seminar 122
The Personal Project: Finding New Creative Paths with Seán Duggan
©Sean Duggan
In this talk, Seán Duggan will discuss the importance of the personal project for cultivating ideas, exploring stories or concepts, learning new techniques, and personal creative growth. Using some of his own projects as examples, as well as those by other photographers, he’ll share ways to find new paths to explore via image making, as well as discovering themes and threads that may already be present in some of your existing images. Both the short term and long term project will be explored, with a look at the benefits and challenges of each.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Community Event 608
A Thousand Words in One Picture? With Angelika Hala
Think of one photograph that moved you deeply. What do you see? A person, a building, a tree, a street scape? Or does the photograph feel like an experience, does it inform you, does it make you curious, does it invite you to explore, to investigate?
Photographs can be powerful narrative tools: they can be documentary or journalistic, they can inform the viewer and bring understanding to the world around us and inside ourselves.
I invite you to explore with me photography as a storytelling medium, from single image to a multi-photograph narrative. I will share with you a variety of examples of photojournalism and documentary photography, portrait series and from conceptual photography.
My goal is to inspire you and to encourage you to find your unique narrative voice in your photographic work.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Computer Lab 306
Monochrome Moods with George Schaub
©George Schaub
Author and editor George Schaub has written numerous books on monochrome digital photography, as well as exhibited his monochrome prints in various galleries and museums. In this hands-on computer workshop Schaub shares his Photoshop processing techniques, with an emphasis on conversion, tonal control and selective adjustments using Adobe Camera Raw, which allows for a wide array of interpretations and moods for subjects ranging from portraits to architecture to abstract nature studies. Emphasis will be placed on “filling the gamut” to aid in the creation of vivid prints. This is a hands-on workshop so attendees should come with a good selection of their own images and an idea of how they might want to interpret them.
Level: Intermediate. A basic knowledge of Photoshop navigation is required.
Portfolio Review / Tech Center P3
FOTOfusion Portfolio Reviews
Bring your portfolio for top photographers, picture editors and other pros in the business to evaluate your work.
Portfolio reviews are available Thursday through Saturday, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Register 1 day in advance for each portfolio review. If there is availability, you may sign up the same day. Times may vary, so consult the individual daily schedule for exact times.
You may request a portfolio review with a specific artist. To schedule a review with a specific artist, go to the portfolio review area to see the schedule. Please do this before the artist's schedule fills up. Individual artists are scheduled for certain day(s) and time(s) and are only available when they are scheduled.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event 502
A Life in Photography by Joyce Tenneson
©Joyce Tenneson
This will be a rare opportunity to share a personal walk through Joyce Tenneson’s journey, not only as a photographer, but as someone who has had a lifelong interest in teaching and empowering others.
Joyce says: “The isolation of the Covid Period gave me the opportunity not only to create a new body of work, but also to put together this collection of my very best work done over the past forty years.”
I hope you will all join us for this intimate walk through Tenneson’s life and career!
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
FOTOshoot 212
Capture the Action of a Polo Match with Adam Stoltman
©Adam Stoltman
Learn to anticipate action, hone your reflexes, and sharpen your skills at a Palm Beach area polo match. Join 30-year veteran sports photographer Adam on a live sports shoot and get on-site instruction in how to cover action first hand. There will be a review and discussion of the images produced. Attend a live event with this veteran of 10 Olympic Games and former Deputy Picture Editor for Sports Illustrated.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Event 402c
The Family Photographer Critique session with Ginny Rose Stewart
This is the critique session for Master Workshop 402. You do not need to register for this. It is shown here for your time scheduling convenience.
Prerequisite: Master Workshop 402.
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
FOTOshoot 213
Shoot The Garden Environment at Pans Garden with Jill Enfield
©Jill Enfield
Learn to analyze visual content to capture images in a way you want them presented to the viewer with renowned fine arts photographer Jill Enfield. Enfield will clearly convey composition techniques such as Leading Lines, Rule of Thirds, Depth of Field and more with 20 different tips, in a comprehensive PowerPoint illustrated with many beautiful photos from accomplished photographers. At Pan’s Garden you will practice the many lessons you have learned; discuss your images with Enfield as she guides you to improve them. Bring any camera you prefer to use, from a film camera, to digital to a camera phone.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Community Event 610
Chile in September with photographs by Raymond Depardon and David Burnett with Robert Pledge
©David Burnett
©Raymond DePardon
On September 11 of 1973, a military coup overthrew a freely elected president and his administration in a country with the second oldest constitution in the Americas, after that of the USA. Robert Pledge was an intrepid journalist who had visited Chile two years earlier with French photographer Raymond Depardon. He successfully encouraged David Burnett, a young American photographer recently back from Vietnam, to go and witness the immediate aftermath of the most brutal takeover. Fifty years later, he is bringing together for the first time the work by the two now famed photojournalists along with a few iconic images by Chilean photographers, to produce a book about the frailty of democracy and the preciousness of the rule of law.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Seminar 125
Dive Into the World of Virtual Production with Alan Winslow
LED Walls, Unreal Machine, Unity, photogrammetry. The world of photography is ever-changing, which can be intimidating to any photographer. n this Q&A-based lecture, Winslow will discuss the new groundbreaking technology and how you can incorporate it into your practice.
