The Digital Fine Print with George DeWolfe

(This image come from the corridors below Fort Knox in mid coast Maine)

We just finished up a Fine Art Printing class this previous week where we not only tryed various Hahnemulle and Mueseo paper but we also utilized the history brush to edge and burn/dodge files before ging to print to give them a more 3d appearance.

George DeWolfe also talked allot on the idea of a photographers individual authenticity and mindfulness of the scenes we have before us. After studying extensivly with the likes of Ansel Adams and Minor White, it's no wonder that a great deal of thought goes into everything he does. He is a kind of philosopher photographer.

Check him out for more of his philosophy

MMW Architecture Workshop with Norman Mcgrath

We just finished up a great architecture workshop with Norman McGrath. We ran all over the state of Maine from nicly appointed interiors to the penobscot narrows bridge we shot it all.

We even compared various lenes at a given focal length (Canon 24mm t/s v 1 and 2 vs. 24-70, and 24-105, etc)

We also compared photos of a room lit via strobes to one of the same room created in HDR from multiple exposures.

It was a great class that I was happy to TA for. We had allot of fun as a group and exchanged allot of great information between us.

I can only hope that the rest of my classes this summer will be as much fun!

Blind Appriciation

A special thanks to Eric and Adrian for being the (at the time)
unknowing subjects of this piece.

Week Two at the maine Media Workshops

We just wrapped up Creativity for Media Teachers here at the Maine Media Workshops. I had a great time assisting Jim Stone this week as a group of educators ranging from grizzeled veterens near retirment to young gun getting ready to have a full class for the first time.
Our class:

Jim Stone is a very funny guy and I highly recommend hearing him lecture if you get the chance!

Here's a quick Bio on Jim:

Jim Stone turned to photography while studying engineering at MIT. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. Six of his books, A User’s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, A Short Course in Photography and A Short Course in Digital Photography (both with Barbara London), Photography 10th Edition, and Photography: The Essential Way (both books with Barbara London and John Upton), are in wide and continued use for university-level courses, and there have been three artist’s books published of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).

Stone has received awards from the Massachusetts Arts Council, The New England Foundation for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the editor of Polaroid’s Newsletter for Photographic Education, and taught formerly at the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently he is Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico.