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Image Interpretation and Editing - A New Approach

9th - 11th December, 2024 - with Paul Gallagher FRPS and Michael Pilkington FRPS - Leonardo Hotel Liverpool Albert Dock - £995.00 - Now Booking

Image editing has moved on so much in the last few years that techniques we learned some time ago are now very much outdated. This course explores how editing has changed and how much better it now is.

We believe that the com­ple­tion of the pho­to­graph­ic jour­ney, the process of see­ing the RAW cam­era file through to the fin­ished image, is one that should be a con­sid­ered approach, rather that one of chance. Also, it should be enjoyed! We have been teach­ing image edit­ing for many years but things are now very different. 

As cam­era sen­sors have made huge tech­ni­cal advancements,and along with this, image edit­ing soft­ware is noth­ing like it was even a few years ago, post pro­cess­ing tech­niques have changed vast­ly. If you’re inter­est­ed to learn these new basic and advanced tech­niques to get your images to a new lev­el, then this course is for you. 

There are no hard rules in image edit­ing, but there are many pit­falls that can lead the pho­tog­ra­ph­er to grap­pling with the file rather than refin­ing the file, and this must begin with under­stand­ing the tools at your dis­pos­al and har­ness­ing the skills in inter­pre­ta­tion of the file.

All too often image edit­ing can be a per­plex­ing and com­pli­cat­ed ven­ture and becomes a rather tedious expe­ri­ence. This is, for the cre­ative pho­tog­ra­ph­er, a huge hand­i­cap as many visu­al artists will be embark­ing on some­thing that draws them away from being cre­ative. As pho­tog­ra­phers, often our main aim is to share our work with oth­ers. We ded­i­cate time to get­ting out there with our cam­eras and explore what­ev­er genre inspires us, but the ulti­mate aim is to fin­ish this jour­ney with a fin­ished image, and often, a fin­ished print that we can be proud of sharing.

Most of what we see on YouTube only serves to con­fuse and makes image edit­ing com­pli­cat­ed and frus­trat­ing. Through­out this work­shop we want to give you a thor­ough under­stand­ing of sim­ple tools for basic, as well as advanced, adjust­ments to cre­ate spec­tac­u­lar pho­tos. We will share our new approach to image edit­ing, what mis­takes to avoid, and plen­ty of in depth advice on how to make your images stand out. There are many cours­es out there that teach pho­tog­ra­phers how to use Adobe Light­room & Pho­to­shop that are either too gener­ic or very tech­ni­cal often leav­ing us feel­ing unin­spired or over­whelmed. This work­shop is different.

It is all about get­ting the most out of your RAW files using the most up to date sim­pli­fied tech­niques. It goes with­out say­ing that we will be mak­ing beau­ti­ful prints of your work on the finest qual­i­ty media.

You will have Paul Gal­lagher FRPS and Michael Pilk­ing­ton FRPS on hand who will give lec­tures and demon­stra­tions as well as work­ing with you on your images. They have decades of teach­ing image edit­ing and print­ing so you will be in the very best hands.

Three Days

10

Extensive tuition and 1 to 1 teaching from Paul Gallagher FRPS and Michael Pilkington FRPS.

Tea and coffee service and light lunch.

An A2 print of one of your images.

Travel insurance as well as travel to and from the venue are not included.

Accommodation and meals not mentioned.

Other personal expenditure is not covered either.

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Image Interpretation and Editing - A New Approach