At the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Photoshop: The Next Step January 12 - January 16, 2009
From the Workshop’s course catalog:
If you have attended any of our beginning level Photoshop workshops, or have a basic level of proficiency in Photoshop, you are ready for the next level of our Photoshop program. The workshop content reflects what participants have told us they wanted to learn next in Photoshop. In “Photoshop: The Next Step,” you learn proven techniques, tricks, creative ideas, and time-saving tips that can double your productivity. This is a workshop for photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, artists, photo lab technicians, educators, and all others who have mastered the fundamentals of Photoshop and are interested in advancing their professional and personal imaging work with guidance and inspiration from our staff.
The focus of the week is on developing a greater understanding of current advances in this powerful imaging application program. We examine advanced retouching, layering, masking, color adjustment, and multiple image design, while exploring the productive application of the Actions Palette and the “life-saving” History Palette. We undertake individual and group projects during extensive lab sessions and discuss printed output and on-line file preparation. The latest HP printers are used to generate prints. Anyone wishing to develop a greater understanding of current imaging possibilities, enhance creative potential, and improve productivity is encouraged to take this workshop.
My bio
For anyone who may not know my work, here’s my bio from the Workshop’s course catalogue:
Stephen Yadzinski is the founder and creative director of Big Swing, a high-end photo illustration and retouching studio located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Equally skilled in traditional and digital photography, Steve possesses a rare combination of artistic sensibility and technological sophistication. Steve works closely with his clients to refine their images and create winning campaigns.
As an educator and mentor, Steve encourages students to push beyond their preconceived ideas about photography. Photographers are asked to think about their medium as an evolving art, and to examine how changing technologies influence image making. Photographers are encouraged to find their unique vision, while striking the critical balance between artistic expression and technical precision.
Yadzinski’s career in photography began when he was nineteen, working his way through school at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as an assistant for several local photographers. After graduating in 1996, he moved to New York City and became a master gelatin silver print maker at MV Labs, working with clients including Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, Flip Schulke, and Antonin Kratochvil.
Steve moved to Santa Fe in 1998, and began working with advertising photographer Jamey Stillings, perfecting images for clients like Chase Mastercard Continental Airlines, Lincoln Financial Group, and Atlantis.
Yadzinski launched his own studio in 2001. Today, Big Swing serves ad agencies and photographers nationwide.
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