We have updated the email addresses that may be used to contact various club officers:
President Dick York president@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Librarian Billie Campbell librarian@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Membership Bob Grossart membership@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Programs Billie Campbell programs@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Web Master Match Grun webmaster@denverdigitalphotoclub.com
We have added the following email addresses that may be used to contact various club officers:
Librarian: librarian@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Program Manager: programs@denverdigitalphotoclub.com Web Master: webmaster@denverdigitalphotoclub.com
Our club president may be reached here:
President president@denverdigitalphotoclub.com
Wednesday last week, Joe McNally presented his “Location Lighting Techniques” seminar downtown at the Convention Center. You can read about this event on my blog.
After the success of the last workshop, I decided to repeat this experience. The objective is to learn about how to process digital images and have fun whilst doing so. The format will be as follows:
I will provide some liquid refreshment and light nourishment. Due to limited space, I will only be able to host a maximum of 4 people.
When we have finished, we could do a photo shoot close by (not more than 2-3 miles from here). Bring your gear if you would be interested. Our home is in downtown Englewood.
If you are interested, please respond by replying to this post on the club’s web site — I will be notified accordingly. Click the Leave a Comment or Add Comments link for this this post. I can then contact you by email or phone.
Match Grun
We are looking for contributions to our website by members. Think of this as being similar to contributing an article to a newsletter or magazine. This is one way to increase the level of participation of members in our club and to build a community around the club. You might be an expert in some area of photography waiting for an opportunity to share your knowledge.
Our website is processed by Google every time that an entry is posted and periodically between postings. This is one way to get published on the Internet. You might be a person who would like to get this form of recognition.
There are two ways we can accommodate members who would like to contribute articles:
Option 1 is the method that I use. Members might be more comfortable with option 2. When submitting the article, the text of the article should be sent as the following:
One advantage of PDF files is that we can host directly with no editing or copy/paste to a blog format. You, the author, have control over the look and feel.
Other files that might be useful to complement or accompany a written article are Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets. These can always be hosted on the web site for easy access by everyone.
Here are some suggestions for article submissions:
Here is your opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the community. This is one way to gain recognition from fellow members and the photographic community in general.
I have updated the Photoshop Workshop – Report Back post to include images of the layer stacks that we developed.
The next club meeting will be on April 27, 2010. Meeting starts at 6:30 pm.
Visitors Are Always Welcome
The program will be a little different than normal. Our speaker will be the regional director of PSA (Photographic Society of America), Lisa Schnelzer. Since our club is a relatively new member of PSA it will be of interest to most of us. PSA has both, club and individual memberships. It’s a fantastic organization for enthusiast photographers. You may even consider joining it after you learn more about it. PSA website: http://www.psa-photo.org
April will be “Projected Exhibition” month. Fred Luhman, our regular projectionist, will be on vacation next week. John Chapter is our backup projectionist. Please mail image to John at:
Please refer to the Image Projection page for more details. You can always navigate to this page with navigation menu Meetings | Image Projection.
Last week Adobe pre-announced Photoshop CS5 at NAB. This is old news now. However, you can get more information here:
Last Saturday I hosted a workshop where we processed images with Photoshop and Lightroom. Carey, Ron and Don attended. Each participant had different objectives that they wanted to achieve. I hope that the workshop was useful for them — perhaps they may supply feedback?
Carey had questions on Lightroom settings that we addressed. This fixed issues such as the display of image names and virtual copies in the filmstrip and grid views.
Ron is a newcomer to digital photography. We ran through a typical workflow based on Lightroom with Ron’s images:
We took a break for lunch and returned to handle Don’s images. Don does not have Lightroom, so we used Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop. We copied images from Don’s computer to mine and gathered around the monitor. We started with an image that Don had made of an orchestra conductor. From Bridge, we opened this image in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).
Conductor Original
After discussing this image, we decided that the bottom of the image contained blown out highlights. Also, the image needed to be rotated slightly counter clockwise. Look at the flags, visible in the dark background. We used ACR to rotate and crop the image to address these shortcomings. Also, we performed some minor tonal adjustments to the image before opening the image in Photoshop. See the image below.
Conductor After ACR
This image is an excellent environmental portrait. However, it suffers from bright highlights at the bottom. We addressed this by applying a curve and burning in the highlights using a brush on the layer mask. Just behind the conductor is that rectangular highlight that is caused be a light entering through a window in the door.The layer stack at this point is shown below.
Layer Stack - Conductor No 1
We discussed several methods of cloning to remove the highlight. The result is the image below.
Conductor Crop 1
Here is the layer stack that we used to create this rendition.
Layer Stack - Conductor No 2
I felt that we could create a stronger image by using a stronger crop to remove all the distracting elements at the bottom.
Conductor Crop 2
We then took a second image that Don made of a French Horn player. The image below is the original image before processing in ACR.
Horn Player Original
We used the exposure and recovery sliders to tone down some of the specular reflections in the horn and to reduce the brightness of the music score on the right edge. After opening the image in Photoshop, we decided that the music score was still too hot.
We used a temporary threshold layer that was using to create a selection. After this, we added a curve adjustment layer with the selection (a mask). We could then throw away the threshold layer. By selecting an appropriate blending mode (multiply) and opacity, we brought down the brightness of the score.
While the image was an excellent image, I decided that we could do something different. So I applied a black and white adjustment layer. Examining the original image, you may notice that there are two distracting red highlights (bokeh) in the background flags. The red channel slider was using to reduce the contribution of the red in the background. This also removed the highlights nicely. The final image is shown below.
The layer stack is shown below.
Layer Stack - Horn Player
Finally, we spent some time discussing layers and image blending using layers on one of my images. We deconstructed the image layer by layer. I have not included the image here because of the number of steps and layers involved.
We also discussed various books. Some of these books may be found listed on this page. This page can be accessed by following this website’s navigation menu Suggestions | Books.
Folks,
I have been thinking about hosting a Photoshop workshop at my house for a number of months. Now that you guys have done your taxes, you don’t have to agonize about how much to pay the tax man. Now is time to have some fun!
Well, this Saturday, April 17, 11.00am will be a good opportunity to try this out. The objective is to learn about how to process digital images and have fun whilst doing so. The format will be as follows:
I will provide some liquid refreshment and light nourishment. Due to limited space, I will only be able to host a maximum of 4 people.
When we have finished, we can do a photo shoot close by (not more than 2-3 miles from here). Bring your gear if you would be interested. Our home is in downtown Englewood.
If you are interested, please respond by replying to this post on the club’s web site — I will be notified accordingly. Click the Leave a Comment or Add Comments link for this this post. I can then contact you by email or phone.
Match Grun
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