NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
References:
Course II
Course I
Hello World!
Due to accumulating interests expressed in PMs and emails, we will be conducting another course shortly.
Please email me at bephotoshopped@yahoo.com for details.
It is likely to be a weekend course, and it will help a lot if you can indicate what days and dates are good for you.
But all requests will be entertained and strived to be met. So drop me all your queries and clarifications or comments to the above email.
Thank you very much for your attention!
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And here is some food for thought ...
References:
Course II
Course I
Hello World!
Due to accumulating interests expressed in PMs and emails, we will be conducting another course shortly.
Please email me at bephotoshopped@yahoo.com for details.
It is likely to be a weekend course, and it will help a lot if you can indicate what days and dates are good for you.
But all requests will be entertained and strived to be met. So drop me all your queries and clarifications or comments to the above email.
Thank you very much for your attention!
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And here is some food for thought ...
Digital photography - or really just any photography, film included, is a process of image creation that consists of two steps, namely image capture - or more accurately and generally, data capture - and image, or data, processing.
Owning and using a camera is only the first step to making pictures, namely the data capture.
What the captured data "means" to the eye is what image processing is all about, and is a necessary step - a RAW file is not a picture yet, for example; and processing happens in your camera processor (as a black box, eg the DIGIC II processor for Canon cameras), or chemically in a darkroom, or under your full artistic control in your computer under every movement and click of your mouse.
With film photography (or even just off-the-camera digital photography), the second part is mostly out of your hands, unless you have access to and expertise for a darkroom. But this is usually not available for the ordinary hobbyist.
Thus more often than not you have to leave it to some photolab - and some technican - to correctly develop the negatives and print the pictures. And if the negatives are wrongly or poorly developed, there is nothing you can do to recover the situation.
But if you do digital photography, then the whole image creation process is - potentially - entirely in your hands, as led and controlled by your creative urges, your style and inspirations.
But you must not only take pictures off-the-camera but also learn how to massage and stretch those bits and bytes you have captured and not surrender it to some black box running algorithms blindly in your camera.
And that is when learning something like Photoshop becomes not only very relevant but also very necessary too.
But Photoshop may be too daunting for you and it indeed has a very steep learning curve.
But it can be easily mastered especially if you have someone to show you the tricks and someone to get in touch with when you are still learning the ropes. (and we promise lifetime perpectual aftersales service: we urge you to test us here! :thumbsup: )
And once you are in full control of the entire image creation process the way you think and see and capture a scene will also now be different. You no longer just 'see' what the camera sees, and most importantly you are no longer bound by its limitations.
You will now take pictures in a manner that fully exploits and optimises the capabilities of both the data capture device, ie camera, and of data processing algorithms.
It is the digital equivalent of how Ansel Adams preconceived a picture after it leaves the darkroom and not just as captured on the negative.
Or at least that is the theory. Its really up to you to make this real for yourself.
And so you are invited to join us for this course, ie if you need to (You may be a photoshop expert for all we know. ;p )
We will also appreciate it if you can forward this URL it to anyone you think that may benefit from this course.