EG7 Monterey- 2013 Wrap-Up

I just returned from the EG7 conference (http://www.the-eg.com/homepage/welcome) in Monterey, California. The name sounds a little mysterious, but the meeting is not. It’s been around for quite a while.

A couple of quotes that might help describe the event: “a gathering of and for innovators in media, technology, entertainment and education. The conference explores our most creative enterprises, by engaging a gifted mix of people — from rising stars to
living national treasures, the people who attend EG are among the most industrious and iconoclastic talents of our time.”

And… “This year at EG, Everything is Learning — and Learning is Everything. Many of the leading inventors, explorers, educators, entertainers, artists and entrepreneurs are joining us to probe these frontiers.”

Some of the “presenters” included Erich Kuhne, architecture, Nicholas Negroponte, perhaps best known for “One Laptop Per Child”,  Bathsheba Grossman, Three Dimensional Thinking,  Frans Lanting, nature and wildlife photography, Brant Austin, incredible full-scale photos of whales, Alison Gopnik, baby thinking,  Umi Garret, a 12-year old world-class pianist, and many, many more.

A long-time working partner, collaborator, and mentor of mine, Jack Duganne (http://www.duganne.com), worked with me at the conference. We focused on making prints of portraits made during the conference – these portraits included attendees and speakers. We used the HP Designjet Z6200 and Z3200 large format printers, and we were very, very busy. Our thanks to HP and Eric DuPaul, and Jennifer Wills and Monica Wolff (of W+W Design – http://wplusw.com/) for making this part possible.

The presentations hit every note possible, in the arts, music, imaging, photography, philosophy – you name it. We all left with new ways of looking at the world, and the world of learning. Hats off to the EG7 team! Hope to see you next year!

California Central Coast Workshop Update

California Central Coast Workshop Update – David Saffir and Jack Duganne

A quick post. We’ve had really nice weather – sunny with clouds coming and going. Incredible full moon at night. We’ve been to Montana de’ Oro, all over Morro Bay and surrounding area, and all along the coast up to and including Julia Pheiffer State Park and Big Sur. An image of Jack at Montana de’ Oro, and then images from some of the locations we chose….

Jack Duganne working with his Gigapan camera

George at Morro Bay Breakwater

Surfer Recovering Inside The Impact Zone, Morro Rock

Waterfall, Vista View trail, Big Sur

Clouds, Montana De Oro

Islands In The Stream #3

Sea Otter, Morro Bay

California Central Coast Tour and Workshop Date Change For the Full Moon

Special note: the California Central Coast Tour and Workshop dates have been changed to: Jan 29-31 2010. There’s still time to sign up – so follow this and get on board!

PS – The Full Moon is Jan 30!!

Workshop: California Central Coast Tour, Jan 29-31, 2010

Back by popular demand! Join two accomplished photographers and fine art printmakers, Jack Duganne and David Saffir, for this exciting, hands-on journey from photo shoots on-location in the California Central Coast area – through high-end classroom sessions in image processing and editing, all the way to printing your new color or black and white images on new, state-of-the-art, pigment-based inkjet printers.

Advance registration required. Class limited to ten students. For more information, please follow this.

Update, Directory of Top Photographers, Printmakers, Consultants, and Artists by David Saffir

I have updated my web page to include a number of new names and profiles. The directory can be found here: Directory of Top Photographers, Printmakers, Consultants, and Artists by David Saffir

 Currently, names listed with profiles include:

 Wayne Cosshall

 Tom Hubbard

 Daniel J Cox

 Charlie Cramer

 Nadia Salameh

 Robert Ash

 Don Gale

 Mark Alberhasky

 Kat Silverglate

 Jack Duganne

 Harald Johnson

 Andrew Behla

 Christopher Green

 Jim Hull

 John Lorusso

 Sonny Tohan

 Marc Aguilera

 I am continuing to build this out. Names which are present on the list but still need completed profiles include:

 Dwight Blemker,Jon Canfield , Amy Cantrell, Nick Carlson, Elizabeth Carmel, Skip Cohen, Jerry Courvoisier, Ted Dayton, Joe Drivas, Eileen Fritsch, Helen Golden, Francis Hills, David Hines, Bill Hurter, JD Jarvis, Ryan Joslyn, Douglas Kirkland, Alan Kozlowski, Joel Meyerowitz, Ed Ouelette, Michael Reichmann, John Riedy, Neil Snape, Uwe Steinmuller, Bill Truran, Henry Wilhelm – and more to be added.  

Leaders in The Field of Photography, Printing, Color Management, and More

I’ve been building a directory of web sites of interest, published by a number of individuals and sources. These include photographers, printmakers, technologists, consultants, and more. This is only a preliminary update, and I will be expanding the level of detail with a week or two. I’ve done this in response to the many requests I receive each week for info like this.

These are not advertisements, but are references to resources you may find useful. I’ve listed people I know and trust.

Here’s an example of what you can expect to see:

Photography and Consulting

Wayne Cosshall: The Digital Image Maker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/
Wayne writes The Digital Imagemaker, the leading Australian photography, digital art and related area online magazine, with strong readership in the US and a growing readership in other countries. He is an accomplished photographer, writer, and consultant. Infrared and black and white photography, computer generated imaging, workshops, and other areas make up just a portion of Wayne’s areas of expertise.

