Summer Sundays (and a few Saturdays)
Colour Management and Print Quality
A two-day workshop with colour management expert Nick Heaphy and Tony Bridge to help you understand why your screen and printer output often differ. Learn how to close the gap and get all the parts of your colour management workflow talking to each other. The workshop will also explain how inkjet printers work and how to pick different papers for effect. Come and make prints on a managed workflow.
Topics to be covered will include:
- Theory: LAB, Colour management and more
- selecting a monitor: colorimeters, gamuts and more
- the workspace: how to set it up for maximum consistency
- get consistency by setting up the best possible workspace
- profiling-camera, monitor, printer
- colour spaces and what they mean
- software settings; printing from Lightroom and PhotoShop
- Printing: softproofing, rendering intents and how to print
- printing aesthetics: papers, receptor surfaces, baryta papers and more
Jan 17-18
Limit 20 people
Venue: Canterbury University Hall, Ilam.
Fee: $NZ 260 ( includes lunch and refreshments)
Supported by Canon New Zealand
Working with plugins-getting more from PhotoShop and Lightroom
Sometimes you want to make a really cool effect and the PhotoShop tools seem long-winded and complex. This one-day workshop will look at the function of plugins, pieces of third-party software which add extra power to your image-making and show you how to take your photography to the next level. This workshop will look at ways to integrate these into your workflow, and how to combine them with the power of layer masks to achieve different effects.
Software to be studied will include:
- Noise Ninja,
- OnOne Software’s PhotoSuite,
- Color Efex and
- PhotoKit Sharpener
Participants will need their own computer (PC or Intel Mac, running 10.5.x), flash drive and images. More complete details will be sent out prior to the workshop.
24 Jan, 2009
Limit 15 people
Fee: $NZ 160 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Supported by OnOne software
Two Artists, One Day.
Join Fine Artists Tony Bridge and Doc Ross at the elegant Tangley on Clyde for a one-day seminar on Fine Art photography and exhibiting. The seminar will look at the photograph as Art and each of them will talk about their work as artists, about finding your own direction and the issues (and joys) around exhibiting, including how to curate your own show, framing/presentation, selecting a gallery and more. Lunch and refreshments provided.
January 25, 2009
Limit 15 people
Venue: Canterbury University Hall, Ilam.
Fee: $NZ 175 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Supported by OnOne Software
The Photo Book Workshop
Book design is an art in itself. This two-day workshop will show you how to make a successful photo book. Learn about the importance and significance of type and how to sequence and lay your images out on the page for the best possible result. The workshop will be taught using Momento Books’ software (supplied). Topics to be covered will include:
- Layout
- Selection and sequencing
- Type and font
- Optimising your images
- Preparation for print
Participants will need their own computer (PC or Intel Mac, running 10.5.x), flash drive and images. More complete details will be sent out prior to the workshop.
Jan 31-Feb 1
Limit 12 people
Venue: Canterbury University Hall, Ilam.
Fee: $NZ 250 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Supported by Momento
Creativity workshop
Join Tony Bridge and Mary Jo Bedford for a 3-day workshop on creativity; how to feed and water it so your photography begins to express how you really see and how you can begin to speak with your own voice.
Topics to be covered will include:
- The value of context
- Learning from the masters
- Previsualisation
- Mastering the rules, then breaking them
- Impressionism and Expressionism
- The visual diary
- Pushing the limits-giving yourself permission
- developing a theme and working in series
- The panorama as Art
The workshop will include lectures, practical exercises, demonstrations and daily critiques of work shot during the workshop.
Participants will need their own computer, flash drive and images. More complete details will be sent out prior to the workshop.
Feb 6-9
Limit 12 people
Venue: Canterbury University Hall, Ilam.
Fee: $NZ 350 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Supported by Lensbaby
The Great Back-of-Beyond 4WD Safari.
Imagine spending 4 days in the Canterbury foothills where the public cannot go, travelling and photographing the landscape. This workshop is for landscape-lovers who want to spend Easter 2009 away from the crowd and who want to learn how to make the most of the light. This trip will cross four stations and is all off-road.
April 9-13, 2009
Limit 16 people
Cost: $520
Supported by Canon and Overland 4WD