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Lightroom Output Series Workshop

April 11, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

Learn all about Lightroom Output: export, create books, slideshows, prints, and custom web galleries in this new workshop with Adobe Certified Expert, Kathy Tarantola.

Now that you have fabulous images, how do you share them with the world? Luckily, Lightroom gives you incredibly customized ways to output your images working in the various modules like Book, Slideshow, Print and Web.

©Kathy Tarantola
©Kathy Tarantola

There are so many options, that these Lightroom modules can be confusing. But once you begin to work with them, you will be delighted with the variations for creating your own custom output, whether it be a hardcover tabletop book, slideshow or gorgeous color corrected prints.

Web Slide Show ©Kathy Tarantola
Web Slide Show ©Kathy Tarantola

Class One: Exporting and Slideshow Module Tuesday night May 10th 6:30-9:00 pm

Web size, print size, ppi, dpi, resolution, color space, compression, pixel dimensions – how to make sense of all of this?

You will come away from this first class of the Output Series understanding all of these options as well as learning how to watermark your images to put on the web, save export templates for these various output usages so that with the touch of a button you can export to the proper size and specs, and how to manage the workflow of exported images.

In addition we will spend time exploring the slideshow module to learn how to best create slideshows that are visually pleasing, using text overlays, background images, and creating and saving multiple slideshow templates.

Print Template ©Kathy Tarantola
Print Template ©Kathy Tarantola

Class Two: Print and Web Module, Tuesday night May 17th 6:30-9:00 pm

You can customize the Lightroom default print templates for various paper sizes, save them, and print directly from Lightroom utilizing custom paper profiles for the best reproduction on a variety of paper surfaces.

We will cover soft proofing in the Develop Module to get your images ready for the best color reproduction possible.

Even if you don’t have a printer at home, we will discuss how to properly export your images for file delivery to custom labs like DSI, with all of the settings imbedded in the file.

You will also be choosing 3 of your images to have printed at DSI. We will work on color correcting and soft proofing them using the correct paper profiles to ensure a stunning print.

Your prints will be ready by the final class for you to take home.

Book Template ©Kathy Tarantola
Book Template ©Kathy Tarantola

Class Three: Book Module, Tuesday night May 24th 6:30-9:00 pm

In this class we will work to create beautiful layouts for making a book from your photographs.  Creating a book can be as simple as letting auto layout do the work for you, or by using the various preset page layouts and text options, with minimal effort, you can tailor your book to suit your vision.

By the end of the evening, you should have the beginnings of a book design that you can save as a template to create a very fine book. Lightroom has partnered with Blurb custom publishing for simple ordering, or you can export your layout to a PDF or jpegs.

When: Tuesday Nights, 6:30-9:00, May 10, 17, 24
Where: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont MA
Fee*: $249 (Includes 3 12×18 prints, a $72 value)

LR Output

Instructor Bio: For over two decades, Kathy Tarantola has been sought after as a commercial and editorial photographer working throughout Boston and New England. Kathy is an experienced instructor having conducted photography workshops across the US and abroad. She is an Adobe Certified Expert in Lightroom a respected member of the photo community and has served as Co-president and board member of the New England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP).

*Refund Policy: Because our instructors commit their time to workshops and space is limited, our refund policy is as follows: Cancellations 2 weeks prior to the workshop will receive a full refund. Cancellations a week before the workshop date will receive a 50% refund. All other cancellations will not receive a refund but may apply 50% of the workshop fee to a future workshop of the same or greater price. You must notify us of your cancellation or inability to attend via email. (info@digitalsilverimaging.com).

 

Filed Under: News, Promotion, Workshops

Ben Folds

April 11, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

"Me n Elvis" ©Ben Folds
“Me n Elvis” ©Ben Folds

When we received our first print order from Ben Folds we were a little star struck. After all, this was the genre bending solo artist, the lead man of the Ben Folds Five, the hip and insightful judge on The Sing Off. With such a diverse portfolio of talent, what would Ben Folds the photographer be like?

