Redgum Roots, Murray River 2002
Type C Print, 126 cm x 126 cm

Saturday August 28th – Digital Printing Masterclass

'Digital Printing Masterclass' with Tim Handfield offers a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes of Australia's leading fine art photographic lab and to discover how to get more from your digital prints than you would have ever thought possible. This is an interactive workshop to be held within the Colour Factory's digital production facilites where Tim will work with workshop participants to take a selection of his own digital camera RAW files from their original state through to finished exhibition prints using both pigment inkjet and photographic processes.

Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Workshop Details
Date           Saturday 28th August, 2010
Time          10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Location     Colour Factory, 409-429 Gore Street, Fitzroy VIC, 3065.
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Price          $175.00 (inc GST)

Download Booking Form (PDF 76KB)
Or call Linsey at the Colour Factory on (03) 9419 8756 to make your booking by phone.

Workshop Overview
‘Digital Printing Masterclass’ is a hands-on printing workshop that reveals how to get the very best results in digital printing using the latest pigment ink jet or photographic (C Type) printing technology.

As a true masterclass, this is an experiential workshop rather than a lecture. The workshop leader Tim Handfield and the workshop participants will review a selection of images and jointly make decisions about how they are to be printed. Tim will demonstrate how those aesthetic decisions can be carried out using RAW processing software and advanced Photoshop techniques. Through the day the selected images will progress from: on screen representation, to print tests and through to finished exhibition prints. All steps will be demonstrated, explained and discussed with the workshop participants. Participants will then have the opportunity to view and critique the finished prints, and discuss how they might apply the day’s insights in their own work.

Who Should Attend?
'Digital Printing Masterclass' is equally relevant for technically minded photographers who produce their own prints, or photographers who prefer to work with technical professionals such as the Colour Factory staff to produce prints for them. The content of the workshop is as much about the conceptual and aesthetic aspects of digital printing as it is about the technical.

ABOUT TIM HANDFIELD
Tim is a fine art photographer of thirty years experience, with nineteen years in digital photography. He has many years of experience in both analogue and digital printing as the founder of The Colour Factory, which he managed from 1980 to 1992.
In these digital photography workshops, Tim draws on his experience to enable participants to gain new insights and develop their skills in digital photography and image processing to produce superb print ready files.
Tim’s work has been exhibited widely and is represented in many public and private collections, including:
::   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
::   National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
::   Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA
::   Australian Parliament House Collection, Canberra ACT
::   Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC