Photo education comes in all shapes, sizes and prices these days. I’ll be part of a virtual Photo program at the end of the month. The Summit is only $29 for the day. The good news is you don’t necessarily need to be present to win. Signing up gives you access to view the recordings for 60 days. Here’s the link.
Virtual Photographic Vision Summit
This summit is organized by Hazel Meredith of Meredith Images in Tennessee. She, along with myself and two others, will be the speakers on the 30th of September in a ZOOM presentation.
Speakers and their presentations
Cheryl Belczak, with a background in graphic design and product photography will be focusing on Still Life and Easy At Home Photography.
In this session, she will explore the elements to easily create still life photos at home. From choosing the best light for your subject, finding backgrounds, tabletops, subjects and props, to picking the best camera angles and arranging the scene – there will be a lot of tips, tricks and ideas to make still life at home easy.
Ken Fisher is an Adobe Certified Trainer in Photoshop and Lightroom. His program will involve showing Photoshop Advanced Techniques.
In Ken’s class it’s a deep dive into Advanced Photoshop, but exactly what does Ken mean by advanced? Here’s his explanation in the form of an example: A driving test.
When you take a driving test, it means you have convinced an instructor that you are competent to perform a series of maneuvers safely in your chosen car. Does this make you a safe driver? No, you don’t really start to learn how to drive until after you have passed your test.
Before passing test: Hands on steering wheel at 10 to 2.
After passing test: Window open, elbow on window holding can of coke, steering with one hand and listening to your fave tunes at 120 decibels. In short, over time you develop your own style of driving.
Learning Photoshop is a little like that, only you are driving a computer. First learn the basics, tools and commands and what they do. Then comes the advanced part, putting it all together to complete a project. This is important because a task can often be achieved in many different ways and with different tools. All will get you to the desired end point but some tools will not suit the task at hand.
In this class, Ken plans to show you how to drive Photoshop. He will show you how to select the best tool for the job and why, and take your image editing to the next level.
Hazel Meredith is an award-winning photographer and a sought-after teacher, speaker, and competition judge. She began teaching in 2007, and now does seminars at camera clubs and conferences across the U.S., both in-person and virtual. She offers her own workshops and webinars, and has done webinars for several software companies.
Here’s Hazel’s program on Post-Processing with Plug-ins. She will demonstrate some of her favorite plug-ins. Some of them you may have heard of, and a couple you may have not! See how Hazel shows you how to take your favorite images from good to a work of art!
Bob Coates (Hey, that’s me!) is a commercial, nature, fine art photographer and photo educator based in Sedona, Arizona. My program will be on Nature, Landscape and Wildlife from Pre-Capture to Post-Processing.
I’ll be sharing the thought process on how I capture and process Landscapes, Wildlife and Nature images. Starting with the thinking behind gathering images, and the final output the conversation will cover gear used and why. I favor micro four-thirds camera and lens systems of Panasonic and Olympus. However, all techniques shared can be accomplished with any camera system. Camera supports can be of great help when making multiple exposures for panoramic, focus stacking and exposure bracketing image capture.
Who knew that a tripod could help with camera artistry? I’ll be showing how to leverage imaginative uses of Platypod and Fotopro tripod supports. Once images have made it to the sensor, more creativity can be applied using software like Adobe Photoshop, NIK and Luminar, and other filters and techniques. Discussion of possibilities in processing will wrap up this talk followed by any questions you may have.
Hopefully I’ll see you at the Virtual Photographic Vision Summit on September 30th.
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob