Chris Alvanas

BIO Chris is the Director of Photography at CDIA's Washington DC Campus. He is a digital photographer, Photoshop maven and a sought-after postproduction artist for high-end beauty retouching. As a photographer, Chris is known for his commercial quirky kids’ images. His fine art delves into the worlds of jazz and dance by illustrating the musician’s relationship with the instrument, as well as the motion of dance. Chris’s images have appeared in Nikon World, Popular Photography, Nikon Product Guide, the Nikon Pro website, and in the 2007 and 2008 Nikon calendars. His clients include Nikon, Kodak, Procter & Gamble, Safilo Eyewear-Italy, Armadani Jewelers, Bob’s Store, Samsonite, Newport International Polo, American Photo, Popular Photography, Rubberball and Getty Images. As a retoucher, Chris is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine and is included in the 2008 Layers Magazine best of the year compilation DVD. He is currently working with Katrin Eismann on the second edition of her book Compositing and Masking. Chris is a member of the Nikon Mentor Series and has taught photo treks in New York City, Boston, Newport, Arches National Park and China (2008). He has presented at Photo Plus Expo, New York and PMA 2008 for Nikon. http://chrisalvanas.blogspot.com/

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CDIA Instructor Vincent Ricardel makes the Grade

June 30, 2010 Our own CDIA Instructor, Vincent Ricardel, made the front page of the Washingtonian magazine. All you can say is “of course…” Way to go Vincent.[...]

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FINALLY! 3D

April 28, 2010 In the following 2 tutorials, I will show you one of many ways we can make an image 3D. I want to mention how[.....]

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CDIA Washington Announces The DC Salon Group

April 21, 2010 CDIA’s Georgetown campus is starting a salon group that will consist of working photographers who will meet monthly to review digital portfolios from students and[.....]

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Image Manipulation

December 2, 2009 December 2, 2009 With all of the hoopla recently about placing blame on image manipulation I thought it necessary to show one side of[.....]

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FotoWeekDC

November 3, 2009 November 3, 2009 ‘Night Visions’ Exhibition Pulls All-Nighter for Area Photographers, Offering Guaranteed Georgetown Display 


Drawing on the huge success of last year’s inaugural celebration[.....]

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HDR is Here to Stay

July 20, 2009 July 20, 2009 You can drive a nail into a board with a baseball bat, but the bat will never be a hammer. HDR[.....]

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Photos from the G10

July 16, 2009 July 16, 2009 Check out the photos taken with the G10 – these images are certainly a step up from the previous iPhone images[.....]