Vincent Versace

Return to Oz: Seeing is Believing.

A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography

Still photography doesn't have to mean static images. In this workshop, Smithsonian Award Laureate, Shelenberg Award for Fine Art Photography recipient and four-time Photoshop Hall of Fame nominee and Vincent Versace details his cinematic approach to evoking time and its passage in still photographic images. Through a balance of practical instruction and creative inspiration, Versace provides a wealth of practical and artistic guidance for anyone interested in digital photography. Whether looking to enrich Photoshop skills, broaden an understanding of conceptual and aesthetic principles, get a handle on lighting and theory, or simply to inject more life into one's photographs, participants in this workshop benefit from Vincent's unique approach to the art and craft of digital photography. Students learn to emulate, bend and refract natural light – believably replicating the most fleeting and beautiful light of all: a late afternoon beam of sunlight streaming through a window. The workshop also covers digital portrait retouching including brightening and enhancing features, creating flawless but believable skin texture, improving overall tone, color and detail to make Hollywood-quality portraits.

About Vincent:

Vincent Versace is a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment and the Shellenberg fine art award, is a six-time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and is the best selling author of Welcome to Oz a Cinematic Approach Digital Still Photography with Photoshop and. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History.

Vincent was the original host of the Epson Print academy and is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go team and one of the members of the photographic team of Eco-Challenge. He has been commissioned by the San Francisco Presidio National Park to create a permanent collection of art for the park. He is an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek instructor. Vincent has led photographic workshops to San Francisco, Burma, Viet Nam, India, Morocco, Costa Rica, Santa Fe, Egypt, Cambodia, Mongolia and Australia.
Vincent is former member of the board of directors of Los Angeles chapter of the American Photographers Association. He is also a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals "Instructor Dream Team" and teaches regularly at Photoshopworld as well as being a regular instructor at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. He is currently a member of Microsoft's Digital Imaging Applications Group and founding member of the Epson Stylus Pros, Xrite Colorotti and Lexar Elite Photographers.
He is the former artist in residence for Altamira Group and former consultant to the president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging Group.

Vincent is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and on the weekends is a part-time super-hero and short-order cook.

***Message from Vincent to anyone considering taking this class:

Special offer to all students who attend my Long Island Workshop. In addition to a fantastic, eye opening week of education, you will also get a signed 13x19 black and white print and Acme DVDS of all of the lessons we cover in class!! That's over $300.00 worth of tutorial DVDs and $500.00 worth of art!!!

For more information about Vincent and to see more examples of his work, please visit his website: www.versacephotography.com