New location, new name, same phone number!

New name, new location, new look… same personalized service and attention to detail!

Now located at 224 Kamehameha Ave., suite 104 (Entrance on Haili Street!).

New hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm.

New email address: gallery@HiloFineArt

Same old phone number: 808-966-9995.

Exibit runs through Dec. 17, 2011

Keaau Fine Art Center in association with idspace and HiArtMagazine invite you to the opening reception of Loops, a collection of photographs by Andrzej Kramarz on Saturday, November 12 from 1-4 pm. Exhibit runs through December 17, 2011.

Keaau Fine Art Center Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-5:30pm, Saturday 9-Noon

Handmade from koa, mango, mac nut and more!

Special introductory price on beautifully handcrafted hardwood pens & pencils! Now available at Keaau Fine Art Center from $25-$35.

Koa, mango, mac nut and more  in slim, medium and manly-man designs. There’s something for everyone! Stop by and take a look.

We’re open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5:30pm and Saturday 9am-Noon.

Rod used Keaau Fine Art Center to print his 2010 Wahine O’ Hula and 2011 Kane O’ Hula posters for the side of the float. They looked great and he even put a sign on the back of the float giving KFAC a plug!

The paintings were commissioned for Merrie Monarch and are phenomenal in capturing the feeling of Hula here on the Big Island. Way to go Rod!

Read more about Rod and see his work at Fine Art America.

A few weeks ago Dewitt Jones was here at KFAC giving a seminar called “See the Light!”. Dewitt was an award-winning film producer and National Geographic photographer for over 20 years. What intrigues him these days is enjoying the photographic process and just having fun with it! His vast portfolio contains some images taken and produced with only an iPhone 4, and they definitely show that the possibilities for iPhone photography are nearly endless.

So, we would like to share some of the Apps Dewitt uses to composite, mask, crop, optimize, retouch and apply artistic effects to images, all done right on the iPhone! The Apps are a great value, most ranging in price from free to $3.99. For a $30 investment you can have plenty of cool Apps to work with.

Photogene	PhotoForge	Pic Grunger	Brackett Mode	ShockMyPic
iDroste	PhotoArtista – Oil	PhotoStudio	PhotoCopier	Photo Tropedelic
Burst Mode	Touch Retouch	Slow Shutter	Filterstorm	Slideshow Builder

Would you like to learn how to get great lighting on a budget?

Then this 2-day workshop is for you!

Dave Montizambert has been teaching photography and lighting for many years and, as a practicing photographer through it all, he places top priority on lighting quality and efficiency. In the end, it’s all about the light and the more you learn about lighting, the more you too can have predictable results!

Saturday & Sunday, March 26 & 27, 9am – 4pm each day

You will learn:
• Creating dynamic portraits using available light.
• Using mixed lighting – speed-lights (camera flash) with available light.
• Simulating sunlight on cloudy days using one speed-light.
• Creating low-key and high-key lighting.
• Using light to convey mood.
• Mastering metering & lighting ratios.
• Profiling your camera for optimum image color.
• Everything you need to know about color management.
• Speeding up and streamlining your digital workflow.
• Controling and predicting, with absolute accuracy, highlights and shadows for perfect prints every time.
• How to get a perfect exposure in digital.
• Lighting still-life tabletop sets using free or inexpensive lighting from around the house.

Click for more info and sign up…

This Photoshop CS5 tutorial will demonstrate how to change the background in a portrait without losing much detail. I’ll also show you how to achieve that in earlier versions of Photoshop. Before Photoshop CS3, making fine selections was fairly difficult. Refine Edge came to the rescue in CS3 and makes fine selections a snap. Before that there were a few ways to achieve fine selections, the most popular being Channel Masks. First I’ll show you a Channel Mask technique and then I’ll show you Refine Edge for those who have CS3 or later.

You will want to try these techniques using an image with relatively high resolution and good contrast between the subject and background. Pick a new background that has similar lighting qualities and direction. Don’t worry if it’s in focus, you can always apply a Gaussian Blur Filter to make it look out of focus. In this tutorial I have used a portrait taken in the studio and a background taken outdoors which may not be the most ideal combination but illustrates the technique well enough.

Click the links below for the tutorials. Use the Forward and Back controls on the lower right or use your Left and Right Arrow keys.

Channel Mask

Refine Edge

Be inspired by a master who has spent a lifetime telling stories through his photographs. Dewitt Jones has lots of them from his years with National Geographic and he’d love to share them with you! He’s a wonderful keynote speaker, inspiring photographers worldwide.

On top of that, would you like to hear what a renowned photographer thinks of your image?

Then sign up for this seminar and you’ll get exactly that – PLUS — you’ll also get a beautiful 20 x 30 print of your image to take home. Dewitt will critique your image and the images of other attendees in the afternoon session. The entire day plus your print and critique are just $99.

Don’t want a print and critique? No problem. You can attend the morning keynote and sit in on the afternoon critiques for only $49.

Click here for more info and sign up >>