Showing posts with label Workshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workshops. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2012

Post-Processing Workshops/Classes on Lightroom and Photoshop for Photographers in Delhi(India)

It's been long time that we have been conducting Workshops on Lightroom and Photoshop at various Photography Academies and Institutions in Delhi, India. So far, we have been involved more into 1:1 sessions as compared to group workshops. During one of the 1:1 session, we got to know that photographers are not able to find about us online and need to contact various academies. For the same we though of putting this blog entry here and soon will be hosting a separate website.

So if you are Photographer and  keen in understanding Lightroom or Photoshop, feel free to contact us at VJ@travellingcamera.com 

Before you contact us, we strongly recommend you to think more about your editing needs and also talk to our old students. This will help you in creating specific charter for yourself and will obviously be helpful for us to be more focused.
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Our first Lightroom Workshop at Academy of Photography Excellence(APEX), Vansant Vihar, Delhi

It started with a very informal discussion with one of my mentors during a Photo-Walk. We were just discussing about an exhibition he was planning to host and complexities of digital manipulation in terms of color management and printing. This topic extended to get professional editing services for Photographs...

It started with a very informal discussion with one of my mentors during a Photo-Walk. We were just discussing about an exhibition he was planning to host and complexities of digital manipulation in terms of color management and printing. This topic extended to get professional editing services for Photographs...With more discussions around the same, I also met few folks at APEX and planned for a basic workshop on Lightroom. Since Photography is becoming easily reachable thing due to Digital technologies, after few months folks also start feeling the need of some adjustments. There was the same case with folks learning Photography at APEX and other photographers around Delhi.For the first workshop we had enough participation and since it was hands-on workshop, we didn't want to have lot many folks, so there were only limited seatsIt was a great experience for me, as some of the folks had really tough questions for me. There were lot of interesting discussions around changing Photography style as per the editing style you are planning to apply.There were Photographers from different backgrounds and experiences... Like a lady who had just started Photography as hobby, some students, photographer from US who had been doing Photography for his business work and senior Photographers who had spent lot of years in industrial Photography..This workshop was mainly designed for folks who have never tried digital processing software or do very basic things in free software. Apart from processing photographs, Lightroom comes with great power of organizing/managing multiple photo-shoots at one place.During this workshop I got to know about very surprising things like folks in India have started buying softwares and even two folks from this batch bought Lihghtroom after this workshop. Most of the folks in this workshop had their laptops with 30 days trial installed on those. People who were having no laptop, had an option to use APEX macs with versions of Lightroom 3.It was two days workshop with more focus on practical problems, lab exercises etc.Recently second workshop took place and now time to have another one for folks who would want to have a deep dive into Lightroom. Few folks form basic workshop have already registered for it and dates will be finalized soon.Many times, people started the discussion around Photoshop and main question was why not Photoshop :) ... Most of the folks hear of Photoshop that Photo-editing is also known as Photoshopping now.We mainly focused on Library and Develop Modules of Lightroom. Also touched upon Slideshow, Web and Print rooms of Lightroom. People who love web/internet, have wonderful options in Lightroom.Lightroom provides very clean workflow for photographers - Downloading, Importing, Sorting, Adding Metadata, Organizing, Processing/Editing, Correction Camera/Lens Distortions, creating slideshows or publishing on websites.Philip, sitting on other corner had really quality questions during this workshop and he was more interested in color management while printing Photographs. During basic workshop, we touched upon some very basic things and print is something that needs time for acquiring right details.Me, trying something on my laptop and things are getting reflected on LCD behind me.


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

WORKSHOP ATTENDED on "Fashion Photography Redefined with Photoshop and Lightroom"


Fashion Photography Redefined with Photoshop and Lightroom 

This workshop was conducted by a delhi based organization. In was a two days workshop focusing on Studio Set-up & Photographing Models on first day and processing these Photographs in Lightroom/Photoshop on second Day. I participated on second day of this workshop. Here was overall agenda for second day:

1.    - Meaning of retouching for the commercial fashion photography Stages and logic of retouching. Not "how to do", but "what, when and why" to do.

2.    - Basic tools and using of them
3.    - Composition (framing and horizon correction)
4.    - Brightness and contrast
5.    - Basic filters
6.    - Work with a human portrait: shape, plastic, basics of anatomy, filters "plastic" and shadow/highlights
7.    - Work with skin: what to do before shoot, during a shoot, cooperation with make-up artist, correction in Photoshop
8.    - Color correction - different ways
9.    - Adjustment layers as a basic instrument of retouching
10. - Some other filters and using of them
11. - Texture layers

Trainers were from a well known Academy who trains Fashion Photographers in India and Europe !!!

Take-Away:

1.    Get to know about the workflow they follow to edit a Fashion Photograph

a.    Adjusting Lighting/Colors/White-Balance and Lens Distortions in Lightroom.

b.    Enter into Photoshop for specific editing using Layers, Masks and various Filters.

*** They had very little knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop is main tool for them

3.    Popular tools of Photoshop used for Fashion Photo enhancements

a.    Sharpen Brush
b.    Blur Brush
c.    Spot Healing
d.    Gaussian Blur
e.    Adjustment Layers (HSL, Levels, Brightness/Contrast)

4.    There are different folks who do the editing. Photographers just shoot and pass the photographs to main editor. These Editors have good knowledge of specific tools which are used in their workflows. They are not Photoshop Experts and have fixed pattern to get best results!

THIS WORKSHOP GAVE ME A PERSPECTIVE HOW THESE PROFESSIONALS WORK !!! AND ANY CREATIVE PERSON WHO KNOW THESE TOOLS WELL, CAN DO FAR BETTER THAN TRAINERS I MET !!!

I was really disappointed when they were giving wrong theories about sRGB and AdobeRGB !

Now I know many of the folks who run workshops in Delhi and know about the quality of workshops they organize. In case you are planning to join any of the workshop in delhi, leave me a comment and I can try to find out if its worth for you or not... I don't want folks to waste money on such useless and over-hyped workshops !!! Sometimes they partner with big names like Nikon, Canon or Olympus... And have nice pages on Facebook !!!

So do proper research before enrolling for any Workshop
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