LIGHTROOM
"The Basics"
and
For more advanced users
"Brushing Up on Your
Existing Skills"
Instructor for both courses: Tom Wester
Limited to Ten Students each course
LIGHTROOM!
The Basics
Please scroll down for information on
the Advanced Class
Who should take this Course
This course is designed for individuals looking for a way to deal with most of their digital images and take complete control of their digital post-production workflow. It is intended to give the participant the procedures and tools necessary to establish a solid workflow, in which you can import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a fundamental level without being distracted by more advanced processes not initially required; but can be added later as experience is gained.
We'll be modifying our tried and true classroom workshop techniques, that we've been using with great success for years with our Photoshop workshops, to make it easy for you to learn Lightroom.
This course will help you bypass those frustrating moments of feeling lost as you try to learn a new program. We'll take you step by step through Lightroom so that you become confident in your ability to use it successfully. We'll help you use Lightroom to its full advantage and expedite your workflow, so that you'll quickly be back in the field making more photos!
If your goal is to have an easier way to manage your digital workflow, this course is for you!
The Basics Course
A brief bit of history first: For the past twenty-five years Mary and I have been teaching our Complete Nature Photo Course and Advanced Nature Photo Course, creating what we believe to be the most intensive and complete instructional course on nature photography anywhere in the country.
Embracing this new digital world, and realizing not only the importance of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom's powerful image editing capabilities but also its very real intimidation, we are offering several courses DESIGNED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER in mind.
Many of our frequent travelers know our friend Tom Wester, who has traveled with us to many destinations and who has done on-the-spot Lightroom mini-courses to dozens of interested participants. Tom will be teaching this course, finally in a classroom situation! We are very excited about this. For many, Lightroom will be a welcome addition to their workflow making it easier to do all the daily tasks associated with digital imagery.
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind. Lightroom is built from the ground up for digital photographers and provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many of the global adjustments, as well as some targeted adjustments. You can also use these adjustment tools on TIFF, JPEG, PSD or DNG files and manage them from inside Lightroom as part of you digital image library.
All our Digital Photography/Photoshop courses here at Hoot Hollow were designed with the photographer in mind, and are fine-tuned to clearly present the information you need to know to master the software and enhance your photography.
About the BASICS Course…
In this course we'll teach you how to use all the features of Lightroom including Installing and setting Lightroom up to support your workflow, creating catalogs and file structures to improve your organization, the adjustment and editing tools as well as when and how to turn to external editors for adjustments that can't be made in Lightroom. The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom Software and how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. It will address Lightroom’s menus and preferences, and provide recommendations for software setup. The class will progress rapidly into application. It will discuss LR Catalogs, what they are and what they do, along with how to decide many you need and where to locate them. The course will focus on the Library and Develop Modules, where the organization, management and editing of your digital image files takes place. Finally remaining Modules of Slideshow, Map, Book, Print and Web will be introduced and discussed enabling you the share the images of your choice.
Time Frame: Learning new software can be demanding mentally, and for photographers accustomed to being out in the field shooting images, time spent behind a computer might be drudgery. Our time frame will hopefully alleviate some of this, by providing plenty of time at the computer while still giving you, the photographer, some time to shoot or relax, or if you wish, to use the computer lab to your full advantage. Our formal classroom instruction will begin at 9AM and continue until noon, where we'll break for lunch (served at Hoot Hollow), and followed by an afternoon session that will continue to 5PM or so. There will be a break for dinner (served, along with breakfast, at your farm bed and breakfast, the Mountain Dale Farm), followed by 'open computer lab time' every evening back at Hoot Hollow. Our instructors are always at the Lab, so even during our open computer time in the evening we'll be helping and assisting you, as well as reviewing.
Our Format: The Lightroom Course is divided into several segments that will make learning fun and palatable and extremely productive. Our morning sessions will be devoted to lecture and demonstration, which will also include hands on practice by our students. Afternoon sessions will include instruction and practice time, although the exact format will be flexible to accommodate the needs of our students. Some topics are simple to cover and to demonstrate, and for students to practice. Others, we realize, are more complex and may require several small doses before the concept is fully realized. If you are familiar with how we run our Digital Complete Nature Photo Course you know our dedication and commitment to your understanding of our subjects, and we will follow the same philosophy and teaching methods of the D-CNPC in the Lightroom course.
