Course Schedule

Upcoming Courses at the International Center for Photography

Summer 2013

Photo 1 Digital

July 8-31, 2013.
Time: Mon & Wed, 6:00pm to 10:00pm.

This course introduces beginners to the creative and technical possibilities of digital photography. Through demonstrations and hands-on sessions, students learn the basics of using cameras and imaging software to produce digital photographs. Topics include camera operation, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, RAW file formats, white balance, and composition. Using Adobe Lightroom, students learn file management, image enhancement, and printing. Lectures on historical and contemporary artwork explore creative approaches to photography, and assignments build photographic skill sets. For beginners.

Prerequisite: Macintosh literacy or Macintosh Basics (free of charge). Note: a digital camera capable of shooting RAW files is required.

To register, go to the website of the International Center of Photography{here}.



Photoshop III: Digital Imaging for Photographers

August 5-10, 2013.
Time: Mon, Wed, Fri, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM; and Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

This course focuses on an advanced workflow, including complex masking for control of filter and retouching effects, blending and opacity controls, multiple-pass sharpening, complex compositing for retouching, repurposing of use-neutral files for various output, including standard inkjet and wide-format printers, web display, CMYK conversions andcontinuous tone output, and basic competency with Smart Objects and Smart Filters. This course is for intermediate students who are ready to expand their skills to produce exhibition-quality imagery. A solid grounding in Photoshop at the intermediate level is assumed at the start of the course. Prerequisite: Photoshop II or portfolio review

To register, go to the website of the International Center of Photography{here}.

Fall 2013

Photoshop II: Digital Imaging for Photographers

September 30 to December 9, 2013.
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

This workshop is designed for photographers and digital imaging artists who have a basic understanding of Photoshop. The focus will be on an ink-jet printing workflow with particular attention to global color correcting using adjustment layers, and on local adjustments with basic masking techniques. The tutorials will also introduce basic retouching and sharpening.

Registration link coming soon.

Coming in Winter 2014

Collage-Montage-Composite (Digital Projects)

Time and Date to be determined. Please stay in touch!

This workshop explores constructed design in photographic practice.

In Photoshop we focus on masking techniques that enable us to intervene in the camera image; outside of Photoshop we explore typography, graphics, paper, scanner-as-camera, tape, glue, transparency, and 3D objects as ways to interrogate our notions about how pictures come to have meaning for us, both individually and culturally.

This course aims at integrating tools, culture, history, and the philosophy of meaning. The collage/montage challenges us to see the edge of photography. That is, where straight photography relies on an invisible frame — an inviolable boundary between photograph and non-photograph — the collage/montage makes the edges visible. This visibility focuses us on the relationship that the photographer has with the world, on the choices he or she makes about subject, angle, exposure, and body position, to name just a few.

This foregrounding of choice, in turn, concentrates our attention on the real material of photography, the core issues at the heart of all photographic practice. That is, collage/montage practice requires that we acknowledge photographic choices about framing, and then it pushes us to newly engage and respond to the choices we’ve made.

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