Category Archives: Resources

Astrophotography 101 by Belinda Kerr and Fiona Jones 2026

Posted on April 1, 2026 by Geoff Shaw

Belinda and Fiona’s workshop on Astrophotography was animated, entertaining and informative. They kindly shared a cheatsheet and their powerpoint slides. Astrophotography 101 Cheatsheet (JPG 181 kB) Astrophotography 101 presentation (PDF 2.8 MB)

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Colour Theory: notes from Paul Robinson

Posted on March 21, 2026 by Geoff Shaw

Paul Robinson presented a workshop on Colour Theory on 21 March 2026. He kindly allowed us to share his images and notes, which I have collated into PDF files for sharing. Presentation 1: Colour-An Introduction https://resources.waverleycameraclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WCC-Workshop-Colour-An-Introduction-Paul-Robinson.pdf Presentation 2: Colour in … Continue reading →

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Portraiture with DIY lighting

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Geoff Shaw

Following David Williams inspiring workshop on 17 Feb 2026, I thought it might me useful to make some notes on some of the many things he mentioned. Home Studios You don’t need lots of space and you don’t need lots … 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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Creating Composites Workshop by Sharon and Rob Prenton Jones

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Overview We had a fantastic day-long workshop on Jan 7th 2024, presented by Sharon and Rob Prenton Jones https://www.prentonjonesphotography.co.uk/news/live-workshop-in-australia/. They covered a range of topics including (apologies if I have forgotten any major topics – a lot was covered): Links … 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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Equivalence – sensor crop factors and more

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Geoff Shaw

How do you take similar photos using two different cameras? For example consider an image I might take with my Canon R5 (full frame, 45 MPx) an image with a 50 mm lens. To get the same field of view … 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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ON1 Photo Raw

Posted on July 28, 2021 by Geoff Shaw

Overview ON1 Photo RAW is a relative newcomer to the photo editing arena (currently designated ON1 Photo RAW 2021.5), but looks to be feature filled. It includes Digital asset management and a non-destructive, layered editing paradigm, incorporating many features of … Continue reading →

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Darktable

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Geoff Shaw

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw … Continue reading →

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