At the heart of our desire to create photographs is the need to convey the feeling we experience while seeing a moment of life happen before our eyes-at the time the image is felt and seen.

The challenge of photography is to create still images that move the viewer the same way that we are moved when committed to the moment while capturing the image. All too frequently, the attempt to reveal the image on a monitor or paper as the image was experienced becomes laborious and frustrating. This workshop reveals the methods and techniques for overcoming these challenges both out in the field and in the digital darkroom.

A workshop based on the newly revised book “Welcome to Oz” to be released this summer, this workshop is for digital photographers that want to learn the secret of how to be taken by a photograph rather than a photographer taking pictures. This workshop teaches participants the why to, how to, and when to use technical skills to create the photographic images and prints that convey the same feeling as experience behind the camera.

Participants explore new ways of seeing and make composition and framing choices at the speed of life, without hesitation, in the - Exercises to improve compositions skills

• How to control the viewer’s eye to move through an image they way you want it to be seen
• Lighting on a Laptop
• How to practice preemptive Photoshop - getting it right in camera so as to make life easier in post processing
• Image Harvesting - capturing multiple images for, focus, exposure and blur and putting them together to look like one image
• Black and White conversions that replicate the look of silver prints
• The key techniques to making the best prints

As the photographer is taken in at the moment he or she clicks, students discover ways to transmit this feeling to the viewer through the single frame. By week’s end, students have conquered numerous techniques in camera and in the digital darkroom, with new eyes, new workflow and an array of new prints.  The result is not only beautiful imagery, but photographs that take the viewer as if they were behind the camera for that exact moment.