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Past Images Photo Group Events:



Four day practical workshop
4th - 7th July 2008

 

 

Four day practical workshop

Peter took 30 photographers from all around New Zealand for a very successful four day workshop focusing on Advanced Creative Photoshop Techniques for Photographers. We look forward to bringing Peter back to New Zealand in the future to run more workshops for us.

Peter Eastway is a professional photographer, author and editor from Australia
Peter is also a Grand Master of Photography, one of only two in the world and earned from a career spanning nearly 30 years.
He is the editor of several international photography magazines and the writer of the Lonely Planet guide book on landscape photography

His many awards for photography include most recently the Gold Medal - Landscape Section, 2007 NZIPP Awards.

Visit Peter's web site at petereastway.com

   
 
 


Workshop #1
15th - 20th Nov 08

Workshop #2
24th - 29th Nov 08


Public Lecture Day
22nd Nov 08

Andre Gallant

Two Six Day Practical Workshops
Plus a One Day Public Lecture

Andre Gallant is a world renowned professional photographer who specialises in creative art photography & travel photography working throughout the world.
He co-authored Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image with Freeman Patterson, and together, they teach one week photography workshops in their native New Brunswick. André is a regular contributor to Photo Life, and his work has been published in Canadian Living, Canadian Gardening, Canadian Geographic, Doctor’s Review, Elm Street, Gardening Life, enRoute, Our Canada, Outdoor Photographer, and Vous.

Visit Andre's web site at: andregallant.com

 
   
 
   
 

SteelMan IronMaiden Multi Sport Event

We are proud to be the event photographers since 2007

Anual 93km Multi Sport race

2008 Image Galleries

For more info on the race go to the official event web site http://www.steelmanironmaiden.co.nz

   
 
   
 

Franklin Arts Festival

Several times over the last few years we have photographed the winning entries and provided the projection services for the opening night and prize giving.

   
 
   

 

Introduction to Photoshop & Elements Stage #1

A regular workshop taken by Don Campbell
A full day practical workshop introducing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Elements
This workshop will get you started on photo manipulation and correction using all the standard photoshop tools including layers, resizing, cropping, clone tools, colour/brightness/contrast adjustments, montages, etc.
We will demo with CS3 and Elements 5 and 6 but 99.9% of what we will be doing will also be possible in Elements 5 or later and Photoshop 7 or later.
The intro session in particular is about concepts and general image manipulation work flow so almost all of what we will talk about can also be used in any other layer based graphics applications such as Photo Plus, Paintshop Pro and Elements etc.  In the early morning part of the class we will go over things like resolution, resizing, print sizes, cropping and global colour/brightness/contrast corrections which even simple programs such as Picasa can perform.

Bring your own laptop and either of these applications to work with. We will also have demo versions of Photoshop and Elements along with several other graphics applications available so you can try them out on your own computer and see which one will be best for you.

   
 
   
 

 

Introduction to Photoshop & Elements Stage #2 (Intermediate techniques)

A regular workshop taken by Don Campbell
A full day practical workshop starting with a recap of the basics from Session #1 then looking into more advanced photoshop techniques.
This workshop is designed to give participants a more in depth understanding of photo manipulation and correction skills
We will look at layers, adjustment layers, masks, curves, blending modes, colour correction, photomerge panoramas and much more. We will also touch on Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Raw conversion.
Bring your own laptop and either of these applications to work with. We will also have demo versions of both available so you can try them out on your own computer and see which one will be best for you.

   
   

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