On April 30, 2013, Co-Vice President of Competition, Mike Kane, will present an overview of basic printing techniques for color and black & white printing. Ansel Adams was has been quoted as saying: “The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” Mike firmly believes that the photographic print is one of the critical measures and demonstrations of the skills and affection for the photographic art form of every practicing photographer.

Using Adobe Lightroom 4 and Adobe Photoshop CS6, Mike will walk through his workflow process for preparing an image for printing and all the steps and considerations one must resolve in order to produce a high quality photographic print. He will also discuss paper selection, mat selection and final print presentation.

Mike is retired from his first career as the Director of Parks for Fairfax County, then two years ago he completed a one year professional photography program at the Washington School of Photography where he graduated with honors. He is now a practicing professional photographer and photography instructor. He specializes in fine art photography in focusing on landscape and nature. He has a number of his images in private collections. He recently opened a studio and instructing facility in the Capital Art Network facility in Rockville, Maryland.