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2016 Outstanding Year for DSI Customers

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©Iaritza Menjivar - First Generation
©Iaritza Menjivar

2016 was an outstanding year for Digital Silver Imaging’s customers. This is an incomplete list of some of the projects we printed. We want to thank ALL our clients for allowing us to bring their images to print. The most rewarding part of our job at Digital Silver Imaging is collaborating with such an interesting and talented community of photographers. Thank you for a fun and productive 2016.

Tess Atkinson – Art Colony Exhibition

Dawoud Bey – Early Photographs at the Stephen Daiter Gallery

Mathieu Bitton – Darker Than Blue Exhibition, Leica Gallery LA

Sheila Pree Bright –  Look3 and Candela Gallery in Richmond VA

Debi Cornwall – Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play, Gitmo on Sale, UARTS, STUMP, Candela Gallery

Sean Hemmerle – Paris Photo for Julian Sander Gallery

http://www.parisphoto.com/paris/artists/sean-hemmerle

Anthony Hernandez – Paris Photo for Thomas Zander Gallery

Thomas Hoepker – Camera Works Berlin

Kamoinge – Breaking Point Exhibition

Mark Mann – Lucha Libre Exhibition

Iaritza Menjivar – Iaritza is our own Social Media Marketing Assistant. Keep an eye on this talented photographer, she’s a rising star. – First Generation Exhibition, New York Times Lens Blog,

Maciek Nabrdalik – Exhibition Crossing Gallery Harvard

Mark and Eric Norbom – Time’s Hand Exhibition

Stacy Pearsal – Veterans Portrait Project

Mark Peterson – Political Theatre Exhibition

Linda Foard Roberts – A Place in Time, The Ogden Museum

Mark Robinson – New Moon Rises, Smithsonian Museum Exhibition

Ruddy Roye Image
©Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye – Look3, When Living is a Protest Steven Kasher Gallery, Time’s Instagram Photographer of the Year 2016 

WPOW – Women Photojournalists of Washington exhibition at the National Geographic for FotoDC

Please let us know
As mentioned, this is an incomplete list. If we made a print that appeared in a show or was purchased by a museum or collection please send us an email, or let us know when you place your print order. We love to feature our customers on our Facebook and Instagram sites.

2016 Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Award Winners

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Digital Silver Imaging is please to announce the 2016 winners of our Portfolio Awards. The winners were selected by our 4 esteemed jurors, Steven Kasher, J. Sybylla Smith, Marianna Rothen, and John Lehr. The winners were selected in an anonymous review of the images, each submission was given a number, and no biographical information or statement was given to the jurors.

This is the second year Digital Silver Imaging has awarded these three $1250 printing grants to recent graduates. We hope this award will allow emerging photographers to continue producing photographic prints at a critical time in their development as artists.

This years winners are, in no particular order:

Ke Peng DSI Portfolio Award 2016
©Ke Peng

Ke Peng, BFA 2015 Rhode Island School of Design, visit her website

©Emily Sheffer
©Emily Sheffer

Emily Sheffer, BFA 2015 Massachusetts College of Art, visit her website

©Rachel Cox
©Rachel Cox

Rachel Cox, MFA 2013 University of New Mexico, visit her website

Congratulations to our talented winners. For more information about the Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Awards follow this link.

Photoville 2016

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Kamoinge Exhibit - Photoville ©Charles Madison
Kamoinge Exhibit – Photoville ©Charles Madison

Digital Silver Imaging is proud to again be a partner at Photoville 2016. We also honored to print the exhibitions of photographers Mark Peterson, Robin de Puy, and group exhibits Kamoinge‘s Exhibition Breaking Point and Live ZEKE.

©Robin De Puy - Photoville
©Robin De Puy – Photoville

Photoville will be in a new location, The Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, under the bridge and in the heart of DUMBO. The event will take place over 5 days, September 21-25. Admission is FREE to the public.

