Practical Evening 4 – “Shoot to Show” with Larry & Paul

Shoot to Show Practical EveningComputer Software is now an almost essential part of the serious photographer’s workflow. Those of us, who cut our teeth on early versions of Photoshop, followed its progression upwards through successive versions and then laterally into Lightroom, will find much of interest in Adobe’s latest offering Elements 10. This now incorporates their Photoshop Layers palette, missing from Lightroom which, however, allows transfer across for further editing in Photoshop from within.

To put together a start to finish workflow presentation that combined pre-made and live “hands on” processing across both these two platforms was undoubtedly a challenge. Paul Tucker and Larry Darby were

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Posted at 7am on 01/26/12 | No Comments » | Filed Under: Meeting, News, Presentation, Programme, Workshop

Club Challenge Three – SUBJECT “Reflections” – January 17th 2012

Club Challenge - ReflectionsGiven the task of presenting this “open forum” critique, I felt that we had best start by explaining to our many newer members its format and objectives. How did a “Club Challenge” with a set subject of “Reflections” differ from the previous week’s Competition, with set subject “Low Light”? The answer not being immediately obvious to me, who as Chairman is supposed to know these things, I decided to open with a very short Powerpoint presentation. Creating it would give me the chance to gather my thoughts and offer a considered opinion. They say “ if you want to learn, teach ”!

So how

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Posted at 10pm on 01/20/12 | No Comments » | Filed Under: Challenge, Meeting, News, Presentation, Programme