Advanced Lightroom
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for individuals who are already familiar with Lightroom and are looking to broaden their range of knowledge and improve their skills in the management and post-processing of their digital images. It is intended to expand the participants understanding of procedures and tools used to import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a more advanced level.
About the Advanced Course
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind and was built from the ground up for digital photographers. It provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many adjustments, both global and targeted.
The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom software, how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. A review of Lightroom basics will be conducted to establish a common foundation among participants. The overview of menus and preferences, and the use of all the Lightroom features; from creating catalogs to importing, managing and editing images, and the application of adjustment and editing tools. The review will be accomplished quickly and will lead into detailed utilization of more advanced applications of Lightroom. The class will address the new additions to Lightroom 5, as well as such topics as the creation and use of collections and presets to improve your workflow, image management and organization as well as how to synchronize various editing steps across numerous images avoiding workflow repetition. In addition, the application of adjustment tools for local adjustments, the use of the upright tool, radial filter, lens corrections, and more will be reviewed and discussed. We will discuss subjects such as sharpening, removing noise and chromatic aberrations, and teach you about the application of creative edits and options available within Lightroom.
Time permitting, we will also review a few some of the external editing software available and show how to install and access them from within Lightroom.
You should be familiar with the basic layout of the Lightroom workspace and have an awareness and some experience with Lightroom panels, tools and filters.
Further Information:
Breakfast is served at 8AM at the farm, which will give participants time in the morning to photograph, if they wish, or to review handouts and reading material before class. We will take at least one 'break out session' to shoot a few subjects (defined below) that you'll be able to work with, digitally, during the course of the week. Evenings on most days will be 'free' in the sense that students can come and go, to work in the computer lab (which is likely) or to simply crash (which is possible) on any given day. Since everyone attending will be photographers, we will devote one evening, and perhaps a part of another, to slide, print, or digital image sharing - a slide show of some of our work and THAT OF OUR PARTICIPANTS. Between our class time, your practice time, the intermittent shooting times, and our slide sessions, you will have an extremely complete week.
One added advantage all of our Digital Photography and Photoshop students have enjoyed and commented upon was the unity of our groups, since all meals are shared either at the Mountain Dale Farm or at Hoot Hollow. These informal group times provide the opportunity for a tremendous amount of information sharing - on other workshops, on techniques and equipment, on places to photograph, and other diverse topics.
Our Participants: This course is designed for photographers who want an easier way to manage your workflow. You will learn to use Lightroom and integrate it into your workflow. We will build your expertise from the ground up, explaining every step and every technique as we go along. New software can be intimidating, but only because it seems so vast and complex. You'll discover Lightroom is really easy to use.
It will be helpful if participants have some basic familiarity with Photoshop - or even Elements - since we will be showing you when to use Photoshop in addition to Lightroom. We'll show you how to make targeted adjustments in Photoshop and we'll explain some other circumstances where you may choose to use Photoshop that we'll cover step by step.
Location: All of our courses are taught on the grounds of the Hoot Hollow Institute of Nature Photography, in either our studio or in our computer lab. Hoot Hollow is located in central Pennsylvania, northwest of Harrisburg, east-southeast of State College, and near RT 522 between Lewistown and Selinsgrove, Pa. The nearest full-service airport and car rental is in Harrisburg. Lodging is at a farm vacation bed and breakfast located about eight miles from Hoot Hollow. It is a 'target-rich' shooting environment in a rural area rich with landscapes, farm scenes, farm animals, and nature subjects. Breakfasts and dinners are served at the farm.
Price: $1,495, with a limited number of single supplements available at $100 for a room in the main house, and $150 for a cabin. The tuition for the Lightroom Course includes all instruction, meals (you will not go hungry!), and lodging based upon double occupancy from Sunday through Wed. nights. The fee does not include transportation to, during, or from the course.