For the uninitiated, Photoville is multiple photographic exhibitions in a city of repurposed shipping containers.  The brain child of United Photo Industries, this unique event features more than 60 photo exhibits, 35 lectures and workshops, food and drink. In fact it is the largest photographic event in New York City and worth a trip to Brooklyn.

Social Documentary Network/ZEKE Magazine ©Daro Sulakauri
SDN/ZEKE Magazine ©Daro Sulakauri

Digital Silver Imaging is a Major Partner of Photoville 2016. We believe that supporting the diverse genre of photographic work exhibited at Photoville is essential to keeping the art form vibrant and meaningful. Please visit the photographers directly support by Digital Silver Imaging and all the great exhibits at this year’s Photoville.

Follow this link to the Photoville Website

Copyrights to Photography and Artwork

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Photography and artwork are almost always protected by copyright laws. When we receive files for printing, we print the image in good faith and assume that the copyright for that image is held by the person submitting the image. However, if we believe that there is a question of ownership or permission we will ask for clarification. We will not print an image if we believe there is issue with copyright ownership.

To help better understand issues of copyright we spoke with Andrew D. (“Drew”) Epstein, a Boston based lawyer that specializes in copyright law.

Q. What is copyright and what does it do?

A. Virtually all creative works, photography, art, music, writing, computer software, produced since January 1, 1978, and many before, are protected by copyright.

Copyright is not a single right, but a bundle of rights that is controlled by the creator of the work. Generally the owner of copyright to the work has  the exclusive power to use, reproduce, or display their work(s).

Q. If I find an image on the internet or in a magazine can I make a print for myself, for my own personal use?

A. The answer is clearly NO. The publication of a work on the Internet or in a magazine does not give anyone the right to  reproduce the work without the artist’s permission.

A copyright owner has the exclusive right to do or authorize others to do the following with copyrighted works:

·         to reproduce the copyrighted work;
·         to made derivative copies of the work;
·         to distribute copies to the public;
·         to perform literary, musical, dramatic and choreographic works; and
·         to display copyrighted works publicly.

Q. What about the “fair use doctrine?”

A. Under the fair use doctrine, copyrighted works can be used for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use) scholarship or research.  In determining whether a particular use is a fair use in any particular case, you and the courts must consider the following four factors:

(1) The purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is for commercial or for nonprofit education purposes;
(2)  The nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Unless permitted under the fair use section of the Copyright Act, the reproduction of copyrighted photographs and artwork even for personal use is copyright infringement.

Q. How long does copyright last?
A. Generally, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright lasts for the life of the author and for 70 years thereafter.  In case of joint works, the copyright expires 70 years after the death of the surviving joint author.

For anonymous or pseudonymous works, and for works made-for-hire, the copyright endures for 95 years from the year of its first publication, or for a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first.

After 95 years from the year of first publication of a work, or 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first, there is a presumption that the author has been dead for at least 70 years.

For works created before January 1, 1978, which are not published or in the public domain, the rules are complicated and are beyond the scope of this commentary.

To find more information on art in the public domain follow this link.

This was written to be informational and not to be a substitute for competent legal advice.  Please use reason and good sense in reading and using the information herein.  If in doubt, go to a good lawyer for advice. 

Andrew D. (“Drew”) Epstein is a partner in the firm of Barker, Epstein & Loscocco, a full-service Boston, Massachusetts law firm. As an attorney and supporter of the arts, Drew has represented hundreds of photographers, illustrators, design firms, advertising agencies, museums and other individuals and businesses involved in photography, art, illustration, and imaging.

Drew is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts and has also served as President and Board Member at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.

Drew was an adjunct professor at Boston University for six years where he taught Legal Issues for Arts Administrators in the graduate school Arts Administration Program. Drew has been a frequent guest lecturer to academic, professional, business and legal groups on copyright and trademark law, art law and general business law. He writes frequently on copyright law, contract law and legal and business issues for photographers and artists. Drew was awarded the first annual Attorney of the Year Award by the Massachusetts Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Ben Folds

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"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.

Lightroom Output Series Workshop

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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).