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Fulfilling
the Promise of Digital
With George D. Lepp |
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| The era of digital
offers us the promise of better and more enjoyable photography. Along
with the promise comes a certain amount of complexity
and confusion as to what’s possible and how to attain it. George
will focus on what photographers really need to know and demonstrate
the potential of digital. You’ll learn how to achieve better
results and more enjoyment from your photography. |
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| Great
photography is no longer just about taking well-composed and exposed
pictures. The final result you hope to achieve may drive the way
you plan the initial capture. Sometimes the optimization of images
is dictated by the manner in which we plan to share them. Today’s
digital photography involves mastering five distinct but inter-related
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| Capture.
How we capture determines the limits of possibility for each image.
The attitude that we’ll “fix it in Photoshop” just
won’t work if you want to achieve a quality result. Decisions
need to be made at the outset as to whether to shoot with RAW or
JPEG. Careful planning is required to create panoramas, get unlimited
depth of field with Helicon Focus, or to achieve perfect exposure
with HDR composites. George will help you to understand the ways
in which some new capture techniques and software programs are revolutionizing
the field by surpassing the limits previously set by film. |
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| Edit.
With digital we capture far more images than we ever did with film.
The end result is a glut of files that need to be edited, and only
the best should survive the final cut. George offers some essential
criteria for editing, and introduces a number of software tools that
help to make the decisions about what to keep. He’ll spend
some time exploring the different potentials of Adobe Bridge and
Lightroom for editing and organizing your images. |
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| Optimize.
We can choose a variety of image-processing programs, but Photoshop
stands above the rest if you’re looking for the best results
and the most options. But actually, there are too many options, and
George will help you to figure out which are important to photographers
seeking consistent and reliable results. Based on what we had in
mind at the time of capture there are many practical and creative
opportunities offered by Photoshop and some other processing programs.
The possibilities are endless, and George will show you the programs
he relies upon for effectiveness and ease. |
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| Save
Safely. You’ve done the work and have results to prove it.
How do you keep it all safe? The question is not IF your storage
media will crash, it’s WHEN--and will you lose your data when
it does? There are many simple ways to protect your work, and George
will share his own strategies for this essential function of photography. |
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| Sharing
your images. Now that you’ve created and processed your images
and have a body of work, how do you share it? We’ve come a
long way from the initial option of monitor display. Now we have
inkjet printers, the web, phones, digital projectors, and publishing
outlets that use digital. The only question is how to prepare the
image to assure that the final presentation is appropriate to the
medium, and that it achieves the vision we had at the time of capture.
George will offer tips and specific techniques on print and electronic
display of your work. |
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| Throughout the day, George will be available to answer
the questions that will help you to realize greater satisfaction in
your photographic endeavors. |
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