About Your Instructors
Tom Wester had a corporate career as an engineer and corporate executive in the energy industry for more than 35 years. During that career he pursued photography both recreationally and professionally. Since retiring in 2004, Tom has traveled the world and participated in numerous workshops as well as personal travels and photo shoots pursuing his interest in photography. Tom has been involved in digital photography since its beginning in both the capture and image processing arenas. He is proficient in both Photoshop and Lightroom as well as other digital image processing software. He has been an avid user and proponent of Lightroom and its capabilities since its introduction by Adobe. He has made numerous presentations to informal groups and classes on both subjects. He is an excellent photographer, a consummate professional with excellent people and teaching skills.
Joe McDonald has been a full-time professional wildlife and nature photographer since 1983. Along with co-authors, Mary Ann McDonald and Rick Holt, they are the authors of "Digital Nature Photography - From Capture to Output." Joe is the author of six books on wildlife photography and another on African Wildlife, as well as a how-to video produced with his wife, Mary Ann, on Photographing on Safari. His work has appeared in every major nature and wildlife publication published in North America. Along with operating their own stock photography business, Joe is represented by over a dozen stock photo agencies worldwide, including Corbis, Animals Animals, Auscape, Okapia, and others.
In addition to maintaining an active and informative website, www.hoothollow.com, Joe is columnist for OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER, writing the 'Big Game' column, and Joe and his wife Mary Ann are Field Correspondents for NATURE'S BEST Magazine, and KEYSTONE OUTDOORS, writing a photography column, and Joe Van Os's web magazine, www.photosafaris.com where they write a regular column on wildlife and nature photography.
For over fifteen years Joe and Mary Ann have been teaching photography courses and leading photography tours and workshops. Their very popular photo tours and safaris have them afield for over twenty-five weeks each year.
Joe has worked with Photoshop for several years, mainly for creating sales promotional material and for web site use. Now, with the advent of digital cameras, he is using Photoshop nearly daily. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Our Educational Commitment - a note from Joe McDonald
If you've read the above biographies, you'll see that all of us are dedicated photographers that are interested in sharing our knowledge and helping people. I've been involved in teaching my entire adult life, from teaching assistantships in graduate school to a six-year stint as a high school biology teacher before starting my career as a wildlife photographer and photo workshop instructor. Ellen has taught college level courses as well as individual instruction, and has been assisting Art Morris with his birding workshops for years. Rick is actively teaching Photoshop right now, and feels, as both Ellen and I do, that knowing Photoshop will take you (quoting from Rick's bio) "beyond the limits of film and recreate what you saw and felt when you recorded the image."
I intend to make our Digital Courses every bit as successful, in terms of the knowledge conveyed, the quality of the experience, the intensity, and, just as importantly, the amiability and fun, that we've done with our CNPC and ANPC courses here at Hoot Hollow.
Contact us by e-mail.
info@hoothollow.com
Phone: (717) 543-6423 or FAX: (717) 543-5342
LIGHTROOM
"The Basics"
and
For more advanced users
"Brushing Up on Your
Existing Skills"
Instructor for both courses: Tom Wester
Limited to Ten Students each course
LIGHTROOM!
The Basics
Please scroll down for information on
the Advanced Class
Who should take this Course
This course is designed for individuals looking for a way to deal with most of their digital images and take complete control of their digital post-production workflow. It is intended to give the participant the procedures and tools necessary to establish a solid workflow, in which you can import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a fundamental level without being distracted by more advanced processes not initially required; but can be added later as experience is gained.
We'll be modifying our tried and true classroom workshop techniques, that we've been using with great success for years with our Photoshop workshops, to make it easy for you to learn Lightroom.
This course will help you bypass those frustrating moments of feeling lost as you try to learn a new program. We'll take you step by step through Lightroom so that you become confident in your ability to use it successfully. We'll help you use Lightroom to its full advantage and expedite your workflow, so that you'll quickly be back in the field making more photos!
If your goal is to have an easier way to manage your digital workflow, this course is for you!
The Basics Course
A brief bit of history first: For the past twenty-five years Mary and I have been teaching our Complete Nature Photo Course and Advanced Nature Photo Course, creating what we believe to be the most intensive and complete instructional course on nature photography anywhere in the country.
Embracing this new digital world, and realizing not only the importance of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom's powerful image editing capabilities but also its very real intimidation, we are offering several courses DESIGNED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER in mind.
