Digitalfest Workflow Tour

Friday September 14th, 2007
4:00pm - 7:00pm

Saturday September 15th, 2007
11:00am - 2:00pm

The "Digital Workflow Tour" will take place throughout the property both indoors and outdoors. On the tour there will be seven distinctive stops consisting of "live" shoots / demonstrations that each will be presented by one of our main suppliers: Canon, Nikon, Epson, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Adobe, and Apple.

Other manufacturers attending DiGiTALFEST include: Epson, Express Digital, Drobo, DynaLite, Lowepro, Bogen, Ilford, Expoimaging, Olympus, Wynit, and Sandisk. These manufacturers will be available to answer questions at any time during the Tour hours.

Schedule

Use the menu below to read details about each manufacturers presentation.

Choose Manufacturer Adobe Apple Hasselblad Mamiya Nikon

Description of Events

Nikon

Take flawless images with Nikon’s Creative lighting system

Nikon's Creative Lighting System allows you to take breathtaking images of portrait, macro, landscapes, and sports. Come learn how to setup and use Nikon’s Creative lighting system in every part of your photography. With the wireless metering and control of the CLS you can shoot portraits and then switch to macros without losing time or quality.

Outline:

• Demonstrate setup of SBR-200, SB-800, and SB-600,
• Demonstrate setup of D200/D80 to commander mode,
• Take images of the model with the speedlights
• Demonstrating how to switch the D200’s banks to take the flower pictures quickly and easily
• Take the flower picture
• Switch back to portrait photography

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Photography reaches new heights with the H3D medium format DSLR

Hasselblad’s H3D medium format DSLR takes photography to new levels as the worlds fastest 39 mega pixel auto focus camera with central shutter lenses that sync at speeds up to 800th of a second.

Outline:

• Overview of the H Camera System
• Overview of the lenses available for the H system
• Take Images of the Ducati using flash lighting
• Take Images of the model
• Processing in two workflows for output

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Adobe CS3 Production Premium
Friday 4:15pm & Saturday 11:15am

Maximize your productivity with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium software, the total post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows®. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe’s all-new video, audio, and design tools—now including Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software for rich interactive authoring and Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3 software for audio—helps ensure fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, including capturing, editing, motion graphics, effects, compositing, and rich media authoring. Move beyond SD and DVD to HD, HDV, Blu-ray Disc, and other emerging web and mobile formats so you can deliver your content to the widest possible audience.

Product highlights:

• Discover a total post-production solution.
• Work with full new versions of Adobe’s professional video, audio, and design tools.
• Enjoy tight integration for exceptional productivity.
• Deliver for tomorrow as well as today

Who should attend:

• Corporate and event videographers
• Motion graphics professionals
• Independent film makers
• Educators
• Interactive Designers

Adobe Photoshop CS3 New Features
Friday 5:45pm & Saturday 12:45pm

Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset to keep you more flexible than ever. And with the streamlined interface and new timesaving tools, your work simply flows faster. Create any image with Photoshop CS3.

Product highlights

• Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more.
• Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools.
• Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections.

Who should attend:
Professional Photographers

• Serious Amateur Photographers
• Print and Web Designers
• Photography Students and Educators

Adobe Photoshop LightRoom
Friday 4:45pm

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

• Work with a tool focused on photographers’ needs
• Easy-to-use white balance, exposure, and contrast controls

Quickly perfect white balance, exposure, and tone curves in your images, including camera raw files, with familiar slider controls, or enter numeric values for the most precise adjustments.

• Simple yet powerful tone curve editor

Precisely control the tonality and contrast of your images by individually targeting highlights, midtones, and shadows using sliders and visual controls.

• Advanced hue, saturation, and luminance editing

Enhance color saturation and remove color casts in your images with individual control over six color ranges each for hue, saturation, and luminance.

• Nondestructive editing

Enjoy robust support for more than 140 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won’t alter the original data, whether you’re working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.

• Multiple viewing options

Quickly find and select your best shots with flexible display options like the Grid view for groups of thumbnails, the Loupe view for zeroing in on fine detail in a single image, or the Compare view for displaying two or more images side by side.

• Fast zooming

Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zooming—a simple keyboard command or mouse click toggles between 100% magnification and a full-image view. Smoothly navigate highly magnified areas using the Hand tool in the photo preview pane.

• Convenient before/after comparison mode

View a side-by-side display of your original picture and a duplicate that shows the effects of your edits as you make them, or display the before and after states in a split view of the image. Toggle either view between portrait and landscape modes, and even see images in "lights out" view.

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Aperture - Everything you need for after the shoot

Please join us for one of our one-hour demonstrations of Aperture, Apple’s software designed for professional Photographers. Our Apple sales representative will be doing demonstrations of the key features of Aperture including:

• Advanced RAW workflow
• Professional Project Management
• Powerful Compare and Select Tools
• Nondestructive Image Processing
• Versatile Printing and Publishing
• New Features of Aperture 1.5.4

* Each session will have approx 15 seats.

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Bridal and Portrait Shoot Demonstration

Join Tim Meyer, Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute of Photography in California, as he demonstrates ways to improve your bridal and studio portraiture using Profoto lighting and Sekonic precision meters. Also get a sneak peek at the new 22 mega pixel Mamiya ZD camera system.

Tim Meyer Bio

Tim Meyer, M.Photog.Cr., CPP. Photographer, educator and writer, Tim Meyer is passionate about the field of photography. With over 30 years as a professional photographer he currently serves as the Portrait Division Chair at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. There he is responsible for curriculum development, oversight of the portrait program and is an instructor specializing in the topics of lighting, marketing and all aspects of the portrait and wedding industry.

Tim lectures internationally on portrait and wedding photography and is a contributing editor to Rangefinder Magazine.

Holder of Professional Photographers of America’s coveted Masters and Craftsman degrees Tim has also been awarded a Master of Arts degree in Fine Art Photography. Tim maintains a commission based portrait business and is also a highly regarded wedding photographer.

In addition to numerous one-man exhibitions of his fine art work, Tim’s photography has been internationally recognized for its innovative style and technique.