Workshop program 2010

Mastering the Photographic Assignment / Allen Rokach

How do magazine photographers go to a new location and come back with a variety of dramatic, telling photographs? This workshop will simulate a magazine travel & feature assignment. Drawing on more than 30 years as a freelance and staff magazine assignment photographer, Allen has successfully fulfilled editorial and commercial assignments for a long list of national and international magazines and corporate clients. The skills he has developed are shared in this dynamic and engaging workshop. Students will learn to maximize their photographic opportunities even with a limited amount of time in a new location. Using the many spectacular locations around Iceland, participants will practice creating professional level photos and will learn how to think like photographers, editors and art directors and will learn how best to market their images. At weeks end, you will emerge with a selection of terrific pictures and with a new found appreciation for how much can be accomplished in a week.

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Crafting the Fine Landscape Photograph / Tim Cooper

Great landscape photography has always been associated with fine craftsmanship, attention to detail, and an ability to translate the captured image into a fine print. While Iceland offers a perfect canvas for the landscape photographer to sketch it’s incredible environment, Tim will guide you in translating the images to fine works of art. The workshop will offer an ideal blend of field shooting in unique and awe inspiring locations, thoughtful critiques and clear, concise lectures. Discussions will focus on the participants understanding of color and tonal values and how they relate to both image capture and the final presentation. Further topics will include how to use Adobe Lightroom to optimize your initial Raw capture, and the navigation of the complex controls of HDR software.

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Taking Time: Developing Photographic Reflexes, Presence

and a Sense of Narrative / Adam Stoltman

This workshop will help you to become a better photographer by teaching you to be more present in the moment.  By quieting the mind, tuning in, and by developing comfortable reflexive responses to photographic situations, you will gain a greater mastery of your picture taking, and an easy familiarity with your equipment and tools.  Set against timeless vistas and taught by an instructor with experience on both sides of the lens as a photographer and an editor at publications including The New York Times and Sports Illustrated, the workshop will also offer students a rare chance to hone their skills along the natural lines of their creative interests and abilities.   Guided by an experienced hand that has shaped countless stories, you will develop a strong sense of visual narrative as we build a story around our experiences throughout the week, and learn the discipline of working a situation until it yields compelling visual results.   Group discussion and critique will help us to sharpen our collective skills -- and forge new creative bonds.

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Interpreting the Last Great Landscape / Tony Sweet

Nature photography is the art of interpretation. Seeing a scene and pressing the shutter release is certainly one way to do it. But, unless you feel what you’re photographing, others won’t feel anything from your image. Iceland is one of the last great photographic frontiers. This workshop will be an extension of our Visual Artistry photography workshops in terms of creating visually exciting and personal interpretations of the austere Icelandic landscape from the vast AND EXPANSIVE view to the smallest OF detail. We will be traveling en masse by special vehicle capable of traversing the remote streams and rocky trails, yet maintaining many of our creature comforts (electrical for laptop use, heat, and a high and unobstructed view as we travel). We will be led by Icelandic trail blazing guides who know off the beaten path, unique shooting locations which will maximize our photographic experience in terms of varied and unique locations and quality of light. There will be ample time to process and critique images made each day to best record this once in a lifetime photographic experience.

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Mastery of Landscape / Stephen Johnson

Photography is about vision and craft. Both can be made stronger in us, but they are very different. The image is non-verbal, often intuitive and always visual. The craft is care, experience, patience and detail. Meshing the two can be challenging, as they seem to draw upon different parts of the brain and personality. Both can be aided through teaching, but in very different ways. We are in age of craft defined as tips and tricks, and little discussion of vision at all. Craft is not tricky; it is plain hard work and care. Vision cannot be taught in and of itself, but sensitivities can be recognized and encouraged, as can strong design.

