How to create order from disorder through split toning
I am slowly – all too slowly – working my way through the 5000+ images that I took in Italy earlier this month during the Italy Within The Frame workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, and one thing is for certain is it has helped me to optimize my Lightroom workflow! Most of the [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 9 – Burano
Burano is a small island on the outer reaches of the Venetian Archipelago that few people bother to visit. The nearer and more famous island of Murano with its tradition of glass blowing and the manufacture of its distinctive colored glass objects d’arts, seems to be more of a magnet for the tides of tourists [...]
Italy Within the Frame – Day 6 – Portofino
The Italian Riviera has for years been a playground for the rich and famous. The once quiet fishing villages where time and modern convenience had for so long passed by without the most casual of glances, have been transformed into chic resorts, full of designer boutiques, restaurants and bars advertising or sponsored by a leading [...]
Italy Within The Frame- Day 4 -Camogli
As we left Monterosso for Camogli this morning it seemed that we were leaving behind a landscape of opportunity, color and precariously perched towns that seemed to be just a momentary lapse away from sliding into the rocky Ligurian coastline. How wrong can you be – well about the color and opportunity at least! As [...]
Italy within The Frame – Day 3 – Manarola and Vernazza
Day 3 of our Italy Within The Frame with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman began at our now customary leisurely pace, with a short train ride through the tunnels and along the dramatic Cinque Terre coastline, to the second of the Cinque Terre towns that we were visiting, Manarola. The tiny train station sandwiched precariously [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day 1 Genova
The threatened rain had disappeared to leave a warm spring morning as the Italy within the Frame group set out for our first full day of photo workshop, in Genova, Italy. David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman are organized a very gentle paced walk around the old streets of Genova, helping direct us through the narrow [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day minus 1
The months of waiting for the chance to spend a week in Italy, immersed in exploring my own personal photographic vision “within the frame”, have finished and we are now in Genova, with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. This morning – before the main group arrived – I went out with Jeffrey Fielding to wander [...]
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