RMSP Weekend – Springfield, MA – March 14-15

If you can’t get away long enough to enjoy a longer workshop, a Rocky Mountain School of Photography Weekend may be just what you need. Each Weekend event delivers two full days of lectures, demonstrations, group critiques and, of course, lots of laughter and inspiration. You have the freedom to pick and choose the classes you would like to attend—or which instructors you would like to experience—from a list of 15 diverse offerings. These courses are a great match for the beginning to intermediate amateur photographer and include Photography Basics I and II, Understanding Exposure – Zone System for Color, and Importing and Organizing Your Images Using Adobe Lightroom, to name a few. The “choose-your-own-adventure” format of RMSP Weekends lets you attend the classes that you are most interested in, and that best fit your skill level, allowing you to make the most of your time with the school.

I will be teaching the following classes at the RMSP Weekend in Springfield, MA on March 14-15, 2009:

Photography Basics

Light and time are the basic essentials of photography. Regardless of whether you choose to use a digital or film camera, this will never change. This beginner class is an introduction to the use of the digital SLR or 35 mm film camera. Topics include understanding shutter speeds, f-stops, focal length and ISO. Basic equipment needs such as tripods, cable releases and lens shades will also be discussed. If you are serious about moving the dial from program mode to manual mode, this is the class for you.

Importing and Organizing Your Images Using Adobe Lightroom

When it comes to storing digital photographs, shoeboxes and filing cabinets are out and computers and hard drives are in. With the ease of producing hundreds of photographs per day, getting these images into your computer and keeping them organized is a crucial step. This class shows you how to use Adobe Lightroom to streamline your workflow. Topics include automating the download process, efficient methods for selecting your best images, as well as adding and using metadata to both organize and quickly find your photographs.

Processing Your Images: The First Steps

Whether you are working with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop or Elements, the latest software allows photographers unprecedented control over both raw and jpg images. The instructor will lead you through the important initial steps of image correction and enhancement. Topics include the advantages of working with the raw file format, correcting a photograph’s color balance and exposure, converting your images to black and white, and enhancing your images through the use of curves and the hue, saturation, and luminance sliders.

Processing Your Images: Fine Tuning with Layers and Masks

Since the advent of our art form, photographers have known that the camera alone does not produce perfection. A little lightening here and darkening there always improves the look of a photograph. This class introduces you to the tools that both Photoshop and Elements provide for fine-tuning your images. Topics include creating a step-by-step workflow, the theory of layers and adjustment layers, and using selections and masks to correct and enhance local areas of your photographs.

Photographic Techniques in Photoshop

The photographic process no longer needs to end when you click the shutter! There are many Photoshop techniques that can recreate the look or feel of traditional filters and exposure techniques with the added benefit of precision control. This class shows you how to create never-before-possible photographs in extremely high contrast situations, mimic the look of a split neutral density filter, shoot and process your own panoramic images, and retouch your own portraits.

There are many other classes and instructors available at this incredible event. Please click here for more information or to register.

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