Turns out that Ben Folds is a very talented photographer, who has created an extensive body of work much like he has done as a musician. Ben has a long history with the photographic craft. He himself is an excellent printer and often shoots film. When it comes to photography, Ben refers to himself as, “an obsessive freak,”  and he always has a camera close at hand, usually an old Rollie, Leica range finder, or digital Leica Monochrom.

"Door to Nowhere - Savannah" ©Ben Folds
“Door to Nowhere – Savannah” ©Ben Folds

On his web site Ben states, “…my interest in photographs has expanded to equal that of music and I find one art form always informs and inspires the other.”

It makes sense that someone as creative as Ben Folds would bring his sensibilities of composition, contrast, expression, and craft to all artistic endeavors. His elegant black & white photographs do not disappoint.

"Luckiest" ©Ben Folds
“Luckiest” ©Ben Folds

With the release of his album “So There,” Ben produced several versions on vinyl that included signed prints of XX photographs both on RC and Fiber DSI Digital Silver Prints®. We were fortunate to produce the prints for Ben, and we probably should have included an ice pack for his signing hand.

Many people, including myself, are fans of Ben Folds the musician/singer/song writer. As an artist he is always pushing boundaries, and I think that’s a good example for anyone involved in a creative endeavor. As a photographer Folds appears to be exploring a different side of creative expression. But what else would you expect from Ben Folds.

For more on Ben Folds, the photographer and musician, follow this link.

Filed Under: Case Studies, Customer Profile, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ben Folds

SPE 2016 Las Vegas

March 31, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

SPE 2016 Las Vegas was another great experience for Digital Silver Imaging. Our booth was busy with interested photo students, educators, and artists. This year we invited John Reuter from New55 to demonstrate their instant positive/negative 4×5 film. John photographed individuals who visited our booth. John made over 50 images and the gallery below shows some of the great portraits he created in less than optimal conditions of a hotel convention hall.

As always the programing was diverse and interesting, with this year’s theme being “Constructed Realities.”  The organizational skills of SPE’s Nina Barcellona Kidd insured that the 4 days of lectures, portfolio reviews, panels, and trade exhibition went off smoothly and efficiently. Thanks to everyone at SPE for another wonderful national conference.
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We also enjoyed spending time with our old friend Jim Stone. Jim was this year’s SPE Honored Educator. Jim is currently teaching grad students at the University of New Mexico, and his roots go back to the New England area where he taught at the alma mater of DSI founder, Eric Lunden, Boston College.  Jim is a longtime friend to both DSI partners Eric and Andrea Zocchi.

Digital Silver Imaging has attended and supported SPE (Society of Photographic Educators) since the inception of the company. One of the partners, Andrea Zocchi, is a “Talbot Level” donor to SPE.

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Subscribe to ZEKE magazine and receive $17 off your Digital Silver Imaging Print Order

March 16, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

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Photo by Daro Sulakauri

Subscribers to ZEKE Magazine receive $17 off their print order of $35 or more with Digital Silver Imaging.

How-to Subscribe and Receive your Discount:

  1. Subscribe to ZEKE Magazine and you will receive a promotional code in your subscription confirmation email.
  2. Place your order for Custom black & white DSI Digital Silver Prints®, Custom Color Pigment Prints, or either color or b&w Value Prints.
  3. When finished with your order, enter your promotional code and your order will receive a $17 discount.*

If you have any questions please give Digital Silver Imaging a call M-F , 9-5:30 EST, (617) 489-0035.

*This offer expires 6/1/16. All printing discounts must be utilized by 6/30/16. This offer has no cash value and may not be redeemed for any other products other than those mentioned. Print orders must have a minimum price of $35 before discount. This promotion may not be combined with any other offer.

 

Filed Under: General News, Promotion, Uncategorized

Thomas Roma

February 4, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

©Thomas Roma
©Thomas Roma

When an invitation from Anna and Thomas Roma for breakfast came we were thrilled. The ritual and pleasure of sharing a meal is often the best way to make new friends.

