Week 5 winner of our Grand Tetons print giveaway: Bob Dent of Denver, CO. Bob will get a fine art print of Oxbow Bend by Nat Coalson. Congrats Bob! Only three weeks remaining… details and entry at http://www.jacksonholephotoworkshops.com
Last week’s winner of our Grand Tetons print giveaway is Christie King from Topeka, Kansas. Christie will receive a 16×24 fine art print of Snake River Overlook by Bret Edge. Congratulations, Christie!
The drawings are open to everybody and no purchase is necessary to win. Enter today at JacksonHolePhotoWorkshops.com
Last week’s winner of our Grand Tetons print giveaway is Steven Peckham from Longmont, Colorado. Steven will receive a 16×20 fine art print of Denizen by Nat Coalson. Congratulations, Steven!
If you haven’t already entered, do it today at JacksonHolePhotoWorkshops.com
The drawings are open to everybody and no purchase is necessary to win.
Adobe Announces Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended software, must-have releases of the professional industry standard for digital imaging. With millions of users celebrating the product’s 20th anniversary this year, Photoshop CS5 builds upon a rich history of innovation and leadership with groundbreaking features and performance gains that boost creativity and workflow efficiency. Packing in more technological advancements from Adobe Labs than any other release and incorporating enhancements to everyday tasks requested by the Photoshop community, the software has greater intelligence and awareness of the content within images, allowing for complex and magical manipulation in just a few clicks. Here are a few of the key features:
Pricing
Estimated street price for Adobe Photoshop CS5 is US$699 and US$999 for Photoshop CS5 Extended. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are available. For more detailed information about features, OS support, upgrade policies and pricing, please visit www.adobe.com/go/photoshop.
Learn More
Visit AdobeTV to see videos highlighting the new Photoshop CS5 feaures. Go to http://tv.adobe.com/product/photoshop/
Attend one or both live eSeminars on Photoshop CS5 delivered by Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes.
May 6 10am P.T.
What’s New in Photoshop CS5
Learn how Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software redefines the state of the art with a strong focus on photography; breakthrough painting and selection capabilities; and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements. You’ll see the creativity and productivity enhancements that were requested by passionate Photoshop users.
Register at: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=851960&loc=en_us
May 27 10am P.T.
Photoshop CS5 for Photographers
See how Photoshop CS5 gives photographers a set of breakthrough tools to help you refine your images and get superior results faster than ever before. This seminar highlights key features and the reasons why Photographers should consider upgrading to Photoshop CS5.
Register at: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=851960&loc=en_us
BOULDER, COLO. — APRIL 16, 2010 — A new series of intensive one-week certificate programs at Boulder Digital Arts is set to make the organization a national resource for digital professionals, students and other professionals looking to learn important new tools and techniques in web design, social media marketing, video production and other fields. The Transitions certificate program will debut June 7.
Boulder Digital Arts’ new Transitions certificate programs are taught by talented working professionals. The programs emphasize practical knowledge and skills over academics using a project-based learning approach that combines engaging lectures with hands-on practice. Every Transitions program has a clear, concise learning outcome for students. Most programs limit class size to eight students so the instructor can engage and help each student.
Offered in Boulder Digital Arts’ state-of-the-art classroom in the organization’s new 3,000-square-foot site at 1600 Range St., the Transitions classes deepen and expand the curriculum Boulder Digital Arts has offered over its six-year history. Transitions students will have access to cutting-edge software and tools, and receive personal mentoring from other digital professionals.
The first Transitions class, a one-week Digital Photography certificate program, runs Monday, June 7, to Friday, June 11. Other scheduled Transitions classes include:
Web Design, June 14-18
Video Production, June 21-25
Web Marketing and Social Media, June 28-July 2
Video Post-Production, July 19-23
The classes are geared toward out-of-town visitors as well as local professionals. Boulder Digital Arts has negotiated with local vendors to offer discounted accommodations and other services to Transitions participants. Classes will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and include a catered lunch. Students will also have access to personal mentoring from Boulder Digital Arts instructors from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.
