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Jim ZuckermanIn 1970, I decided to abort my intended career as a doctor in favor of photography and have never regretted it. Photography has enriched my life more than I can tell you. My career has taken me to over 60 countries, and I've seen and photographed wondrous things.
I specialize in wildlife and nature, international travel, and digital effects. In addition, I also shoot nudes, photo- and electron microscopy, children, and other subjects that stimulate my visual or emotional sensibilities.
For 25 years, I shot a medium format camera, specifically the Mamiya RZ 67, for its superior quality. When I would lecture, I’d project the large, glass mounted transparencies, and it was really an incredible experience to see the brilliant color saturation and resolution of these slides. However, I went digital in 2004 because the technology finally equaled or surpassed medium format. I now shoot the Canon 1Ds Mark II digital camera with a variety of lenses.
I am the author of 12 books on photography. My work is sold in 30 countries around the world, and my images have appeared on scores of magazine and book covers, calendars, posters, national ads, trade ads, brochures, and corporate promotions.
For many years I've led photography tours to exotic places. These include Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Burma, Greece, The Czech Republic and Slovakia, Spain, Morocco, and Peru.
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Week 1. Creating Perspective Planes
Learn to use perspective lines to create space-like images.
Assignment: Draw perspective lines on a star field and suspend an object above the imaginary plane.
Week 2. How to Create a Sketch
Learn to use blend modes out of a portrait, a wildlife shot, a landscape, or architecture.
Assignment: Submit 3 pairs of images showing the before and after comparisons where you convert your original files into artistic sketches.
Week 3. Learn Aspects of 3D
Discover how to create a 3D cube floating above a surface.
Assignment: Submit image show a 3D cube texture mapped with a photo, and make sure you show a drop shadow beneath the cube.
Week 4. Creating an Open-Sided Box
In this lesson, you'll learn how to create an open-ended box that is surfaced, or texture mapped, with photographs. Instead of surrealism, this type of subject enters the realm of fine art and the resulting images can look beautiful framed.
Assignment: Create an open-side cube with a single photo. This could be an end in itself if you like the results, or you could do what I did in placing objects or people inside. There are many directions you could go in using this technique.
Week 5. Replacing the Sky
One of the best things you can do to a photograph to improve it is to replace a white or washed out sky – or simply a boring one – with a sky that is dynamic.
Assignment: Replace the sky, but I want you to do this so you can get it as perfect as possible. I’d like you to upload the before and after photos so we can see the original background.
Week 6. Changing Colors
There are many ways to change the colors in photographs using Photoshop. This lesson covers a unique tool that has a wide range of applications. Once you see how easy it is to use, it will be an important part of your creative arsenal.
Assignment: Submit 3 pairs of images showing the before and after where you made a summer scene look like autumn.
Week 7. Wild Distortion Techniques
Find out how to create unique effects with distortion.
Assignment: Using liquify, change a person's features and their body shape; using Flexify, distort a variety of subjects into total abstractions.
Week 8. Texture Map a Photo onto a Sphere
One of the techniques that has always intrigued me is applying two-dimensional photographs onto three-dimensional objects. We did that with a cube in Lesson 3, but this time the approach - and the end result - will be very different. This lesson will show you how you can texture map a photograph onto a sphere.
Assignment: Create a sphere using any of the procedures described (for Photoshop and Elements), and then be as creative as possible in putting it into another environment or somehow combining it with other pictures.
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