This
Issue Includes:
News Shorts
Featured Workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Digital Lab Workshops in Santa Fe: October-December
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
Center: Call for Entries Deadline Announced
Educational Partner: Calumet
Ernst Haas Creation Portfolio
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Quote
of the Month
“Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.”
—Cornell Capa
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Participant Image
of the Month
© Virginia Fairchild, participant
in the
"Day of the Dead in Heartland of Mexico" workshop with
Raul Touzon, fall 2007.
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News
Shorts
» 20th Anniversary Calendar
In 2009,
we celebrate twenty years in photographic
education. To
honor this milestone we will produce a calendar illustrated with
images made by workshop participants and staff. This calendar
will be twenty months long starting January 2009 and ending August
2010. To choose the twenty calendar photographs, we invite
you to submit images made in Santa Fe or San Miguel de Allende
during a workshop. All entrants will have a chance to win one
of eight $500 tuition certificates to a workshop in Santa Fe
or San Miguel in 2009 or 2010. All photographers with images
selected for the calendar will receive 20 calendars. Proceeds
from the sale of the calendar will go to the Workshops scholarship
fund.
Send prints (8”x10” or smaller) or digital files
on a disc (300 dpi at 8”x10”, jpgs)
to the address below. Entries will not be
returned. Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2008. There
is no fee to enter, but a limit of 10 images per person please.
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
20th Anniversary Calendar
50 Mt. Carmel Road, #F2
Santa Fe, NM 87505
» From Beginning to Advanced: Two Black-and-White
Fall Workshop Options
If black-and-white photography and printing
are your interests, we offer two exciting new workshops this fall. For
the beginner to intermediate we offer Black
and White: Capture to Print with Susan Hayre Thelwell September
22-27 and for intermediate to advanced we offer George DeWolfe's
The
Black-and White-Master Print workshop September
29-October 3. However, this date for George's workshop
is already full so we are offering a second option for this workshop
December 1-5. Bring
your B&W workflow up to speed and take both workshops! (There is a $100 discount
for those who sign up for both Susan and George's class.)
» Evening Workshops for Locals
Those of you who live in the Santa Fe area should take note of two workshop opportunities
geared for the local photographer.
• Dottie Lopez is offering a six-week workshop
entitled Introduction
to Digital Photography & Adobe Photoshop CS3. Participants meet once a week
on Wednesday evenings to learn basic camera functions, including aperture
and shutter speeds, to gain complete control over the camera. Digital imaging
is reviewed to include capture, workflow and print. Photographic assignments
are given each week.
• Dottie Lopez and Susan Thelwell are offering a two-night Blurb
Bookmaking Workshop.
This workshop explores online publishing options
for your projects. Whether you are looking to create fine art photography project
or memory albums of your family trips, today there are a myriad of online options
for creating e-books. Get a jump
on your Christmas projects or get started on that promo piece of your work with
this fun, fast-paced trip through state of the art of e-publishing.
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Featured Workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
© Jennifer Spelman |
Our four-week photography program in San Miguel de Allende is
fast approaching. A number of workshops are full, however
space is still available in workshops with Frank
Ockenfels 3,
Jock
Sturges, Eddie
Soloway, Marcela
Taboada
and in the featured workshops below:
A
Gathering of Creative Women in Mexico with
Joyce Tenneson, October 26-November 2, 2008
This week-long retreat is a unique opportunity for women from
all creative backgrounds to gather for spiritual renewal, to
connect with their physical well-being, and to celebrate their
lives as artists. Our base is the magnificent Hacienda
Las Trancas, a private, beautifully restored
hacienda near San Miguel de Allende. It is an ideal setting for
artists who wish to network and recharge their energies.
Travel
Stock Photography with Patrick
Donehue, November 2-9, 2008
The stock photography industry is undergoing dynamic change, and new opportunities
are available to those who can successfully navigate these exciting times. This
workshop is designed to help travel photographers recognize opportunities and
avoid pitfalls.
Zen
and the Art of Photography with
Doug Beasley, November 2-9, 2008
Revitalize your photography while exploring your relationship to your subject,
your camera, and yourself. Through photo exercises, assignments, and daily field
trips in and around San Miguel de Allende, participants learn to deepen their
visual awareness while clarifying their approach.
Mastering
Your Flash with Julia Dean,
November 9-16, 2008
The goal of this workshop is for participants to learn how to use a flash so
well that the outcome looks like beautiful ambient light. Participants learn
to work with a variety of lighting situations, using the flash as both the main
source of light and as a fill light. We spend the week using a flash in TTL wireless
mode, both on and off camera.
Rich in culture, heritage,
holidays, and fiestas, San Miguel is a National Historic Landmark
and was recently named to the UNESCO
World Heritage List. View
the full schedule of workshops in San Miguel and call (505)
983-1400, ext. 11 if you have any questions or if you would like
to register.
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Digital
Lab Workshops in Santa Fe: October-December
The Santa Fe Workshops Digital Lab has a wide variety of workshop
options available in October, November, and December. Brief descriptions
are listed below, and if you are interested in speaking
with someone regarding your workshop choice, please call Rick
Allred, digital lab manager (505) 983-1400, ext. 24.
© Carlan Tapp |
Beginning
Photoshop with Rick Allred,
October 6-10
This five-day introduction to the concepts, language,
and tools of Adobe Photoshop is one of our most popular workshops.
Participants master the basics of navigation, selection tools,
copy and paste functions, image adjustment tools, layers and
photo compositing, and filters for interesting visual effects.
Photoshop:
The Next Step with Stephen
Yadzinski, October 13-17
The workshop content reflects what participants have told us
they wanted to learn next in Photoshop, including proven techniques,
tricks, creative ideas, and timesaving tips that can double productivity.