Seminar 126
How to Navigate the Changing Media Marketplace with Richard Liebowitz
Learn your value as visual communicators to brands, publishers and companies seeking to use visual content to create a compelling message to their audience. Your role in creating, shaping and distributing content as core messaging. How to maintain ownership and possession of key rights associated with the act of creation throughout the publication and distribution processes.
Computer Lab 307
Retouching in Photoshop with Ben Willmore
©Ben Willmore
Discover what is unique about each of Photoshop's retouching tools and learn how they can best be used together to accomplish any retouching challenge. Your guide is someone who has used Photoshop from the first day it was available and has written over a dozen books on the topic, which have been translated into 9 languages.
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Master Workshop 414
Expanding Your Creativity with Time/Motion Techniques with Lewis Kemper
©Lewis Kemper
During this master class you will have the opportunity to learn and try techniques for adding motion to your still images. Today’s outdoor photographer has many options for expanding their creativity beyond that of a simple exposure. Using techniques such as Long Exposures, both day and night, we can now make photographs that dazzle the viewer. By using strong neutral density filters in the day, we can capture motion in still images. Familiar subjects such as water and clouds will be totally different.
Time lapse allows us to condense time and show a view of our world that is lost to the normal observer. You will learn how to shoot time lapse and process your time lapse sequence. Lewis covers how to use an intervalometer and bulb timers for long exposures and for time lapse whether it be an external device, or one built into your camera.
Going beyond the static still image, you can create amazing photographs applying Time/Motion techniques to your still images.
Part one of the class will be a presentation by Lewis of the various techniques.
Part two will be a field session where we practice the techniques
Part three will be a review of the images and any additional needed instruction.
You must have at least 15 stops of Neutral Density Filters for this field session.
Critique Friday 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Community Event 620
What Makes a Photo Icon? With Dr. Anthony Bannon
Dr. Anthony Bannon, prize-winning writer and much honored museum director, will tell the story of several photo icons and explore why other fine photographs are not as memorable. In the process, he will identify some of the aesthetic and thematic standards through which excellence in art and culture is recognized. Working with the audience, Bannon will create a checklist of standards that photographers could use in creating great pictures.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminar 129
The Photograph Transformed with Andrea Modica
©Andrea Modica
In this lecture and discussion, Andrea Modica will investigate how the content of a body of photographic work is affected by its presentation. We will ponder how meaning fundamentally changes when we present images as fine art prints, on a screen, in an exhibition, or as a physical book. She will present her two most recent projects, both of which have been presented as exhibitions and books: 2020 (TIS, 2021) and Theatrum Equorum (TIS 2022).
Seminar 130
Creating the Photography Zine - (Photography + Bookmaking = Zine making) with Daniel Milnor
©Dan Milnor
The term “‘Zine,” refers to a small-circulation, self-published, underground, or informal magazine. The “Zine,” has been around for decades but has recently exploded in popularity. Zines are often referred to as “democratized” publishing due to their informal and inexpensive nature. You will need to bring a laptop computer and will need to install Blurb Bookwright prior to the class. You should also bring enough images with you to be able to put together a short photo essay (picture package) from your images. You will learn the software required to create your Zine. (Blurb Bookwright, free and easy.) and then you will be able to design and build your own Zine utilizing the Blurb software. (Daniel will provide each participant a code for a free Zine.)
Computer Lab 308
Photoshop Portrait Retouch with Mickey Strand
In this 3-hour hands-on portrait retouching class, students join Mickey on the adventure of taking the captured portrait to maximum storytelling within that one 125th of a sec. Editing that decisive moment capture, to create a timeless image.
Once an image is captured, we will edit the image with some of the most powerful tools in Photoshop, Learn to bring out the best of what RAW data the camera captured.
If you're new to Adobe Photoshop, this class will take you through the basics of editing and the tools needed to get the best results. We will use Adjustment and Smart Layers. We will demonstrate why and how to use adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and brushes to get better portraits. We will even talk about how Frequency separation can benefit your editing toolbox. We will talk about your RAW images.
Editing the human face is not hard you just have to care to get the best from your portraits.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Community Event 612
Photography is Life Changing with Brendan Bannon
©Brendan Bannon
What do refugee children, combat veterans, jazz musicians and HIV+ Children have in common? Photographer Brendan Bannon talk about how his community collaborations and educational workshops have led to durable changes in the lives of individuals and have strengthened communities at home and abroad.
Brendan began photographing in his early 30’s to navigate depression and exhaustion. His practice draws on the lessons he learned in that process and in his work as a caregiver through his mothers’ battle with Multiple Sclerosis. “Photography offered new pathways for engagement in my life. I try to pay it forward with community projects, in the relationships I forge and the stories I tell,” said Brendan.
Brendan will share the inspiring stories behind his pictures and the pictures his students have made over the last two decades.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Special Event S3
Keith Carter's Exhibition Opening Reception
©Keith Carter
Keith Carter is the recipient of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s FOTOmentor Award during FOTOfusion 2023.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
FOTOshoot 214
Night Life at the Fair with David McIntyre
Additional Fee: $20.00
©David McIntyre
The South Florida Fair has a vibe and speed of its own. Feature and cultural story expert David McIntyre, is the man to guide you. Taking you on a Night time Carnival Adventure at the one and only local winter event! Learn how to experiment with fill flash for portraits and work available light for candid moments, focusing on features. Fair lighting can be tricky yet fun. David who is an Olympic game veteran will teach you his tricks to capture motion in this changing fast fair environment. While also spending time looking for feature elements to create a story, for a Night to remember!
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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