Digitalsilverimaging

Ask the Experts: Digitization Webinar
2025-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
In this hour long FREE webinar, our experts will answer your questions about digitizing your film, photographic prints or other 2D artworks with Digital Silver Imaging. This webinar is for anyone who wants to digitize their media for reproduction, archiving or those who just want to learn more about the process. Throughout the webinar we will have an open Q&A where we will be available to answer your specific questions on any step of the process. We will also have a live demo.
Potential Questions to discuss:

How does digitization equipment differ and which process is best?
What is the right resolution for my needs?
How to obtain color accurate images.
Can I make an inkjet/giclée print look the same as my artwork?
Can I digitize my own art with a digital camera?
My archive is so big, how do I get started?

Please stay subscribed for future webinars on topics such as digitization, presentation of prints, inkjet printing, papers and more.
CLICK on website link below to register for this FREE Webinar.

Summer of Savings Sales
2024-06-28 - 2024-09-09
From July to September we will be having periodic sales on your favorite services! Not on our email list? Go to the bottom of the page and sign up now for DSI-eNews.

Print Exchange Leica Store Boston
2024-06-26 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join in a fun evening of sharing images, chatting photography and making friends. Get a discounted print from us by following this link. Register for this Leica Store Boston event via this link.
Image Josie Rybczyk

Post to Print Webinar with Mike Mezeul II
2024-04-04 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Simple steps for outstanding prints from Lightroom & Photoshop
Nikon Ambassador and DSI Print Ambassador, Mike Mezeul, will provide a rare glimpse into his post-production process. With his extensive experience as a teacher and workshop leader, Mike will guide us step-by-step from camera RAW to final print. Renowned for his stunning images capturing nature’s most powerful and awe-inspiring moments, Mike will delve into his recent photoshoot of Iceland’s erupting volcanoes and more.
This FREE webinar offers limited enrollment, so register today to secure your spot.
Webinar will cover:

Post-production dos and don’ts
Common mistakes often overlooked
Monitor calibration
Should you soft proof?
How to prepare your image for print
Paper choices
Q&A session

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights from one of the industry’s finest photographers.
Register by clicking on event website link below.

Paris Blues - Mathieu Bitton
2024-01-13 10:00 - 2024-03-04 18:00 (America/New_York) | https://leicagalleryla.com/, 8783 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, 90048, United States
Join DSI Founder, Eric Luden, in celebrating our friend and client Mathieu Bitton at his opening of the exhibition Paris Blues at the Leica Gallery Los Angeles. This exhibition is guaranteed to be a visual feast for the eyes. Opening January 13, 2024 – 6-8pm follow this link to RSVP. The exhibition runs through March 4, 2024.
Paris. City of lights and dreams. City of love and poetry. City of Jazz and majesty. The city that made my favorite artists better artists because of the alchemy that runs through its core and turns every moment into gold.
I left my hometown of Paris in 1987, but Paris has never left me. The essence of the city permeates every facet of my perspective and sensibilities. The images I’ve captured over the decades all evoke sounds in my mind. I hear a blues-like soundtrack separated into day and night, the A-side and the B-side of a vinyl record. The opera of monochrome. The crescendo of colors. The worlds hidden in the absence of light. A Requiem for fleeting scenes forever embodied in silver gelatin and strings.
I’ve had the privilege of traveling all over the world with a Leica in hand. At every opportunity, I return to Paris for connection and inspiration. Paris Blues documents my most precious stolen moments. I find my way back to my roots — from the flea markets of my childhood and clandestine twilights of Rock & Roll and fashion undergrounds to the passion of Parisian lovers and the grandeur of elusive legends.
This series of photos plays as a symphony of my own existence — often lost, though never off course — and always in search of Melody.
-Mathieu Bitton

Paris Photo in Your Pocket
2023-10-26 - 2023-11-08
Join our in-house Curator, Educator, and Consultant J. Sybylla Smith for
Paris Photo In Your Pocket
5 Hours of Live Coverage & Exclusive Interviews

Gallery & Exhibiting Artists
Book Publishers & Book Artists
Elles x Paris Photo
Paris Photo Aperture Book Awards
Photo Saint Germaine

Paris Photo 2023 Early Bird Pricing Ends 11/8/23

$75.00
One time

PURCHASE HERE

Free Webinar with Nikon Ambassador Mike Mezeul II
2023-09-19 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Taking your Photos to the Next Level
Tuesday September 19, 2:00 PM EDT
Adventure photographer, journalist, and DSI Print Ambassador, and Nikon Ambassador, Mike Mezeull II, is our special guest for this free webinar. Mike will discuss how he captures the drama and wonder of volcanic eruptions, tornados, lightning storms, and the simple calm of a seaside village. After a presentation of his work, Mike will talk about his approach to landscape, the importance of printing your work, and his workshops. His 50 minute presentation will be followed by an open question and answer session with attendees. Mike is an excellent teacher and communicator making this webinar one that you just can’t miss.

