Summer, 2014
Volume 7, Issue 3

Woodrum-Media - 1619 N. Bowman, Danville, IL 61832
info@woodrum-media.com - http://www/woodrum-media.com - Phone:217.443.4403

Time to Sign Up for DACC’s Photography Tour to Southern Illinois

Danville Area Community is sponsoring a photo excursion to Southern Illinois with Les Woodrum as your guide.

The trip is scheduled for October 21-23, 2014.

Come explore scenic Southern Illinois during the peak of the fall foliage color season with photographer Les Woodrum. The trip will include nightly classes and critiques of that day’s photo shoots.

Transportation, lodging and instruction fees are included in the price of the class. Cost of meals are extra. This photo opportunity is only $300.00 per participant.

Les Woodrum has photographed Southern Illinois since 1976. Early in his career, he was the scientific research photographer for The Illinois Natural History Survey, at which, part of his job was to document in photographs the natural beauty of all scenic areas of Illinois. Les spent many months in Southern Illinois photographing the many wonders. The tour will lead you to both the popular spots that people love to photograph, plus many lessor-known sights that only the “locals” know about.

For questions about this photo tour, contact Les Woodrum at
lesw@woodrum-media.com. To sign up, Call the DACC Community Education Department at 217-554-1668 or 217-554-1667

Photography "THE BASICS"
This course of study introduces the student to: The use and handling of 35mm as well as digital cameras; a working knowledge of film and digital imaging; the basic elements of a photograph; an understanding of lighting, both natural and artificial (flash); basic portrait lighting and posing; and the care, storage, and display of printed photographs as well as digital images.
Requirements: 35 mm camera and/or digital camera.
Class Schedule - Tuesday nights 6-8:00pm,
September 2 through October 28
 At the DACC Village Mall Office

Digital Photography
Traditional film is almost a thing of the past. This workshop will emphasize digital photography techniques, explain digital photography terms, camera operations and settings, basic photo manipulations, and file management of digital images.
Class Schedule - Thursday nights 6-8:00pm,
September 4-25
At the DACC Village Mall Office

PHOTOSHOP CS
This class will introduce you to the basics of working with Photoshop CS for retouching photographic images. Students will be able to use techniques for selecting images in order to edit and retouch images, and prepare images for inclusion in a website or for printed documents. Students will be able to edit images using the painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools, and they will be able to create new images using the pen tool and the drawing and painting tools. Participants will be able to create and edit images using layers and make photo composites and montages.
Class Schedule- Thursday nights 6-8:00pm,
October 2-30
At the DACC Village Mall Office

Adobe Lightroom

New Class offered at DACC

Les Woodrum recently completed Adobe certified training in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software and will offer a class at DACC this fall. Lightroom provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments to cutting-edge advanced controls. Create images that inspire, inform, and delight. Lightroom is becoming the photographer’s choice program in sorting and cataloging their photo collections. Besides cataloging and editing your photos, there are many retouching and photo manipulations that can be performed with this rather inexpensive program.

Class Schedule - Tuesday nights 6-8:00pm,
November 4 through December 2
At the DACC Village Mall Office

Photoshop Elements 10.0
Photoshop Elements is a program that comes with many new digital cameras and scanners. It can perform many of the functions that the more expensive Photoshop CS5 or CS6 can do, but is more user friendly to amateur artists and photographers. The class will teach how to view and organize, fix, and enhance photos, and produce photo creations and composites.
Class Schedule - Thursday nights - 6-8:00pm,
November 6 through December 4
At the DACC Village Mall Office

Now Offering Digital Prints on Canvas

The digital photo lab of Woodrum-media is now offering giclee quality digital Canvas Prints. We can produce digital prints on wood stretcher frames up to 20” x 30”.

Canvas print prices:

Size Unmounted Stretcher Frame 8x10 or smaller 9.00 12.00 11x14 12.00 16.00 16x20 24.00 32.00 20x24 45.00 60.00 20x30 60.00 90.00

There is a discount for additional prints from the same file. Lab turn-around time is two working days for unmounted prints and three working days for prints mounted on stretcher fames.

Another service you should be aware of is scanning services from photo negatives and transparencies. This service has really picked up in the last few months. We can scan your old negatives or slides and give you files you can print on your own computer, or you can utilize Woodrum-media to make your prints. Photoshop restoration work costs extra.

For a complete lab price list, go to Custom Lab Services - http://www.woodrum-media.com/lab%20brochure.pdf

What Workshop do You Want?

Every year, I try to offer a photography workshop that you want. The most popular workshops in recent years have been one of the following:

• A One-Day Studio Portrait Workshop
• A Two-Day Traditional Black and White Darkroom Workshop
• A One-Day Photo Tour of Western Indiana

Let me know what you would like me to offer, and I will try to set up the most requested workshop for this fall.

Upcoming Exhibits

Les will again be exhibiting photos at the annual Salt Fork River Arts Festival at Sleepy Creek Winery September 27-28.

The Salt Fork Show is always a good time to buy Leslie A. Woodrum art prints. Since this show is at the end of the outdoor art fair season, I will have most prints on sale for at least 25% off.

There are two locations currently in Danville that you can also view photos by Les Woodrum. The recently opened Mad Goat Coffee Shop has two photos on display (they had three but they sold one). The Mad Goat Coffee Shop is located at 2601 N. Vermilion. It is just north of the Custard Cup.

Also, the DACC Village Mall office has over 30 photos hanging on its walls. The DACC Mall office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Brochures available On-Line

Just a reminder that all of the Woodrum Media brochures can be found on-line in PDF form. There are brochures available describing our services available:

• Commercial Photo Services - http://www.woodrum-media.com/images/commercial.pdf
• Portraits - http://www.woodrum-media.com/portrait%20brochure.pdf
• Weddings - http://www.woodrum-media.com/wedding%20brochure.pdf
• Custom Lab Services - http://www.woodrum-media.com/lab%20brochure.pdf

Sales Web Site Coming Soon

I am currently in the process of setting up a web site to sell not only my photographs on-line but other local artists too. If you are interested in this sales opportunity, please contact me at lesw@woodrum-media.com. I have a target date of November 1st to go live with this web site.

Photo of the Quarter

Dick Cunningham at Williamsport Waterfalls – © 2014

I have known the Cunningham brothers for over 40 years. I worked for Bill at Cunningham Photo back in 1977-78. I first met Dick right after he moved to Breckinridge, Co. around 1977. Dick has been a mentor and inspiration for me since my early days of printing his fantastic art prints back in the 70’s. Until recently, Dick did all of my color film processing and large format printing at his photo lab in Naples, FL. I had a recent opportunity to show Dick around to local Illiana scenic sites. I took him to the Williamsport Waterfall, the Potholes, and Portland Arch. I look forward to the opportunity to show him more hidden treasures of the Illiana area.
Camera – Canon T1-i w/10-22mm lens
Exposure – f/22 at 1/13 sec. at 1600 ISO