Category Archives: Artistic

Killer Tips: Adrian Donoghue

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Adrian Donoghue kindly judged the Waverley-Geelong Creative Competition (gallery at https://waverleycc.smugmug.com/Presentations-and-Events/Geelong-Waverley-Creative-Interclub-2024) He followed this with a presentation on his notes from his presentation “10 killer tips for creative ideas”. He has generously provided his notes that you can download from … Continue reading →

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Ewen Bell’s Judging Comments (ICM) and helpful links.

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Ewen broke the mould with his judging for our monthly competition (set subject ICM), turning it into a very educational presentation highlighting concepts that he illustrated using a selection of the entries. His presentation slides can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nai1n0ug2rui0qsmiuk7t/WCC-ICM-2024.pdf?rlkey=4rouxml3h3vh11x8fc3wlgnp6&dl=0 … Continue reading →

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Creative Photography Workshop by Suellen Saidee Cook

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Our Creative SIG presentation 09 April 2024 was by Suellen Saidee Cook, who joined us by Zoom from her home in Tasmania. She creates imaginative composites with strong narratives. Cook’s style is mysterious, enchanting, whimsical and emotive, with threads of … Continue reading →

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WCC Creative 2024

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

This is the home for the WCC Creative SIG in 2024. It will be updated as new material becomes available. Meeting schedule February A recording of the Feb zoom meeting is available via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZde0Rc5XU. The February meeting included … Continue reading →

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Colour match two images during compositing.

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Often, when you are compositing images the colours of the two (or more) source images may not match. Perhaps you have a model taken under studio lights that you want to layer onto a background with a different colour balance. … Continue reading →

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Adding a mist effect

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Mist can enhance some images, and adding a misty effect in Photoshop is not difficult. Here is one approach, based on the method demonstrated by Sharon Prenton Jones at a WCC workshop, Jan 2024. In this work through I am … Continue reading →

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Depth of field – a simulator …

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Geoff Shaw

Here is a useful resource to help you get your head around depth of field and how it changes depending on aperture, focal length, focal distance and sensor format. You can see the effect of changing any of these parameters … Continue reading →

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G’MIC

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Geoff Shaw

G’MIC, GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing is a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing. It includes a wealth of image processing filters (about 600 at the time I write this), and is available as a stand alone command line … Continue reading →

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Kaleidoscope effect

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Geoff Shaw

Repeating patterns catch the eye, and the Kaleidoscope effect certainly provides plenty of repeating patterns. Kaleidoscopes use angled mirrors to produce repeated patterns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope), but this effect is easily achieved also in software like Photoshop or GIMP. There are lots … Continue reading →

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Geoff’s Photo Doodler

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Geoff Shaw

The notes below should help get you started using my “Photo Doodler” program. First there is some background on what got me started on this project, then I give some examples, and then some brief instructions. Programming credits are at … Continue reading →

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