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All images ©2023 Mike Mezeul II Photography

Photoville NYC 2023
2023-06-03 08:00 - 2023-06-18 17:00 (America/New_York)
DSI Prints 8 Exhibitions at Photoville!
We are proud to be a Major Partner for this must see photo exhibition and event taking place in Brooklyn Bridge Park and all over New York’s 5 boroughs. We have provided printing for 8 container exhibitions and they are spectacular. Opening Weekend Community Celebrations take place June 3 & 4, and the containers will be on view through June 18, closed on Mondays, check the schedule for exact times. This is a FREE EVENT!
Container Exhibitions Printed by Digital Silver Imaging
A LOVE LETTER TO BARBADOS
OUR BLACK EXPERIENCE: STORIES FROM BLACK WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
EROS AND ITS DISCONTENTS
WE DON’T TALK
DEAR MR. WELLES
AUTISTIC JOY
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
BEARING WITNESS: DOCUMENTING WAR CRIMES IN MARIUPOL, UKRAIN

DSI at Catchlight's Visual Storytelling Summit
2023-04-29 - 2023-05-08
EACH SPRING, CATCHLIGHT GATHERS our fellowship community and leading voices in photography, media, art and technology for an immersive day of portfolio reviews, visual exploration, conversation, and community. Join us to be inspired by artists, founders, and innovators; learn from peers and industry leaders; and explore the world through visual works of passion and curiosity.

Saturday, April 29, 2023
Check-in opens at 1pm (Pacific)
Program begins at 2pm
Reception at 6pm

Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota St
San Francisco, CA 94107

Our theme for this year’s Summit, The Change We Want to See, reflects the unique power of photography, visual journalism, and creative practices to drive social impact.
“Images are instrumental to how we understand our world. They connect people emotionally to issues, promote deeper understanding, build trust, and spark action,” says Elodie Mailliet Storm, CEO of CatchLight. “The Summit is a place where a global community of visual storytellers and leaders in media and technology can gather, share ideas, and push the field forward through partnership and innovation.”

Alternative Presentation Methods with Digital Silver Imaging
2023-03-08 19:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Free Virtual Seminar (Zoom): Alternative Presentation Methods with Digital Silver Imaging
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7–9pm EST, 5 – 7 pm, MST
Please register below
Sponsored by Digital Silver Imaging in collaboration with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. A matted and framed print isn’t always the only option. In this free, virtual show-and-tell presentation, Eric Luden will discuss the finer points of finishing a print for exhibition and display. Questions pertaining to archival stability, durability, and cost will be addressed along with aesthetic consideration. Finishing is often the most expensive part of making a print, this webinar will help you make the right finishing decision and give you some budget friendly alternatives.
Topics will include:

Mounting substrates explored – Foam core, Gator, Dibond, Aluminum
Protective coatings – types of coatings and purposes
Lamination – when and how to use this option
Framing alternatives
Question and answer

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Better B&W Prints with Nik Silver Efex
2022-05-26 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join renowned photo instructor, Dan Hughes, and the B&W experts, Digital Silver Imaging, for this Nik Silver Efex webinar. Dan will step you through the process of how to use the Nik Silver Efex plug-in to create B&W digital images that will impress both on screen and in print. Topics to be covered include:

Converting your digital file from RAW to B&W
Monitor Calibration – Is it necessary for B&W?
Contrast and tonal range
Utilizing Nik’s U Point Technology for amazing results
Filters and Film Grain effects
How to output your image for print
Choosing the right print process
How paper affects your image
Exporting and Uploading your files for printing

Digital Silver Imaging will be raffling a 16×20 DSI Digital Silver Print® a $164 value. (Raffle prize ships for free to US participants. Participants outside of the US are not eligible. for the raffle.)
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About the instructor: Dan Hughes is an award-winning photographer and esteemed photography faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dan’s personal practice revolves around experimentation with careful analysis with more than 15 years in the photography industry ranging from commercial photography to fine art printmaking all the way to software development and photography education.

Selecting the Right Paper for Your Prints Webinar
2022-02-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Presenters – Veronica Cotter & Eric Luden
Realizing your artistic vision in print often depends on the paper you select. With dozens of choices how do you start the process and what is the best paper for your work? Two of the industry’s most experienced and respected professionals will take the guesswork out of selecting a photo printing paper. Terminology and paper formulations will be explained, and the strengths and weaknesses of paper types will be explored.
Topics include:

Inkjet versus digital C prints
Photo based inkjet papers
Fine art inkjet papers
B&W silver gelatin papers
Archival & presentation issues
Question and answer

Veronica Cotter is the Education Development and Western Region Manager for Hahnemühle USA. She works with colleges, universities, photo specialty dealers, fine art print studios and photographers. Her focus is the importance of the print in a digital environment.

Digital Silver Imaging Technical Webinar Series: Finishing Options – Best Practices for Display
2021-09-16 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
A matted and framed print isn’t always the best option. In this show-and-tell presentation, Eric Luden will discuss the finer points of finishing a print for exhibition and display. Questions pertaining to archival stability, durability, and cost will be addressed along with aesthetic consideration. Finishing is often the most expensive part of making a print, this webinar will help you make the right finishing decision.
Topics include:

Mounting substrates – Gator, Dibond, Aluminum
Protective coatings
Face mounting
Types of frames
Window mat versus flush mount
Glazing options
Question and answer

Digitizing Your Film Archive
2021-03-30 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Your film archive has value as a source of income, a portfolio of your work, and as a historic and personal record. How to digitize your archive is often a source of confusion and misinformation. In this webinar, the experts at Digital Silver Imaging will visit a variety of ways to digitize your archive with a “pros and cons” approach.

