by George on May 16, 2013
Photograph © George A. Jardine
I created this video to help demystify the relationship between exposure values that are captured by your camera, and the brightness values they are mapped to during raw processing.
Please note that this video is an update of video #3 from the Image Correction Master Class. So if you’ve purchased that video series, you already have a (very slightly different) version of this video.
This video is free. Simply enter your e-mail address below, and the monkey behind the curtain will send you the link.. – TRT: 22:50
Photographs © George A. Jardine
I read over and over again, that somehow the holy grail for digital photographers is to have a “fast and efficient workflow”…. or something like that. I even read recently that with a certain e-book, you’d soon be “importing digital images into Lightroom with your eyes closed.” Funny they should put it that way, because in my workshops, it seems most students are already doing just exactly that when they first walk through the door.
I guess for a culture hooked on fast food, marketing your wares that way makes sense. After all, who doesn’t want fast and efficient?
My goal is to break photographers of the habit, and try to help them open their eyes to the larger picture of what actually happens during import. If you’re the type of person who would rather think through the issues for yourself, and then build a workflow that fits your individual design goals for your long-term library organization, then I have a new article for you. It’s called Heresy In Library Organization, and you can find it on DigitalPhotoPro.com, by clicking here.
Writing articles for Digital Photo Pro Magazine is one of my favorite things to do. You can find a list of all the articles I’ve written for them at the bottom of my “free stuff” page, by clicking here.
by George on April 29, 2013
GPS: 45° 25′ 55.63″ N 12° 20′ 15.18″ E
Photograph © George A. Jardine
In nearly every class I teach, and in every workshop, I hear from many photographers that they simply don’t know where to start, when approaching image correction.
Tone and color correction is not a mystery, but mastering it does take time and practice. The goal of this new series is to help you become fluent in correcting your own pictures—as quickly as possible. We accomplish that by guiding you toward a complete understanding of the tools, in both Lightroom 4 and 5. (With a healthy dose of Photoshop thrown in for good measure, in the portrait tutorials.)
The new series is 21 videos, with over 5 hours of content. Flash and HTML5 versions are ready now, as well as online streaming for the iPad and download files. DVD’s for Amazon, will be available shortly.
Click here to read more.
by George on April 21, 2013
GPS: 39°11’56.89″ N -123°45’6.64″ E
Photograph © George A. Jardine
Coming up in early June, I’ll be offering a brand-new workshop in conjunction with the Lone Tree Photography Club, and sponsored by the Front Range Photography Meetup Group. This workshop will offer a soup-to-nuts look at image preparation for output. We will do a deep dive on several techniques for sizing, sharpening, and compression for web output, as well as for printing to ink jet printers.
This new class will be four hours in length, from 9AM – 1PM, on Saturday, June 1, and will be limited to 20 participants. It will be held at the Lone Tree Civic Center, and admission will be $29.95, payable directly to the Lone Tree Photography Club. As a bonus, everyone who signs up for this new workshop, will also receive a free copy of my Lightroom Library 4 Video DVD, a $34.95 value.
For more information, or to register, check out the Lone Tree Photography Club posting, here.
Hope to see you there!
by George on April 17, 2013
Photograph © George A. Jardine
For those of you living in Colorado, I’m offering 5 Lightroom workshops coming up in May, at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. These are hands-on, evening workshops that will cover the entire Lightroom Library and Develop workflows.
Workshop Dates and Registration Links:
• May 1, 2013 — Introduction To Adobe Lightroom
• May 8, 2013 — Digital Library Structre & Lightroom Library
• May 15, 2013 — Lightroom Develop Basics – Intro
• May 22, 2013 — Lightroom Develop Module – Advanced
• May 29, 2013 — Using Lightroom With Photoshop
Indivudual classes are $75 each, with a member discount available.
All classes will be held in the Colorado Photographic Arts Center Gallery “Belmar”, in Lakewood. Click here to see the map to the workshop location.
Hope to see you there!
