The Color of Nature: From High-End Digital Capture to Fine Art Prints

With Joseph Holmes and Bill Atkinson

Join us in September for a very special evening with photographers and master printmakers Joseph Holmes and Bill Atkinson. Holmes and Atkinson will share details about their carefully-crafted workflow that begins with high-quality digital capture and results in color-accurate fine art prints.

Joseph Holmes - Aspens

Using their own collection of landscape and nature photographs to highlight concrete tips and advice, Holmes and Atkinson will shed light on some of the more confusing aspects of color management and explain a series of advanced and highly relevant topics including stitching, focus blending, controlling color using chroma variant profiles, and printing on a range of bases including canvas.

In this highly-interactive session, Holmes and Atkinson will adopt a workshop-style approach in which you’re encouraged to ask questions and probe for greater understanding. As leading experts in digital capture and fine art printing and printer profiling, Holmes and Atkinson combine to offer a rare combination of artistic acumen and technical sophistication.

So join us in September for a stimulating and information-rich exchange as we learn about the color of nature as experienced through some of the planet’s finest scenery.

Joseph Holmes has been working hard for several decades to refine and improve his photographic technique, in search of the perfect photograph of an unspoiled place.

An instructor for the Ansel Adams Workshops program, Holmes has pioneered numerous innovations in the field, including serving as principle author of ColorBlind Prove It! monitor profiling and calibration software, as well as being the creator of a number of leading RGB working spaces. Holmes invented the Lyson’s Small Gamut ink set, and created the first and only high-quality visual calibration system for monitors.

Holmes is also creator of the most advanced additive color enlarging lamphouse, a master of many color printmaking processes, and a devoted lover of wilderness.

To learn more about Holmes’ work, please visit www.josephholmes.com, where you’ll find a selection of images, information on print presentation, and a new section on special profile tools for photographers.

Bill Atkinson began his lifelong journey of exploring and photographing nature shortly after the age of ten, and has spent more than forty years refining his vision. For Atkinson, photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. And by developing his skills as a photographer and a fine art printmaker, Atkinson has been able to create expressive and archival photographs that faithfully share his experiences.

Atkinson was a member of the original Macintosh team at Apple Computer, and designed much of the initial Macintosh user interface. Now Atkinson empowers his own art by the accuracy and creative control made possible by the digital printing process.

As a pioneer of digital printing technologies, Atkinson teaches workshops in fine-art printmaking and has shared his expertise with over three hundred photographers. Visit www.billatkinson.com to learn more about Atkinson’s work.

Speakers:
Joseph Holmes
Bill Atkinson

Date:
Tuesday, September 11
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Social hour: 6:00 p.m.

Location:
Blue Sky Rental Studios
2325 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94101
415.626.7232
www.blueskysf.com

Sponsored by:
TBA