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Doug SteakleyTwo large-format books featuring his color photography have been published: Pacific Light, Images of The Monterey Peninsula, in 2000, and Big Sur and Beyond, The Legacy of The Big Sur Land Trust, in 2001. Pacific Light won an Honorable Mention from the National Outdoor Book Awards in 2001. A third book, A Photographer’s Guide To The California Coast, was published in 2005, by Countryman Press. Doug is currently working on a fourth book, A Photographer's Guide To The Big Sur Coast, which will be released in 2010.
Photographs by Doug Steakley have received awards in many photography contests including those sponsored by National Geographic Traveler magazine, Petersen’s Photographic magazine and The National Park Service. He recently won a two week safari to Africa as the Grand Prize Winner in a photography contest co-sponsored by National Geographic and Energizer batteries.
Doug supports and works closely with several land conservation groups and a variety of his images have been published in annual reports and a variety of other publications. He has worked with The Big Sur Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, The Land Trust Alliance, The Trust For Public Land, The Wilderness Coalition, The Tuolumne River Trust and The Monterey County Regional Park District. In 2003, he received the Ansel Adams Award from The Sierra Club for his conservation photography.
His images have been widely published in many local, national and international magazines including Architectural Digest, Backpacker, Outside, Better Homes and Gardens, Art and Antiques, Private Pilot, Luxury Living, The Robb Report, and Town and Country. He regularly contributes to travel catalogs published by Wilderness Travel, Mountain Travel and others.
Recent one-person exhibitions of Doug's photography include The Pacific Grove Art Center, The Fireside Gallery at the Highlands Inn, The Monterey Conference Center, The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, The Maureen Doud Gallery in The Sunset Center, and The Gallery at The Blackstone Winery in Gonzales.
Doug's stock photography is represented world-wide by Lonely Planet Images.
Doug currently serves as treasurer on the board of directors of The Center For Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
Aside from photography, Doug is an avid cyclist and recently completed his third Markleeville Death Ride in the Sierras.
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Lesson One - The Basic Selection Tools
Learn how to use the Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools and once a selection is made, changes can be made to the selected area such modifying the color or desaturating a portion of the image to black and white. In this class we will cover how to correct a selection to be certain that the selected area is perfect by adding to or subtracting from parts of the selection.
Assignment: Take or find a photograph where two areas are distinctly different in coloration and make a selection of one portion of the photograph. Once this selection is made, experiment with changing the color.
Lesson Two - Changing the Sky
In this lesson you will learn how to change the sky by bringing in a different sky or clouds from a separate image. Once the new sky is in place we will cover how to create and use a Clipping Mask to improve the new sky with Adjustment Tools. We will also cover how to improve the selection so the new sky blends seamlessly with the original image.
Assignment: Use some images that you already have or take new images and replace the sky into two different images.
Lesson Three - Blending Two Images Together
We have all shot in situations where the sky is much brighter than the foreground and a neural density filter cannot solve the problem because something is sticking up into the sky. In this lesson you will learn how to take two or more images and blend them together so the sky and foreground match and the exposure is appropriate for both of them. There are other situations where blending two images can result in a much stronger photograph, such as shooting through a window where the outside light is much brighter than the inside of the room.
Assignment: Take two images where the sky is noticeably lighter than the foreground. Expose one of these images for the foreground and the other for the sky. Then blend them together. Also, shoot an interior of a house or building with a window as part of the photograph. Then take two exposures, one for the interior and one for the scene through the window, and then blend them together.
Lesson Four - Contol Lightness and Darkness in Landscape Images
In this lesson, you will learn how to Lighten by Darkening an image and then use a brush tool to recover or lighten certain areas. Often images are improved dramatically by darkening them with the Multiply Overlay and then selectively bringing back more important portions of the scene. Then you will learn how to use the Lasso Tool to select areas of an image that can be lightened or darkened and how to blend these changes with the Gaussian Blur Filter. These simple but powerful techniques allow you to control how the viewer's eye enters and travels throughout the image, by following the guideline that light attracts and darkness causes parts of an image to recede.
Assignment: Use an existing landscape shot from your collection or take a new landscape image and use the Multiply technique described above to "Lighten by Darkening".
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