some lovely photos in there, Wow, especially the boat & moon and the tree stump. Would you recommend the course?
Thanks.
Yes, I enjoyed it. I think Jen did too, and she took some terrific photos.
The course doesn't recommend specific editing software, although I think the vast majority of delegates seemed to be using Lightroom. I'm a skinflint and object to shelling out £lots for something I'd never used before. As I mentioned on the course, I've taken thousands of photos over 50 years with decent film/digital cameras. But I've always treated my digital photos as I would have done a set of prints that have just come back from Bonusprint. I'd cropped the odd image, but otherwise, editing was completely new to me. I did mess around with Darktable, but couldn't really get the hang of it. My computer has a copy of Pixelmator on it - a legacy from when Dez lived here, I think - but I'd never used that either. Some of the moderators talked about Affinity as an editing package that you bought, rather than hired by the month. I think it's <£70.
There is a follow-up 10 week course which costs £500 and leads to credits if you want to put them towards a degree. I might do that at some point, but the next start date is 25th March, and I'm not in a position to commit to that at this stage. I have signed up to a day's photography at Flatford Mill on 11th April. That's £92 and is run by the
Field Studies Council. They've also got a summer school in Devon in July, which looks particularly tempting. I have also joined a photography forum -
talkphotography.co.uk. That link takes you directly to some of the photos that their members posted in 2023. Thre are some superb pictures on there.