Calendar

Wednesday evenings, February 20 – March 27, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Room 110, Eiben Hall,  Chaminade University
Fee: $175
Instructors: Alison Beste and David Ulrich

Knowledge of the history of photography and of contemporary practitioners is a key factor in your success with the medium and in your ability to communicate through images. Explore the history of photography through several major contemporary trends defined by historic and current photographers. The key trends that we examine include:

Identity & Portrait
New Documentary
Conceptual and Experimental
Landscape and Metaphor
Photography for Social Change
Photojournalism and the Marketplace

Each trend is explored through a slide show, discussion, and a hands-on assignment/critique. Participants have a chance to explore contemporary trends through both dialogue and practice. Please bring an openness to discovery.

Alison Beste is a faculty member at Mid Pacific Institute where she teaches photography and design courses. She also instructs photography workshops for National Geographic Student Expeditions, Pacific Media Arts, and Honolulu Museum of Art School.  Alison’s photographs have exhibited and won awards in Hawai’i and on the mainland. Her body of work Oil Tanker Sunsets was featured at the Artists of Hawai‘i exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art in 2015. www.alisonbeste.com

David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and  Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (2018).  www.creativeguide.com

Wednesdays, March 6 – April 3. 7-8:30pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Fee: $170 (or $40 per session)
Instructor: John LeBlanc

WordPress Wednesdays is a five (5) class series providing entrepreneurs, professionals and even hobbyists the skills & resources to develop attractive, functional and sustainable websites with WordPress for their business or pastime. The classes are intended for people who are looking to build, design and manage their own website. 

Workshop Topics:

John LeBlanc is an independent WordPress specialist and web developer. He’s been developing websites and web content management solutions professionally since 1997, serving as the first staff webmaster at CBS in Boston.

Thursdays, February 28-May 2, 6pm-9pm 
(No class April 11)
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Fee: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich

Photographic vision, concept, and craft, including camera use, post-processing, and presentation methods are all mutually dependent and influence each other. This class addresses the complex, creative relationship between the vision, ideas, and intent of the photographer with their craft—whether behind a camera or in image editing software such as Lightroom, Photoshop, or Capture One.
 
Through making photographs, hands-on editing sessions, discussion of camera use and capture strategies, slide shows and critiques, learn to more fully integrate your vision and ideas with your creative and technical process and make photographs that more fully express your creative intent.
 
Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of photography and basic familiarity with image editing software.
 
Please bring 6-8 jpg examples of your work to the first class

David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and  Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (2018).  www.creativeguide.com

Four meetings: Saturday mornings, March 9, 16, 23, 30, 9am-12pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Fee: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich

Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop—all integrated parts of the Adobe Photoshop “family”—offer an unprecedented set of tools for editing and manipulating photos for expressive results. This basic-level class, which meets over four sessions, covers the chief features of RAW processing in Camera Raw and Lightroom and the multiple pixel editing tools available in Photoshop. Because it meets over multiple weeks, it offers an opportunity to ‘take home” the lessons, digest the tools, and apply them to your own work in a way that is not possible in an intensive, weekend workshop.

Week One: Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom controls for raw processing, global editing, noise reduction, B&W transformations, lens corrections, parametric and point tone curves, and powerful local editing tools. Workflow and import options. 

Week Two: Photoshop adjustment layers, content layers, and smart objects. Learn non-destructive techniques fully edit your photograph for highly expressive results, employ filters non-destructively, and integrate Camera Raw and pixel editing tools in a single Photoshop file.

Week Three: The incredibly powerful and versatile tools of layer masks, luminance and color masks, and layer blending modes.

Week Four: Get it clean; get it sharp; and get it sized and optimized for various forms of output. The power of content-aware editing, retouching, color spaces/color conversion intents, interpolation algorithms, and effective methods for sharpening different types of output.   

You’ll leave the class with a much better understanding of global and local Raw and pixel processing as well as learning about the full integration of Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop into your workflow.

Class is taught on iMac computers with Photoshop CC 2018 with provided training files. Also, please bring 6-8 full resolution images of your own to work on during the class.

David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and the upcoming Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography.  www.creativeguide.com

Wednesdays, March 6 – April 3. 7-8:30pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Fee: $170 (or $40 per session)
Instructor: John LeBlanc

WordPress Wednesdays is a five (5) class series providing entrepreneurs, professionals and even hobbyists the skills & resources to develop attractive, functional and sustainable websites with WordPress for their business or pastime. The classes are intended for people who are looking to build, design and manage their own website. 

Workshop Topics:

John LeBlanc is an independent WordPress specialist and web developer. He’s been developing websites and web content management solutions professionally since 1997, serving as the first staff webmaster at CBS in Boston.

Thursdays, February 28-May 2, 6pm-9pm 
(No class April 11)
Room 110, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
Fee: $250
Instructor: David Ulrich

Photographic vision, concept, and craft, including camera use, post-processing, and presentation methods are all mutually dependent and influence each other. This class addresses the complex, creative relationship between the vision, ideas, and intent of the photographer with their craft—whether behind a camera or in image editing software such as Lightroom, Photoshop, or Capture One.
 
Through making photographs, hands-on editing sessions, discussion of camera use and capture strategies, slide shows and critiques, learn to more fully integrate your vision and ideas with your creative and technical process and make photographs that more fully express your creative intent.
 
Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of photography and basic familiarity with image editing software.
 
Please bring 6-8 jpg examples of your work to the first class

David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and  Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (2018).  www.creativeguide.com

Saturdays, April 6 & 13, 9am – 4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Fee: $275 
Instructor: Bill Morrison

Learn to design with these amazing programs from Adobe’s Creative Suite. Explore page layout and typography with Adobe InDesign. With Adobe Illustrator, see how to create dynamic graphics and logos for print or web. And with Adobe Photoshop, exam the tools to produce perfect images that make your design stand out. Learn, hands-on, with real design projects, plus tips and tricks to help you along. Learn to accurately assemble type and images for all your design projects, and how to properly produce files for final output.

Bill Morrison is a web designer and digital media educator. He has a strong interest in helping digital media enthusiasts become comfortable and productive using complex software.

Saturday, April 6, 9am-4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 110, Chaminade University
Fee: $135
Instructor: Michael Gilbert

What one generation cherishes the next rejects. If you are doing the same kind of portraits you did even five years ago they are now outdated— not only in style but in technology. Everything changes, yet the classic approach never goes out of style. 

Class topics include how to create your own unique style, how to handle different lighting conditions, on-location issues, clothing, props, the classic uses of natural light, and the secrets of effective communication with your subject. In this hands-on class, actual shooting takes place on location and in the studio alternated with a series of small lectures on portraits, lighting, and different approaches to the subject. Models and props are available.

Focus will be on pushing the boundaries of what is expected in a portrait and how new technology of high ISO cameras can allow you to capture images that were unheard of even five years ago. The aim of this enjoyable, informative class is to make you a better image maker and help prepare you so you can put together a real portfolio of your work whether for fashion, editorial illustration, or fine art portraiture.

Prerequisite: A knowledge of photography.

Please bring your camera and a memory card—even a cell phone camera.

Michael Gilbert is a highly successful photographer who loves illustrative portraiture and divides his time between his studio in Hawaii and Paris. Michael has had a one man show at the International Museum of Photography has been a headline speaker for Imaging USA, WPPI, Photokina, and Photo Plus. He teaches for Pacific New Media, Passport to the Arts, and engagements world-wide. He loves working with students and doing small seminars in unique and amazing locations.