Learn From The Experts - Mastering Infrared Image Editing

Who is this course for?

This is a high­ly inter­ac­tive, small-group course built around your images. You will work on your own files dur­ing guid­ed edit­ing ses­sions and see live demon­stra­tions using a range of images and approaches.

You will see how expe­ri­enced pho­tog­ra­phers think through edit­ing decisions.

You will explore dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions of the same file, and why they work differently.

You will receive con­struc­tive, thought­ful feed­back in a sup­port­ive environment.

Groups are delib­er­ate­ly kept small to allow time for dis­cus­sion, reflec­tion and indi­vid­ual attention.

What you will learn

This work­shop is about chang­ing your mind on how you see the world enabling you to see beau­ty in infrared tones of grey and show­ing you ways to express your vision of black and white infrared. Even if you have been explor­ing black and white infrared before, we want you to delve deep­er into the soul of the pho­tog­ra­ph­er and free up new ways of mak­ing cre­ative images using this unique medi­um. It is this expres­sion of vision and cre­ativ­i­ty that we will explore dur­ing our time together.

A sup­port­ive and inspir­ing environment

This is not a com­pet­i­tive work­shop, nor is it a pas­sive one.

Learn­ing hap­pens best when ques­tions are encour­aged, uncer­tain­ty is dis­cussed, and dif­fer­ent ways of see­ing are respected. 

We will have image reviews and we want you to express your­self in any way you choose and share this with the view­er. We will talk about indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and the way you want your work to look, and it is these skills that we will har­ness to enable you to become and an infrared artist. 

You will be chal­lenged, but nev­er rushed or compared.

The struc­ture of the workshop

The meet­ings will take place between 4pm and 6pm GMT, Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day each week. For each meet­ing we will be shar­ing tech­niques of pro­cess­ing group mem­bers indi­vid­ual images and each ses­sion is record­ed and shared with the group. We will not be able to process every­one’s images dur­ing each ses­sion, so if you are unable to attend, we will process your images dur­ing ses­sions that you can attend.

We will be work­ing with your exist­ing library of images so there is no need to go out and get new images dur­ing this workshop.

Paul Gal­lagher will be with you through­out this work­shop to encour­age and work side by side on your infrared vision, image inter­pre­ta­tion and print mak­ing. This will not be a work­shop that will see the group dash­ing about from one loca­tion to anoth­er, but a work­shop where tak­ing your time to con­tem­plate what you are pho­tograph­ing and con­sid­er how you would want the fin­ished image to look and ​‘feel’ like is imperative. 

Our aim

This course is about help­ing you under­stand your own infrared work more clear­ly, so that your edits sup­port your way of see­ing and pro­duce the best pos­si­ble results.

If you are will­ing to slow down, ques­tion your habits, and engage thought­ful­ly with your images, this course will help you con­tin­ue mov­ing forward.