Calgary Photographic Society

Event Name:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Workshops: Start to Finish Workflow for Photographers

Date:

October  16th – 17th 2010 Sat – Sun

Instructor:

Michael Clark

Location:

Ramada Hotel Downtown Calgary 708- 8th Avenue SW

Description:

Workflow Essentials. “Learn by Doing, and Walk away Knowing.” Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself fully in a 2-Day Lightroom Workshop in Calgray. This unique, hands-on workshop is led by award-winning digital photographer and Lightroom expert Michael Clark.

For more information and how to Register go to: http://www.lightroomworkshops.com/workshops.html

For anyone who’s interested Blurb is holding a free color management webinar on June 24th details here

Calgary Photographic Society Members,

Here is the update for this weeks meeting.

The speaker for this month is Brad Allen. Brad is a Commercial and Fine Art photographer and will be speaking to us about Fine Art Photography. Check out Brad’s website at http://www.allenfoto.com/

Make sure you bring in your prints for the print competition. The theme for this month is Abstract. As always you can bring in 1 print for the theme and 1 print in the open category. You decide what level to enter your prints, novice, intermediate or advanced. I look forward to seeing your photographic creations.

Meetings are held at the University of Calgary, in the Kinesiology “B” building . Our meeting room is KNB133.

See you there.

Scott Winter
CPS President

    Hello fellow Calgary Photographic Society members. Here I go again as your president for the second time. I will strive to do my best this year and next.

    I would like to thank the past executive for the work they have put in this past year and thank the new executive for putting their names forward to keep the CPS running strong for another year.

    I have heard that the membership would like to get more educational value from our speakers. I will attempt to bring in speakers that have something to share, that we may all become better photographers. With that being said, I will be speaker this coming meeting on portable location lighting options. I will bring in a model and show some easy lighting set-ups and how I would process the files in Photoshop.

    I hope you can all make it to the meeting. See you there. As usual the meeting will be held at the University of Calgary room KNB129 starting at 7:30PM on Wednesday March 3rd 2010.

Scott Winter
President,
Calgary Photographic Society

P.S. The print competition theme is “texture”.

At the February meeting there was some talk about where to get colour profiled printing done at reasonable prices.

The first step in this is to colour profile your monitor there are a couple of ways that you can do this

Colour Profiling Hardware

There are a couple of main companies that do profiling hardware

Pantone

Spyder

Both companies provide hardware that will do a good job profiling and maintaining an accurate colour profile of your monitor under windows or Mac OS X.

Colour Profiling Software

I personally haven’t used any manual colour calibration but Dry Creek Photo that does the colour profiles for Costco has this page that explains a manual procedure. And they also have a large learning section located here that is a good primer for colour management.

The next step is to download the colour profiles for the Costco closest to you all the profiles are available here.

The final piece of the puzzle is installing and using the colour profiles. Again dry creek has a great page with a great instructions on how to do this.

I did mis-speak at the meeting about Apertures support for outputting colour profiled images. I just tested this and it does actually convert exactly the same as Photoshop does so anyone using aperture can screen proof and convert correctly.