Tom Hubbard
: Portland Metro Photographic News at http://www.pmpnonline.com
Commercial. Portland, OR’s portal to “all things photographic in the metro Portland area”. Includes the latest news for: photo gallery opening and exhibits, photo education workshops and seminars, photo equipment/software announcements, photo competitions, a virtual Student Gallery, photo tourist information, showcase photographers, and a complete photo event calendar for the Pacific Northwest. Tom also writes several other sites, which you can find via pmponline.com

Daniel J. Cox, http://www.naturalexposures.com/ is one of the world’s premier wildlife and nature photographers, and of course educators. Quoted from his site “He’s traveled to all seven continents, plying his craft in search of the images that help tell the stories and inspire his art.” He has many high-level awards for his work and “he is the sole author of ten books”. Enough said.  

Printmaking and Related

Jack Duganne, Duganne Ateliers, www.duganne.com
Jack is one of the few people I know who is truly a master of CS4, not just Photoshop, but pretty much the whole thing. He has been involved in printmaking long before most of us, starting out with the IRIS printer and escalating from there. He is an internationally-known authority on the subject, a superb educator, and photographic experimentalist.

Harald Johnson, www.dpandi.com Best known as an author (Mastering Digital Printing), Harald is at once one of the best specialists and generalists around. He’s an amazing communicator, able to bring artists, photographers, corporations, consultants, and other experts together in effective collaboration on leading edge projects. His web site is one of the best in the world as a resource on digital printing and related subjects.

Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design

Christopher Green Design, LLC http://www.christophergreen.com/ is a web site design, graphic design and web site development company located in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii near Honolulu. Christopher Green Design produces custom web site design and applications, company logos, web advertising, flash ads and flash demos, identity design, branding and promotional materials, web site analysis, web site planning, Search Engine Optimization, user interface and usability planning and documentation, ecommerce web sites, illustrations, print advertisements web site maintenance, web site redesign, content management systems and consulting.

And the short list (which will get longer…. )

Marc Aguilera, consultant

Mark Alberhasky, photographer

Robert Ash, photographer and printmaker

Andrew Behla, master printmaker

Dwight Blemker, superb landscape photographer

Jon Canfield
, photographer, author, educator

Amy Cantrell, celebrity photographer, educator

Milt Carlson, photographer

Nick Carlson, master of panorama photograph

Elizabeth Carmel, master of landscape and fine art photography

Skip Cohen, President, Rangefinder Publishing, and more

Jerry Courvoisier, photographer, Lightroom and Photoshop master, author

Ted Dayton, commercial photographer, educator

Joe Drivas, commercial photographer, educator

Jack
 Duganne, one of the best fine art printmakers in the world, THE Photoshop Ninja!

Eileen Fritsch, leading editor and author, industry guru

Don Gale, master landscape photographer and educator

Helen Golden, master digital artist and photographer

Chris Green
, master designer and THE go-to person for web design and SEO

Francis Hills, fashion photographer par excellance

David Hines, leading black and white photographer and painter

Jim Hull, watercolorist and consultant

Bill Hurter, chief editor and key leader at Rangefinder Publishing (Rangefinder, After Capture) and one of the top authors of real-life, practical photography books in the world

JD Jarvis, digital artist

Harald Johnson, leading authority on printmaking, photography, consultant, author

Ryan Joslyn, one of the best up-and-coming photographers I’ve met in the last five years.

Douglas Kirkland, one of the best photographers in the world (needs little introduction)

Alan Kozlowski, photographer and audio expert, among other things.

Mark Leet, world-class, leading photographer from SF Bay area

John Lorusso, President, Parrot Digigraphic

Sonny Tohan, President, Mac Business Solutions

Joel Meyerowitz, one of the all-time great photographers

Ed Ouelette, superb commercial photographer, S California

Michael 
Reichmann, of Luminous Landscape fame

John Riedy, one of the best wedding photographers around

Liz Quinlisk, X-Rite, a master of communications and color management

Nadia Salameh, one of the best wedding and inter-cultural photographers I have ever met

Kat Silverglate, artist, designer, photographer

Neil Snape, arguably one of the smartest color scientists I know, and a superb fashion and still life photographer

Uwe Steinmuller, runs numerous websites for photographers, expert printmaker and photographer, author, educator

Bill Truran, amazing depth of knowledge in high-def photography, collaboration with large-scale publishing, color management, educator, author, and more

Henry Wilhelm, the leading authority on print technology, print longevity and testing, and a list just too long to provide right now.

The final version of the Directory will be posted at www.davidsaffir.com

 

Latest Workshop Update – Fine Art Printmaking

Jack Duganne and I had a great time hosting our fine art printmaking workshops in Santa Monica on May 1 and May 2. We covered a lot of ground – from advanced camera setup, use of advanced RAW processing, through image editing in layers, use of layer comps, multiple image print proofing, media evaluation and selection, and more. We also covered use of a number of wide-format printers, including the HP Designjet Z-series and the HP Designjet B9100 desktop printer. We had a mix of Nikon, Canon, and Hasselblad shooters as well.

One part of the workshop that generated a good deal of interest was selective color adjustment in Photoshop. Selective color adjustment provides fine control of color and tone – and methods we now teach for CS4 make this pretty intuitive and straightforward. With the right setup, what you see is what you get – you can work through different combinations, and get to your desired result quickly and easily.

One thing that make quite an impression on both of us was that some students booked flights to attend the workshop – they came from San Francisco, and as far as away as Atlanta, Georgia. 

I have several new seminar events coming up June 1-2 at B&H Photo and Adorama in New York, and Mac Business Solutions in Baltimore/Wash DC area on June 4. These will provide an introduction to starting and running a successful business in digital fine art reproduction using the HP Artist Solution for Nikon.

I’ll be posting a short tutorial on selective color adjustment, other event updates on my web site later this week, so stay tuned!