Digital Camera online tutorials

Many thanks to Jim for sending in this link to dozens of online tutorials provided by Digital Camera, one of the better camera glossies on the market.

Lots of stuff about camera techniques plus software including PS Elements, which is a bit of a rarity!

The BPC WhatsApp group offers lots of interesting snippets like this one and a bit of chat.  It's exclusive to BPC Members, if you haven't joined yet and would like to, send your mobile number to birlinghamphoto@btinternet.com and we'll add your name.

Click here for Digital Camera tutorials

Stuck at home? Learn Lightroom with The Lightroom Queen!

Many thanks to Jim for sending in the following.

The Lightroom Queen knows a thing or two about Adobe software and in particular Lightroom.  Many of her Ebooks are free and she offers a 'no-stings attached' newsletter.

To get you started, the following link will take you through to The Lightroom Queen's website.

Good Luck!


https://mailchi.mp/lightroomqueen/summer-sale-free-lightroom-ebook-and-more-1882373?e=ef96b9d147

Sarah Howard's Guide to Long Exposure Photography

Stormy seas, fast-flowing rivers, skudding clouds, scurrying people, trailing car lights, swishy bare trees...

The list of subject matter for long exposure photography is enormous and it's time to get out there and see what you can create using a tripod, your camera, maybe a filter and a little patience!

Sarah Howard, who will make her first visit to BPC in September, has laid out in black and white how to capture creamy currents, crazy car lights and ghostly people.

Email birlinghamphoto@btinternet.com for Sarah's guideline and for more information about Sarah, visit the Image Seen website at www.imageseen.co.uk 

Introduction to Photoshop Elements - By Paul Lack

Introduction to Photoshop Elements (this is not a BPC event)

Malvern Library

Thursdays January 16^th – March 26^th

10am – 12noon

£100 for the whole course

Photoshop is a very powerful programme – but very difficult to teach yourself.  

This 10 week course covers the basic edits on the ‘simplified’  version called Photoshop Elements, and then dives into selections and layers – the bits that allow you to change parts of the picture and get really creative.  Then we look at removing and adding elements, combining pictures, panoramas, text design, art effects – the sky is the limit (oh yes, we swap skies around too!).  

Computers are supplied or bring your own.  Basic competence on a computer is needed but nothing more – we start from the beginning.  If you can handle a ‘Word’ document or similar, then you’re fine.  

It’s a small, friendly group, with a maximum of 10 people, which allows Paul to support everyone individually.

Book and pay here:  https://capublic.worcestershire.gov.uk/coursebookingpublic/CoursesList.aspx?CourseSubjectId=289

Wex's Guide to Using Filters

Are you a landscape photographer?
Do you use on-camera filters?

Neutral Density Graduated Filters (ND Grads) are just the thing to transform landscape images which have bland or uninteresting skies into something quite extraordinary.

Wex Photo Video has a useful guide to using filters.  
Visit to https://bit.ly/2O4HvfT to find out more

Resizing in Mac

This top tip in from BPC Member, Paul Marsh...

1)  Open image with preview. (Paul suggests using a copy of original as the alterations are permanent).

2)  Select “TOOLS” , then “ADJUST SIZE”.

3)  Select “RESOLUTION”, change the number, see the result

(72 down to 40 gave me 3mb to 1MB) press OK to confirm.

Photography News for Free!

Online magazine available now

Many BPC Members will be familiar with Photography News, the free magazine for photographers which is usually available at our Club meetings. But did you know that you can download this great publication for free?

Visit www.photographynews.co.uk and stay ahead of the game!

Adobe Lightroom free online tutorials and Ebooks

The Lightroom Queen comes to Birmingham - virtually!

This in from BPC member, Jim Fergusson...

For anyone who is just starting out with Adobe Lightroom, or if you've had it on your computer for a while and are still flummoxed by the basics, you may be interested in a UK based online resource - www.lightroomqueen.com

Thanks Jim!

Don't forget that BPC is holding its own Lightroom workshop, 10am, March 10th at Birmingham Village Hall, WR10 3AB.  Spaces still available but filling up fast.