About Eliot Khuner
Eliot Khuner started his business in 1975 and covers 25 to 40 weddings a year, working out of a cozy studio in Berkeley. He entered the digital world with a website that went live in 1996. (www.EKPhoto.com gets close to a thousand visitors a day.) After several years of using Photoshop with print scans, Eliot slipped into digital capture in 2001. Now 100% digital, Eliot uses Photoshop almost every day. Eliot's book, The Everything Book about Photography, was published in October 2003, by Adams Media

About Dennis Urbiztondo
Dennis Urbiztondo has been photographing weddings and portraits since 1980. He relocated to Petaluma from San Francisco nine years ago, where his business has blossomed. "There is nothing like Wine Country Weddings. I love the rolling vineyards, the warm weather, the elegant ambiance and even the smell of grapes ready for harvesting," says Dennis. A member of PPGBA for seven years, Dennis is the current president of The Professional Photographers of the Redwood Empire (PPRE) in Santa Rosa. Dennis made the transition from film to digital two years ago and has not shot film since. "I'll take the digital darkroom over the chemicals any day, although photography is a blend of art and science whether shooting film or pixels."
 

About The Course
Understand how to efficiently and cost-effectively use digital photography for portraits/weddings and get the best results possible. Digital can eat up lots of your time and money; if you haven't gone "all the way" – find out about things to avoid before you get in over your head. Through a series of demonstrations, lecture, and exercises, this helpful course is designed to help you maximize your productivity to increase profits and reduce expenses.

This intensive course offers practical applications of digital photography for first-timers to get on track and intermediate users to refresh their knowledge. Start your journey into this exciting technology by learning from working portrait/ wedding pros who use digital in their own businesses and will share their valuable experience so that you can avoid problems. Through demonstrations, lectures, and exercises, this course is designed to help you cost-effectively use digital photography for portraits/weddings and get the best results possible. Topics will include:                                  

• lighting and exposure for digital
• file formats and resolution
• workflow to maximize productivity
• image management/archiving

A Photoshop introduction will cover:

• navigation, tools, and preferences
• cropping,  resizing, image correction
• layers and selections
• basic image enhancement
• preparing files for output

The course will not cover traditional subjects: f-stops, shutter speeds, depth of field, operation of lighting equipment, etc. It is recommended you bring a computer with Photoshop 7.x or greater for the second day. You should be familiar with either a MAC or PC operating system: how to save files, make folders, navigate with mouse, etc. Some demonstrations will be shown on PC, others on MAC, but the class will not go into detail about using one computer platform or the other.

Space is Limited! Students are recommended to bring their digital camera if they have one…and a computer with Adobe Photoshop loaded for the second afternoon.

$295 , more than 30 days before the class
$345, less than 30 days before the class
PPA & PPGBA members take $50 off