Thomas Roma is brilliant, funny, outspoken, and above all a passionate artist. He showed us his compact, well organized machine shop, where he makes his own cameras. We then moved on to his darkroom where Tom demonstrated many other ingenious customizations to improve the efficiency and quality of his photographic process. Like any good get together time pasted quickly and we learned a lot about Anna and Tom, and I’m sure they became more familiar with us.

The Romas work as a creative team. Their collaborative approach is inspirational as well as practical. Anna and Tom strike an envious balance. For us this was a good sign, we feel that the best way to work with an artist is in collaboration. Our breakfast with the Roma’s was, for lack of a better term, a business meeting. Digital Silver Imaging was going to create a series of images for the Roma’s show at the Steve Kasher Gallery, In the Vale of Cashmere, and this was our introduction to the project.

“We had a wonderful and productive time working with Digital Silver – the prints are stunning and the process was smooth (not to mention great food next door!). Eric is calm and charming and was willing to engage any adjustments until the prints looked exactly how we envisioned.”  – Anna Roma

The silver gelatin prints we would create needed to match the look and feeling evoked by the images in the book, In the Vale of Cashmere. Translation from one medium to another always involves trade offs, but after some initial proof prints, and a little fine tuning with Christopher in the lab, the images were shipped on time.

The images, like all the work of Thomas Roma, eloquently tells an important story beautifully, and with subtle impact. It was a true pleasure to work with the Romas. The experience we had printing In the Vale of Cashmere is why we love what we do. A big “thank you,” to Anna and Tom for letting us contribute in small part to this exhibition, and thanks also to Tod Papageorge for the introduction.

To see the images and read more about Thomas Roma and In the Vale of Cashmere follow the links below.

http://www.thomasroma.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/05/opinion/sunday/exposures-men-of-the-vale.html?_r=1

http://www.stevenkasher.com/exhibitions/thomas-roma-in-the-vale-of-cashmere

http://sicilianocameraworks.com/.

http://www.amazon.com/Vale-Cashmere-Thomas-Roma/dp/1576877159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447862236&sr=8-1&keywords=IN+the+Vale+of+Cashmere

Filed Under: Customer Profile Tagged With: In the Vale of Cashmere|Thomas Roma|Tom Roma

Debi Cornwall

February 4, 2016 by Digital Silver Imaging

©Debi Cornwall
©Debi Cornwall

Most profiles of photographer Debi Cornwall start something like this—Harvard educated civil rights lawyer. That intro causes most people in the arts to read on and wonder. For most of us who attended art school, sloshing photo paper in trays of developer, or pushing paint around a canvas, cannot conceive of leaving such a high-powered career to become an artist. The fact that an individual would commit the time, effort and dedication to reach the highest level of a professional career and make such a dramatic change in course is perplexing.

However, once you get to know Debi Cornwall it all starts to make sense. Our paths crossed when we sponsored a container of her work at the Photoville 2015 in Brooklyn. We printed her exhibition, Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play (Gitmo on Sale). Her work is a nexus of environmental portraiture and landscape, amazingly captured at what is arguably the most secure and bizarre prison camp in the world, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo).

Debi Cornwall’s bio states, “…having returned to creative expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Now, my values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as my background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform my visual work. My photographs marry empathy and dark humor with structural critique.”

How does a photographer gain access to one of the American military’s most controversial facilities? I guess having the drive, and intelligence of a Harvard educated civil rights lawyer doesn’t hurt. But there is far more to Debi Cornwall and her images than there unique perspective on a world few get to see. The images show a humanity and empathy for both the detainees and the military, even though we never see a prisoner or the face of any US soldiers. The seemingly banal scenes are full of subtle detail that tell a powerful story that no government sensor could eliminate.

The political football of Guantánamo Bay continues to bounce back and forth with little regard of those impacted on either side of the razor wire. As of the writing of this post we continue to work with Debi, and we hope that her import work gains the exposure that it deserves.

 

 

Filed Under: Customer Profile Tagged With: Debi Cornwall|Photoville

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