What my days look like as a consultant

I thought I’d show everyone what my days often look like as a consultant. For 20 years, I’ve traveled around working with people in their studios on issues like color management, workflow, and print quality. A lot of the time this means working on big printers like these. HP Latex printers at New Era PublishingHP Latex printers at New Era Portfolio In addition to common aqueous inkjet printers, I spend a lot of my…


Celebrating 20 Years of Color Management Consulting

20+ years ago I was splitting my time between a job where I was a Leaf45 scanner operator and an apprenticeship with a master printmaker. In the printmaking studio we were making large digital negatives on an imagesetter and using them to make hand-coated platinum/palladium prints in a wet darkroom. Back then everyone was using Photoshop 2 and had CRT monitors. While the color scans coming off the Leaf45 seemed pretty decent after a little color correction in curves, I was frustrated with how different the handmade B&W platinum palladium prints looked in comparison to the same images…


Night Photography Workshop in Mono Lake and Bodie Ghost Town

July 31st-August 3rd, in Eastern California with Scott Martin and Lance Keimig Schedule: July 31st - Optional Lightroom 5 Class in Lee Vining August 1st - Tioga Pass or Mono Lake August 2nd and 3rd - Bodie Ghost Town Steve's Rock by Scott Martin Tioga Pass, Mono Lake and Bodie ghost town are not only some of our favorite locations that we've been making images in for decades, we've also been leading night photography workshops here for the past ten years. We think you'll find Mono…