Strengthen Your Creative Practice with J. Sybylla Smith
2021-03-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Concept Aware® (CA) is a unique creative framework for concept development developed by J. Sybylla Smith. Strengthen the foundation of your creative practice by increasing awareness of how you see and the components of an impactful image. This overview outlines principles of the CA structure in a presentation utilizing contemporary photography.

Ruddy Roye with the Photographic Resource Center
2021-03-09 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Photographic Resource Center
Radcliffe Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica.

Photographing in India and Nepal, An Insider's Guide
2020-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join us live on Zoom as world travelers, Robb LaVelle and Craig Semetko, discuss their photography and travels in India and Nepal. Both photographers have approached these countries in dramatically different ways. Craig on foot with his Leica and Robb from the saddle of a Royal Enfield with a Nikon. These two experienced professionals will without a doubt, provide us with an hour of amazing photography, peppered with useful tips, and share their experience capturing India and Nepal’s people and landscape.
Limited to 100 participants.
Register via this link.
Presenters
Craig Semetko is an American photographer focusing on authentic human experience. Born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, Semetko became a professional comedy writer and performer after college and years later discovered photography as another means of storytelling. His comedic background has given him a highly developed sense of the absurd and ironic, resulting in a strong theme of humor throughout his work.
In his foreword for Semetko’s book “UNPOSED,” Magnum Photos photographer Elliott Erwitt writes, “Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko’s book…In my book, he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.”
“None of the images in UNPOSED were staged,” states Semetko. “They were all taken spontaneously–some with the subjects’ knowledge, most without. When I see something that amuses me or moves me, I just ‘click.’ I’m trying to provide the elements of an interesting story in a single well-composed frame, but of course, I’m not consciously thinking of that when I take the picture. In fact, I try not to think at all. Thinking constipates things.”
Semetko was one of 10 photographers chosen worldwide by Leica Camera to be a part of its “10×10” exhibition celebrating 100 years of Leica photography. He spent three months in the fall of 2013 traveling throughout India for the project and the resulting work was displayed at the grand opening of the new Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany, in 2014. His second book, INDIA UNPOSED, was also born of this project and was published by StreetView Press in the spring of 2014.
Semetko spent much of 2011 and 2012 working on a long term project on the United States. The project was partially funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and Semetko is continuing work on the series.
Semetko graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, and holds a masters degree in Consciousness Studies from the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. He teaches workshops regularly for the Leica Akademie worldwide and his photographs can be found in private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Semetko currently resides in Los Angeles.
Robb La Velle – “At the impressionable age of 12, I was indelibly changed by a Christmas present from my parents. It was a voluminous, coffee table collection of deep, glossy photographs from the National Geographic. How I ever managed to get the cash together for the Nikon F3 six months later is still a mystery to me but maybe that’s for the better.
The yearn for all things foreign was injected from the households of friends around the corner. Manhattan-artsy-intelligentsia with cocoa from Holland, posters urging “Atomwaffen? Nein Danke” and exchange students from Sweden sparked the earliest impulses.
Six Nikons and 84 countries later, I’m still on a roll. The cameras are now digital and the airfare is picked up by someone else, but the urge to roam remains stronger than ever. Reaching its pinnacle with a three month motorcycle ride from Los Angeles to Istanbul in 2000 and an epic seven month ride around the world in 2008, the source of many of these photographs, those life changing experiences only doused fuel on my desire for more. There are still 111 countries left to roam and ample pages in my dirty old passport.
And so, onward.”
Robb is the founder of Two Wheeled Expeditions, and his photography can be viewed at Robb La Velle Photography.

Creating a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
2020-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Creating a Successful Kickstarter Campaign with guests Lou Jones and Barry Schneier
During this Free ZOOM webinarwe will review three successful Kickstarter campaigns. It takes more than luck and a good idea to reach your goal. In this one hour plus presentation, Lou Jones, Barry Schneier and Digital Silver Imaging will tell you the elements that made their campaigns a success. If you are considering a crowd sourcing campaign, have run your own, or are just curious about the process we invite you to attend.
(Image Top: Lou Jones, panAFRICAproject: Volume One. Image Bottom: Barry Schneier, Bruce Springsteen. Rock and Roll Future. The Book.)
When: Thursday, May 14, 12:00 PM EDT
Register via this link

