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Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the Digital Photography Courses monthly newsletter for January 2019.

We hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year and we look forward to seeing you all again during 2019. Hopefully everyone received some shiny new photography toys, and you are itching to have a play, so the January theme is "Something New". See below.

I'm looking at running more midweek 221 days at £199 pp, providing we can get a 2nd person. Lightroom and Photoshop are both popular and I have a lady wanting an Intermediate Course so let me know if you are interested.

The newsletter theme for January 2019 is "Something New". See below.

I have one lonely 2019 DPC Student Calendar left which you can buy here.

Join the 2019 DPC 52 Week Project here. https://www.flickr.com/groups/dpc-2019/


2019 Courses and Dates


Misty

January Project is - Something New.

To celebrate the New Year this month's project is very open. I would like you to either take a photograph with something new or photograph a topic you have never tried before.

This could be an action picture of your dog, maybe night photography or try your hand at close up photography using everyday objects around the house.

Your other option is to use any new camera kit you had for Christmas so this could be a new lens, tripod, flashgun or any other new plaything fresh out of the box. Remember to upload your pix to the DPC Facebook Group.


Studio Flash Portrait Course Sun 20th Jan 2019

The Studio Portrait Course is on Sunday 20th January 2019. This day will show you how to get professional looking portraits in your own home using various coloured backgrounds with mains powered studio flashes on light stands. We will be using a selection of modifiers including softboxes, snoots, gels and umbrellas.

All lighting is provided on the day and I'll make suggestions for kit a different price points.

You simply require your camera with a lens that includes the 55-135mm range. Book here.

Studio Portrait Course


Iceland

The Night Photography Course will be on Sunday 10th February. This very popular course will show you how to take pictures at night without using your flash. The course starts at 2pm and ends about 9pm and includes a light supper. Your own tripod would be helpful but we do have a couple of spares if needed.

The course includes: portraits by candle light, buildings at night, car light trails, writing with light, painting with light, the northern lights and lightning plus some trick photography.

Weather permitting, we should also be able to photograph the moon and maybe even some stars.


Lightroom Classic CC with Photoshop CC

As the days will soon be getting colder and darker I will be running more midweek Lightroom/Photoshop Courses.

These will mainly be 221 days at £199 but I might also run a group course at £135. Contact me for details.

Lightroom Course

I believe the best package to get is the £9.98 PCM Photography package which includes

  • Lightroom CC (Online version)
  • Lightroom Classic CC (Desktop version)
  • Photoshop CC
  • 20GB of cloud storage

Which Version of Lightroom & Photoshop ?

  • The new subscription versions of Lightroom and Photoshop can be confusing so hopefully this will make it clearer.

  • Up until version 6 you purchased Lightroom and Photoshop outright. Lightroom costs about £120 and Photoshop was about £600.

  • Lightroom CC is the slower online version of Lightroom which is not as powerful as Lightroom Classic CC and you require an internet connection.

  • Lightroom Classic and Photoshop are so well integrated that we us we use Include some Photoshop on the Lightroom Course.

  • Lightroom CC is really intended for people uploading and editing from their phone or iPads as these have limited storage.

  • I find 20GB is plenty as I only upload JPGs and store all my RAW files on external USB HDDs.

  • A couple of years ago Adobe went to a subscription model and called it the Creative Cloud (CC). Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC together now cost about £10 PCM which also includes 20GB of online storage.

  • Originally Lightroom CC was the same as Lightroom 6 but as Adobe added new features to Lightroom CC the CC version became more powerful than LR6 and included an online version of Lightroom called Lightroom Mobile.

  • Last year Adobe had a stupid Lightroom name rebranding which caused huge confusion to photographers everywhere. Lightroom CC was renamed Lightroom Classic CC (I will refer to this as Lightroom Desktop) and Lightroom Mobile became the online version of Lightroom CC.

LRCC

Please Contact us for Lightroom or Photoshop Courses

You will require a laptop with Lightroom CC installed but we do carry a couple of spare laptops. This course also includes the option to icorporate a small amount of Photoshop work. This usually involves creating a logo to add to your exported images for that professional look.

Learning Outcomes and Topics Covered

  1. Understanding the Lightroom Interface
  2. How to Import images into Lightroom
  3. Navigating the Library Module
  4. Choosing and Rating your images
  5. Basic corrections in the Library Module
  6. Making adjustments in the Develop Module
  7. Retouching using the Spot Removal Brush
  8. Straightening, Cropping and Image Ratios
  9. Adding Copyright Information
  10. Exporting to a Folder with Various Presets
  11. Overview of the Map, Photo Book, Slideshow & Print Modules
  12. NEW! How to use the Nik Collection plug-in

The day starts with the Lightroom interface and how to import images, choosing & rating images, editing, cropping and exporting. You are encouraged to bring some of your own images on a USB stick or SD Card but sample images will be provided.


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Find Us on Facebook.

If you haven't joined the DPC Facebook Group then you can still do so by following the links below. This is a closed group for DPC students only.

New course dates are announced first on the Facebook Group and sometimes sell out before they get into this newsletter. A good example is the Big Cat Course which sold out within 24 hours of being announced. Let me know if this is a course you would like to attend as I might try and add an extra date.

Join the Flickr 52 Week Project here.


Which Course Should You Do Next

I'm in the process of added a page to the website explaining the differences between the various courses. This will be updated over time but if you wish to see which courses will suit you the best then click here

Photography Course Check List.
Anyone who has attended a course in the last couple of months will have a course checklist included in their handouts. This list all the different courses plus includes a handy project guide so you can tick of the various techniques as you master them. You can download a PDF copy here.


Flickr 52 Week Project for 2019
After the continued success of last years project we are running the group again this year. All you need to do is to take one picture each week throughout 2019 and post in the Flickr group.

Group Rules

1, Only DPC students are allowed to join so you need to have attended a course.
2, Please include exif data to ensure photos are taken during the correct week
3, Post 1 photo per week - running from Monday to Sunday
4, You don't have to post every week as long as the photo is taken in the correct week
5, Maximum of 5 photo's per month catch-up allowed.
6, If you miss a week, please don't give up, but continue ASAP
7, Upload a link from the Facebook Group to your Flickr post

You can join the group here - https://www.flickr.com/groups/dpc-2019/

Some people have been able to join right away but others have had a message to say they need to be invited. If you do struggle to join just drop me an email and I'll invite you.

If you would like to see last years images for inspiration see here www.flickr.com/groups/dpc-2018

We hope you have enjoyed this newsletter.

Glen & Jacqui

www.DigitalPhotographyCourses.co.uk / www.digitalcameracourses.co.uk
25 Westerby Lane, Smeeton Westerby, Leics, LE8 0RA 0116 2796906

email glen@digitalphotographycourses.co.uk

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