Many of our frequent travelers know our friend Tom Wester, who has traveled with us to many destinations and who has done on-the-spot Lightroom mini-courses to dozens of interested participants. Tom will be teaching this course, finally in a classroom situation! We are very excited about this. For many, Lightroom will be a welcome addition to their workflow making it easier to do all the daily tasks associated with digital imagery.
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind. Lightroom is built from the ground up for digital photographers and provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many of the global adjustments, as well as some targeted adjustments. You can also use these adjustment tools on TIFF, JPEG, PSD or DNG files and manage them from inside Lightroom as part of you digital image library.
All our Digital Photography/Photoshop courses here at Hoot Hollow were designed with the photographer in mind, and are fine-tuned to clearly present the information you need to know to master the software and enhance your photography.
About the BASICS Course…
In this course we'll teach you how to use all the features of Lightroom including Installing and setting Lightroom up to support your workflow, creating catalogs and file structures to improve your organization, the adjustment and editing tools as well as when and how to turn to external editors for adjustments that can't be made in Lightroom. The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom Software and how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. It will address Lightroom’s menus and preferences, and provide recommendations for software setup. The class will progress rapidly into application. It will discuss LR Catalogs, what they are and what they do, along with how to decide many you need and where to locate them. The course will focus on the Library and Develop Modules, where the organization, management and editing of your digital image files takes place. Finally remaining Modules of Slideshow, Map, Book, Print and Web will be introduced and discussed enabling you the share the images of your choice.
Time Frame: Learning new software can be demanding mentally, and for photographers accustomed to being out in the field shooting images, time spent behind a computer might be drudgery. Our time frame will hopefully alleviate some of this, by providing plenty of time at the computer while still giving you, the photographer, some time to shoot or relax, or if you wish, to use the computer lab to your full advantage. Our formal classroom instruction will begin at 9AM and continue until noon, where we'll break for lunch (served at Hoot Hollow), and followed by an afternoon session that will continue to 5PM or so. There will be a break for dinner (served, along with breakfast, at your farm bed and breakfast, the Mountain Dale Farm), followed by 'open computer lab time' every evening back at Hoot Hollow. Our instructors are always at the Lab, so even during our open computer time in the evening we'll be helping and assisting you, as well as reviewing.
Our Format: The Lightroom Course is divided into several segments that will make learning fun and palatable and extremely productive. Our morning sessions will be devoted to lecture and demonstration, which will also include hands on practice by our students. Afternoon sessions will include instruction and practice time, although the exact format will be flexible to accommodate the needs of our students. Some topics are simple to cover and to demonstrate, and for students to practice. Others, we realize, are more complex and may require several small doses before the concept is fully realized. If you are familiar with how we run our Digital Complete Nature Photo Course you know our dedication and commitment to your understanding of our subjects, and we will follow the same philosophy and teaching methods of the D-CNPC in the Lightroom course.
Advanced Lightroom
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for individuals who are already familiar with Lightroom and are looking to broaden their range of knowledge and improve their skills in the management and post-processing of their digital images. It is intended to expand the participants understanding of procedures and tools used to import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a more advanced level.
About the Advanced Course
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind and was built from the ground up for digital photographers. It provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many adjustments, both global and targeted.
The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom software, how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. A review of Lightroom basics will be conducted to establish a common foundation among participants. The overview of menus and preferences, and the use of all the Lightroom features; from creating catalogs to importing, managing and editing images, and the application of adjustment and editing tools. The review will be accomplished quickly and will lead into detailed utilization of more advanced applications of Lightroom. The class will address the new additions to Lightroom 5, as well as such topics as the creation and use of collections and presets to improve your workflow, image management and organization as well as how to synchronize various editing steps across numerous images avoiding workflow repetition. In addition, the application of adjustment tools for local adjustments, the use of the upright tool, radial filter, lens corrections, and more will be reviewed and discussed. We will discuss subjects such as sharpening, removing noise and chromatic aberrations, and teach you about the application of creative edits and options available within Lightroom.
Time permitting, we will also review a few some of the external editing software available and show how to install and access them from within Lightroom.
You should be familiar with the basic layout of the Lightroom workspace and have an awareness and some experience with Lightroom panels, tools and filters.
