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High Road to Taos
Photography

Fine-Art Photographs of Northern New Mexico and Beyond by Dean Carstens

All photogaphs represented on this site are toned silver-gelatin prints.

This website last modified on Thursday, August 05, 2010

Beginning Digital Photography: three 2-hour classes and a 6-hour wourkshop in the field.
Get past the point-and-shoot mode with your digital camera. Covers all aspects of making good digital prints for the beginners or more experienced photographers who want to increase their skills. Lots of practical exercises.

Photoshop for the Black and White Photographer. three 2-hour classes.
There is more to creating black and white photographs from digital files than just pushing the gray mode button in Photoshop. Learn tricks and secrets to better B&W photographs. Adjust tonalities, dodge and burn, sharpen, add subtle color tones to mimic traditional methods.

Printing Silver Prints from Digital Negatives: time and dates TBD based on students availability (18 hours)
This workshop (based on the book by Dan Burkholder) will teach techniques for printing silver-gelatin prints from large format paper negatives created with Photoshop and ink jet printers. This is a method that many world-famous photographers are using to create better black and white photographs using modern technologies. For the photographer with advanced experience.

For questions on these classes, contact email me .

I teach the following classes periodically at the Los Alamos Art Center at Fuller Lodge ( email me for a current schedule).

This page last modified on Tuesday, March 31, 2010