Barry Schneier is a photographer and writer who began his career in the 1970s working with up and coming as well as established musicians in Boston, San Francisco and later in Los Angeles. It was there that he became immersed in the world of video and film production working on features, commercials, documentaries and eventually migrating over to the “new” genre of the era; the music video. Barry’s work has been exhibited in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, The Grammy Museum and is housed in permanent collections at Paramount Studios, CBS, MTV, The New England Folk Archives, The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music, Morrison Hotel Gallery, and Proud Gallery in London. His work has appeared in numerous books, publications and on album art. Barry is most noted for his work capturing a young Bruce Springsteen at The Harvard Square Theatre in 1974. Website
Lou Jones’ eclectic career has evolved from commercial to the personal. It has spanned every format, film type, artistic movement and technological change. He maintains a studio in Boston, Massachusetts and has photographed for Fortune 500 corporations, international companies and local small businesses including Federal Express, Nike and the Barr Foundation; completed assignments for magazines and publishers all over the world such as Time/Life, National Geographic and Paris Match; initiated long term projects on the civil wars in Central America, death row, Olympics Games and pregnancy; and published multiple books. Website

Using Photography to Elevate Your Design
2020-03-31 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
3/16/20 – Our priority is to keep our community and our employees safe. As a result we feel it is only prudent that we postpone this event. We hope to announce a new date soon. If you’ve already RSVPd we will hold your spot for the rescheduled event.
The event, at fine art print lab Digital Silver Imaging, will start with refreshments and a tour. The lab’s team will then give a brief demonstration of several display techniques for finishing photographs. The demonstration will go beyond the basic white mat and frame, showing how to use aluminum and acrylic for a contemporary look. After the demos, architect Tim Techler will speak on his experience working with photographs, followed by Iris Gallery owner Alison Collins who will address working with galleries and photographers. A question and answer period will conclude the evening.
To give all participants the ability to interact with the presenters, the number of participants is limited to 30.
You must RSVP using the RSVP form below.
6:00-6:30 – Craft beer, wine, and snacks. Lab tours.
6:30-7:45 – Photographic print presentation demonstration
7:45-8:30 – Presentation and Q&A with architect, Tim Techler and The Iris Gallery owner, Alison Collins

Lightroom Highlights Workshop with Kathy Tarantola
2020-02-29 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Learn the Best Lightroom Features and Tools
Whether you have never done much editing in Lightroom or if you have been working with it for years, this workshop will cover some of the main features of what Lightroom can do for your photo editing workflow. Lightroom is the leading editing and processing program for photo professionals and enthusiasts alike, but many features are hard to find on your own. We will cover tips in the Library where you will learn to organize, rate, search, and sort your images to make finding them a breeze. You will learn how to work through large shoots efficiently with synchronized settings and how to use Collections for creating virtual folders of your images for specific projects.
Note: We will not be covering importing in this class to make more time for the organizing features. An upcoming Lightroom 101 class will cover getting your photos into Lightroom. If you have any difficulty getting images into Lightroom to work on, let me know and I can help you prior to class.
Kathy always receives rave reviews from workshop participants, and Digital Silver Imaging is pleased to have her back in 2020.
Learn the Best Lightroom Develop features for editing
Then, with the Develop Module, let the fun begin! Learn the quick and easy tips for editing your work, beginning with learning to evaluate any image and using the tools to make stunning portfolio quality images.
We will take several images through the entire editing workflow, reviewing tools as we go. Topics emphasized will be based on student needs. You will have time to practice with your own images, ask questions, and get feedback on your work.
What we will cover: Library Module
• Organizing
• Metadata and Keywording
• Using ratings and filters
• Collections
• Searching
• Synchronizing
• Mastering good workflow practices
What we will cover: Develop Module
• Learn to evaluate your photos for the best creative decisions
• Perfect, exposure, tone, clarity and color
• Making local adjustments with the Adjustment brush, Radial and Graduated Filters
• Applying sharpening and noise reduction
• Correcting lens distortion
• Using virtual copies and snapshots
• Comparing before and after versions
• Presets for creative developing
No prior experience with Lightroom is necessary; however, a working knowledge of computers is necessary for you to get the most from this workshop. A laptop computer loaded with a Lightroom CLASSIC CC is required. You can download a trial version at Adobe.com.
Please be aware – If you have the Lightroom cloud-based version, simply called Lightroom CC, it is a very different program and we won’t be covering it.
Date: Saturday, February 29th, 2020 12-5 PM
Location: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton St. Belmont, MA
Fee for this course is $149

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).

