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Yankee Photographic Society
Providing New England with Education, Enrichment
& Entertainment Through Photography
About Yankee Photographic Society
Yankee is a diverse group of New England photo enthusiasts who meet twice a year for photographic exchange of ideas and workshops. Attendees come from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. The seminars are scheduled in the spring: usually in March or April, and also in the fall, either in November or December.
Programs may include guest speakers, model and child portraiture, slide, print, and digital mini salons, The Greater Lynn International, and setups such as glassware, still life, blacklight, mylar, and pet photography. Registrants are encouraged to bring their camera, lens, and film or digital media to photograph the setups.
Yankee membership is $8 for a single membership or $12 for a two-person joint household membership. You will receive a reduced registration fee to the fall seminar 2008 and the spring seminar 2009 and also the "Yankee Crier", a bi-annual 15-20 page publication. The seminar registration cost is kept as low as possible. A group of about 50-60 volunteers help run the popular programs. Even the lunch buffet is a real bargain at $6.00 per person.
Please see the seminar schedule, other information, registration, and directions for further information.
November 22, 2008, 8:00AM (doors open)
Program starts at 9:00AM through 4:30PM
Models and Hi-Jinx will run from 10:00AM to 3:00PM
DANVERS HIGH SCHOOL
60 CABOT STREET, DANVERS, MA
PRESENTS AN ALL DAY PHOTO SEMINAR
You’ve enjoyed George’s presentation, Revisiting Familiar Places, this weekend. Now learn how to achieve better results from your photography and more enjoyment too.
After attending this seminar, you will realize greater satisfaction in your photographic endeavors through Capture, Editing, Optimizing, Saving Safely, and Sharing your images.
Registration flyers are online. Registration is $18 for members, $25 for nonmembers. Lunch is an additional $6.
Fullfilling the Promise of Digital
The era of digital offers us the promise of better and more enjoyable photography. Along with the promise comes a certain amount of complexity and confusion as to what’s possible and how to attain it. George will focus on what photographers really need to know and demonstrate the potential of digital. You’ll learn how to achieve better results and more enjoyment from your photography.
Great photography is no longer just about taking well-composed and exposed pictures. The final result you hope to achieve may drive the way you plan the initial capture. Sometimes the optimization of images is dictated by the manner in which we plan to share them. Today’s digital photography involves mastering five distinct but inter-related processes:
Capture. How we capture determines the limits of possibility for each image. The attitude that we’ll “fix it in Photoshop” just won’t work if you want to achieve a quality result. Decisions need to be made at the outset as to whether to shoot with RAW or JPEG. Careful planning is required to create panoramas, get unlimited depth of field with Helicon Focus, or to achieve perfect exposure with HDR composites. George will help you to understand the ways in which some new capture techniques and software programs are revolutionizing the field by surpassing the limits previously set by film.
Edit. With digital we capture far more images than we ever did with film. The end result is a glut of files that need to be edited, and only the best should survive the final cut. George offers some essential criteria for editing, and introduces a number of software tools that help to make the decisions about what to keep. He’ll spend some time exploring the different potentials of Adobe Bridge and Lightroom for editing and organizing your images.
Optimize. We can choose a variety of image-processing programs, but Photoshop stands above the rest if you’re looking for the best results and the most options. But actually, there are too many options, and George will help you to figure out which are important to photographers seeking consistent and reliable results. Based on what we had in mind at the time of capture there are many practical and creative opportunities offered by Photoshop and some other processing programs. The possibilities are endless, and George will show you the programs he relies upon for effectiveness and ease.
Save Safely. You’ve done the work and have results to prove it. How do you keep it all safe? The question is not IF your storage media will crash, it’s WHEN--and will you lose your data when it does? There are many simple ways to protect your work, and George will share his own strategies for this essential function of photography.
Sharing your images. Now that you’ve created and processed your images and have a body of work, how do you share it? We’ve come a long way from the initial option of monitor display. Now we have inkjet printers, the web, phones, digital projectors, and publishing outlets that use digital. The only question is how to prepare the image to assure that the final presentation is appropriate to the medium, and that it achieves the vision we had at the time of capture. George will offer tips and specific techniques on print and electronic display of your work.
Throughout the day, George will be available to answer the questions that will help you to realize greater satisfaction in your photographic endeavors.
with GEORGE D. LEPP
Throughout the day, George will be available to answer the questions that will help you to realize greater satisfaction in your photographic endeavors.
Balloons: A panorama (5 images) taken at the 2007 balloon festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Canon EOS-5D camera with EF24-105mm at 28mm.
Rufous Hummingbird in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado nectaring on a larkspur flower. Canon EOS-1D MKIII camera and EF500mm f/4 w/1.4X tele-extender (910mm) 800 ISO.
Poppies: A bug’s eye view of poppies in California. Canon EOS-1v (film) with Kodak E100VS. EF15mm fisheye lens.
Keukenhof Gardens : A panorama of the garden at Keukenhof Gardens in Holland. The display includes tulips (red) and mascara (blue) flowers. Canon EOS-1Ds camera with EF28-135mm. Five images composited to make the panorama.
Tulip rows: Tulip rows weave through the gardens at Keukenhof, Holland . Canon EOS-1Ds camera with Canon 90mm tilt/shift lens.
Poppy CU: Close-up of a California golden poppy. Canon EOS-1Ds camera with EF180mm macro lens.
© George D. Lepp
© George D. Lepp
© George D. Lepp
© George D. Lepp
© George D. Lepp
© George D. Lepp
George D. Lepp is one of North America’s best-known contemporary outdoor and nature photographers, and a leader in the rapidly advancing field of digital imaging. He is the author of many books and articles and the field editor of both PC Photo and Outdoor Photographer magazine, where his “Tech Tips” column is widely read. He was chosen by Canon USA as one of the first members of its Explorers of Light and Printmasters programs, which feature the industry’s most influential photographers. A popular lecturer, he is a continuing member of the faculty of Photoshop World, a founding board member of the North American Nature Photographers’ Association, and winner of many awards for his work, including the prestigious Progress Award, the highest given by the Photographic Society of America. George's website is www.geolepp.com.
© George D. Lepp
