Crafting the Fine Landscape Photograph / Tim Cooper

During Tim?s Workshop, Crafting the Fine Landscape Photograph, Tim teaches you how to fine-tune both your Shooting Techniques while on location, as well as your Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop skills while in the digital darkroom. The workshop will offer an ideal blend of field shooting, critiques and lectures. The locations will be unique and awe inspiring offering you a chance to take some spectacular photographs. The critiques will be thoughtful, encouraging and clear with the purpose of helping you look within yourself and at your work so as to grow artistically and technically. And, the lectures will be concise in nature, helping you to develop your post-production skill set as well as a sense of craftsmanship when creating your final image.

Some of the topics to be discussed will focus on the participants understanding of color and tonal values - how they relate to both image capture and the final presentation. You will also learn how to use Adobe Lightroom to optimize your initial Raw capture, as well as develop an understanding of the navigation of the complex controls of HDR software.

Overall, the topics that will be covered will include all the elements important in the making and processing of a good digital nature photograph:

• Hands-on "in the field" instruction
  
• How to analyze your photographs
  
• Processing your image in Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop
• Crafting the final image in Adobe Photoshop
• Utilizing Layers and Masks for definitive? digital darkroom effects and results
• Photomatix/HDR

Workshop Fee and On-line Registration