Vancouver Photo Workshops Proudly Presents:

Internationally Acclaimed Photographer Dan Burkholder

In an exclusive, intimate 4 Day Workshop:

"The Art of Digital -

Exquisite Digital Control from Capture to Print"

November 13th to 16th, 2005

Vancouver Photo Workshops proudly announces a four day workshop,"The Art of Digital - Exquisite Digital Control from Capture to Print" with internationally acclaimed photographer Dan Burkholder to be held from November 13th to 16th, 2005. Set in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, this workshop is designed especially for real photographers.

This workshop takes you from shutter release to final print. With fine art photographer Dan Burkholder as your guide, you’ll explore the power of Photoshop CS2 and express your final print as classic handmade prints or as archival, pigmented ink prints.

The journey from classic photography to digital is fun and exciting in this four-day hands-on workshop. Bring your problem images and learn which digital tools are best (and which are nerdy-time-wasters) to get the results you crave. We’ll even take digital negatives into the darkroom to print in silver gelatin. And if inkjet printing is your goal, we’ll cover the bases in the pigmented ink world, too.

About the Artist: Dan Burkholder was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990’s. True to his love of the traditional photograph, Dan uses digital technology to build images that still look and feel like real photographs, not like something from a graphic designer’s portfolio. Melding his unique vision with mastery of both the wet and digital darkrooms, his platinum prints are now included in many museum and private collections. Originating the digital-negative process in 1992, Burkholder has helped open doors for all black and white photographers interested in moving into the new electronic technologies. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, is regarded as the most authoritative work in the field. Dan has taught classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the lnternational Center of Photography in New York, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and others. Active with the Texas Photographic Society for many years, he is currently serving on the Advisory Board for this organization.

Here's what Dan will teach you over the 4 day Workshop:

• Learn Dan’s gallery-tested methods for producing prints with glowing highlights, seductive midtones and shadows you can fall into.

• For those wishing to make handmade, wet-darkroom prints, learn from the man who wrote the book on Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing.

• Learn the meat and potatoes techniques for capturing and manipulating your images to get prints that match your imagination.

• Delve into the rich underbelly of Adobe Camera Raw and Bridge to both save time and optimize your image quality.

• Learn the parts of Color Management you actually need, from a photographer who never sinks into digi-geek-speak.

• Learn how digital cameras compare so you can make the best purchasing decisions.

• Discover which additional software is worth your money and time.

Other Photoshop workshops might teach you the basics, but Dan combines decades of classic photographic experience with a fine art aesthetic to help you learn the new digital craft with pixels at your command and a smile on your face.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop computer (must have Adobe Photoshop CS2 software) to work during the workshop. If you do not have access to a personal computer, please contact our office so that we can provide you with recommendations on obtaining one for the workshop.

All participants will have full access to our digital lab facilities in our studio, including a variety of Epson printers (including the Pro 4000) and scanners. In addition,Tricera imaging, Vancouver's premier Epson dealer and service provider, will provide us with a Epson 2400 and a variety of Epson media. The workshop will also include a printing session in a wet (traditional) darkroom. These session(s) will be hosted by PLI Pacific Light Impressions Fine Art Printmakers. PLI's facilities are located in the heart of Yaletown, a short walk from our studio facilities on 1304 seymour street. PLI provides the finest and best equipped darkrooms available in Vancouver, and they have recently aquiered an Epson 9600 printer as well.

The workshop will convene on Sunday morning at 10:00 am and will run until Wednesday evening 5pm, when Mr. Burkholder will be required to fly back to Texas.

On Friday evening, November 11th, Mr. Burkholder will be presenting at the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium theatre starting at 7:30pm. This event is open to the public.

On Saturday, November 12th, Mr. Burkholder will host his famous "1 Day Digital Blitz" Workshop. For more information and to register, please click here!

This workshop is an unparalleled opportunity for the Pacific Northwest photographer who has been interested in the many high caliber photography workshops on the east coast, but found the cost for travel and accommodation to be prohibitive. Since the workshop is being held at Vancouver Photo Workshops in Vancouver, B.C. our American participants will find that the added bonus of exchange rates will make this a real treat resulting in excess of 20% (at time of this writing) off all your expenses in Canada.

Tuition for the workshop is $980Cdn (equivalent to approximately $850 US at time of this writing) plus 7% GST (refundable to residents of the U.S.).

Entrance to Mr. Burkholders public Presentation at HR MacMillan Planetarium at 7:30pm on Friday November 11th is $25.00cdn plus 7% GST (Refundable to residents of the US).

If you are travelling to Vancouver for this workshop, please be sure to contact us as we would like to offer our help in finding and booking travel and accomodation arrangements.

Registration and Payment Instructions:

A non- refundable deposit of $350 Cdn is requiered to hold a seat in this workshop. After the deposit has been paid in full, the balance is due by November 1st, 2005.

If full payment is received on or before October 15th, 2005, the particpant will receive a discount of $100 Cdn of the total workshop tuition fee!!

The first 5 registered participants will receive a limited edition workshop poster signed by Mr. Dan Burkholder himself.

Registration for the presentation at the HR MacMillan Planetarium will be avialable soon. Admission to this event is included for participants of the workshop.

 

Please note: By clicking the above registration link you will be able to register and leave the deposit to reserve a spot in this Workshop. You will also be able to pay in full and receive the $100 discount if you complete the registration by October 15th, 2005. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us