As of April 1, we’ve started taking enrollment for the next run of our course series on the creation of digital slideshows: “Storytelling in the Digital Age”. The series consists of three separate 1 day courses.

Course web page: http://courses.photoclans.net/AN101.php

The courses are offered over two consecutive weekends (June 18, 25, and 26) and will be held at the Best Western Coquitlam Inn. Students may enroll for any cominbination of days that meets their needs. The price per day is discounted for those students taking more than one day.

The course series teaches the creation of digital slideshows, but is more than just learning how to use software. Students are also taught the importance of workflow, learn techniques from creative/screen writing that can help them create their shows, and learn how the various treatments of images influences the audience’s interpretation of the show. We also review the various options available for sharing shows, be it PC playback, streaming web video, DVDs, etc. and how the choice in sharing technology can have a bearing on the structure and nature of your show.

The course attempts to get students thinking more creatively and putting more thought in the “story” side of their presentations. For those students who have laptops, they are strongly encouraged to bring them along and apply what they’ve learned during the workshop portions where they can get their questions answered while the instructor is present.

The series…

Based on feedback from course runs last autumn, we’ve added a 3rd day: AN100 – Proshow Gold for Beginners: This course is for those who are just learning the software. This one day course is focused solely on learning the ProShow application starting with project creation, moving on to placing images, applying basic transforms, selecting transitions, using titles and captions, adding audio soundtracks and ending with final output of your show. The course emphasizes a “learning by doing” approach as students create a show in the class. This helps the new user be on an even footing with more experienced users in the other two sessions.

The other two segments are:

AN101 – Slideshow physiology: this course focuses on workflow and the act of creating a slideshow. We learn the solution to the common problem: “I don’t know where to begin!” (those 5000 vacation photos from your last trip to Europe?) and cover the fundamental elements of a show’s structure. Mixed in with the “how” to create a slideshow, we also look at some more advanced features of Proshow when it comes to improving title effects, transitions, animation and layering of images in a show — many effects you see in shows made by Producer can still be done in Gold! The student applies what they learn as they build a show during class.

AN102 – Slideshow Psychology: This course steps beyond the simple mechanical creation of a show and starts to examine those elements that influence your audience’s emotional response to your show. These are the “soft skills” that slideshow artists often overlook when creating their shows. We look at some of the symptoms of “death by slideshow” and how to avoid them. We also start to think of shows in terms of their “story archetype” and how this helps us with image selection and sequencing. We also look at various ways of sharing your show and how each format should have an impact on the types of images you use and how you structure your show. Those continuing from AN101 will look at their shows in this new light and continue to improve the look and visual impact of their show. And we still have some advanced tips and tricks for ProShow Gold to share!

For more information, times, and pricing, go to courses.photoclans.net and look for the “Animatography 100 Series”. (direct course link: http://courses.photoclans.net/AN101.php)
If there are any other questions, feel free to contact the course instructor: derek.carlin@gmail.com

Class sizes are small, and the last two runs of this course have sold out. Students can pay online (credit card via PayPal), or by mail.

This is a DIGITAL competition and you can EMAIL me your entries to rcphotos@telus.net

The club can only enter 6 photos – so each member should submit only ONE image – we shall then go through all the images at our meeting on

If I haven’t received 6 entries by the 9th of January, we will not enter the competition – so please do not bring your photos to the meeting – they MUST be emailed prior to January 9th!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

I will post all this info on the blog as a reminder for everyone.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and a stellar New Year!

Thanks!

Lets have some fun with the competition and see what our imaginations can come up with!!!!!!Maryann

ALTERED REALITY COMPETITION (Digital) – JANUARY 20th, 2010

Images must be heavily manipulated and obviously creatively enhanced including composites, creative filters etc. These images are not meant to look like a regular photograph.

Club Entries: 6 photographs (digital images or prints, depending on the competition) from six different club members may be entered into each competition.

Digital Images:
1. Images must be sized to no more than 1024 pixels on the long side for horizontal images and no more than 768 pixels on the long side for verticals. High quality JPEG, preferably in the sRGB colour space.

2. Correct orientation for viewing — images will be shown as submitted and will not be resized, rotated, or adjusted.

3. Naming convention for Clubs and Individuals. Name of Photographer- image entry #-Title of Image.jpg e.g, JohnSmith-1-Sunset or JohnSmith-2-Duck

she shared with us how you start from the outer edges of the picture and work your way in . this seemed very odd , because we all thought the shot was good .

Hair . yes we started with hair . no not the over all colour but the “” the fly aways ” the ones your mother woould lick her thumb and  flatted to your head . the clone tool was used to used to remove the fuzzys . at a zoom factor i dont ever want to look at any one at . ( other than my wife ) . she worked from one side over the top and down the other . . she even removed  nose and ear hair .

 the next part was skin . blemishes .  she wrked with a very small clone stamp and  low opacity . she showed us how to much / to fast a change showed up like a big circle. the trick was to hide the blemishes not remove them

next was lighten the dark areas . the wrinkles and the lines from glasses .

Oh. each step was done a separte layer .

ill add to this more soon

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We will meet at the community center at 9:00 and car pool out to North Vancouver.

Expect to be in the park for at least a couple of hours and probably do lunch afterwards.

Dress for the weather as this outing is RAIN OR SHINE!

Our first meeting for the fall is September 14th. 7 – 9 Looking forward to seeing you all after the summer break!
Don’t forget to bring your summer assignment photos so we can all see what you have been up to!