Ray, our vice-chairman, was in charge this evening as Chris is away with his family for a while.
He introduced our guest speaker, Lisa Beaney, who came to judge one of our competitions last season. Lisa hails from Steyning, and is a Wedding Photographer, together with her Husband Phil, and is an award winner in Wedding photography, Fashion and Glamour, and Portrait photography, together with an ARPS with the Royal Photographic Society. According to Ray she is ‘certified’ to instruct in Adobe Lightroom!
Ray had requested some images from our members for Lisa to illustrate how Lightroom could be used to enhance and improve them. She also used some of her own stunning wedding images to show us various aspects of the amazing way you can batch process a series of images, all taken in the same lighting conditions; storing your images; changing the perspective of buildings which appear to be falling over backwards, and do so many other things with your photographs. We were also shown how to use the many menus for all the many different things one can do.
Lisa trains photographers in the use of Lightroom, details of which you can find on her website.
We were shown too much to report here, but as a relatively new user of the program myself, I learnt lots of new stuff and found out many, many more of the things I still have to learn.
Our audience was swollen by several of our friends from Steyning CC, some of whom asked some very intelligent questions! One topic Lisa touched on was the use of different colour spaces showing us that some parts of some spaces cannot be seen either by ones computer screen or by Lightroom, and so it was a waste to use them. Raw images do not have a particular colour space.
By the end of the evening some of us were suffering information overload and I for one may take up fishing as it seems far less demanding!
Thank you Lisa for a very interesting evening indeed.