Ziatype Workshop with Anne Eder
2020-02-22 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax)
Ziatypes are a versatile palladium-based printing-out process that makes it possible to assess exposure during development. This beautiful alternative process maybe the perfect match for your photographic imagery. The Ziatype Workshop is for beginners and photographers with basic knowledge of the ziatype process. Expert instructor, Anne Eder, will take participants through the complete process of making ziatypes from digital image to finished ziatype print.
Anne will step participants through the entire process, starting with making a contact negative on an inkjet printer, coating of light sensitive paper, exposure with sunlight, and the final archival wash.
During the course of this day-long workshop participants will focus on:
• Perfecting negative conversion curves for better print results
• Creating a negative to express your vision
• Understanding ziatype chemistry
• Creating additional color and tone in your ziatype
If you are curious about the advantages of Ziatype printing here is a brief list:
• Ziatypes utilize a printing out process (POP), images can be evaluated as they print, resulting in far fewer underexposed or overexposed prints.
• Greater contrast control without graining
• Greater paper acceptance, prints well on most papers.
• Greater color control. You can “dial in” various shades of brown to red brown, purple to neutral grays.
• No developer needed.
• Excellent blacks (dmax)
Ziatype coming out of print washer
All materials needed will be provided, prints will be made on Hahnmühle Platinum Rag paper. Participants need to bring 3 to 4 images on a flash drive, CD, or their laptop. Images should have good tonal scale in both the highlight and shadow areas. Files should be 300ppi, and approximately 5×7 in size. Participants will be able to keep, the prints, negatives, and custom curves made during the workshop.
Please note: This workshop is designed for first time participants. If you’d like to participate in an advance ziatype workshop please contact Andrea@digitalsilverimaging.com.
Date: February 22, 2020
Time: 10:00-6:00 with a break for lunch
Place: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA
Fee: 345.00
Student Discount: Currently enrolled students can receive a 10% discount on the cost of the workshop. Use promo code: Student10 at checkout. You will be asked to present your valid student ID at the workshop, if you do not have a valid ID you will be charged the full $295.
Anne Eder Bio:
Faculty Penumbra Foundation NYC
Faculty Harvard University, Harvard Ceramics Program
Member SPE, NCECA, NESA
Anne Eder is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Philadelphia. She has won multiple awards for alternative process photographic work including two Julia Margaret Cameron awards and a first place Pollux award. in addition, her documentary series on Plum Island, a barrier reef at risk due to climate change won a first place Julia Margaret Cameron award in 2019. She holds an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design, where she studied with Christopher James. Her gum bichromate images and studio practice are featured in Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual Highlighting Artists And Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson, published by Focal Press/Routledge 2017.
Website: www.anneeder.com.
Instagram: @darcflower
Twitter: @ChansonetteE
Etsy shop: Woods & Willowbone
Special thanks to Hahnemühle USA for providing their beautiful new alternative processes paper, Hahnmühle Platinum Rag for this workshop.

*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).

Documentary Master Class with Glenn Ruga
2020-02-10 18:30 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
This class will run eight Mondays starting February 10, 2020. Designed for photographers who are working on, or are interested in working on, a body of documentary work culminating in a portfolio or a multimedia presentation. The focus of this Master Class will be shooting and in-class critique. We will also go over developing skills of conceptualizing a project, printing, editing, sequencing, and communicating the concept of a project. We define documentary fairly broad for this class and look to creative and non-traditional approaches the genre.
Students may present their work during class as prints, projected digital images, or multimedia presentations. While the core of the class is based on still photography — video, sound, or motion may be used as part of the project. If students are interested in presenting a multimedia project, they should be versed in the skills necessary to do this as we will not have time during the eight weeks to teach these advancd topics.
Students will be expected to present a final project at the end of the class to the instructor and other classmates in the form of a portfolio of prints, a multimedia presentation, a website, or a book dummy.
The class is designed for photographers who want to engage in a learning environment that will provide consistent valuable feedback and discussion with an instructor and other engaged class members. The class will emphasize documentary photography but with a broard interpretation of the genre and participants are encouraged to push the boundaries of what defines documentary.
The weekly class will involve a crit session of work by class participants, analyzing work by accomplished photographers, developing concepts for projects, and discussing documentary photography.
Requirements: Proficiency in technical aspects of photography including use of digital or film camera, ability to bring in prints or digital slide presentation on a regular basis, and willingness to commit to a project that will be further developed during the course of the class.
Enroll now by following this link
Photo by Glenn Ruga; Kosovar refugees in Macedonia.
Glenn Ruga is the Founder and Director of Social Documentary Network (www.socialdocumentary.net) and the Executive Editor of ZEKE magazine (www.zekemagazine.com). He is also the former Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center. Ruga has produced three major documentary projects that each traveled to numerous locations across the United States. He served as a curator of the 2012 New York Photo Festival and has been a reviewer at FotoFest, Review Santa Fe, Palm Springs Photo Festival, New England Portfolio Reviews, PDN Portfolio Reviews, and New England ASMP Reviews. His curated exhibits include Global Health in Focus (Photographic Resource Center, 2012); PRC in NYC (New York Photo Festival, 2012); On the Razor’s Edge: Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography (New York Photo Festival, 2012); Global Warning (555 Gallery, Boston, 2014); Rania Matar, Girls in Between and Nancy Grace Horton, Being 13 (Photographic Resource Center, 2012), and four exhibitions of work from the Social Documentary Network including Crisis and Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession (2010); Ten Years After 9/11: Searching for a 21st Century Landscape (2011); The Art of Documentary (2012); and Using the Power of Photography to Promote Global Awareness (2014).
For more information or questions about the class, email glenn@socialdocumentary.net
Payment and Refund Policies

Enrollment is on first-come, first-served basis until capacity (10 students).
Class must have a minimum of five students enrolled. If minimum is not met, all tuitiion payments will be refunded.
$150 minimum payment is required to secure enrollment. Balance must be paid in full prior to the first meeting of class.
If student withdraws up to one week prior to the first meeting of class, student will receive a full refund minus a $50 processing fee. If student withdraws less than one week prior to first meeting of class, or within 48 hours after the end of the first class, student will receive a refund minus a $100 processing fee. Refund requests must be made in writing.

