Digital Imaging Course

The Aims of the Course

So you want to know how to produce a satisfactory print from your film or digital camera?

The course is aimed primarily for people who want guidance in the control of digital images from the very start. Maybe you have just acquired a digital camera and wish to get successful results from it. Or perhaps you have lots of old prints, negatives or slides and want to know the right way to deal with these in the new world of Digital Imaging. The course will also be useful to people who have been conventional photographers and want to move into the digital domain.
We will not be showing you how to take photographs or how to use a camera be they of the digital or film variety.
This course will show you how to use the Lightroom (formerly a Darkroom!). We will explore how to load photographs into your computer and how to deal with them using Image Manipulating software. We shall be using the Adobe Photoshop Elements [2, 3, 4, 5 and/or 6] to co-ordinate the instructions. This is an interactive course in which you will use supplied images to learn various techniques as outlined in the units. You will then e-mail your results back to us for evaluation. Basic advice on equipment will be given.
The course will consist of an introductory unit and 8 units each covering various aspects of DI. They will be interdependent units so that what you learn in unit 1 will be needed for unit 8 for instance.
The Units
1. Getting Pictures into your computer.
How to save, size, sharpen and print your images. How to e-mail images.
2. The 4 C’s – Cropping, Cleaning, Cloning and Controlling your Image.
3. Essential Picture Correction – the use of Levels for Tonal and Colour Correction.
4. Further Colour Correction Ideas – the use of Colour Variations, Auto Colour Correction, Quick Fix and Hue & Saturation controls
5. Selections. The how and why.
6. Filters, Effects and Painting.
7. Why Layers and Blending Modes? Also putting Words onto your Picture.
8. Having Phun with Photos. Making Cards, Calendars and Montages.



To partake in this course you will need to have the following equipment;
1. A computer with Internet connection – obvious of course! Dial-Up or Broadband is OK. Your computer will need to have Windows 98/ 98SE or 2000 or XP or Vista or even a MAC. You should have a minimum of 16Mb of hard disk space. We think you will need a lot more than this however; say 1000 Mb or 1 Gb of memory.
2. A Printer – photo quality A4 minimum.
3. Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6.
4. Possibly a Scanner. Probably Flatbed scanner is sufficient.
Please take some time to read advice on buying computers, peripherals and software on the LINK below.
By kind permission the U3A (University of the Third Age) has agreed to allow us to run this course. The course is based on one written by us for the U3A.
If you join our course we are sure that you will enjoy it and will learn a lot. It will be great fun too!
The modest charge to take part on this course will go into the Club funds.
Ask Peter Read for further details.

Leonie's Baby

I have finally made a small gallery devoted to Leonie Maclay's baby born last year. Have a look HERE

Archives

I have just started a section that preserves some of the Club's archives. There are pictures of members from the past and a selection of old programmes and Exhibition catalogues.

Take a look [click on this link] and ask if you want to see more.
Peter

Honoured by the SPF

Both Sheila and Peter Read were honoured on Friday 4th January 2008 at the opening of the SPF Exhibition at our Library.
Besides Sheila getting a Highly Commended for Dahlia Dance and Peter getting Third Place for his monochrome print Train at Chama they were also presented with the SPF Roll of Honour. This was a total surprise to them both but they suspect that Tony and Richard may know something about how it was organised.

Presenting the awards is Ian Bigg President of the SPF who was also given the Roll of Honour again much to his surprise and delight.

The two photographs mentioned can be seen on the 29th November 2007 news item below here.

Success for two members in the SPF Exhibition

Sheila and Peter Read have both had success in the forthcoming Southern Photographic Federation Exhibition.

Sheila got a Highly Commended for her picture of Dahlia Dance.

Whilst Peter got Third Place for his photograph called Train at Chama. This photograph is also being used in the Viewfinders of Romsey Camera Club entry and for the poster to advertise the exhibition.

New Gallery

See our new Photographic Gallery from recent images of our members.
Click on the link below.

