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This episode is the first in an irregular series that explores important photography books that should be in every photographer’s book collection. The first book is The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Weston’s remarkable series of journal entries about his life in photography.

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Project Photoshop Lightroom – Adobe’s U.S. tour featuring photographer Colin Finlay talking about his work and Adobe’s Julianne Kost demonstrating Adobe’s new product, Photoshop Lightroom.

See this PDF for information about the October 5 and 6 presentation of Project Photoshop Lightroom at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

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This week, we go into the “field” to a gallery talk I gave at an exhibition of my work. My comments give some background on my 17-year photographic exploration of Italy and the show, “Evidence of Hands, The Mediated Landscape of Italy.”

• Click for images from the “slideshow” I used at the presentation
• Click for the QuickTime movie that was a part of my presentation

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How many images does it take to say what you want to say? Editing your work to create a group of images that projects a coherent voice is an important part of the photographic process. Honest and unmerciful editors have the most effective stories.

Santa Fe Center for Photography – home of the Creative Edge workshop

Info about my gallery talk at Waubonsee Community College on September 19

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Once we get back to the darkroom-digital or chemical-how do we maximize the vision and idea we had when we were in the field making the photograph? We explore the post-production side of the creative process using a photograph of Civita di Bagnoreggio.

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Civita di Bagnoreggio, Umbria, 2006 – Photograph by Jeff Curto

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• Take a look at listener Stephen Durbin’s photographs
• Want to learn about Adobe Lightroom? Check out this event now touring the nation, including a stop at College of DuPage, where I teach.

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