Foundational Course: Crafting Your Digital Negative in the Digital Darkroom

This is an Adobe based workshop working in Lightroom and Photoshop.

When you move from the camera to the digital darkroom, you can realize your creative vision or destroy it. This workshop focuses on establishing a working digital negative that becomes your baseline template for additional artistic enhancement.

Walking out of this workshop you will understand the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing, push/pull best practices, techniques for various genres, and much more.

Instructor:

Tyler Martin is a cinematographer turned still photographer and the husband-half of TADAM Photography based in Denver, CO. Tyler is also one of the partners of RAW Photographic.

TADAM Photography focuses on cinematic portraiture, intimate lifestyle portraiture and commercial imagery.

Visit TADAM Photography (http://www.tadamphoto.com/)

Enrollment limited to 14 attendees.

Course Outline:

• What is the digital negative?

• RAW Processing best practices and adjustments

• Color Balancing

• Sharpening

• Baseline Retouching (for portraits)

• Contrast Adjustments

What should I bring?

• A computer loaded with Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and NIK Software Plug-ins (Free)

• 2-3 Images to practice on

Investment:

Foundational Workshops are $57 per workshop or $239 (~15% discount) for all five workshops in the Foundational track (contact us directly if you'd like to purchase all five).

We are offering this session at an introductory rate of $27 for this Thursday night session.

Remaining Core Courses:

• Building your Portfolio
• Posing & Interaction
• Variety in a Studio Setting: Backdrop Shooting Success
• Understanding your Tools: The Camera and Lens