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Post-Processing for Creative Results

with Shelley Vandegrift

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Course Description

Do you look at unique photographic work and wish you had the ability to add the same creative flair to your own images? Do you often worry that you don’t have the technical skills to get similar creative results? If these concerns are your concerns, Shelley Vandegrift is ready and willing to guide you on a fun journey to develop your post-processing skills and add a creative element to all your images. It’s easier than you think.

While this is a post-processing course, its strength lies in its focus on creative results rather than simply mastering a variety of tools in a specific imaging application. Shelley’s workshop takes an entirely different route starting with a desired result and then exploring the easiest techniques, tools, and workflows to achieve it. 

Shelley Vandegrift, an accomplished photographer and educator with a knack for making post-processing understandable, leads you on an exploration of what artistic editing is and how embracing it can add emotion and mood that expresses your vision. You learn to make a plan for bringing your story to life through the manipulation of light, focus, color, texture, and content. 

Topics to be covered include:
• Using the basics such as contrast and sharpness artistically
• Dodging and burning highlights and shadows and vignetting to lead the viewer’s eye
• Effectively applying blur and glow to add an ethereal feel
• Adding or modifying color to suit your story with split-toning, filters, and LUTs
• Enhancing or changing the image’s content with overlays or removing or moving elements
• Pulling the story together using texture files
• Adding drama through creative plug-ins and presets

Join Shelley to get the creative results you have dreamed of for your images.

Additional Information

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This workshop is appropriate for amateurs of any level seeking to take their post-processing in a more creative direction. Color, black and white, and infrared photographers are all welcome.

What You Should Know:

While this workshop does not require an in-depth knowledge of any software, it is best suited to those with a working knowledge of Lightroom or Camera Raw and Photoshop’s interface and adjustment layers. Some techniques are illustrated using plug-ins such as the NIK Collection, Luminar, and Flood2. You do not need to own these plug-ins to take this workshop. This workshop is designed for those looking for a creative post-processing boost rather than those seeking to master Adobe’s applications.

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Categories
Applications, Creative Vision
about
Shelley Vandegrift

Shelley Vandegrift’s journey into photography began at age 10, mesmerized by the magic of her father’s darkroom. This early exposure sparked a lifelong passion for blending the creative artistry of capturing images with the technical precision of post-production. The emergence of digital photography provided the perfect medium for Shelley to unite her love of photography with her expertise in computer technology. Today, she channels this synergy into her photographic art and teaching imaging software, artistic post-processing, and infrared photography.

Shelley is known for making complex techniques accessible to all. She has lectured for Skylum and DxO software, earned the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Digital Manipulation and Collage, and co-authored Infrared Photography: Digital Techniques for Artistic Images, 2nd Edition.

Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including The Beauty of Invisible Light at the Commons Gallery, as well as in B&W Magazine, A. Smith Gallery, the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, PhotoPlace Gallery, and the Art Travelers Gallery at Dallas Love Field Airport.

Through her evocative art and empowering teaching, Shelley inspires others to discover the magic of photography and craft their own creative stories.

Photographic Expressionism: Santa Fe and the Digital Darkroom
with Shelley Vandegrift
Infrared: Maine Magic
with Laurie Klein and Shelley Vandegrift
Creative Foundations in Photoshop
with Shelley Vandegrift
The Magical Mobile Darkroom: Applications and Techniques for Crafting Compelling Images on Your Mobile Device
with Shelley Vandegrift

Post-Processing for Creative Results

February 5 – 15, 2024

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