Further Information:
Breakfast is served at 8AM at the farm, which will give participants time in the morning to photograph, if they wish, or to review handouts and reading material before class. We will take at least one 'break out session' to shoot a few subjects (defined below) that you'll be able to work with, digitally, during the course of the week. Evenings on most days will be 'free' in the sense that students can come and go, to work in the computer lab (which is likely) or to simply crash (which is possible) on any given day. Since everyone attending will be photographers, we will devote one evening, and perhaps a part of another, to slide, print, or digital image sharing - a slide show of some of our work and THAT OF OUR PARTICIPANTS. Between our class time, your practice time, the intermittent shooting times, and our slide sessions, you will have an extremely complete week.
One added advantage all of our Digital Photography and Photoshop students have enjoyed and commented upon was the unity of our groups, since all meals are shared either at the Mountain Dale Farm or at Hoot Hollow. These informal group times provide the opportunity for a tremendous amount of information sharing - on other workshops, on techniques and equipment, on places to photograph, and other diverse topics.
Our Participants: This course is designed for photographers who want an easier way to manage your workflow. You will learn to use Lightroom and integrate it into your workflow. We will build your expertise from the ground up, explaining every step and every technique as we go along. New software can be intimidating, but only because it seems so vast and complex. You'll discover Lightroom is really easy to use.
It will be helpful if participants have some basic familiarity with Photoshop - or even Elements - since we will be showing you when to use Photoshop in addition to Lightroom. We'll show you how to make targeted adjustments in Photoshop and we'll explain some other circumstances where you may choose to use Photoshop that we'll cover step by step.
Location: All of our courses are taught on the grounds of the Hoot Hollow Institute of Nature Photography, in either our studio or in our computer lab. Hoot Hollow is located in central Pennsylvania, northwest of Harrisburg, east-southeast of State College, and near RT 522 between Lewistown and Selinsgrove, Pa. The nearest full-service airport and car rental is in Harrisburg. Lodging is at a farm vacation bed and breakfast located about eight miles from Hoot Hollow. It is a 'target-rich' shooting environment in a rural area rich with landscapes, farm scenes, farm animals, and nature subjects. Breakfasts and dinners are served at the farm.
Price: $1,495, with a limited number of single supplements available at $100 for a room in the main house, and $150 for a cabin. The tuition for the Lightroom Course includes all instruction, meals (you will not go hungry!), and lodging based upon double occupancy from Sunday through Wed. nights. The fee does not include transportation to, during, or from the course.
About Your Instructors
Tom Wester had a corporate career as an engineer and corporate executive in the energy industry for more than 35 years. During that career he pursued photography both recreationally and professionally. Since retiring in 2004, Tom has traveled the world and participated in numerous workshops as well as personal travels and photo shoots pursuing his interest in photography. Tom has been involved in digital photography since its beginning in both the capture and image processing arenas. He is proficient in both Photoshop and Lightroom as well as other digital image processing software. He has been an avid user and proponent of Lightroom and its capabilities since its introduction by Adobe. He has made numerous presentations to informal groups and classes on both subjects. He is an excellent photographer, a consummate professional with excellent people and teaching skills.
Joe McDonald has been a full-time professional wildlife and nature photographer since 1983. Along with co-authors, Mary Ann McDonald and Rick Holt, they are the authors of "Digital Nature Photography - From Capture to Output." Joe is the author of six books on wildlife photography and another on African Wildlife, as well as a how-to video produced with his wife, Mary Ann, on Photographing on Safari. His work has appeared in every major nature and wildlife publication published in North America. Along with operating their own stock photography business, Joe is represented by over a dozen stock photo agencies worldwide, including Corbis, Animals Animals, Auscape, Okapia, and others.
In addition to maintaining an active and informative website, www.hoothollow.com, Joe is columnist for OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER, writing the 'Big Game' column, and Joe and his wife Mary Ann are Field Correspondents for NATURE'S BEST Magazine, and KEYSTONE OUTDOORS, writing a photography column, and Joe Van Os's web magazine, www.photosafaris.com where they write a regular column on wildlife and nature photography.
For over fifteen years Joe and Mary Ann have been teaching photography courses and leading photography tours and workshops. Their very popular photo tours and safaris have them afield for over twenty-five weeks each year.
