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Documentary Matters: Featured Presenter: João Pina
2018-02-21 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax)
João Pina is a Portuguese photographer who has worked primarily in Latin America but also has covered human-rights stories and conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Mozambique. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, El País and Stern. In 2007, with Rui Daniel Galiza, he completed his first book, “Por teu livre pensamento,” featuring the stories of 25 former Portuguese political prisoners. In 2014, he published “Condor,” about a military operation designed to destroy political opposition to the military dictatorships in South America during the 1970s. While a Fellow at Nieman, Pina is studying the importance and impact of archival photography and the way its juxtaposition with current images can increase storytelling impact and outreach. Image ©João Pina
www.joao-pina.com

Share and discuss your documentary projects

Looking for feedback on your documentary work? Do you want to meet other photographers and people interested in documentary work? Join SDN, Digital Silver Imaging and Blue Earth Alliance for this meeting of Documentary Matters. Documentary matters is a FREE and open meeting to anyone interested in presenting, viewing and discussing documentary work. If you’d like to present work follow the bookmark below to register, you must register in advance to present work, or simply attend if you’re interested in participating or seeing the presentation by João Pina.

Click here to register to attend or to sign up to present work or discussion topics.

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When: February 21, 2018 6:30-9:00 PM
Where: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont MA

Through a Woman's Lens - Call for Entries
2018-01-07 - 2018-01-09
Esther Bubley, Photo by Gordon Parks, 1944. Library of Congress
This is a competition, open to women photographers, that will celebrate their achievements in a dedicated issue of ZEKE magazine and with a $1500 prize. Digital Silver Imaging is not the sponsor of this contest, but we encourage women photographers to enter this first ever competition by the Social Documentary Network.
Submission to the Call for Entries can be new or existing exhibits on the Social Documentary Network website. All submissions are exhibited on the SDN website and are eligible to be featured in the Women’s Issue of ZEKE magazine as well as subsequent issues. Select entries will be featured in SDN’s monthly Spotlight, and promoted through social media.
Begin accepting entries on SDN website: November 7, 2017
Deadline for entries: January 7, 2018
Submission fee for up to 30 images: $30
For more information follow this link

Lightroom Develop Module Intensive Workshop
2017-11-06 12:00 - 2017-12-02 17:00
The Lightroom Develop Module Intensive Workshop will be taught by Adobe® Lightroom Certified Expert, Kathy Tarantola. Kathy always receives rave reviews from participants, and Digital Silver Imaging is pleased to have her back for this great workshop.
Lightroom Develop Module Intensive
Saturday, December 2, 12-5 PM
In this Develop Module intensive, we will cover many of the features that make Lightroom an amazing and powerful processor of digital images.
We will learn how to evaluate your photographs and how to make creative processing decisions with time to practice each step. Using your own images with help along the way, you will walk away with hands-on knowledge and the confidence to enhance all of your work quickly and with stunning results.
Topics include
• Perfecting tone and color in each photo
• Applying sharpening and noise reduction
• Correcting lens distortion and chromatic aberration
• Noise Reduction
• Cropping
• Spot, Red Eye, Graduated and Radial Filter, Paintbrush tools
• Hue, Saturation, Luminance, adjustments
• Using virtual copies to create variations of your work
• Post crop vignetting and the dehaze filter• Making great black and white conversions
• Creative presets – use LR templates or create your own
• Soft Proofing for printing
Our purpose in teaching module specific workshops 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.
Date: Saturday December 2, 2017
Time: 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).

New Ziatype Workshop with Anne Eder
2017-11-04 10:00 - 18:00 | Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, 02478, United States
Student work from Ziatype Workshop ©Anne Eder
Ziatypes have the look of platinum/palladium prints but are not as difficult or expensive to produce. This beautiful alternative processes 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)
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. Two negatives will be made, one larger and one smaller, so a larger size file is better as it can always be reduced without image degradation. Files should be 300ppi, actual size. Participants will be able to keep, the prints , negatives, and custom curves made during the workshop.
Date: Saturday November 4, 2017
Time: 10:00-6:00 with a break for lunch
Place: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA
Fee: 249.00

Student Discount: Currently enrolled students can receive a 10% discount. 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 $249.

Instructor Bio: Anne Eder, holds a masters degree in Photography and Integrated Media, and has studied with Christopher James, author of the Book of Alternative Processes. Her gum bichromate images and studio practice are featured in Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual Highlighting Artists And Their Creative Practiceby Christina Z. Anderson, published by Focal Press/Routledge 2017. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both public and private collections.

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).
