Pre-tax total cost of workshop: $1,825 (includes $25 registration fee), 30% deposit: $547.50
Dates: Tuesday, September 15 – Saturday, September 19, 2026 (9am – 4pm)
Location: Art School, 15 NW Birch St, Coupeville
Materials: N/A
Skill Level: All levels are welcome

From Capture to Print and all the steps in between

Join photographer and digital pioneer Jeff Schewe for five days of shooting, processing, and printing to teach you the steps for producing a truly outstanding final fine art print.

Feed your passion, hone your craft and have fun being a photographer!

Whidbey Island is a photographer’s paradise so you’ll have plenty to see and shoot where Jeff will teach you the importance of his four-step workflow.

SEE, SHOOT, FIND & FINISH!

SEE: The seeing part may seem obvious, but you need to know how to look and see what is being offered. You never know when you’ll find a photograph that is begging to be made. Part of seeing is keeping your head on a swivel and watching your surroundings while rooting around until you find something worth pressing the shutter. Whether you’re in an exotic location or in your own backyard, there are photographs to be made.

SHOOT: Again, it’s obvious that in order to make a photograph, you need to have a camera at the ready so you can press the shutter. You also need to have the experience and the knowledge to bring your skills into play when you shoot. Long lens? Great depth of field? Fast shutter speed or slow? How high an ISO can you really use successfully. In this class, you’ll be bringing all your skills to bear!

FIND: Well, great, you went out and saw some great stuff and you think you got some great captures. How do you decide what is or isn’t worth the effort to spend the time processing them? Whether you use Lightroom, Camera Raw & Bridge or some other app, you still need to learn the quick and easy ways of “selection-editing”, finding the gems in the gravel, so to speak. From the many to the few.

FINISH: Once you’ve found your diamond in the rough, you need to cut and polish it to bring out its beauty. Jeff is an expert at post processing and preparation for print. Heck, he even wrote a couple of books on the subject, The Digital Negative and The Digital Print. You can accomplish most or your heavy lifting in Lightroom or Camera Raw, but you often need to spend some time in Photoshop to use its power and precision. When you’ve optimized your photograph, you’ll then need to prepare it for printing. Soft proofing is the best way to predict what your image will look like when ink hits the paper. Jeff will guide you through the process of perfecting your image and printing it including mastering color management and B&W conversions.

This workshop will include plenty of shooting opportunities and time to edit and process your photographs. Everybody will also have the opportunity to make prints on the school’s Epson Pigment Inkjet printer.

This workshop will be both challenging and productive and importantly, rewarding & fun.

Instructor Bio

Jeff Schewe has been an award-winning photographer in Chicago for over 30 years. He is accomplished in tabletop, location, portraiture and particularly accomplished in computer imaging. Schewe has been a long time alpha and beta tester for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and has been personally responsible for a wide variety of features beneficial to photographers. While retired from active commercial work, he continues to write occasional articles and teach workshops. He has recently turned his focus to fine art photography and has been successful in being included in a variety of national and international fine art photography shows.