Joe has worked with Photoshop for several years, mainly for creating sales promotional material and for web site use. Now, with the advent of digital cameras, he is using Photoshop nearly daily. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Our Educational Commitment - a note from Joe McDonald
If you've read the above biographies, you'll see that all of us are dedicated photographers that are interested in sharing our knowledge and helping people. I've been involved in teaching my entire adult life, from teaching assistantships in graduate school to a six-year stint as a high school biology teacher before starting my career as a wildlife photographer and photo workshop instructor. Ellen has taught college level courses as well as individual instruction, and has been assisting Art Morris with his birding workshops for years. Rick is actively teaching Photoshop right now, and feels, as both Ellen and I do, that knowing Photoshop will take you (quoting from Rick's bio) "beyond the limits of film and recreate what you saw and felt when you recorded the image."
I intend to make our Digital Courses every bit as successful, in terms of the knowledge conveyed, the quality of the experience, the intensity, and, just as importantly, the amiability and fun, that we've done with our CNPC and ANPC courses here at Hoot Hollow.
Contact us by e-mail.
info@hoothollow.com
Phone: (717) 543-6423 or FAX: (717) 543-5342
LIGHTROOM
"The Basics"
and
For more advanced users
"Brushing Up on Your
Existing Skills"
Instructor for both courses: Tom Wester
Limited to Ten Students each course
LIGHTROOM
"The Basics"
and
For more advanced users
"Brushing Up on Your
Existing Skills"
Instructor for both courses: Tom Wester
Limited to Ten Students each course
The Basics
Please scroll down for information on
the Advanced Class
Who should take this Course
This course is designed for individuals looking for a way to deal with most of their digital images and take complete control of their digital post-production workflow. It is intended to give the participant the procedures and tools necessary to establish a solid workflow, in which you can import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a fundamental level without being distracted by more advanced processes not initially required; but can be added later as experience is gained.
We'll be modifying our tried and true classroom workshop techniques, that we've been using with great success for years with our Photoshop workshops, to make it easy for you to learn Lightroom.
This course will help you bypass those frustrating moments of feeling lost as you try to learn a new program. We'll take you step by step through Lightroom so that you become confident in your ability to use it successfully. We'll help you use Lightroom to its full advantage and expedite your workflow, so that you'll quickly be back in the field making more photos!
If your goal is to have an easier way to manage your digital workflow, this course is for you!
A brief bit of history first: For the past twenty-five years Mary and I have been teaching our Complete Nature Photo Course and Advanced Nature Photo Course, creating what we believe to be the most intensive and complete instructional course on nature photography anywhere in the country.
Embracing this new digital world, and realizing not only the importance of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom's powerful image editing capabilities but also its very real intimidation, we are offering several courses DESIGNED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER in mind.
Many of our frequent travelers know our friend Tom Wester, who has traveled with us to many destinations and who has done on-the-spot Lightroom mini-courses to dozens of interested participants. Tom will be teaching this course, finally in a classroom situation! We are very excited about this. For many, Lightroom will be a welcome addition to their workflow making it easier to do all the daily tasks associated with digital imagery.
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind. Lightroom is built from the ground up for digital photographers and provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many of the global adjustments, as well as some targeted adjustments. You can also use these adjustment tools on TIFF, JPEG, PSD or DNG files and manage them from inside Lightroom as part of you digital image library.
All our Digital Photography/Photoshop courses here at Hoot Hollow were designed with the photographer in mind, and are fine-tuned to clearly present the information you need to know to master the software and enhance your photography.
In this course we'll teach you how to use all the features of Lightroom including Installing and setting Lightroom up to support your workflow, creating catalogs and file structures to improve your organization, the adjustment and editing tools as well as when and how to turn to external editors for adjustments that can't be made in Lightroom. The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom Software and how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. It will address Lightroom’s menus and preferences, and provide recommendations for software setup. The class will progress rapidly into application. It will discuss LR Catalogs, what they are and what they do, along with how to decide many you need and where to locate them. The course will focus on the Library and Develop Modules, where the organization, management and editing of your digital image files takes place. Finally remaining Modules of Slideshow, Map, Book, Print and Web will be introduced and discussed enabling you the share the images of your choice.
