Color Processing: Vision to Print – An Online Workshop In Four Parts
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Overview
Color Processing: Vision To Print, an online workshop with Rich Seiling, presented live in two-hour segments on four consecutive Tuesdays, from 8-10pm (U.S. east coast time) on November 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2022, with recorded playback of each session available.
EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT: Register by September 23rd to get $50 off using the coupon code “EARLYVISION50”
Feedback from recent participants:
“This workshop is essential for anyone who prints a lot and wants to go beyond trial and error.” –Randy A., August 2022 Vision to Print Workshop participant
“What’s amazing is how you brightened the background and it suddenly became three dimensional. Wow…a really nice way of doing that.” -Al M., August 2022 Vision to Print Workshop participant
“I found the information provided very useful and I hope it will go a long way to assist with my printing.” -Scott G., August 2022 Vision to Print Workshop participant
“I learned a lot, including that I have a lot more to learn.” -Joe G., August 2022 Vision to Print Workshop participant
“Thanks for all your hard work on the classes. Lots for me to process, but worth it!” -Julie F., August 2022 Vision to Print Workshop participant
Is your color processing a hit-and-miss guessing game that leaves you frustrated and wanting more? Have you simply never had the opportunity to learn best practices from a master of digital color management and processing?
To achieve the vision we capture while photographing, we have to process. Processing is an art unto itself, one that requires skill and vision, and is needed to bring forth what you saw in your mind’s eye the moment you pressed the shutter. Processing requires knowing more than where all the sliders are; it takes an understanding and awareness of what a photograph can become, how light and subject can be expressed to best communicate the elements of a photograph, and how to use processing tools to translate that vision through our screens and in print.
This is not your typical processing workshop that teaches you how to use a tool. It’s about learning the vision that will guide you to better processing decisions that will help solve the problems common to all photographs, and how to fine tune your photograph to elevate it to a finished work of art.
For many, processing is a frustrating experience, a barrier that keeps them from fully expressing, and fully enjoying their photographs. But it doesn’t have to be that way. For over two decades, Visionary Wild instructors and thousands of other photographers have relied on Rich Seiling’s expertise and aesthetic judgement to help them express their photos to the fullest.
Rich will focus on five fundamental processing challenges, and how to implement your vision with a straightforward and rational processing approach. Not only will it improve your processing, but also your photography as your awareness is raised in the field to photographic possibilities you’ve been missing, and as you are better able to craft photographs that will work with the process, leaving creative frustrations behind.
In the days before each session, participants will be invited to submit up to five RAW image files each (optional, not required), from which Rich will make a selection of several images that he considers most useful for demonstration purposes during that week’s session. Participant photographs that Rich processes during the workshop will be available to be returned to the owner as a final processed version with all of Rich’s adjustments intact.
We invite you to watch the following short video for an introduction to Rich Seiling, as he shares his background in photography and as a fine printmaker for the masters.
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Sessions are on four consecutive Tuesdays, November 1 – 22, 2022, scheduled for 8-10pm (U.S. east coast time).
Nov 1 – GOOD COLOR, PART ONE – Exposure, RAW Processing, and Contrast
Every adjustment affects color. Rich will teach you how to build a solid foundation for your processing that solves problems without creating new ones.
Nov 8 – GOOD COLOR, PART TWO – Refining Your Vision and Color Correction
Learning to see the difference between “good” and “bad” color will make it easier to process your photos and get better results. Rich will show you how to evaluate and correct the most common problems.
Nov 15 – FINE TUNING WITH LOCAL CONTROLS
Global corrections can’t do everything. You need local corrections to achieve the fine tuning that turns a photo from good into great. Rich will show you how to decide between local and global corrections, and how to perform them.
Nov 22 – PRINTING AND COLOR MANAGEMENT
Achieving precise color control on screen and in print requires bringing hardware and software solutions together with a precise intention. Printing a photograph to look like the image displayed on your screen can be challenging. We’ll give you the tools to improve your results and create confidence in your process.
During this series, Rich will use both Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
These sessions will take place online on the Zoom platform. Those who register will receive an email about 30 minutes before the each session starts with a link to join the Zoom session and a password.
**RECORDINGS OF THE SESSIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW FOR A MONTH AFTER THE EVENT.**
Itinerary
October 30, 2022 – First Image Submission Deadline (optional): Enrolled participants will be invited to submit up to five RAW format images of their own, to be considered for selection by Rich Seiling to be used to demonstrate the topics to be covered in the first session on November 1st. Please submit your raw image files at least two days before the session in question for which you wish your photos to be considered.
November 1, 8-10pm – SESSION 1: GOOD COLOR, PART ONE
November 6 – Image Submission Deadline for session 2 (optional). Please also submit by this time any questions that have arisen in follow-up to the last session.
November 8, 8-10pm – SESSION 2: GOOD COLOR, PART TWO
November 13 – Submission deadline for images and questions for session 3 (optional).
November 15, 8-10pm – SESSION 3: FINE TUNING WITH LOCAL CONTROLS
November 20 – Submission deadline for images and questions for session 4 (optional).
November 22, 8-10pm – SESSION 4: PRINTING AND COLOR MANAGEMENT
Instructors
Rich Seiling
- Congratulations to Rich Seiling for the publication of his new book, Expert Photo Processing: Proven Steps for Professional Results (2023). Anyone seeking to improve ...
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Pricing
Early-Bird Discount Rate: $450 – Those registering by September 16, 2022 get a $50 discount off the normal rate using coupon code “EARLYVISION50”
Normal Rate: $500 per participant
Highlights
- Learn from the best. Rich Seiling is a true master printmaker who has been at the vanguard of fine digital photographic printmaking craft since the 1990s, entrusted with the work and reputations of master photographers such as Galen Rowell, Jack Dykinga, William Neill, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Tom Mangelsen, Justin Black, and many more.
- Enhance your aesthetic judgement to make better image processing decisions that are informed by a full awareness of the possibilities at your fingertips.
- Demonstrations will utilize participants’ own submitted photographs, to be selected by the instructor. The final processed files with Rich’s edits will be supplied to their respective photographers on request.
- Ample opportunities for individual questions and answers. Questions can be submitted to the moderator by text at any time during a session, or asked live during dedicated Q&A segments.
- The week between each session provides ample opportunity to digest and apply what you’ve learned, and come up with thoughtful questions to be asked during the next session.
- Recordings of each session will remain available to view online for a month, so it’s easy to “time-shift” if you aren’t able to be online for a particular live session.
Color Processing: Vision to Print – An Online Workshop In Four Parts
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