Overview of Connect 2010, the Palm Springs Photo Festival – Happening 3/28 – 4/2, 2010

A few days ago, an update from the Palm Springs Photo Festival 2010 Celebration Program was sent to me. This looks to be an incredible event for advanced amateur and professional photographers, as well as students interested in photography. It will be held from March 28 – April 2, 2010 at Hyatt Regency Suites, Korakia Pensione and The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.

There is a lot planned during the event, including the following workshops from these noted photographers:

The Joel Meyerowitz Master Class: The Search for Artistic Identity
Kenro Izu: The Sacred Landscape
Lynn Johnson: The Documentary Personal Project
Douglas Kirkland: Portraiture Using the 8×10 Camera
Ed Kashi: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age
Jack Dykinga: Light in the Desert Landscape
Jock Sturges: The Fine Art Nude
Keith Carter: Personal Style – Finding Your Voice
Frank Ockenfels III: The Signature Style Portrait
Antonin Kratochvil: The Psychological Portrait
Linda Connor: The Importance of Sequencing Your Work
Vincent LaForet: The Convergence Factor: Using the Canon 5-D Mark II for Motion
Nels Israelson: Dramatic Lighting for Dramatic Portraiture
Juergen Nogai: The Art of Architecture Photography
Allegra Wilde: Deconstructing Your Portfolio
Laurie Kratochvil and Carol LeFlufy: The Business of Photography

Below is information about the workshops from the organizers: Our Fifth Year Workshop Program offers intense, remarkable classes with world-renowned working photographers and educators. Most are three full days plus a 4th day morning session and begin on March 29. You will spend three and a half days with your fellow students listening, learning, shooting and comparing notes. Your instructor will work with you, demonstrate his or her methods, explore his or her own work and your own. We also offer one day workshops beginning later in the week, allowing you to choose from special lighting and portfolio organization and presentation classes in addition to your principal workshop, seminars and portfolio reviews.

A listing of the seminars being offered is below:

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Pre-PMA 2010 News from HP: Indigo Longevity and ARTtrust

This news just came across my in-box and I believe it will be of interest to anyone who currently uses photo labs, or for anyone who currently has short-run books printed by Blurb.com or other company who uses Indigo printers. HP also just announced longevity testing by Wilhelm Imaging Research for the HP Indigo digital press on at least one paper (see information below). My guess is that the report will be posted on Wilhelm-Research.com sometime soon (hopefully with additional papers added).

I’ve been hoping to see Wilhelm Imaging Research’s results on the Indigo process for many years, since I have been a longtime fan of the Indigo process (I worked for a company who had the first two Indigo machines in New York City way back in the 1990s). The print quality of recent Indigo Press models is nothing short of outstanding, and from the press release, it looks like HP has decided to position the Indigo not just as a “printing press,” but as a logical choice for photo-quality prints. It should be interesting to see how things progress as companies start marketing the Indigo’s output as “ready-to-frame.”

Below is the full press release-there is so much info, I think it is best presented in its entirety:

HP Boosts Quality and Value of Graphic Arts Photo Printing
HP Indigo photo printing technology gains 45-year permanence rating
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Recent Tips and Art Resources Column (plus archives) on RedDogJournal.com

I recently wrote another column at RedDogJournal.com that I thought might be of interest. I generally write a column for their site every other week. In it I often offer printing tips and techniques, and other areas I highlight include: photo-related events; learning resources; exhibitions; talks and photo contests. For example, a tip from my most recent column is titled: Quick Printing Tip: How to Place Images Perfectly Every Time.

The most recent column can be found here:
https://reddogjournal.com/darlow-27.php

Also, by changing the number above from 27 to a lower number (1 to 26) like this:
https://reddogjournal.com/darlow-26.php you can find all 27 of the columns I’ve written over the last year and a half.

And if you’d like to receive the newsletter portion related to fine-art photography (those news items are not available at this time online-only through the newsletter), you can sign up here for free (I highly recommend it):
https://reddogjournal.com/join.php