Time Frame: Learning new software can be demanding mentally, and for photographers accustomed to being out in the field shooting images, time spent behind a computer might be drudgery. Our time frame will hopefully alleviate some of this, by providing plenty of time at the computer while still giving you, the photographer, some time to shoot or relax, or if you wish, to use the computer lab to your full advantage. Our formal classroom instruction will begin at 9AM and continue until noon, where we'll break for lunch (served at Hoot Hollow), and followed by an afternoon session that will continue to 5PM or so. There will be a break for dinner (served, along with breakfast, at your farm bed and breakfast, the Mountain Dale Farm), followed by 'open computer lab time' every evening back at Hoot Hollow. Our instructors are always at the Lab, so even during our open computer time in the evening we'll be helping and assisting you, as well as reviewing.
Our Format: The Lightroom Course is divided into several segments that will make learning fun and palatable and extremely productive. Our morning sessions will be devoted to lecture and demonstration, which will also include hands on practice by our students. Afternoon sessions will include instruction and practice time, although the exact format will be flexible to accommodate the needs of our students. Some topics are simple to cover and to demonstrate, and for students to practice. Others, we realize, are more complex and may require several small doses before the concept is fully realized. If you are familiar with how we run our Digital Complete Nature Photo Course you know our dedication and commitment to your understanding of our subjects, and we will follow the same philosophy and teaching methods of the D-CNPC in the Lightroom course.
Advanced Lightroom
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for individuals who are already familiar with Lightroom and are looking to broaden their range of knowledge and improve their skills in the management and post-processing of their digital images. It is intended to expand the participants understanding of procedures and tools used to import, organize, manage, edit and share their digital images at a more advanced level.
About the Advanced Course
Lightroom is the premier software for managing and processing of digital images. It was designed for photographers with photographers in mind and was built from the ground up for digital photographers. It provides an intuitive interface to enable you to accomplish many of the post production tasks such as organizing and editing digital image files as well as getting them ready for output including slideshows, books, web, and printing. Lightroom uses the same RAW converter as Adobe Camera Raw and through Lightroom’s development tools you can make many adjustments, both global and targeted.
The class will provide an overview of the Lightroom software, how it handles digital images and how it differs from other processing software. A review of Lightroom basics will be conducted to establish a common foundation among participants. The overview of menus and preferences, and the use of all the Lightroom features; from creating catalogs to importing, managing and editing images, and the application of adjustment and editing tools. The review will be accomplished quickly and will lead into detailed utilization of more advanced applications of Lightroom. The class will address the new additions to Lightroom 5, as well as such topics as the creation and use of collections and presets to improve your workflow, image management and organization as well as how to synchronize various editing steps across numerous images avoiding workflow repetition. In addition, the application of adjustment tools for local adjustments, the use of the upright tool, radial filter, lens corrections, and more will be reviewed and discussed. We will discuss subjects such as sharpening, removing noise and chromatic aberrations, and teach you about the application of creative edits and options available within Lightroom.
Time permitting, we will also review a few some of the external editing software available and show how to install and access them from within Lightroom.
You should be familiar with the basic layout of the Lightroom workspace and have an awareness and some experience with Lightroom panels, tools and filters.
Further Information:
Breakfast is served at 8AM at the farm, which will give participants time in the morning to photograph, if they wish, or to review handouts and reading material before class. We will take at least one 'break out session' to shoot a few subjects (defined below) that you'll be able to work with, digitally, during the course of the week. Evenings on most days will be 'free' in the sense that students can come and go, to work in the computer lab (which is likely) or to simply crash (which is possible) on any given day. Since everyone attending will be photographers, we will devote one evening, and perhaps a part of another, to slide, print, or digital image sharing - a slide show of some of our work and THAT OF OUR PARTICIPANTS. Between our class time, your practice time, the intermittent shooting times, and our slide sessions, you will have an extremely complete week.
One added advantage all of our Digital Photography and Photoshop students have enjoyed and commented upon was the unity of our groups, since all meals are shared either at the Mountain Dale Farm or at Hoot Hollow. These informal group times provide the opportunity for a tremendous amount of information sharing - on other workshops, on techniques and equipment, on places to photograph, and other diverse topics.
