Workshop Experience : Photography Studies College Week #3
Well week 3 has rolled on already. Again, still in the "ground setting mode" mainly - this week we all focussed on workflow basics and LR setups etc in the PSC Digital Lab. We also went through some portable hard disk setups for mobile workflows.
Aside from a couple of random public share folder deletions. all went cleanly !
[For me I use Lightroom Creative Cloud and really enjoy its flexibility and structured workflow. There are plenty of great tip sights for Lightroom, as well as many video based learning sites. I always bring in my images as DNG (of course Leica cameras already do that for me); I import into a separate and uniquely named folder under the main heading of each year (e.g. 2014, 2015, etc); I use the date then location as my folder name (e.g. Aug122015-Lygon Street); I apply keywords during import as well as creating smart previews; I then do a quick filter and flag the keepers, delete the non keepers, then set about my editing routines as needed.
Backups of the catalog and the individual folders of keeper images are spread across my two 5 Tbit RAID NAS boxes. I only rename upon export to either Facebook, Instagram, 500px or someones email etc. I also use the handy dandy keyboard overlay for Lightroom found at KB Covers]
All the students then shared their 2 slow shutter (ISO400, 1/4 sec) shots for critique by Scott our tutor. Here are mine.
Leica Q, Handheld Standing, ISO400, 1/4, f5, AFocus, Macro, Straight out of camera, cropped
Leica Q, Handheld Sitting, ISO400, 1/4, f14, MFocus, Straight out of camera, cropped
The Leica Q was pretty easy to hold still being a little bigger than a normal 28mm fixed camera. I found it ok to handle.
A good exercise just to remind us how to hold a camera particularly when out and about working at low light. I would probably never see the need to go to a 1/4 sec and looking for a crisp image, but 1/30 1/15 handheld out on the street and getting a crisp image is a good skill to have.
Give it a try and see how you can improve by standing and or bracing yourself at 1/4 shutter.
We also received two assignments to work through. One we have two weeks to complete and that is going out and taking images that capture the "discovery walk" we did week 1.
The second is over the next week submit 5 images of anything for peer and tutor review - I assume thats a sort of benchmarking where we each are such that we can track our own progression as we go through the next weeks.
Out on the streets I go!