An Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Symmetry

I attended a weekend workshop at Gulf Photo Plus conducted by Alex Jeffries (from whom I did a similar Lr course about a year ago).  Topics covered included the workspace, menus, palettes, tool bars, review and practice with different selection tools, use of layers in the editing process, color filters, and masking.  As usual, I learned a lot!  Alex is a great teacher, patient and responsive to student needs.  If you're in Dubai ...

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Review: Exposure Master workshop, Keylite Studio, Abu Dhabi, 31 May 2013

This 3-hour program promises to provide a reliable way of calculating proper exposure.  The description as it appears on Keylite's website is appended below.  Including a 15-minute break, the workshop lasted 4 hours and was composed of three parts.  The first was an explanation of how the camera typically processes light by producing an average.  This is not always an accurate representation of the subject as seen by the human eye, particularly in situations with high dynamic range.  The instructor defines optimal (or correct) exposure as the settings which capture and reproduce the maximal amount of data.  (In this regard, full-frame cameras capture more data than those with smaller senors).

Workshop: The Working Photojournalist (Gulf Photo Plus May 2013)

Yesterday (03 May 2013) I attended the first of a 2-day workshop at Gulf Photo Plus entitled The Working Photojournalist.  The program as advertised is pasted below. 

My initial impression is that while all three speakers had interesting things to say about their experience of being photographers, I did not really learn any skills that can be deployed in current or future photography projects.  In essence, the “workshop” was little more than a chat show with working photographers.

The day ended with participants being given photographic assignments to complete in advance of next week’s lectures.  These were handed out in printed form with instructions about the number and type of images to be provided.  My brief is for 15 photos of the Dubai Metro demonstrating how it is integrated into the life of city.  From several hours of talk, here’s what I learned to help prepare me for my assignment: