Join us
at April 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM
for an evening
with digital photography pioneer Stephen
Johnson
Twelve Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography
- When:Tuesday,
April 9, 2013 - 7:00PM
- Where:College of
DuPage Student Services Center (SSC)
room 3245
- Cost: Free and open
to the public
- No pre-registration needed
more info: jeff@jeffcurto.com or 630.942.2527
Sponsored by:
Twelve Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography
with Stephen Johnson
Common problems make for common grief. In this lecture Stephen Johnson addresses many of the problems that come up for people, often with the user not even knowing what is going wrong. These issues are covered with a clarity and in a context so that their purpose and problem causing potential is understood and able to be applied to a photographer's workflow immediately.
• calibrate your monitor
• shoot RAW
• set jpg to low contrast on camera
• use histogram, expose to the right
• gray cap
• customize RAW presets
• metadata: name, label and keyword your files
• preserve bit depth
• edit for image (tone and aspect ratio)
• curves for tone shaping
• calibrated print viewing light
• preserve whites
About Stephen:
Stephen
Johnson is a photographer, designer
and teacher. His photography explores
the concerns of a landscape artist working
in an increasingly industrialized world.
His work has also concentrated on refining
the new tools of digital photography
and empowering individual artists to
use these tools to express their ideas.
He was the Curator, and Editor/Designer
for At Mono Lake, a book and National
Endowment for the Arts funded exhibition
which toured the United States from 1980-1983,
reaching an audience of over two million
people. In 1988, he was awarded a Congressional
Special Recognition Award by the U.S.
House of Representatives for his work
on behalf of Mono Lake.
His work in digital photography, and digital
imaging consulting has included software
and product development for clients such
as Adobe Systems, Agfa, Apple Computer,
Eastman Kodak, Epson, Foveon, Gretag-Macbeth,
Hewlett Packard, Leaf Systems, NEC, Newer
Technology, Radius, Ricoh Corporation,
SuperMac Technology and X-rite. His work
with Adobe included the creation of the
duotone curves shipped with Photoshop and
two quadtone posters. He designed an innovative
rotating negative-carrier system for the
Leaf Scanner. Additional clients have included
Hatcher Press, Bentlyhouse, Glimmer Glass,
Makena Capital, and the University of California
Press.
See more information
at Stephen's website: www.sjphoto.com
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