In this 3-hour intensive, Toni Hafkenscheid will walk participants through a comprehensive digital workflow from RAW to final image in Photoshop. Divided into two parts, participants will first learn how to capture the best quality image possible using their own camera in a studio environment employing tools such as histograms, ETTRs, Grey card and Colour charts. This will be followed by an in-depth post-processing tutorial which will outline best practices of importing, exporting and working on RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge & Photoshop. Participants will leave the workshop feeling confident in producing high quality digital images.
This course is set up in 2 parts:
Image Capture:
In a studio environment the instructor will teach you how to capture the best quality image possible using the participants’ own camera.
Interpreting histograms and ETTR to reduce noise
Use of Grey cards and Colour charts
Image Post Production:
Import Raw files into Bridge and Photoshop
Using the Adobe Camera raw interface to work on Raw files
Final output of images into Tiff, PSD and jpeg.
Additional Plug-ins
Create Shortcuts
Materials needed for this workshop:
Digital Camera
Laptop with Adobe Photoshop and Bridge software
Toni Hafkenscheid is a Toronto based photographer who was born in 1959 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 1989, he graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter moved to Toronto. During the following six years, he was active in the arts community in Toronto and received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards. In 1996, Toni moved back to the Netherlands to pursue a career as a commercial photographer and to teach photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
In 2002, Toni returned to Toronto, Canada. He is currently teaching at OCAD and Ryerson University. Toni’s work is represented in Canada by the Birch Liberato Gallery in Toronto, Skew Gallery in Calgary and Gallery Jones in Vancouver. He is also represented in the US by Packer Schopf in Chicago; George Billis Gallery in LA, and NY; as well as Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta.
He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe.
His works reside in a number of important collections, including the Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Foreign Affairs Canada, the University of Toronto, the Canada Council Art bank, The Royal Bank Canada, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (Buffalo, NY), and Kodak France and Kodak Netherlands and Various Private Collections.
