Photography & Photoshop Classes for Artists & Craftspeople in 2018, Multiple Location

Does your camera speak a foreign language you don’t understand? Do you struggle with how to light and photograph your art to showcase its beauty and craftsmanship? In these classes you will learn the secrets of how to shoot your glass, jewelry, beads, and crafts with the Official Photographer for the 2017 & 18 Glass Vegas Show. Leave these classes feeling empowered to create photos as beautiful as the art you are photographing.

Photography Classes
Come learn the secrets of how to shoot your art glass, functional glass, jewelry, beads, metal clay, and wood with a professional photographer and glass artist. See what aspects make for a high quality photograph. Learn the language of studio photography, the 9 parameters of successful photos and how to produce them. We’ll cover basic photography, the qualities of good lighting, composition, background materials, and how to set your camera's menus. Students will photograph their own pieces during class at instructor provided lighting stations.

Photoshop Classes
Students will learn to process, color correct and crop their photos of jewelry, glass beads, and other art objects using Photoshop CS5 and Elements 11 with an experienced professional photographer and glass artist. Exposure level optimizing, background removal, color balancing, print and online file formats will be covered. See how to extract objects from backgrounds, add new backgrounds, create photo realistic shadows and more. Students will learn how to create color accurate files of their art for use on their website, Etsy in magazine articles, books, portfolios and for juried competitions. Plus, how to purchase recent versions of Photoshop at far less than the full retail price.

Artists and craftspeople working in glass, metal clay, jewelry, beads, woodturning, ceramics, and all other genres are welcome to attend. Learning to set your camera and how to properly light your object is universal to everyone. Over 630 people have attended these classes across the US since 2011.

Doug Baldwin is a professional product photographer with 30+ years of experience. He has taught photography classes at the Art Center College of Design, the Art Institute of Phoenix, sold out Photography and Photoshop classes at the Bead and Button Show, the Glass Craft & Bead Expo, the ISGB Gathering, the Sonoran Glass School, the Tucson Bead Show, Blue Moon Glass (Austin), Ed Hoy's Glass, and at the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona.

Doug is also a flameworker and has taken classes with Bandhu Dunham, Dolly Ahles-Palmer, Laurie Nessel, Kim Osibin and Andy Pollack.


January 27-Feb. 3, 2018
Multiple single-day Photography & Photoshop classes
Colors of the Stone Show (previously the Tucson Bead Show)
Casino Del Resort, 5655 W. Valencia Rd., Tucson, AZ
To register and purchase seats: dougbaldwinphoto.com/tucsonbeadshow.html

March 15-18, 2018
Two single day Photography classes
Bead Fest Texas
Sheraton Arlington Hotel
Arlington, Texas
For details and to register: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/289216

April 6 & 7, 2018
Two single day Photography classes
Glass Craft & Bead Expo
South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa
9777 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, Nevada
For details and to register: https://www.glasscraftexpo.com

Nice pics!
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Amazing