WITH BARRY HAYNES
GIBSONS, B.C., CANADA
This workshop is for people who have already taken Digital Printmaking for Photographers or who have discussed their experience level with Barry or Wendy. Many students have expressed the desire to come back and relearn or bring to a new level what they learned in Digital Printmaking for Photographers. This Advanced workshop will focus on new more advanced techniques and also allows students to bring their more difficult images and special problems for Barry to help them solve.
This advanced workshop will also include some great shooting sessions on the beautiful sunshine coast in B.C. We have planned these workshops during weeks when there are especially low tides to make the shooting sessions extra special.
The Hiking version of the workshop will focus on low tide shoots and local hikes to places Barry has checked out to make sure there are lots of great subjects to photograph. The hikes will be something that most people will not have trouble navigating. Depending on the weather, we may drive to Egmont, for example, and take the one hour each way Skookumchuck rapids trail. This trail goes through beautiful woods with many mushrooms, ferns, snails, cedar trees, a like and finally delivers your to world famous Skookumchuck rapids where you'll witness one of the largest tide changes in the world and hopefully see world class kayakers traverse the rapids. At low tide here there is also an abundance of sea life to photograph including star fish, kelp, sea ananomies, hermit crabs, crabs, etc. We often see some eagles and a seal or two as well!
In the Kayaking version of this workshop, we'll Kayak to local beautiful sites that Barry has been to before. From Gibsons we can paddle to Keats and Pasley island where we'll usually find seals, eagles, private islands and sometimes otters. Driving a bit north, we could explore Smuggler Cove, Thormanby and Trail islands and also Pender Harbour. If you are new to Kayaking, arrange with Barry to set up a introductory course for you before the workshops begins with Sunshine Kayaking in Gibsons. Unless you have your own kayak, you will be renting kayaks from Sunshine Kayaking for your outings. The cost of kayak rentals or an introductory kayaking course is not included in the workshop fee.
It is best to bring a digital camera for the shooting sessions if you intend to use those images in this workshop. This will also allow Barry to give you advice on your digital camera setup and usage along with Bridge and Camera Raw tips. For kayak outings, we'll get you a dry bag to hold your digital camera while in the kayak.
The workshop fee includes your letter size test prints and two 24" wide final 4000 or 7600 prints per student. Below is a typical workshop schedule although your workshop will vary depending on the students who show up, the weather and the desires of the particular group.
FIRST DAY 9:00-5:00(lunch in the middle)
Morning Photoshop/printing classroom session
Advanced Color Correction Techniques
Walk to lunch in Gibsons
Afternoon photography classroom session
Photoshop Printmaking
Scanning/Working on your Images
Dinner or Evening Shoot
SECOND DAY sunrise-dark all day photo trip on the Sunshine Coast. This will be a driving/hiking photo trip including water, beach, sea life, harbor, forest and other scenic areas on the sunshine coast. We would go sea kayaking if this is a kayaking workshop. See some of the images below. The hours of the shoot will depend on destination, weather and tides but generally plan on being out all day this day. The day or days we actually shoot could depend on the weather and the desires of the particular group in this workshop. Shooting early in the workshop allows Barry to help you with techniques for sorting, archiving and more quickly processing your raw digital files using Bridge and Photoshop Camera Raw.
THIRD DAY 9:00-5:00(lunch in the middle)
Morning Photoshop/printing classroom session
Advanced Masking Techniques
Walk to lunch in Gibsons
Afternoon photography classroom session
Photoshop Printmaking
Tips for using Photoshop CS2 or CS3 Digital Raw filter
Review/sort&critique of images from 2nd day photo trip
Scanning/Working on your Images
Dinner or Evening Shoot
FOURTH DAY 9:00-5:00(lunch in the middle)+7:30-9:30PM(to work on prints)
Possible Early morning or afternoon photo trip
Photoshop/printing classroom session
Lunch in Gibsons or Corvallis
Afternoon Photoshop/printing classroom session
Calibration Issues
Working on your Images
Dinner from 5-7:30
FIFTH DAY 9:00-5:00
Advanced Sharpening and Noise Reduction Techniques
Photography wrap-up classroom session/make prints
Lunch in Gibsons or Corvallis
Afternoon Photoshop/printing wrap-up classroom session
Package prints to adjourn the workshop at 5:00 PM
Our location is in Gibsons, B.C., in Canada's "Sunshine Coast" north of Vancouver. See Barry's gallery of Sunshine Coast images or http://www.Gibsons.ca for more info about this great area.
Here are some pictures of the Gibsons Area:
Gibsons from the Ferry
Porpoise Bay, great for kayaking!
Davis Bay Beach at Sunset, good beach for low tide shoots
Pender Harbour Lagoon, kayaker's wonderland
Whiskey Slough
Sailboat in Gibsons Harbour, bring your boat for a class
Gibsons Harbour, just north of Vancouver, the site of our B.C. workshops
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