Outback Photo Workshops

presented by

Tonemapped Image (B+U Steinmueller)

Capture more Light

"Capture your own Vision" Workshop

Improve your photos using HDR,Tonemapping and Super-resolution

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When:

 

July 19-20, 2008

 

Where:

Future Light Digital Workshops
2001 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-5320

Instructors (bios at the end of this page):

Uwe Steinmueller (www.outbackphoto.com)
Brad Polt-Jones
Bettina Steinmueller (Artistic Support)

Testimonials

"WOW! Your workshop at Future Light Workshops did just bring me forward in my own photography. You’ve answered questions I’ve had for months on developing a rational workflow and effectively using the latest digital photography tools. The combination of Uwe and Brad as expert instructors, the flexibility to meet individual participant’s needs, and hands-on experience with the technologies under discussion was both unique and highly effective. In reflecting on this experience, I feel that on my own I could have spent the next year and likely not learned as much – not a bad return on what was a fun and stimulating weekend. I look forward to future workshops.” David Thomas 2008

"I enjoyed your workshop a great deal. I felt that you were giving us cutting edge techniques. I don't know of any one who is experimenting and sharing the results in the way that you are have done. Brad's knowledgeable assistance and his fabulous equipment is a unique situation for a workshop. I may try to take it again." (October 2007, Larry Larsen)

What (Abstract):

The high contrast of normal sunny daylight scenes is often hard to capture with a single shot. HDR images try to work around these limitations by combining multiple images. This workshop teaches all the ins and outs of handling a higher dynamic range and of course also the limitations of this technique. The contents is the result of extensive practical work photographing urban scenes.

Some of the portfolios are shown here:

http://portfolios.outbackphoto.com/CA_SFImpressions/index.html
http://portfolios.outbackphoto.com/CA_SF_Alcatraz_Color/index.html

You will photograph near the Workshop facility (see samples from our last workshop here) . There is also a Blurb book that documented our October 2007 workshop. If you show this book at our workshops you can get a free copy of one of our e-books (Pictures are worth a thousand words)

HDR and Tonemapped Image (B+U Steinmueller)

Workshop Schedule (may change slightlly):

Tonemapped Photo (B+U Steinmueller)

Tools used and/or presented:

• Photoshop
• Photomatix
• Lightroom and Bridge
• Camera Raw 4.x
• PhotoAcute
• LigthZone

Topics covered (as time permits)

• What is HDR
• How does it work
• Why is HDR important
• Capturing multiple shots
• Merging images
• How to best align multiple shots
• Mix & Match (make the best out of your bracketed shots)
• Limits of HDR merging (moving objects, moving camera)
• Balance f-stop, exposure and ISO
• Why does merging help with noise
• Good bracketing sequences
• Local Contrast
• Lens defects and how to handle them: Chromatic aberrations (CA), distortions
• Correcting perspective in Photoshop
• Tonemapping (or Relight)
• "Grunging" images (read more here). Grunging is major fun!
• Why image stabilized lenses are helpful
• Freehand vs. Tripod
• Relight with LightZone
• PhotoAcute Superesolution: how to get more resolution from your camera

HDR and Tonemapped Image (B+U Steinmueller)

Requirements

• Experience: Medium to more advanced

• No knowledge in HDR required

Start reading this: http://handbook.outbackphoto.com/section_hdr_and_tonemapping/index.html

• Work on assignments (means shooting alone, we are available for help)

• We would encourage you not to use a tripod for this workshop

• You photograph on your own risk

• User owns a DSLR

• He knows how to work with his camera

• DSLR that can shoot brackets

• Basic Image processing knowledge

• Know how to get good exposures
  

Cost:

$495.00 per person

 

Max Number of students:

14 for each workshop

Signing up

Sign up for July 19+20 2008 at Future Light here

Bios:

Bettina + Uwe Steinmueller

Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller are born in Germany but live and work in the US for now over 10 years. Both work as a photographer team – Bettina with the prime focus on the artistic expression and Uwe handling both the art and the digital workflow. The main subjects are nature and urban landscapes and their hidden details. Bettina + Uwe’s work is known worldwide. They both run Digital Outback Photo (www.outbackphoto.com) which is one of the premier digital fine art websites in the world (6 million visitors per year).

Uwe is recognized as one of the leading photography workflow experts. He is not only using tools but has influenced many well known products. Uwe has published numerous books in German (two times won the German “Photobuch Preis”) and English. For Uwe the photographic result is most important and the technical aspects only the means to get there. This means Uwe does not teach what tools can do but instead how they help to improve expressing your own vision.

Check our portfolio work here:

portfolios.outbackphoto.com

Brad Polt-Jones

Owner of Future Light Digital Workshops

Future Light Digital Workshops are primarily taught by Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Brad Polt-Jones, MFA. He has more than 20 years experience as a pro photographer and 10 years as a digital media artist. In addition to developing the Future Light workshops, Brad continues to teach digital photography classes for UCLA Extension and San Francisco City College.

"My philosophy is simple; I am passionate about the future of art and photography and want to bring the power and elegance of a new generation of tools to a wider audience. Digital photography allows everyone to participate in the image making process with an unprecedented ease of use and with total control."
- Brad Polt-Jones

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