About PG Photographics' Workshops

I was on a road trip last year with my digital camera slung over my shoulder.

"Excuse me," the big man asked, "How do you like your digital camera?"

"I love it. It's the nicest camera I've ever owned," was my response.

He said, "I've been shooting 35mm for 40 years, I just bought a digital SLR, and I can't figure out where to begin." He went on to say that he didn't want to learn how to move one person’s head onto another person’s body in Photoshop. He wanted to understand those things in the program that would fit into his frame of reference that he had developed through years of shooting film.

Meeting him changed what we now stress in our workshops. I had just finished pre-visualizing a workshop that I had planned, an entire afternoon of showing people how to make collages in Photoshop.I love all of the creative tools that Photoshop affords us, allowing us to create images that pay homage to many of the creative processes that film photographers have achieved in the past. But the gentleman’s question reminded me that not every photographer is as far along on the learning curve. Many of us have been dancing as fast as we can, keeping up with the newest and most useful tools. People just entering that same learning curve, one that builds on the information that has been gathered more gradually, need a fast start, some clear guidance in jumping into that learning curve painlessly. That's why Robert Barry, Will Gibson and I created our first workshop in September 2006, "De-mystifying Photoshop."

Check out our de-mystification workshops for 2007