The Great British Cup for Projected Digital Images

At the October 2007 executive meeting the PAGB Executive agreed to host a new competition for Projected Digital Images. The competition is open to all member clubs of PAGB affiliated federations. Download the PDF flyer notice for further information about the closing date and how to enter the competition.

Click to download
PAGB Digital Cup

This is for our whole club to enter. So we shall need at least 8 members offering their images for inclusion. We could use some images from the competition entries of the 26th November possibly. So this competition would be a good introduction to this sort of photography. But the exact image specification will not be known until after 1st November.

Club what do you think? Add comments here.

STUDIO PORTRAIT LIGHTING

Fiona Alison FRPS FMPA FBIPP is starting a series of Portrait Lighting Workshops aimed at photographers with little or no experience. The one day courses will be held at a venue in the Ringwood area. It will concentrate on the production of high quality work with the minimum of equipment. It is suitable for those aiming to produce portraiture of a professional standard.

Learn the basic groundwork on which to build and improve.

Fiona is currently President of The Master Photographers Association.

Fee £95
More detail can be obtained from 01425 471 489

Sheila gets a Gold Award again!

This photograph is Sheila Reads. With this image she has just won a Circle Gold award within DI5 circle of the UPP [United Photographic Postfolios] for 2007.


Sheila also won this award last year with Astrantia Scattered. This can be seen along with many other images on their web site [click link below]

She also won a higher award 2 years ago with Dancing Dahlia getting the Ralph Couchman Memorial Trophy 2005. This was a silver salver.

Geograph

You may be interested in the following web site that aims to get photos of every grid square in the UK.
If you look at the link below you will see the square that Richard lives within and the current photos taken there. Not many of any quality. Why not add some better ones of your own?
Peter

THE OPEN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Dear Photographic Society representative,


THE OPEN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

This email is directed to you because your name was found on your local photographic society's website. Should you no longer be in your photographic club role, I should be most grateful if you would please forward the message to the appropriate person.

I am sending this message to let the members of your club know about the recent launch of the Open Photographic Society (OPS) - a free, non-profit-making, on-line photographic society which offers numerous free services. OPS offers:
masses of information on all aspects of photography;
on-line evaluation of images to help win competitions;
a programme of photographic book publishing for amateur photographers;
an annual on-line photographic exhibition;
free photographic discussion forums;
free web-hosting space for personal and specialist image galleries (a small one-off set-up fee applies); and
free web-hosting space for successful distinction galleries.
The new website has already received over half a million hits in its short life, and is attracting interest from all over the English-speaking world.

Please would you be good enough to make this information available to your members. The new website is at openphotographicsociety.org (with the usual prefixes) and links to your own club site can be incorporated upon request.

Regards,

Rod Macmillan FRPS FRGS

President of OPS

CHAIRMAN’S BULLETIN

CHAIRMAN’S BULLETIN
Dear member, this is just a brief note to let you know of significant changes to our club for the forthcoming season.

On Saturday 11th August, our treasurer received a letter from the management of the deaf centre, informing the club that we could no longer use the centre as a venue for our meetings.

As you can imagine, with just over three weeks to the start of the new season, and a fully booked programme, this caused the committee considerable concern.
However you will be relieved to know that following a committee meeting and some hard work by all concerned, we have managed to secure a new venue for 2007/2008.
From Sept 3rd our meetings will be held at Harnham Free Church ( location map on our site - see Venue). This is an excellent venue, providing a good level of accommodation and facilities (including a motorised projection screen!) We will have the venue to ourselves most meetings, with the exception of one Monday a month when an adjacent meeting room (well divided), will be used for a prayer meeting. This I am sure we can accept, when you realise that two other possible venues co-hosted Square dancing and Martial Arts in adjoining rooms!
I look forward to seeing you all at our new venue. There will undoubtedly be some teething problems, but please work with us to overcome these. I would also ask that you show consideration to the residents in the vicinity of the church (especially regarding parking).

If you have any queries please contact any of your committee, I look forward to seeing you all at our first meeting on 3rd Sept.

Tony Oliver, SCC Chairman 21.08.07

Salisbury Camera Club

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You can ask technical questions about photography and digital imaging.
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