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This 7-week class will demonstrate the importance of file organization within the Lightroom 3 software program. You will get a first-hand experience of how to set up your folder structure properly, which will make missing images a thing of the past. Find out how to integrate your workflow with Lightroom and study the Library module and its various preferences that will make your daily usage of the software more effective. Then, through a hands-on approach with control group images in mini-sessions, learn how to perform digital magic in the Development module where you will get creative ideas on how to speed up your workflow and take your image processing to new heights.

Topics covered will include: the creative use of collections, image enhancement in under 15 seconds, image retouching utilizing the various localize editing tools such as a skin softener, eyes enhancer, and blemishes retouching tools. Practice quick adjustments using the Hue – Saturation – Luminance slider and make instant slideshows branded with your logo.

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Here is your chance to experience a day in the life of a photojournalist. This hands-on, daylong shooting and editing seminar gives you the opportunity to work side-by-side with a seasoned pro.  This is a chance to:

• Visually explore a pre-determined location that is ripe with subject matter
• Learn how to overcome the challenges of shooting in cold weather
• Ask questions about composition, lighting, technique, you name it
• Discuss the act of creativity while shooting
• Practice critical thinking about what you’re shooting
• Correct on-spot issues that arise
• Enjoy healthy competition as you pit your vision against those of the instructor and your classmates
• Boost your shooting confidence- and get inspired!!

Discover how easy and fun it is to make pictures in any situation-and in any light (note: you’ll learn how to make pictures, not take pictures). The course is limited to four students, ensuring everyone quality time with the instructor. We start with a quick lesson, then on to a three to four hour shoot. Finally we head back to CPC where your photos will be uploaded to a computer for a group editing session of each student’s images. The group editing will include discussion of the thought processes involved in editing, framing, composition, camera angle, and lighting of individual images. Students are expected to join in the discussion.

Our winter safari starts promptly at 8:00 a.m. in nearby coffee shop. Then out to shoot in the area along the Chicago River, including the River Walk plus parts of Upper and Lower Wacker Drive. The exact meeting point will be shared in an email along with some tips for cold weather shooting. Latecomers will be left behind. Bring a cell phone in case we get separated. Bring all the gear you think necessary to make the pictures you like and necessary to survive in cold weather. That could include, but would not be limited to, a tripod, long lenses, macro lenses, flash units, reflectors, or just simply your favorite DSLR camera and a lens. Don’t forget rain or snow gear for you and your cameras. We will shoot in the rain or snow. That’s what pros do. If this boot camp is canceled due to hazardous weather, the make up date will be March 11th.

Who should take this course? You… especially if you’re eager to experience shooting in the field like a photojournalist. You should have a good working knowledge of your DSLR camera. This is not a beginner’s course.

Taught by David Klobucar

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Our next Wine & Critique will be on Friday, March 16, 2012!

Enjoy a night of laughter, wine and critiques with a group of your peers. You can kick back with a Chianti or ponder photography with a Pinot. Bring your prints and portfolios and take part in an event that’s picture perfect!

Every third Friday of the month from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Heard about our photo contest?  Go here for more information.

$5 or 1 bottle of wine for members $10 or 2 bottles of wine for non-members

Let’s have some fun!   Dust off your marketing, editorial and table-top photography skills. The CPC is soliciting photographic works created by students, volunteers, and CPC members over the age of 21.  The theme is the CPC “Wine & Critique”.

Entries will be judged both on photographic excellence and on how well it promotes our

Wine & Critique event on the 3^rd Friday of each month.

The chosen entry will be awarded:

• One box of boxed wine with your winning entry plastered all over it.
• The image will be used for Wine & Critique promotional purposes in emails, the Snapshot newsletter and on the CPC website.
• The winning entry will be displayed at CPC.
  Photographer will be credited in all promotional materials.

 Media: color digital photography.

Please submit your low res images to:  warren.perlstein@chicagophoto.org. There is a limit of one (1) image per entrant.

Deadline: Entries must be received by 8:00p.m., Wednesday March 16th, 2012, the next scheduled Wine & Critique.   The winner will be announced by March 23^rd.Winner to submit final image approximately 8.5” X 11” at 300ppi. Tiff, PSD or JPEG.

Jurors:
Warren Perlstein is a commercial photographer, CPC Board Member and CPC instructor.
Dave Rentauskas is an editorial and commercial photographer as well as a CPC instructor.

