West Palm Beach, FL

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Black and white conversion techniques are like politicians making election promises; every one of them claims to be the penultimate solution to your needs. Regardless of their claims, you still need to create images that look like photographs and not like something the viewer sees as "something you did in Photoshop." Fortunately, there are numerous ways to convert an image from color to hues of gray with natural looking results. In this three day workshop Vincent Versace will show you some of the best ways to convert an Image to black and white without ever leaving the RGB color space. You will learn which methods give you the best results and when to choose a simple or a complex solution.

The challenge of photography is to create still images that move the viewer the same we were moved when committed to the moment and the image was captured. All too frequently, the attempt to reveal the image on a monitor or paper as the image was experienced becomes a laboring and frustrating, specially in a black and white image. This workshop reveals the methods and techniques for overcoming these challenges both out in the field and in the digital darkroom.

This workshop is based on Vincent Versace's upcoming book From Oz to Kansas 2.0: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Know to Man.

Participants explore new ways of seeing and how to make their composition and framing choices at the speed of life, without hesitation, in the moment as it happens. Vincent works with students in the field as well as in the lab exploring:

•Exercises to improve composition skills
•How to control the viewer’s eye to move through an image they way you want it to be seen
Lighting on a Laptop
•How to practice preemptive Photoshop - getting it right in camera so as to make life easier in post processing
•Black and White conversions that replicate the look of silver prints
•The key techniques to making the best prints