Dear Reader,
This month's issue of Insights highlights a conversation with R Mac Holbert - photographer, master printer, and cofounder of Nash Editions. In addition there's a short review of his new book. And there's a new Technique PDF High Pass Contrast, which Mac introduced to the presenters and attendees of the Epson Print Academy; it's one you definitely want to know about. Stay tuned for information on a special printing workshop with Mac and me.
I'm back from a 20 day voyage to one of my favorite places - Antarctica. You can view new images in a free portable PDF gallery. You can find out more about my new work and Antarctica in the accompanying text. Images and impressions from my 2005 voyage are also available. And you can find out about what one workshop participant, Olaf Willoughby, has achieved with his work from 2005.
Best wishes,
John Paul
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In this Issue...Creativity - Spend Time With Other Creative People
May Workshop - Illuminating Creativity
Artist's on Art - R Mac Holbert
Review - Nash Editions - Photography and the Art of Digital Printing
Technique - High Pass Contrast
Gallery - Antarctica 2007
Artist's Statement - Antarctica 2007
Publication - Antarctica: A Sense of Place
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Creativity
Spend Time With Other Creative PeopleSeek community with other creative people. You can gain extremely valuable insights into the creative process by spending time with and carefully observing other creative people practicing in any discipline.
Enjoy this process! Simply observe. Your time is better spent observing. Secondarily, you may also observe yourself and note what you tend to react to and how you tend to react.
Resist the temptation to be analytical or critical. Time evaluating the information you collect is best spent later, when you no longer have access to such an information rich environment and when you've had a little time to gain some distance and perspective, letting things sink in.
Without putting others on the spot, it's useful to ask appropriate questions of others. You'll learn even more. It's likely that you'll both learn from what you exchange.
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Workshop
Illuminating Creativity
May 14-18You're unique. Your creative process should reflect this. You change. Your creative process should reflect this too. That's what this workshop is all about checking in and taking stock of where you are, experimenting and discovering new possibilities, and finding confirmation and empowerment by practicing ways of making your creative process more your own, more authentic, more fulfilling, and more productive. We'll photograph, edit, process, write, sketch and much more. Every day you'll discover / rediscover tools to energize and focus your creative process.
These are the insights and techniques that keep me creatively vital and productive. I find them invaluable. You'll find them valuable too.
15% early registration discount ends 3/16. Space is limited. Register today!
Register today!
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Artist's on Art
R Mac Holbert
Nash EditionsPhotographer, master printer, and cofounder of Nash Editions - Mac Holbert offers a valuable perspective on the medium supported by a unique experience as well as countless insights in this illuminating conversation. Read the full text here. Find excerpts and a portfolio of Mac's images in this month's Camera Arts magazine.
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Review
Publications
Nash Editions - Photography
and the Art of Digital PrintingThis is an important book. It delights the eye; it stimulates thought; it informs us about the state of contemporary photographic printmaking. Read more in this PDF and online at NETheBook.com. Get a signed copy for $50 by emailing
info@nasheditions.com.
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Technique
Adjustment
High Pass ContrastDuring the Epson Print Academy, Mac has been wowing presenters and crowds alike with this technique. Akin to High Pass Sharpening, High Pass Contrast is a type of contrast you need to know about. Find out how to use it in your images with this free PDF. Also, make sure to visit Mac's free downloads at nasheditions.com and at http://homepage.mac.com/mach48 /FileSharing13.html.
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Gallery
Antarctica 200720 days at sea and 5000 exposures yielded 40 images finished onsite and processed entirely in Adobe's newly released software Adobe Lightroom. See a selection of my new work in this free portable PDF gallery.
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Artist's Statement
Antarctica 2007Read about my most recent trip to Antarctica and the work I produced on location.
Read more ...Antarctica is a fascinating continent. It's a sensitive indicator of climate, both physically and socially. Get many of the facts here.
Read more ...This trip was made with many interesting instructors; Michael Reichmann, Jeff Schewe, Seth Resnick, Stephen Johnson, Bill Atkinson, Ian Lyons. Look to their websites in the coming months for more work and impressions by the other instructors - luminous-landscape.com, photoshopnews.com, sjphoto.com sethresnick.com, billatkinson.com, and computer-darkroom.com.
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Antarctica
A Sense of PlaceOne participant in our 2005 Antarctic expedition used his images and words to produce a 48 page book, available in both electronic and printed forms, that is now being used by the World Wildlife Federation and the International Polar Year 2007-8 organization ( ipy.org is well worth visiting) to raise awareness and funds for important environmental issues. One man can make a difference, in a relatively short time. Go to lulu.com and type in Olaf Willoughby to learn more about this. My hat's off to you Olaf
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