Submission of an entry to this exhibition constitutes agreement on the part of the entrant to the conditions listed above.

Profusion/Essence

featuring the work of photographers:

Lawrence Oliverson

Jill Bedford

The show will open on Friday March 2nd 7-9pm and will be exhibited through March 31st.

March 9th Lawrence Oliverson will deliver a lecture entitled “So You Want to Sell Your Photographs – At Art Fairs?” - on the joys and challenges of selling your photographs at art fairs.  Stay tuned for registration information!

Join us in April 2012 for a photo exhibition that focuses on Cambodia’s women. Living in a country plagued by corruption and still emerging from war, they stand at the crossroads of growth, development, innovation and change.

In October 2011, award-winning Chicago photojournalist Jose More traveled the country to capture ordinary Cambodian women, doing extraordinary things. The photos tell the story of Lem, who survived the sex industry and is emerging with a new way to express herself: by capturing her world in pictures. The photos also tell the story of Lyna, a schoolteacher determined to create a new future for her students through computer literacy.

Their stories weave the patterns of daily life, overcoming poverty, grasping opportunities, and creating a new future.

Join us for the opening reception Friday April 6th from 7:00-9:00pm

Opening January 6, 2012 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Welcome to the third annual CPC Outreach Exhibition – “Illuminations”. This year, we celebrate the work of two groups of artists and the inauguration of a new residency program.

As usual, the exhibit features the work of 5 adult students from two of CPC’s off-site “satellite”  photography programs. Most of their images are digital, and a few were shot on color film. This group-critiqued and juried exhibit reveals the students’ interest in street photography, photojournalism, and more than a hint of fine art photography. CPC’s off-site program volunteers take cameras and photography instruction to emerging photographers whose circumstances limit their access to traditional photography programs. Our goal is to bolster artistic self-confidence while encouraging group participation in the preparation for and execution of an exhibit.

And this year’s exhibit also includes the participation of 19 After School Matters student apprentices. Their images were shot on BW film, then developed and printed in a traditional darkroom setting. Through group critiques, they have selected their favorite prints to exhibit, including self-portraits and brief biographies. In addition to the prints, the ASM exhibit includes  interactive installations designed by the students to share their darkroom experiences with a larger audience. After School Matters Darkroom Photography is an apprentice program in the arts that allows young adults to work closely with practicing artists, learning valuable professional and creative problem-solving skills while building a democratic environment for community growth.


About The Jay Jude Residency Program

Jay Jude was an aspiring photographer in Cincinnati, who tragically passed away at the age of 16 in March 2010. His favorite photographic subjects were his friends, particularly action shots of inline skaters, flowers, and just about anything that was fortunate enough to find itself within sight of his lens. Jay himself was a champion inline skater, having competed and won in the Nationals in Los Angeles in 2008, at a level far above his age group. His aunt, the photographer Susan Aurinko and his mom’s cousin John Peterson from Louisiana made sure he had plenty of equipment to realize his dream.

When he passed away, his aunt Susan decided to establish a way for others to benefit from the equipment, and John Peterson, a cousin of Susan and Jay’s mom Pat, asked that his equipment also be donated in Jay’s name. Thus, the Jay Jude Memorial Photographic Residency was conceived.
 The recipient of this residency has been chosen on the basis of talent and motivation, as well as on his or her passion for photography. For the 2012 Spring Semester the Resident is Kendra Keyes.

Kendra will have use of all the cameras and equipment of the residency, for the spring semester, as well as use of the darkroom at Chicago Photography Center (which will be compensated by Susan Aurinko and her husband Gary Mostow, Jay’s aunt and uncle, and through fundraising). Although Jay shot digitally at times, his real love was using film, so the residency is essentially for film photography.

Kendra Keyes was chosen by Susan Aurinko and Jonathan Michael Johnson, who teaches at CPC.
 The residency is for one semester, at the end of which the resident artist will show the work that was done in the residency. Kendra’s work will be shown before her residency, during the January Outreach Program Exhibition, titled Illuminations. Work by Jay Jude will be shown as well for this first exhibition of the Residency.

A big “THANK YOU” to all of our vendors and donors for our fundraiser and silent auction.  The evening was a huge success and fun was had by all!!  Pictures coming soon so be sure to check back.

Find out more about the I Heart Ink exhibit here

For information about our sponsors and donors for the CPC Fundraiser click here!