Art Suwansang
Cruising with Lightroom®
Art Suwansang
Chino, CA
Wedding 64 & Rule of 3Rds
Come aboard and join Art Suwansang to learm the Lightroom® workflow. In this workshop Art will demonstrate the use of the different modules in Lightroom® and how image adjustments and file organization work within the program. You will learn in stages the modules that make up the program and how to tweak and refine your workflow to fit your needs and for greater efficiency and speed.
On this photographic cruise there's more than the classroom. We have many areas onboard ship and ashore in Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada to practice the craft photography. Using your own images from these outings Art will have you use your new found Lightroom® insight, to help organize, edit, enhance and produce easy sideshows.
Art's approach to photography is a mixture of classical and contemporary styling. In combining a unique style of fine art fashion and innovative methodology, Art is able to to differentiate his work from the average. He will explain the philosophy and thought process behind this up to date technique and how his simplified camera settings has given him more time to concentrate and be more intuitive on the imagery he is shooting.
- Day 1 at Sea
- Day 2 at Cabo
- Day 3 at Sea
- Day 4 at Ensenada
- What to Bring
We'll start by going over the different modules that make up Lightroom® and then go into configuring the preferences to fit your workflow. Our main focus will be on the Library module with how importing, file handling, keywording, and metadata relate to the Catalog, Folders and Collections. We'll also touch on the Quick Develop options and start in on the Develop module.
We'll go ashore to explore and enjoy Cabo San Lucas! To help spark your creative energies there will be a demo of on location portraiture. The emphasis will be how using different camera angles, camera settings and use of available light can result in truely unique and personal images.
After a day of exploring and expanding your location shooting skills we'll be back onboard ship. After dinner, we’ll meet on one of the decks and do some low light photography during the magic hour to round out this full day.
We’ll work the images from Cabo San Lucas and the evening shoot. Using the enhanced workflow presented and discussed one the first day, we'll learn the magic of Lightroom® first hand. In mini sessions, using your own images, we'll dive into the Develop module. This is where you'll learn how to retouch utilizing the various localize editing tools. You can use those tools to soften skin, ehance eyes, and retouch blemishes. Additionly power of the Hue – Saturation – Luminance adjustments will be brought to light.
Finally we'll delve into the Slideshow module and start making shows that show off your images and reflect your branding.
A brief demo and tips for enhancing your images from within the camera, along with some creative thoughts and suggestions to start out the day in Ensenada, from that point on, well, just have fun!
Wrap up the night session, by bring the images into Lightroom, enhance them and do a full Q&A wrap up.
- A laptop computer, Mac or PC, capable of handling digital raw files with the latest retail version of Lightroom installed (as of now it is 2.6).
- Digital RAW files from a variety of subjects on which to work.
- An external hard drive, either portable or desktop external. (A blank one is preferred but not necessary).
- Memory Card Reader, either USB or Firewire. Recommend either a SanDisk® or Lexar™.
- Digital SLR with 2 lenses, preferably a wide angle and a tele photo and memory cards, spare battery.
- A digital file of your Brand Identity or Logo, in a Layered PSD or layered TIFF file. Please bring the full size file.
