June 18, 2007

My next group workshop will be my fourth for the Ansel Adams Workshops program, at Mono Lake, California from October 15th to 18th, 2007. Please visit http://www.anseladams.com and/or call Sara Bateman, AA Workshop Director in Burlingame, California (south of San Francisco) at 650-692-3285 or toll-free 888-361-7622 for more detailed info or to attend. You may also enquire via email to workshops@ansel adams.com. Seats are limited to eight participants and it is currently half full.

In addition to the workshops, I frequently do one-on-one tutoring at my place for $500 per day for one person or $750 per day for two people, by the whole day only, and usually for two days. This has proven to be a fruitful and enjoyable experience for nearly everyone so far. Please be sure that you let me know what you need to learn and what level of detail you are interested in! Otherwise you'll hear the full story of how imaging works, in all it's gruesome details! Contact me if you would like to schedule a visit.

After receiving requests for workshops for about twenty years, I started teaching them in 2002. To date, all of my workshops have been much the same with respect to the subject matter, although I try to tailor them to the needs of the participants to the limited degree possible in a group setting. Nevertheless, my workshops are best suited to people who want to understand the technical details of how imaging actually works, rather than receiving rote instruction in which steps to do to get good results. Some of the material can be quite challenging.

We usually stay in a room full of computers and for four or five days I talk about how color management works and how to make it work well, how film and digital cameras work, the many finer points of digital image adjustment for printmaking, and so on. The usual idea of my workshops is to help you master the processes of imaging by understanding how they work, not merely by hearing which steps to perform in a given piece of software to get a better print, though I cover that as well.

A field course would be fun, but these days photographers have so many things to learn about the processes of digital imaging that it's more productive to stay indoors (except when the scenery nearby is particularly compelling). We do stop for food...

I have also taught at West Coast Imaging in Oakhurst, California, but their program is currently on hold, so no courses are scheduled there. www.photoclassroom.com

Here is a picture of me holding up a print of mine at one of the WCI workshops. Photo by Doug Broussard, Photo Classroom Workshop Coordinator and my usual workshop assistant at WCI.

Thank you!