Workshops
We will start with some short presentations, then open it up to members to share their own favorite tips and apps. If you have an app you would like to share, please contact Meredith at maharris22@sbcglobal.net.
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford.
This will be a chance to share and discuss your images with other COPS members in an informal setting.
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford.
Arthur Vaughan, HonNEC, NECCC Print Competition Director, will be presenting the “Best of NECCC Prints” on Monday, March 13 at 7:15 PM. Award winning color and monochrome prints from the 2022 New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) conference and the NECCC Interclub Prints of the Year will be shown, with insightful live commentary from Art, an experienced and accomplished photographer and print maker. Enjoy outstanding prints from landscapes to portraits, wildlife to still life, creative and beyond. Art is coming from North Andover, MA to present to us. Please join us for this always popular program.
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford. If inclement weather forces a change, a MailChimp notice will be sent by 3 PM that day.
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford.
Beat the winter photography blues at the February Workshop where we will demonstrate how to set up and shoot a variety of indoor projects. This will be a hands-on workshop, so bring your camera. You will have the opportunity to
photograph crystal balls, water droplets, oil and water abstracts, and light-pad still lifes.
What to bring:
Camera with general lens
Tripod (if you have one)
Macro lens (if you have one)
Come even if you don’t have a tripod or macro lens. You will still have photo opportunities.
Click on an item below to download instructions for:
Lens ball photography
Light box photography
Oil and water abstract photography
Water drop photography
Frozen flowers – we didn’t do this, but give it a try!
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford.
We are pleased to kick off 2023 with a workshop presentation by Steve Silk of the new masking adjustments available in Lightroom (and Photoshop Camera Raw). The last two big updates of Lightroom included easy-to-use masking tools to provide a wide range of control over every aspect of your image. From enhancing the sky to brightening the whites of the eyes in a portrait, what were once complicated, time-consuming techniques are now literally as easy as pushing a button. We’ll review the use of these game-changing tools and show how you can use them to enhance photos, no matter what kinds of picture you like to take. Although the presentation will be from Lightroom, the new tools are also available in Camera Raw in Photoshop, so Photoshop users will also find this workshop beneficial.
The workshop will be in person at the First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St. West Hartford.
The November 14 workshop will be a chance to share and discuss your images with other COPS members in an informal setting. We will split into small groups and spend the evening sharing and talking about our images, including giving and receiving feedback on the strong points of the images and potential ways to improve them. This is a great way to learn from each other in a no pressure, non-competitive situation. Groups will be moderated by Gert Perry, Pam Hastings and Steve Silk.
Those wishing to take part should bring up to 5 images to be discussed with the group. The pictures can be digital images (on your laptop) or prints. If you would like to share digital images, but do not have a laptop, contact one of the moderators by Thursday Nov. 10 to discuss alternatives. You are welcome to come without images to listen to the discussion, but we hope you will bring a few. Join us for a fun and enlightening evening.
Last season, Steve Potashner prepared a workshop for Charter Oak describing how to use post-processing to:
1 – Change the background on an image
2 – Use exposure blending to fix dynamic range issues
He was unavoidably unable to present the workshop last winter, but he is making the materials from the workshop available. Steve’s step-by-step instructions for these processes, as well as images to practice on, can be found on Google Drive by clicking here.
