New River Photography is sponsoring a workshop on digital photography on May 18 - 21, 2006. The cost per participant is $395. The Workshop will have a limited capacity. Participants can use PayPal or send a cashier's check, money order, or personal check to:
Bill ClaybrookSend questions about the course to: Email: bclaybrook@newriverphotography.com |  |
Visit other pages on this web site for more details and digital images shot in Door County.
Workshop Description
Late May is the perfect time to photograph wildflowers, especially in Door County, Wisconsin. The weather is mild, and it is a month before the tourists show up. Door County in May, however, is not just for wildflowers and beautiful cherry blossoms. The cool nights create foggy harbors in quaint little towns with names like Egg Harbor and Ephraim on Lake Michigan for beautiful early morning shots. The many lighthouses (10 in the Door County area), sunsets, sunrises, and sand dunes in state parks give you plenty of alternatives for shooting.
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This is a hands-on workshop. We will shoot in the early morning and early evening each day while the sunlight is soft and favorable. Between shootings we will have instruction and review of the images shot during that morning session and the previous evening. We will use PhotoShop CS2 to edit images and Epson printers to print them. You will have free time after the instruction/review ends and before the evening shoot begins. Following the evening shoot, we will have dinner at a local restaurant or you can use this as your free time to do whatever you want. Each participant is responsible for transportation to Door County and for meals and hotel costs. |
Workshop information:
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The image above and to the right was shot in the late evening from the walkway in the harbor at Egg Harbor. It was altered using Photoshop Levels and Color Balance.
Who should attend
Anyone interested in digital photography and who has some experience with photography
should attend. For those just beginning to learn about photography, this Workshop
is probably not for you. If you have been a film camera shooter and have been thinking
about switching to digital this would be a great workshop for you.
You will get a quick review on the basics of shooting. You will learn how to shoot close-ups
of wildflowers and cherry blossoms and various types of landscape scenes including lighthouses and harbor scenes.
You will learn how to apply PhotoShop CS2 filters such as the dry brush and watercolor
filters to your images. We will also teach you how to use some of the other important features of
PhotoShop CS2. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (no instruction or evening shoot on Sunday) our schedule will be the following:
What you will learn
Typical daily schedule
What You Need for Equipment
Cameras — We use Canon 20D and 1Ds digital SLRs and Canon lens. But any digital camera will do as long as it has some type of built-in zoom lens. Please bring a backup camera if you have one.
Lens — if you have a macro lens and/or a close-up filter such as the Canon D500 or a similar close-up filter, then bring it/them. If not, don't worry about it. At the Barb and John Gerlach workshop that I attended several years ago, I did not have a close-up lens or filter and I learned a tremendous amount about close-up photography. For those of you using a digital SLR, we suggest that you bring the equivalent of 24-70mm and 70-200mm lens. They can also be 28-80mm and 80-200mm equivalents. If you are not using a digital SLR, then you can utilize your built-in zoom lens for the same purpose.
Camera Bag — a backpack style bag is best since we will be walking a bit. If you do not have a backpack style bag, and many of you probably don't since you are using digital cameras with built-in zoom lens, then bring whatever bag that you have. There are a lot of bags at a reasonable price for carrying a couple of cameras and accessories.
Tripod — You will need a tripod for close-ups, the sturdier, the better. If you do not have a sturdy one, then bring what you have, but bring one for sure.
Other accessories — If you have a light diffuser and/or a light deflector and you can pack them, bring them. We will provide one of each and show you how to use them during close-up shooting. You should bring CF cards or whatever medium you use to store images. You may need to bring a storage device on which to download images if you do not have sufficient CF-like cards. A notebook or laptop could be that device.
Equipment we will provide
We will provide an Epson printer and paper. If you have Epson printers, then you might want to bring the Epson paper of your choice.
We will provide a CF card reader. While not required, you might want to bring a notebook or laptop computer and your own CF card reader (unless you download directly from your camera). This will allow you to process your images faster. We often carry a lightweight notebook in our camera backpack in the field.
Workshop location
The indoor instruction periods for the Workshop will be held at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek. The Auditorium is on Hwy 42 just a short distance north of the restaurants and shops in downtown Fish Creek.
How to get to Door County, Wisconsin
It is very easy to get to Door County. You can drive, come by boat, or fly to the airport in Green Bay. Many of the flights to Green Bay go through Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit. American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and other airlines have daily flights into Green Bay.
If you need a car rental, most agencies are represented at the airport in Green Bay. This Mapquest link will help you with directions to Door County.