We are pleased to announce that on the fourth Wednesday of the month we will be running a mentoring group where club members bring along their images for discussion, review and possible enhancement.

While it is intended for members that have recently completed our beginners course, it is open to all members with B grade images they want to discuss.

The first meeting will be held upstairs at Wadham House on Wednesday 27 February 2013.

Next Tuesday 22 January 2013 will be the first Audio/Visual group meeting for 2013 with the purpose of reviewing AV’s that members want to enter to be chosen for entry at the VAPS Interclub.

From February the AV group will be back at its regular night of the second Tuesday of the month and the Flash/Portrait group with be on its regular night of the third Tuesday of the month.

 Hi All,

The AV Group are having a casual get together next Tuesday 11 December 2012 ( Wadham House 7.30 pm) to discuss the groups proposed activities for next year. If you have ever considered joining the group or wondered if it was for you, why don't you come along and see?

AV's are a fast growing specialist skill within the photographic community with VAPS sanctioned competitions now a regular event.

You will find attached to this email a brochure setting out the proposed 2013 learning schedule for your perusal.

In addition to learning the practical skills required to produce an AV,  members of the group also show AV's they have prepared and provide each other with valuable feedback and encouragement.

If you think you might be interested in joining the AV Group next year please join us next Tuesday. If you would like some more information email Paul Spence

We will again be running the Flash & Portrait Group Meetings in 2012 and anyone and everyone of our members can turn up to see if you really want to improve your flash and portrait images

The first night will be Tuesday January 24, 2012 which will be a basic introduction to using a flash and what you can expect to learn over the following months.

The technical detail starts on the second meeting in February.

After a fun and largely successful year teaching Photoshop to our members, Warren is happy to say that the classes will continue in 2012. However there will be a change to the format, it will be tailored toward beginners only. The classes will be held once a month on the fourth Wednesday, with the first meeting on 25 January, 2012.

For this class a Beginner as obviously someone who has never used Photoshop or if you have tried using it and are:

• Overwhelmed by all the tools and functions
• You are not sure when to use one tool over another
• Can’t make proper masks
• Struggle with layers or don’t know what adjustment layers are
• Struggle with topics such as file size, RAW editing

Each month’s lesson will build on what was taught the previous month so hopefully by the end of the year you will have a good grasp of the fundamentals. This has been found to be a better approach than randomly doing topics based on issues people are having at the time.

For this to work:

• Each participant will need their own laptop with Photoshop installed. This is quite important as
  students this year that shared or did not have a laptop found it hard to keep up.

It is hoped that by the end of the year participants will:

• feel comfortable using Photoshop
• be able to look at an image and know what techniques to use to make them better
• know how to better evaluate an image
• improve the quality of their EDI and more importantly start producing better prints

Please contact Ian Hansen if you would like to participate.

Dear All,

The Audio Visual group will meet on Tuesday night at 7.30pm upstairs in Wadham House. I am reliably informed that the theme of the night will be the start of the building of the ‘Autumn’ AV as well as showcasing any new AV’s that might have been cret=ated in the last month.

See you all there

Tuesday 24th May is Flash and Portrait Group Night run by Teddy and starting at 7.30, upstairs at Wadham House.

Apologies to those who were told Wednesday night, it’s definately the 4th Tuesday of every month.

See you there

WCC Photoshop Classes

Don’t forget…our monthly Photoshop classes will be starting in February (last Wednesday (23^rd) of the month) at Wadham House. Classes will run from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

So far we have had 15 members ‘sign up’.  For the beginner, classes will be structured in a way so that they can learn Photoshop from the ground up. Rather than an ad hoc approach where in each class we tackle a multitude of issues that individuals may be having I think a better approach would be to structure the learning from the very basics to more complicated tasks over the course of the year. Hopefully by doing this people can learn at a steady pace and build on their skills over a period of time. Intermediate uses will also gain knowledge when topics such as setting up Photoshop (first session), blending modes, smart objects, and masks (just to name a few) are covered in later sessions.

Other topics that will be covered include image evaluations and how Photoshop can be used to enhance images for competitions which include producing better prints.

Ideally you will have a laptop with Photoshop installed or you could possibly share with someone.  Why? The only way to learn will be to do it yourself therefore these will be hands on classes, so you will be doing as much work in class as me (and at home!).

*** PLEASE NOTE *** You won’t be able to just turn up and attend as numbers are strictly limited so If you want to take part you will have to register your interests with either Pete Davies or myself.

Cheers

Warren