This is a workshop for photographers, graphic designers, illustrators,
artists, photo lab technicians, educators, and all others who have
mastered the fundamentals of Photoshop and are interested in advancing
their professional and personal imaging work with guidance and
inspiration from our staff.
Exploring
the Photographic Narrative with New Visual Media with
Carlan Tapp, October 20-24
Today's new digital media provide exciting opportunities for photographers
to take viewers someplace unexpected, opening up new avenues for
the photographer to share a narrative, family vacation, personal
story, or documentary project. This workshop is for photographers
who want to use these new media technologies to share their stories.
© Fred
Drury
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Layers
and Channels with Adobe Photoshop with
Jerry Courvoisier, October 27-31
In this workshop we examine in depth the layers and channels features
of Photoshop to create complex darkroom effects. We also explore
the various properties that can be used to control and interact
with different image elements. Our goal is to acquire a comprehensive
understanding of how layers and channels allow us to blend, move,
composite, color correct, and mask, and to explore these creative
potentials.
Beginning
Digital Photography and Photoshop Elements with
Dottie Lopez, November 3-7
This workshop is designed for beginning and advanced amateur
photographers who want to take control of their digital imaging
and have their work stand out. We start by learning to understand
our digital cameras, insuring that proper camera controls are
set to allow seamless transfer of images from camera to computer.
Back in the digital lab, we learn and practice techniques for downloading, importing,
organizing, editing, processing, and printing images using Photoshop Elements.
A
Professional Approach to Photoshop with Fred
Drury, November 10-14
This workshop is for Photoshop users who want to move beyond the basics
and bring their skills to a higher level. The procedures Fred teaches
in this workshop use Photoshop tools specific to the information palette, highlight/shadow,
channel blending, curves (working in the component channels, not the composite),
and sharpening. By the end of the week, participants have a better understanding
of Photoshop’s essential tools and the image optimization process, and
have acquired new techniques to significantly improve the image enhancement workflow.
Digital
Printmaking with Arduina Caponigro, November
17-21
Based on the principle that sophisticated doesn’t have to mean complicated,
the goal of this workshop is to make the digital printing process as clear
as possible, so that you can spend more time making images. Topics explored
include how to manage color correctly and easily, and how to acquire images
(scanning film or processing Raw files with Camera Raw) precisely and efficiently. Participants learn everything they need to know to successfully navigate printer
software and make the most of their work in print.
The
Black-and-White Master Print with George
DeWolfe, December 1-5
This workshop combines advanced perceptual practice with simple tools. As artists
and photographers, our perceptual abilities must be honed to a fine degree;
our tools should be simple, elegant, and few, and yet complete enough to create
any effect of light and form we need to produce presence. We begin with a detailed
study of presence in Old Master paintings and photographs. The next three days
are devoted to learning and applying the perceptual and photographic skills
necessary to achieve presence. The last two days are spent on printing inkjet
photographs for presence achieved in the images.
To register for any of these workshops, please call The Workshops at (505)
983-1400, ext. 11.
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Georgia
O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
© Ansel Adams |
Through September 7, 2008
at the Georgia O’Keeffe
Museum
217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe
Take time to see and enjoy this extremely popular exhibition. It brings
together for the first time an important selection of paintings and photographs
by two of America’s most celebrated and well-known artists: Georgia O’Keeffe
and Ansel Adams. Their works in the exhibition date from the 1920's forward
and reveal each artist’s ongoing and profound appreciation of the natural
world.
The works in the exhibition clarify the depth and complexity of their
mutually and deeply felt affinities for the natural world and demonstrate aspects
of the ways in which both succeeded in capturing the essence of particular areas
of the American landscape. In fact, through their work, each artist effectually
claimed a different part of this country as their own: Northern New Mexico for
O’Keeffe and Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada wilderness for Adams.
For more information, visit the Georgia
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Center:
Call for Entries Deadline Announced
© Dorthe Alstrup, 2008 1st place Color Singular Image
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Center is pleased to announce the deadline of January 23, 2009
for Review Santa Fe, Project Competition and Singular Image
awards.
Here are three opportunities to have your photography reach a wider audience.
• Review Santa Fe: This is a juried portfolio review event. It
is a two-day conference for photographers who have created a significant project
or series and are seeking wider recognition. For more information, visit: Review
Santa Fe
• Project Competition: The 14th Annual Project Competition honors
committed photographers working on long-term documentary projects and fine art
series. For more information, visit:
Project
Competition
• Singular Image: The Singular Image recognizes outstanding individual
photographs in color and black and white. For more information, visit: Singular
Image awards
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Ernst Haas Creation Portfolio
Ernst Haas has been called "the
father of color photography." In
the 1950s Ernst began working with Kodachrome films to create
color compositions and a color palette that served to define
fine-art color photography. Ernst died in 1986 leaving a legacy
of poetic images to inspire future generations of photographers.
In 1981, Daniel Wolf Press published Ernst's first portfolio called "The
Creation." Eleanor Morris Caponigro of Santa Fe designed the project. All
prints were made using the dye-transfer process, an extremely permanent and beautiful
printing technique. Ten images were included and three hundred portfolios were
made. Today, a handful of portfolios remain on the market. The portfolio sells
for $12,000 (USD). Through a special arrangement, we are able to offer friends
of the Santa Fe Workshops a discount off this price. Workshop friends can purchase
the portfolio for $10,500 (USD).
If you are interested in further information please contact
Reid Callanan at The Workshops via e-mail or
call (505) 983-1400.
© Ernst Haas |
© Ernst Haas |
© Ernst Haas |
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