Our Participants: This course is designed for photographers who want an easier way to manage your workflow. You will learn to use Lightroom and integrate it into your workflow. We will build your expertise from the ground up, explaining every step and every technique as we go along. New software can be intimidating, but only because it seems so vast and complex. You'll discover Lightroom is really easy to use.
It will be helpful if participants have some basic familiarity with Photoshop - or even Elements - since we will be showing you when to use Photoshop in addition to Lightroom. We'll show you how to make targeted adjustments in Photoshop and we'll explain some other circumstances where you may choose to use Photoshop that we'll cover step by step.
Location: All of our courses are taught on the grounds of the Hoot Hollow Institute of Nature Photography, in either our studio or in our computer lab. Hoot Hollow is located in central Pennsylvania, northwest of Harrisburg, east-southeast of State College, and near RT 522 between Lewistown and Selinsgrove, Pa. The nearest full-service airport and car rental is in Harrisburg. Lodging is at a farm vacation bed and breakfast located about eight miles from Hoot Hollow. It is a 'target-rich' shooting environment in a rural area rich with landscapes, farm scenes, farm animals, and nature subjects. Breakfasts and dinners are served at the farm.
Price: $1,495, with a limited number of single supplements available at $100 for a room in the main house, and $150 for a cabin. The tuition for the Lightroom Course includes all instruction, meals (you will not go hungry!), and lodging based upon double occupancy from Sunday through Wed. nights. The fee does not include transportation to, during, or from the course.
Tom Wester had a corporate career as an engineer and corporate executive in the energy industry for more than 35 years. During that career he pursued photography both recreationally and professionally. Since retiring in 2004, Tom has traveled the world and participated in numerous workshops as well as personal travels and photo shoots pursuing his interest in photography. Tom has been involved in digital photography since its beginning in both the capture and image processing arenas. He is proficient in both Photoshop and Lightroom as well as other digital image processing software. He has been an avid user and proponent of Lightroom and its capabilities since its introduction by Adobe. He has made numerous presentations to informal groups and classes on both subjects. He is an excellent photographer, a consummate professional with excellent people and teaching skills.
Joe McDonald has been a full-time professional wildlife and nature photographer since 1983. Along with co-authors, Mary Ann McDonald and Rick Holt, they are the authors of "Digital Nature Photography - From Capture to Output." Joe is the author of six books on wildlife photography and another on African Wildlife, as well as a how-to video produced with his wife, Mary Ann, on Photographing on Safari. His work has appeared in every major nature and wildlife publication published in North America. Along with operating their own stock photography business, Joe is represented by over a dozen stock photo agencies worldwide, including Corbis, Animals Animals, Auscape, Okapia, and others.
In addition to maintaining an active and informative website, www.hoothollow.com, Joe is columnist for OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER, writing the 'Big Game' column, and Joe and his wife Mary Ann are Field Correspondents for NATURE'S BEST Magazine, and KEYSTONE OUTDOORS, writing a photography column, and Joe Van Os's web magazine, www.photosafaris.com where they write a regular column on wildlife and nature photography.
For over fifteen years Joe and Mary Ann have been teaching photography courses and leading photography tours and workshops. Their very popular photo tours and safaris have them afield for over twenty-five weeks each year.
Joe has worked with Photoshop for several years, mainly for creating sales promotional material and for web site use. Now, with the advent of digital cameras, he is using Photoshop nearly daily. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
If you've read the above biographies, you'll see that all of us are dedicated photographers that are interested in sharing our knowledge and helping people. I've been involved in teaching my entire adult life, from teaching assistantships in graduate school to a six-year stint as a high school biology teacher before starting my career as a wildlife photographer and photo workshop instructor. Ellen has taught college level courses as well as individual instruction, and has been assisting Art Morris with his birding workshops for years. Rick is actively teaching Photoshop right now, and feels, as both Ellen and I do, that knowing Photoshop will take you (quoting from Rick's bio) "beyond the limits of film and recreate what you saw and felt when you recorded the image."
I intend to make our Digital Courses every bit as successful, in terms of the knowledge conveyed, the quality of the experience, the intensity, and, just as importantly, the amiability and fun, that we've done with our CNPC and ANPC courses here at Hoot Hollow.
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