One on one sessions or small group sessions can be booked by contacting me.

Ron Reznick
(818) 843-8212

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Training sessions and workshops conducted by Ron Reznick are available either locally (in Burbank, CA, near Los Angeles), local to the client(s), or in special venues such as National Parks, gardens, etc. Training is available for acquisition and image processing techniques, either as one-on-one sessions or in multiple-client workshops. Sessions can be single-day or multi-day and will cover numerous aspects of photographic technique, lens selection, and decision making processes during acquisition as well as techniques for extracting the utmost during the processing phase.
 
Photo by Geoffrey Moon, taken early one morning during a training session in Yosemite

“Assuming that there is acquisition training planned, we discuss what we are going to be doing in detail prior to the shoot, I answer questions, describe situations and how to prepare for and take rapid advantage of opportunities, discuss technique, and generally get the client ready for what we are going to do. Then we go out and shoot... I take the client through various situations, shooting in parallel with them, and describing exactly what I am doing and why I am doing it. I watch what they do, correct them as necessary, show them how to "see" a shot both before they take it and while framing, and discuss and demonstrate various options for taking various sorts of shots in different conditions and why you would choose one presentation or technique over another. I put the client into as many different situations as possible within the shooting venue so they get as much out of the acquisition phase as is possible.
 

Once we have completed the acquisition phase, we discuss what we did (to make it stick), and go through a question and answer session based on the new knowledge gained while traveling back to base for the processing phase. We transfer and batch-process the files, and I show the client how I select images for final processing. We then go through the processing phase in great detail. I teach the client how to read a Histogram, the processing workflow, how to make rapid decisions and how to process in a consistent, repeatable manner based on the needs of the particular shot as shown by the image itself and the Histogram. If necessary, I show the client how to set up their monitor and software so they can trust what they are seeing.

By the time we are done the client can read a Histogram as well as an image, knows how to make corrections for White Balance, EV, individual channel levels and gamma, and how to apply USM in an extremely rapid and consistent manner, and will have the workflow down pat so a typical image can be processed in a very short time depending on the complexity of the image. This speed will of course increase with practice until you find that you can work very complex images in a minute or less (some very complex images may take as long as two or three minutes to process properly, but most can be done in under a minute once you are good at seeing what has to be done and applying the techniques rapidly).”

One-on-one sessions (local to the LA area or in special-venues)
are scheduled around and tailored directly to the needs of the client.

Group-sessions can be scheduled in any area (optimum size is 7-9 per session).
Costs are determined by day-rate plus expenses divided by the number of people.

 

For further information:

contact:   Ron Reznick
tel.:      (818) 843-8212
 

 


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