Michael Pliskin

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Michael Pliskin began his professional photojournalism career at age sixteen. His photography has been published in newspapers, books, magazines and annual reports in the United States and Europe, and on many concert movie DVDs, including "Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire: Live at the Greek" and "Last of the Breed" with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and others.Michael worked for Nikon for twelve years as a technical advisor in photography and digital imaging at the dawn of digital imaging era. He was also Technical Editor on several books on Nikon film cameras, including B. Moose Peterson's popular "Nikon System Handbook." Michael Pliskin authored the book Digital Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom 3 and teaches Digital Imaging, Photoshop, and Lightroom workshops, introducing digital photographers to the wonders and ease of editing RAW photography. Michael Pliskin has a BFA in Photography and Design from California Institute of the Arts. He is a member of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), ATX (Adobe Technology Exchange) and ISAP (International Society of Aviation Photographers).