Photoshop Selections, Adjustment Layers, Tone and Color Virtual Seminar

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

A Zoom Virtual Class this Saturday May 22: Photoshop Selections, Adjustment Layers, Tone and Color Virtual. 9am to noon.

https://bit.ly/3vcMQTW

A 3 hour virtual seminar.

Think Photoshop is too hard? Do you think it is not needed to really finesse your photo processing? Let me help. The precision and control you can exercise with your photographs in Photoshop can rise to the passion you bring to your photography. Let me help. A photographer’s straight forward path through Photoshop need not be wide, deep or overly complicated. It can be exactly the liberation your Photograph needs to put the biases of your camera and the limitations of raw aside and set your photographic aspirations free to hold the wonder you see.

As I’ve been using Photoshop since 1989 (as Barenyscan XP) and teaching it since 1991, the opportunity to make a real difference for you is clear to me. And I can make a difference in overcoming fear and help build Photoshop finesse.

Topics Include

Selection Tools
Masks
Adjustment Layers
Curves and Tonal Editing
Color Correction
Image Aesthetics

website: www.stephenjohnson.photography

Cliffs and Mist, Pinnacles

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

Morning Mist on Cliffs. Pinnacles National Park. 2021.

A three frame panoramic stitch (a telephoto wide angle) with the Canon EOS R5 and their RF600mm F11 IS STM lens from a hike on May 17, 2021.

I was on an outing with my good friends Ed and Angie Stone on a 6 mile loop. We went hoping to see some California Condors, did see plenty of Turkey Vultures flying above the majestic rock towers of the park.

We were greeted by unexpected cloud cover dancing a retreat along the ridge line causing a stunning transition from morning mist into open sunlight. There are so many images from that short 15 minutes of wonder that it was almost arbitrary which to work on first.

Young Great Blue Herons in Nest

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

Uncropped version.

Peregrine Falcon Feeding it’s Chicks

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

Peregrine Falcon feeding it’s chicks from Mother’s Day morning. Stretching my view, cropped from Canon R5 with 500mm +1.4 extender.

Hahnemühle Interview with Stephen Johnson

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

April 2021 interview about making and printing photographs was posted on Instagram by Hahnemühle for their Image Week.

Interview from my studio at the Pacifica Center for the Arts. 2021.

A Journey Toward The Sacred Print With Stephen Johnson

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

Virtual Lecture from Hahnemuhle and PhotoPlus+: A Journey Toward The Sacred Print With Stephen Johnson

Lecture posted to YouTube

Friday, May 7, 2021. 12:30 PST

https://stephen-johnson-gtt1.squarespace.com/events/a-journey-toward-the-sacred-print

Stephen Johnson Lecturing at PhotoPlus. Photo by Steven Inglima.

Among Photography’s first renderings were the 1835 negative prints of Fox-Talbot. His “Pencil of Nature” book was the first photographic book. Photo printmaking has evolved through ever growing value of the print in hand. With virtual screen-based photo experiences now dominating our photographic world, the value of a unique and finely crafted print may be now become a dying art or even more valuable.

Many of us who became photographers in the silver age gained an appreciation of the hard work and demanding aesthetics of a beautiful fine art print. This led to an almost sacred relationship between the photographer, their experience and the print in hand.

Digital photography and high-quality inkjet printing have given us an unprecedented access to push-button printing. As casual prints became ever easier to make, they have also been displaced by screen views as our fundamental photographic experiences. We now have ever greater power to control the craft of our digital prints and pigment-based inks that outlive most all conventional color processes. Concurrently, as digital data grows in volume and challenges in holding onto it, the print as archive may well become the most best realized, valued and long lasting version of our life’s work.

The fine art darkroom and the craft now possible in the digital realm is the evolution traced in this talk by photographer Stephen Johnson as he walks through his personal, emotional and technical journey pushing this digital revolution into being.

Steve’s work in digital printing has included working with Hahnemühle on the design of their Museum Etching paper. He documents that story in an April 2009 article for Studio Photography.Register for PhotoPlus and this class.

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Mars Panoramic Landscape

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Stephen Johnson

NASA Perseverance Rover

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. This image was acquired on Apr. 30, 2021 (Sol 68) at the local mean solar time of 14:10:45. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Panoramic Stitch and BW interpretation bu Stephen Johnson.

https://mars.nasa.gov/…/ZR0_0068_0672983217_921EBY…

My panoramic stitch and black and white interpretation. Mars Perseverance Sol 68: Mastcam-Z Cameras PanoramicText reworked from NASA: NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left and Right Mastcam-Z cameras. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. These images were acquired on Apr. 30, 2021 (Sol 68) at the local mean solar time of 14:10:45.