Cancelled - Lightroom Classic 101 – Basics and Beyond with Kathy Tarantola
2019-06-01 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
We’re sorry but this class has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a latter date
Lightroom Classic 101 – Basics and Beyond will give you a working knowledge of Lightroom, the leading editing and processing program for photo professionals and enthusiasts alike. We will cover both the Library and Develop modules. In the Library Module we will cover the best workflow practices of importing, organizing, renaming, using stars and color labels for rating, and keywording and metadata for search simplicity. You will learn how to work through large shoots efficiently with synchronized settings and presets, and how to use Collections for creating virtual folders of your images for major efficiency. Then, with the Develop Module, let the fun begin! Learn the quick and easy tips for editing your work, beginning with learning to evaluate any image and using the tools to make portfolio quality images.
During Lightroom Classic 101 – Basics and Beyond we will take several images through the entire editing workflow, reviewing tools as we go. Topics emphasized will be based on student needs. You will have time to practice with your own images, ask questions, and get feedback on your work.
Library Module
• Import process
• Organizing
• Renaming
• Presets
• Metadata and Keywording
• Using ratings and filters
• Collections
• Searching
• Exporting
• Mastering good workflow practices
Develop Module
• Learn to evaluate your photos for the best creative decisions
• Perfect, exposure, tone, clarity and color
• Making local adjustments with the Adjustment brush, Radial and Graduated Filters
• Applying sharpening and noise reduction
• Correcting lens distortion
• Using virtual copies and snapshots
• Making great black and white conversions
• Presets for creative developing
No prior experience with Lightroom is necessary; however a working knowledge of computers is necessary for you to get the most from this workshop. A laptop computer loaded with a Lightroom CLASSIC CC is required. You can download a trial version at Adobe.com.
Kathy Tarantola always receives rave reviews from workshop participants, and Digital Silver Imaging is pleased to have her back in 2019.
Please be aware – If you have the cloud based version, simply called Lightroom CC, it is a very different program and we won’t be covering it.
Instructor: 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). For more info on Kathy’s workshops visit her site www.bostonlightroomworkshops.com.
*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).

Documentary Matters
2019-04-17 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax)
Presented by Social Documentary Network and Digital Silver Imaging
Featured presenters: Karen Davis, Janet Jarman & Nicholas Pfosi

Karen Davis
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Family Portrait by Karen Davis, is a long-form, visual and textual portrait of a family moving forward in the face of a devastating childhood illness—childhood onset schizophrenia. Combining Davis’s photographs with the family’s contemporaneous words, the book provides an intimate window into a world turned upside down then righted by two shaken but determined parents.
Twenty-five years ago, this family became a subject of Davis’s photographic exploration. As a new photographer and related through marriage, she was grateful for their accessibility, openness and patience. When the son’s condition worsened and the family found itself in the throes of fear and the unknown, they wrote and she photographed, which now makes it possible for Davis to tell their story.
Davis’s talk will present an overview of the book and the steps she has taken to reach this point: a completed book draft seeking a publisher. She will share the process of conceiving (and reconceiving) the project, photo editing, discovering the “book proposal” and the research which that entails.
Dedicated website for this project
Artist Bio
As a photographer, Karen Davis works in the space between documentary and fine art photography, chronicling family and their social milieu. Her prints and artist books are in collections of the Samuel Dorsky Museum/Center for Photography Woodstock (CPW) Collection; Lishui Museum of Photography, Lishui, China; Artist Book Collection, Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University; and featured in a permanent installation at MASS MoCA. She is the 2009 recipient of CPW’s Artist Fellowship Award and a 2018 Critical Mass Finalist. Solo and featured shows include: Homegrown,CPW; Unframed, NOBO Gallery, Hudson NY and The McCann Family, Griffin Museum of Photography. Work from her series, Strangely Attracted was selected for inclusion in Exposure 2018, the Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge MA.
Davis is Curator/Co-Founder of Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY, now in its tenth year, specializing in photography, mixed media, and artist-published photobooks. She was a long-time teacher of a unique course for established and emerging photographers, Photography Atelier, which she taught at Radcliffe Seminars, Lesley University and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She currently teaches online courses in portfolio development and marketing for the Griffin Museum.
Janet Jarman

Over the past six years, Janet Jarman has immersed herself in covering topics related to human rights and healthcare in Mexico. She is currently producing a book and a feature length documentary about this topic with the assistance of a MacArthur Foundation grant.
Through deeply personal stories, “Birth Wars” explores conflicting visions between midwives and medical professionals about how to provide a safe and dignified childbirth experience to women. Many claim that midwives can play a central role in achieving these goals, if only their work could be formally recognized by Mexico’s medical establishment. For the book and film, Jarman follows the experiences of traditional and professional midwives who are trying to make a difference, and of some innovative health officials who are trying to reduce the antagonism between doctors and midwives.
Artist Bio
Janet Jarman is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Since 2003, she has been based in Mexico where she focuses on topics such as the country’s ongoing security issues, immigration, access to healthcare, and water resource challenges.
Jarman has worked for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GEO, Smithsonian Magazine, nationalgeographic.com, Stern, Der Spiegel, amongst others. She has also worked for numerous international foundations and NGOs. Her photographs have been featured at Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan and have received awards in Pictures of the Year International, American Photography, PDN Photography Annual, POY Latam, Latin American Fotografia, Communication Arts, and Best of Photojournalism.
In addition to working on editorial assignments, Jarman has produced various long-term photo and multimedia projects, including Marisol and the American Dream, a two-decade story that chronicles the life of one Mexican immigrant girl; Aguas Negras, which analyzes Mexico’s many water related challenges; and Chaos and Corruption, which focuses on the burgeoning movements throughout Mexican society to force authorities to become more transparent. Jarman began her career in South Florida after graduating from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a staff photographer at The Miami Herald, and later obtained a master’s degree in environmental issues at the University of London.

