Image
Critique Workshop
Monday,
Nov. 4, 2013 @ 7PM
Bill
Barnett’s home in Milford CT
Limited
to 5 participants
Margo
Bury attended this workshop last year and wrote a testimonial about her
experience. She did a much better job of describing it than I could, so it
appears here:
“One
of the best benefits of the New Haven Camera Club is the opportunity to become
a better photographer. There are many
ways that the club provides these opportunities, and attending workshops to
learn new skills or enhance existing ones is one of the best.
The best part of our highly qualified
membership is their willingness to share their knowledge. Bill Barnett is one
of those generous top rated award winning photographers. He is once again offering to open his home to
a small group of club members to provide individual critiques of their
work. Each person is invited to bring
three groups of five photos on a flash drive which Bill then loads into his
computer to be projected onto a large monitor.
He opens the discussion by stating what he likes about each photo, what
he doesn’t like about each image, what could have been done to have taken a
better image, and what could be done to process the image to improve it.
That by itself is instructive enough,
but, as they say – a picture is worth a thousand words! He proceeds to SHOW you what it looks
like. For example when he says the image
should be brighter, he brightens it. If
cropping would be the improvement, he crops it.
The original image is retained and he switches back and forth so you can
see the change in the image. By this
time on the first image the group is starting to get pretty excited about the
improvement in the image and chimes into the conversation. Now you are getting feedback from four more
photographers through a constructive dialog.
He rotates through all of the images so
everyone gets their images reviewed. How
many he can complete before the evening is over, depends on how many people are
there and how lengthy the conversations goes on.
No more wondering why you only got 21
out of 30 points when the judge’s comments are “This is a pleasing image”, “I
like it”, “nice composition”, and so on.
Now you will know for certain. There
are valuable lessons to be learned from your own work and the work of the others. This is a workshop not to be missed.”
-Margo Butry
You can sign up for this workshop at a Camera Club meeting,
or email Joan at beadnik2@gmail.com.
Please include your name, phone number and email address. Directions to Bill’s
home will be sent to participants approximately one week prior to the workshop.
The workshop is free, but you must be a NHCC member (paid your 2013-14 dues) to
attend.