Seems no time since I ran my ‘Autumn in the City’ workshop at Liverpool and ‘Spring in the City’ is already on the calendar (27/4/13). Learn to take control your digital SLR with talks, exercises and a photo walk followed by an . . . → Read More: Spring in the City]]>

Liverpool Catholic Cathedral

Seems no time since I ran my ‘Autumn in the City’ workshop at Liverpool and ‘Spring in the City’ is already on the calendar (27/4/13). Learn to take control your digital SLR with talks, exercises and a photo walk followed by an image review session.

Ideal for those wanting to take their photography that one step beyond a snapshot.

See my Workshops page for more details.

As many of you know I’m a great fan of Adobe’s Lightroom for processing and cataloguing my images. Now, just as my review of Lightroom 4 Beta hits the magazine shelves in Advanced Photographer March edition, Adobe have today announced the availability of the production version.

I was pretty impressed . . . → Read More: Lightroom Version 4 is here]]>

Advanced Photographer March 2012

As many of you know I’m a great fan of Adobe’s Lightroom for processing and cataloguing my images. Now, just as my review of Lightroom 4 Beta hits the magazine shelves in Advanced Photographer March edition, Adobe have today announced the availability of the production version.

I was pretty impressed by the new features and, even better, Adobe have reduced the prices to £103.88 for the full version and £59.09 for an upgrade from any previous version. It stiill looks expensive compared with new competitors such as Corel’s AfterShot Pro at £79.99 but it’s a step in the right direction.

Some of the highlights are:

• Improved processing in the Develop module
• New book making module – linked to Blurb but you can use other services
• New Map module – Link your images to locations on a map
• Added video support – basic editing in LR
• Email straight from LR

If you’ve downloaded the Beta version it will still work up to 31st March.

So I’ve upgraded and will be having a root around to see if they have slipped any more last minute goodies (no sign of layers as yet )!

If you have a copy of Lightroom and are still baffled by what it does and how to get the best out of it I’m running workshops as part of the Epson Print Academy provided by Aspect2i. See my Workshops page for dates.

I’m not really a gear freak, so the launch of the Canon 5D III . . . → Read More: Focus on Imaging 2012]]> Had a great time at Focus on Imaging yesterday and managed to keep my credit card in my pocket all day … well I did buy Micheal Freeman.s ‘The Photographer’s Vision’ but that was 40% off so it didn’t really count!

I’m not really a gear freak, so the launch of the Canon 5D III sort of passed me by, I couldn’t be bothered with the crowds and for £3,000 you could have two Mark IIs. And as for a Nikon D800, well I have enough of my desk taken up with hard drives for now and 36 Megapixel files are going to be HUGE! I wonder how many of those images will ever be printed?

What I really enjoyed was meeting up with all the people I usually only contact via email. Had some great discussions and caught up with people I haven’t seen for a while which made the trip down the M6 and huge car park queues well worthwhile.

There’s still a couple of days left if you haven’t visited and Wednesday always seems to bring some additional bargains.

Following last year’s sell out Wilkinson Workshop at the Butterfly house in Lancaster’s Williamson Park, this year we are running two workshop days.

The first day was huge fun, after a morning looking at basic macro technique and a tasty lunch, we moved into the tropical heat of the Butterfly house for . . . → Read More: Bugs and Butterflies at Williamson park Lancaster]]>

Glass Butterfly

Following last year’s sell out Wilkinson Workshop at the Butterfly house in Lancaster’s Williamson Park, this year we are running two workshop days.

The first day was huge fun, after a morning looking at basic macro technique and a tasty lunch, we moved into the tropical heat of the Butterfly house for a couple of hours chasing our subjects for the day. They weren’t all as obliging as the one in my picture!

We spent the last hour reviewing some of the stunning images taken by workshop members and everyone went away with a print of their chosen shot.

I’m already looking forward to the next session on 24th October, you can book on line via Wilkinson Cameras website.

In film days it was hard enough to keep track of our images but with the explosion of digital images and the easy availability of Terrabytes of disk space, can you quickly find those perfect sunset images?

Fortunately Adobe Lightroom is not only a great Raw file converter but also . . . → Read More: Are you suffering from image overload?]]>

Advanced Photographer March 2012

In film days it was hard enough to keep track of our images but with the explosion of digital images and the easy availability of Terrabytes of disk space, can you quickly find those perfect sunset images?

Fortunately Adobe Lightroom is not only a great Raw file converter but also makes finding those elusive images much easier.

This workshop will give you all the essential skills to organise and process your images. I’ve used Lightroom since version 1 and you can read my review of the new version 4 beta in this month’s Advanced Photographer. Whilst Lightroom can look intimidating, I’ll be concentrating on practical working methods and you will leave with a clear plan of action.

Although based on Lightroom, users of other workflow software such as Apple’s Aperture and the new Corel AfterShot Pro will find plenty of useful tips.

More details and how to book, see here