Learn From The Expperts - Realising The Potential of Your Raw Files

When we are out with our cam­eras we make expo­sures of scenes we find beau­ti­ful or fas­ci­nat­ing and after our day is done we head back home. This is only the begin­ning of our jour­ney and often the most excit­ing part is yet to come in bring­ing the raw files back to life.

All too often the process of image edit­ing or post pro­cess­ing is thought of as a per­plex­ing and elab­o­rate ven­ture and can be unap­peal­ing. Many pho­tog­ra­phers do not rel­ish this part of the pho­to­graph­ic jour­ney. It should be enjoyed with the results being excit­ing! 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 and how to realise the poten­tial in your raw files.

We believe that the com­ple­tion of the pho­to­graph­ic jour­ney, the process of see­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the RAW cam­era file through to the fin­ished image, is one that should be a con­sid­ered approach, rather than one of chance. It should also 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. 

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, tech­niques to cre­ate spec­tac­u­lar pho­tos. We will share our new approach to image edit­ing, what mis­takes to avoid, and give you 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 you feel­ing unin­spired or over­whelmed. This work­shop is different.

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.

Dur­ing this course we will be pro­cess­ing your images because you are the peo­ple that want to learn how we do this. There will be demon­stra­tions, lec­tures and you will see Paul and Michael trans­form your files into images that could com­fort­ably grace the pages of any pho­tog­ra­phy mag­a­zine or proud­ly hang on any wall. This course will con­cen­trate on how, why and to what extent you may need to use cer­tain tools, but also how to keep the process sim­ple allow­ing your­self to cel­e­brate your image com­ing to life rather than wor­ry­ing about com­pli­cat­ed menus and dia­logue boxes.

The group meet­ings will take place between 4pm and 6pm GMT on the 28^th and 30^th April, the 7^th and 9^th April. For each meet­ing we will be shar­ing tech­niques of pro­cess­ing your indi­vid­ual images and each ses­sion is record­ed and shared with the group.

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.

In addi­iton, there will also be four 1 to 1 ses­sions sched­uled dur­ing the course All ses­sions, both group and 1 to 1, will be record­ed and shared with you and will act as an up-to-the-minute learn­ing mate­r­i­al for your onward progression.