Image Interpretation and Editing - A New Approach

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.

Class for­mat: We will start our class on the first day at 10.00am run­ning until 5.00pm. The sec­ond day will run from 9.00am until 5.00pm. The final day will run from 9.00am until around 3.00pm. We will present you with lots of mate­r­i­al, guid­ance and advice on edit­ing images and you will also have an opprtu­ni­ty to edit some of your own images with Paul and Michael on hand to help you as needed.