In this course, students learn a workflow for creating fine digital prints. The workflow includes digital capture, digital processing in Adobe Photoshop and/or Lightroom, printing on an inkjet printer, and handling the finished print. Digital processing topics include maximizing image quality at capture, color management, sharpening and noise reduction, black & white printing, and local and global edits to color and tonality.
We also discuss the qualities and characteristics of a fine print, many of the plethora of options for inks and papers available to today's printers, and how best to produce a print to realize an artistic vision.
Particular consideration is given to printing large prints. Students have the opportunity to examine the challenges of printing on a large scale and to learn a wide range of techniques for maximizing overall print quality and for creating and handling large prints. We discuss a variety of different printing technologies and create large prints of the student's work on the large format printers available at the Workshops.
Students also have ample opportunity to shoot in the field and to apply all of the techniques learned on their own images. Students are required to shoot digital with a DSLR camera of at least 12 megapixels.
I am a fine art photographer specializing in landscape, nature and night photography. While my early photographic inspiration was the wide-open vistas of the American West, I now find my inspiration in Maine's stunning mountain and coastal landscapes as well as in the night sky. I live in midcoast Maine with my amazing wife and daughter.