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Digital SLR Field Techniques / George Schaub

Described as a “hands-on” instruction book, George Schaub’s Digital SLR Field Techniques makes each and every aspect of your camera come alive as you explore both the digital and photographic aspects of its operation. The class also emphasizes how to see and read light to make it enhance every subject and scene and how light, exposure and composition all work hand in hand. Working on location, you’ll learn as you create great images working with exposure controls, white balance, on-camera fill flash, lens selection, focusing techniques, digital menus and more. The day’s shoot is complemented with evening critiques and discussions, as well as a thorough investigation of the potential of RAW image file processing. . Instruction is based on lighting and locale and your desire to create images the way you see them.

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Destination Iceland / John Paul Caponigro

John Paul Caponigro is one of the most creative visual artists working today. Dedicated to fostering the growth of creativity in others, he exhibits, writes, lectures, and teaches seminars and digital photography workshops. Inspiring conscientious creative interaction, his life's work is a call to connection with our natural world, with each other, and with ourselves. This site will answer all of your questions about John Paul - who, what, where, when, how, and why. You can explore a web of connections to individuals and communities he interacts with.

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Mastering Lightroom and Photoshop

in the breathtaking landscape of Iceland / Julieanne Kost

The course will be a graceful balance between making images in the filed and discovering how to take advantage of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s efficient work flow while simultaneously refining any necessary Photoshop skills. Each participant will be challenged to communicate their own personal vision within the group as they explore and expand upon their image making skills as single decisive moments, sequences of storytelling, and/or components or elements of composites.

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Color, Shape and Form: Creating Captivating Images

in Iceland / Seth Resnick

Seth Resnick's visual philosophy is to produce images nobody else envisions. Seth tries to bring back images that another photographer would not visualize from his "minds eye". Color, design, texture and spontaneity are key elements for all of his images. Through photography he communicates. Seth is intrigued by the process of reducing a real three dimensional world into a single plane while capturing a true moment in time that produces emotion for a viewer. Shooting digitally allows Seth to combine editing while shooting allowing him to see in real time and improve the image. Seth is excited to explore all the potential possibilities of the dramatic landscape in Iceland. This workshop will bring together capturing and outputing optimal digital files using D65's Lightroom Workflow.

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Bringing Your Vision to Life / Laurie Excell

From the Click of the Shutter to the Finishing Touches in the Digital Darkroom.

Each one of us has our own unique vision of the world. This workshop is designed to help you bring your vision to life. Over the course of the week, we will embark on a great adventure enjoying and making beautiful images of the wonders of Iceland. We’ll work on better understanding of the tools we use to make images (cameras, lenses, accessories, etc) and honing our photographic skills to capture the best image possible in the camera and then adding the finishing touches in the digital darkroom. Each day we will follow the light photographing when the light is best followed by downloading and reviewing our images, celebrating our successes and learning how to improve our photographic skills to the point where the technical is unconscious and our creativity emerges.

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Exploring the light in Iceland / Joe McNally

Much of what professionals are called on to do is done on location. Learning how to scout a location and use existing and artificial light creatively is absolutely crucial to success. In this workshop participants learn how to use natural and artificial light, reflectors, strobes, tungsten and fluorescent lighting systems to light and photograph portraits, interiors, exteriors, large and small spaces, and street scenes. Emphasis is on lighting technique and how to “write” with lighting to shape the mood, color, tenor, and feel of a photograph. Color temperature, as it relates to the effective mixing of natural light and strobe, is also covered.

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Light, Design and Color: The Expressive Landscape in Iceland / Brenda Tharp

Developing personal vision and mastering the craft of photography are the two key elements in creating expressive photographs. In this workshop, participants will be immersed in an exhilarating environment and be guided by Brenda on how to interpret the scene before them into artistic photograph. The workshop will focus on developing a creative eye while exploring some of the finest locations Iceland has to offer. Brenda will discuss the creative process, from seeing to translating that vision into the final image. Key topics of composition, creating visual depth, utilizing nature’s design, and applying special  techniques will provide the basis for learning how to create more expressive images. The workshop will be balance of photographing the awesome environment, visual presentations and thoughtful, helpful critiques of your work. Processing your RAW images in Lightroom, using HDR software, and applying creative computer techniques that can help you take your images creatively further will also be covered.

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