Nicholas Pfosi

Nicholas Pfosi will present an ongoing project addressing dating culture in the queer community on the east coast of the United States and Northern Europe. The work has three chapters: looking, cruising, and high and horny.
looking is a series of interviews and portraits with queer men focused on their experiences dating today, presented as an imitation Grindr app. 2019 is the 10 year anniversary of the infamous gay dating app which has had a profound impact on our community.
cruising is a series of landscapes of locations used either historically or contemporaneously for (public) sex. Historically imperative for people of marginalized sexual identities, cruising is fading from the minds of a generation of younger queers as its necessity is subverted by shifts in social attitudes and technology like Grindr, Scruff, Jack’d etc. These images, intentionally relying on the banality of these inconspicuous places, were photographed using medium format film both for its detail as well as an homage to the technology of the time when cruising was more popular. They are accompanied by captions which describe experiences which occurred at these sites. The series is a reflection on this vanishing aspect of queer sexual culture.
high and horny is an ongoing documentary project looking at the world of chemsex from about half a dozen individual perspectives. Chemsex is when gay men use, and often become dependent on using, crystal meth and sometimes GhB, during sexual encounters, often lasting hours or days. While the limited media representation of this experience portrays it as a hedonistic health crisis, the reality is considerably more nuanced than that, which this work aims to address.
Artist Bio
Nicholas Pfosi is a documentary photographer, web designer and filmmaker whose work reflects on modern queer identity. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Child Studies and Human Development with course work towards a double-major in Clinical Psychology and minor in Multimedia Arts from Tufts University in Boston before studying photography at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) in Aarhus, Denmark.
Having interned for the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Nicholas’s training and approach is grounded in a ‘hold-truth-to-power’ journalism yet grows colored by his view of storytelling as essential to the human social experience.
While working under the mentorship of the Bombay Flying Club, Nicholas, along with collaborator Capucine Chardon, produced a short film Take Me As I Am about CJ, an American expat living in Denmark. Immigrating to Europe after having resigned himself to his family’s impenetrable homophobia, CJ pursues performance art, drag and companionship. The film was recognized by the Picture of the Year International (POYi) competition in 2018.
Documentary Matters
Documentary Matters is an initiative of the Social Documentary Network and Digital Silver Imaging to provide a place for photographers to meet with others involved with or interested in documentary photography and discuss ongoing or completed project. This is a free and open meeting for anyone interested in presenting, viewing, or discussing documentary photography.
You don’t need to be a professional, expert, or established–you just need to be committed to the documentary form and committed to learning from feedback from others. And you don’t need to be a photographer or presenting your work to attend. Everyone is invited to join us, look, listen, and comment. Still photography, multimedia, and video encouraged. Documentary required.

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The Art of the Hand Colored Photo with Laurie Klein
2019-04-11 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
This event starts at 6:30 PM EST
Meet the author of Hand Coloring Black and White Photography, Laurie Klein, in an evening filled with useful and inspiring information on hand coloring photos. Laurie will speak about her work, her vision and the techniques required to hand color the New DSI Digital Silver Print® Fiber Matte silver gelatin paper. The introduction of this new paper makes hand coloring possible for all digital and film photographers. In addition to Laurie’s presentation, samples of New DSI Digital Silver Print® Fiber Matte paper will be available to hand color with Arista Photo Oils and colored pencils. This is sure to be an informative and enjoyable evening filled with photographic art, lots of information, raffled products and light refreshments.
Included with this event:
• $10 Off Coupon on your order of any New DSI Digital Silver Print® Fiber Matte
• Hand color a samples of DSI Digital Silver Print® Fiber Matte with Arista Photo Oils and/or colored pencil
• Raffle a copy Laurie Klein’s New Hand Coloring Video Tutorial
• Raffle of an Arista Photo Oil Introductory Kit (a $35 value)
• Raffle of a 11×14 DSI Digital Silver Print® Fiber Matte print (a $65 value)
About Laurie Klein
Renowned photographer and educator, Laurie Klein, regarded as one of the most influential infrared photographers and hand coloring artists in the world. Laurie holds a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from Ohio University. Early in her career, Laurie studied with Ansel Adams. She is the author of Infrared Photography: Artistic Techniques for Brilliant Images and Photographing The Female Form with Digital Infrared both published by Amherst Media, Hand Coloring Black and White Photography published by Quarry Publishers, and is published in numerous magazines. Her images have been exhibited globally. Laurie teaches regularly at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Maine Media, and presents her own boutique workshops.
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Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Roll Future - Talk & Book Signing with Barry Schneier
2019-03-27 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
At times photography can capture a moment that is a turning point in a career. Photographer Barry Schneier captured such a moment in the career of Rock Icon, Bruce Springsteen. Digital Silver Imaging welcomes Barry to speak about his experience as a photographer and music lover, on that night in Harvard Square that changed rock and roll history. In his talk Barry will delve into the sequence of events that brought him to the night that music writer Jon Landau exclaimed “I saw rock and roll future and his name is Bruce Springsteen.” Barry will discuss that special night not just in the context of his career, but also in the context of the musical era. He will also explore not just what was so unique about Springsteen as an artist, but why an artist of his caliber had such an effect then on his audience as he does today.
“My observations of him that night were equal parts photographer and music fan. I look to bring those two perspectives into my talk.”
Barry Schneier
Come meet Barry Schneier in person. Doors open for this event at 6:30. Barry will speak about his experience, the photographs, and his new book starting at 7:00. Following Barry’s talk books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is a must for anyone that loves Springsteen, Rock and Roll history, and photography.

