About the event
This session is designed to help you improve your photos. We'll guide you through techniques that will have your images:
- Stun your friends and social media
- Stand out in your own photo book
- For image printing
- Or perhaps even to run your own exhibition or enter competitions (such as the Sony Alpha Awards).
It is wonderful to have friends and family compliment you on your photographs. Learn the five key tips to create dramatic images: Subject, Composition, Simplicity, Light, and Story.
Robert Dettman (accredited judge) and Colin J. Pearce (competition administrator for the South Australian Photographic Federation) will be giving constructive feedback on how to improve your photos.
We will be meeting online, using the very popular Zoom meeting software. Before the meeting, if you haven't already, please go to the below Zoom website and sign up (using the big orange "Sign Up free" button). Please use your actual name (so we know who you are).
Then download the "Zoom Client for Meetings" from:
www.zoom.us/download
If you need help installing Zoom on your computer or phone, before the meeting please phone Colin on 0408-4-COLIN (0408-4-26546).
If you would like your photos to be reviewed, submit anonymously, or just join the meeting and learn from seeing feedback on other people's photos. This can improve your eye for photography in ways you will not expect.
Upload up to 12 of your photos in JPEG or (where possible) the original RAW format as well by 11pm on Wednesday 6th May to:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/mSsz1opNiRiJ98zWdPSr
In some instances we may show you how to adjust photos in Lightroom or Photoshop (if you use other software, the principles should be similar).
This session may also be useful if you want help choosing which photos to edit, or making any adjustments to images that you may want to submit in the Sony Alpha Awards competition, which closes on Sunday 24th May. Entries are via the Sony website at:
www.sony.com.au/alphaawards
Robert Dettman obtained his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide. Robert conducts architectural photography workshops, is a speaker/presenter on photographic subjects and is an accredited photography judge. He has held management positions in the Australian Photographic Society, the South Australian Photographic Federation and Eastern Suburbs Camera Club. He has won numerous international awards for his photography.
Colin J. Pearce has been the competition administrator for the SAPF Annual Exhibition/Competition for the last five years. He is the immediate past president and former competition secretary of the Port Adelaide Camera Club. Currently Colin is a Sony Digital Imaging Advocate.
Techniques covered
- Improve your photos via Subject. Composition. Simplicity. Light. Story.
What to bring
- Zoom meeting software on your computer, phone or tablet.
- Preferably submit some of your photos to the Dropbox link listed above by Wednesday 6th May.
