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How To Create Your Own Digital Book with Michael Eleftheriades – 29 April 2018

How To Create Your Own Digital Book with Michael Eleftheriades – 29 April 2018

This seminar will demonstrate in detail all the options for designing, creating and publishing digital books using either the standalone BookWright application or the Adobe Lightroom Classic Book Publishing module.
These tools make it easy to publish quality digital books using the Blurb book service.

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Dymistifying Lightroom with Michael Eleftheriades – 5 November 2017

Dymistifying Lightroom with Michael Eleftheriades – 5 November 2017

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful image-editing application, rapidly evolving as the standard in nondestructive editing and RAW based workflow.  The seminar will provide a thorough introduction to Adobe Lightroom, including organising and cataloguing your images, editing and developing your photos, outputting to print, slide-shows and to websites.

Throughout the session Michael will highlight useful tips, tricks and shortcuts to  help you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind your camera.  Attendees of all skill levels are welcome – Michael will show work-flows and tips that will be useful to beginners as well as more advanced users.  Bringing your laptop is not required.

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A Day of Creative Photography with Alison Baskerville – 11 June 2017

A Day of Creative Photography with Alison Baskerville – 11 June 2017

Alison is a British documentary photographer.  She works to connect history, social reform and ongoing cultural shifts specifically in the area of the role of women.

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A Day of Creative Photography with PermaJet – 2 April 2017

A Day of Creative Photography with PermaJet – 2 April 2017

Permajet’s “Print with Confidence” Lecture includes an explanation of both monitor calibration and printer profiling, colour management through various software and general profiling methods.  It then discusses Ink and Paper, the continuous Ink Flow system and many other areas of colour management including choice of Monitor.

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Zion Autumn 2016 Travelog

Zion Autumn 2016 Travelog

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand?”  – Richard Aldington

Having been largely inspired by large-format photographer Ben Horne who visits Zion National Park regularly, I finally managed to arrange a week in Southwest Utah and Zion during Oct/Nov 2016.  The Virgin River has taken 140 million years to carve through several thousand feet of colourful sandstone to form remarkably deep canyons, soaring cliffs and huge monoliths.  The Southern Paiute Indians call this place ‘Mukuntuweap’ meaning ‘Straight-up land’.

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