Lightroom Print and Book Module with Kathy Tarantola
2019-03-27 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
In this Lightroom Print and Book Module workshop, we will cover two exceptional ways to share your images with the world, making exhibition quality prints or creating a multipage book. Prints are the best way to evaluate your images and make a lasting impression with your photography. Lightroom Print and Book Module workshop will focus on output, social media and electronic data is fleeting but prints last a lifetime.
Topics include
• Import process, applying metadata during import
• Organizing – making a folder structure that works for you
• Viewing Modes
• Renaming, creating new folders, moving files
• Removing vs Deleting files
• Metadata and Keywording
• Using star ratings and color labels
• Searching / Filtering – how to find anything!
• Collections & Smart Collections to organize multiple projects
• Exporting – export presets
• Mastering good workflow practices
Instructor: 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). For more info on Kathy’s workshops visit her site www.bostonlightroomworkshops.com.
*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).

J. Sybylla Smith - Concept Aware Workshop at Maine Media
2019-03-25 | Maine Media Workshop, 70 Camden Street, Rockport, ME, 04856, United States
Concept Aware® Workshop at Maine Media Workshops provides a roadmap of creativity which enhances a photographer’s ability to problem-solve, innovate and analyze their own unique practice. Participants articulate and strengthen their visual voice. The result of an expanded and intentional visual fluency results in more impactful images. An increased awareness of how one sees directly impacts an artists’ ability to contextualize their work and to write and speak of their process with clarity.
The conceptual framework of Concept Aware® is a based on research in the fields of semiotics, education and the humanities. It’s clear structure and practical tools are applicable to the advanced student, emerging or established professional, and academic. Outlined are dynamic layers of choice and decision- making utilized when transforming an abstract idea into a project or body of work for exhibition or publication.
Specific stages within the creative process are isolated, lending an artist the ability to locate, and ground, their process along the continuum of creativity. Highlighted are the singular building blocks which support an inspired idea. Eight essential elements of creative practice are identified, illustrated utilizing examples within contemporary photography, and form a new foundation to view, inform and conduct one’s creative process.
Attendee Quote:
“Sybylla Smith’s fine-tuned curriculum and expert facilitation guides attendees through a powerful enriching experience that bolsters confidence and insights into one’s own unique creative process.” – Jon Wollenhaupt
Levels: Advanced
Workshop Fee: $995
Class Size: 12
To register for this workshop follow this link to Maine Media Workshops
Find out more about J. Sybylla Smith

Lightroom Develop Module Intensive with Kathy Tarantola
2019-03-23 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
In this Lightroom Develop Module Intensive, we will cover many of the features that make Lightroom an amazing and powerful processor of digital images. We will continue learning the tools and delve deeper into the tips and tricks to enhance your images quickly and with stunning results. We will also delve into the Export feature and create export presets to streamline your process. Learn how to seamlessly work between Lightroom and Photoshop.
In Lightroom Develop Module Intensive you will be using your own images with help along the way, you will walk away with hands-on knowledge and the ability to quickly make your images ready for exhibition or to make the perfect photo book or slide show.
Topics include
• Perfecting tone and color in each photo
• Applying sharpening and noise reduction
• Correcting lens distortion and chromatic aberration
• Global vs Local corrections
• Powerful local editing tools
• Cropping, Spot removal, Graduated and Radial Filters, Adjustment Brush
• Hue, Saturation, Luminance panel
• Using the Tone Curve for precise adjustments
• Color or luminance masking
• Post crop vignetting and the dehaze filter
• Making great black and white conversions
• Creative presets – use LR templates or create your own
• Learn how Photoshop still fits easily into your workflow
• Soft Proofing for printing
Our purpose in teaching module specific workshops like Lightroom Develop Module Intensive is to have each student learn features in depth and to leave the workshop with a true understanding of the how the program can enhance your images and ease your workflow.

Instructor: 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). For more info on Kathy’s workshops visit her site www.bostonlightroomworkshops.com.
*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).
