Digital Photography Workshop Announcement

Flyer for digital photography workshop

Sew What Forum

Saturday, April 27th - 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (AZ time)

Portal Rescue Classroom

Speaker: Bruce Thompson, Photographer

With the popularity of inexpensive digital cameras and the ability to easily capture images of the world around us, photography remains a popular activity.  But what makes an interesting photograph?  Professional photographers routinely make interesting and captivating images but this is not about professional photography it is about the rest of us who are exploring the world as we see it and capturing images that reflect our perception.

The goal of the workshop is to explore the idea of “how people see” from an individual and personal perspective.  While the biology of vision is the same in all humans, the neural processing of those images differs between people. In other words, what I like you may not like and vice versa, so what do people like?

The workshop will cover:

1.  Composition 

Location or viewpoint

Scale 

  Single images

The little picture and mid scale picture

The outside is just as important as the inside

The edges of your scene

Don’t just stick it in the middle

  Multi image panoramas

The big picture - How to digitally make a panorama

Drawing the viewer into your photograph

2.  Image processing (Photoshop is not a bad word)

Software

Photoshop

Gimp

Panorama software

Image processing

The color curve

Saturation

Levels and contrast

Depth

Desaturation (old school)

Tilt shift

3.  Online image storage

  Places to store and show off your work

Storage sites

How to get your work indexed on the web

Renaming files

Alt tags and descriptions

Participants should bring their personal digital camera, laptop/tablet/paper and pencil for notes and references.  We will make 3 images together from the Portal Rescue Station as demonstration pieces and I will show the processing steps discussed.

Bruce Thompson uses the online nom de plume of “BAlvarius” for his online photography and currently manages the Painted Pony Resort outside Rodeo NM.  A Biologist by training, molecular geneticist by trade, pilot by avocation, and estate manager by necessity he was a visitor to the Chiricahua Mountains starting in the late 1980’s.  Becoming a permanent resident at the end of 2006 specializing in low level aerial photography and videography, his photographic interests center on landscape photography.