“This new program is a huge leap forward for Boulder Digital Arts,” co-founder Bruce Borowsky said of the new space. “People who spend a week in the Transitions classroom with our top-notch mentors will leave Boulder Digital Arts with a new set of skills and a grasp of the most important technological trends of the day. We believe they’ll feel more vital and energized about how they incorporate technology into their careers, and people will come to Boulder from all over the country once they find out how exciting these programs are.”
Boulder Digital Arts co-founders Bruce Borowsky and Zach Daudert launched the organization in 2004 to offer low-cost, high-impact training in digital tools and new technology. Boulder is an important hub of the digital world, allowing Boulder Digital Arts to leverage top-notch instructors and provide education in cutting-edge subjects and ideas. Borowsky, a Boulder Chamber of Commerce board member, has been a producer at People Productions in Boulder for more than 10 years. During that time he has worked on a wide variety of projects for both corporate and commercial clientele, not only as producer and director but also as cameraman, lighting director and editor. Daudert is a technology strategist, Web developer and filmmaker. He started his career as a video editor in the mid 1990s and moved into Web and mobile development when it became too interesting to ignore and promised a seemingly unlimited source of curiosity and experiments in the early 2000s.
About Boulder Digital Arts (BoulderDigitalArts.com)
Located at 1600 Range St., Boulder Digital Arts is a one-stop community resource for digital artists, creative professionals and students in film/video, interactive media, photography, music and the Web. Boulder Digital Arts offers a range of resources that embrace contemporary technology, particularly where it intersects with creative expression, including affordable training, a free online directory, Digital Salon series, free networking and special events and discounted access to tools and technology. The organization’s trainers are professionals and educators who bring a wealth of experience and know how to each training program.
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Bret Edge and I have a winner for our first of eight print giveaways: Sheila Hoadley of Lakewood, CA. Sheila will receive a 16×20 fine art print of “Moulton Barn” by Nat Coalson. The drawings are open to anyone; register at JacksonHolePhotoWorkshops.com
Mt. Moran by Bret Edge
It’s springtime in the Rockies! Time to share some beautiful nature photography.
To celebrate the incredible beauty of Jackson Hole, Wyoming… the Grand Tetons and surrounding areas… we are giving away one FREE PRINT every week for the next 8 weeks. These fine art prints feature the landscape and nature photography of Nat Coalson and Bret Edge.
The giveaways are open to everyone; no purchase is necessary and no strings attached! Enter as often as you like (but you can win only once).
Our first winner will be announced this Friday, April 16.
For more details and to register for the weekly giveaways, visit
www.JacksonHolePhotoWorkshops.com
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On Monday, April 12, Adobe is holding a live, public web event to announce and celebrate the launch of Creative Suite 5. Details and registration are at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
I’m presenting three sessions at the Moab Photo Symposium in late April. Organizers have put together a fantastic schedule… check it out:
Adobe has released the second public beta for the upcoming Lightroom 3. Details and links to download are here.
I’ve just returned from Nashville and the 2010 session of PPA’s Imaging USA… I’m feeling a strange combination of excitement and exhaustion. It was a high-intensity experience! Over the years, I’ve attended countless trade shows and conventions and I can say without a doubt this was the most rewarding, productive convention I’ve been to. Kudos to PPA for putting on a really great event!
Over the past year or so I’ve been hearing of the notable decline of trade shows across the board – smaller venues, fewer people, lots of compaies pulling out and not having booths due to falling cost/benefit ratios. In this way, Imaging USA 2010 was remarkable… several PPA folks told me they were surprised (and overjoyed) by the attendance, for which I heard estimates between 10 and 12 thousand people! In a “down economy” that speaks volumes.
What I saw at the show was a very determined effort by photographers and suppliers to push their businesses forward this year. The folks at the corporate booths were thrilled at the frenzy of activity surrounding their products, and the photographers were intently interested in both the products and the fantastic educational offerings.
On the trade show floor, dominated by print labs and camera accessory vendors, the activity was inspiring. WHCC (White House Custom Colour) had a constant stream of visitors, as did the booths for Canon, NIK Software and many others. The people in the booths kept the level of interest high with ongoing demos and presentations and people were just eating it up!
One of the more interesting presentations I saw was about shooting high-def video with the Canon 5D Mark II. I’m looking forward to doing travel video on my trips this year. Steven Inglima, a really nice guy who runs Canon’s Explorers of Light program, spent some time with me, explaining how their training programs operate. He’s put together a top notch roster of photographers who speak around the country giving demos and presentations featuring Canon’s photography solutions.
I also spent some time at the Luma Vue Arts booth, talking to Steve Knudsen, the inventor and owner of the company. These lightboxes are beautiful, and I’ll soon be offering my prints in ready-to-hang lightboxes. On the more “traditional” print side, I saw samples of the beautiful new paper from Canson called Baryta Photographique. I looked at the latest printer offerings from Epson and Canon and was really impressed with both. I’m considering buying a new printer this year, and it’s going to be a tough call, but at this point I think I’m still leaning toward the Epson 9900.
I also had a chance to see the annual PPA Print Competition display which was really impressive. I’ll be entering some prints into the Colorado competition this year.
If you regularly present your work as slideshows, you should check out Animoto. It’s a new web-based service that allows you to upload your image files and then create high-def videos from them, complete with gorgeous transitions and pro music tracks. The videos can be downloaded, are unencrypted, and can be used any way you like.
The convention also featured a full schedule of seminars, of which I attended 4 or 5. I saw a great lighting presentation by Tony Korbell, and a very informative talk from Roy Hsu about stock and commercial assignment photography. I caught the last half of a seminar by Denver’s own Sandy Puc’, a renowned portrait artist and excellent speaker, about marketing and product sales in the portrait world. Very interesting.
I had a chance to sit and chat with Adobe’s Tom Hogarty, the Lightroom Product Manager. We discussed the upcoming release of Lightroom 3, my new book, and the training market in general. Tom’s a great guy and I look forward to working more closely with him over the coming year in helping more photographers master Lightroom. There was strong interest in Lightroom throughout the convention.
I also got to hang out with Rob Sylvan, the author of Lightroom 2 for Dummies, also published by my author, Wiley, and the technical editor for his book, Steve Holmes. Both really great guys and experts at what they do.
One of the developments I’m most excited about for the coming year is my newly forged relationship with the local chapter of PPA, called PPC or Professional Photographers of Colorado. I had some very lively and productive conversations will Jill Bailey, PPC’s president, about all kinds of new education offerings we’re going to be partnering on. I will be presenting a digital workflow program for PPA in February, from which we’re going to start spinning off more training events, many open to the general public. Stay tuned!
My time in Nashville was time very well spent. This is the second Imaging USA I’ve been to; the first was in Tampa several years ago and was also excellent. Although PPA and Imaging USA is mainly geared toward portrait and wedding photographers, and I do travel photography, usually outdoors using natural light, I’ve found these conventions to be very worthwhile. If you haven’t been to one yet, I’d recommend you start making plans for Imaging USA 2011 in San Antonio. I’ll be there and hope to see you there too!
About PPA: Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is the world’s largest nonprofit association for professional photographers, with more than 20,000 members in 54 countries. This association seeks to increase its members’ business savvy as well as broaden their creative scope, advancing careers by providing all the tools for success…as they have since 1880. For more info visit www.PPA.com
In preparation for the new year I’m releasing several calendars of my photographs; the first one is available now from Cafe Press. A couple more calendars are in the works and will be available for purchase during the first week of December.
I’m leading a 3 day workshop in Crested Butte, Colorado next weekend…. click here for details.
Renowned master photographer Chase Jarvis will be presenting at the Denver Newspaper Agency Friday, June 12. This event is presented by ASMP Colorado.
I’m leaving tomorrow for a month in New Zealand. While I’m there I will be posting photos to my new blog at
http://www.coalsonphotography.com/blog/
See you back here in May!
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