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Happy New Year & welcome to the Digital Photography Courses Newsletter for January 2012

This month Welcome to 2012 Last few calendars for sale January Project - Monochrome January Tutorial - Creating Mono Pictures is Picasa Claiming your Photography Course Gift Vouchers Night Photography Course on Sunday 29th January NEW Creative Lighting Course Sat 11th February Portrait Photography Course Sun 26th February Latest Course Dates Please unsubscribe if you don't want this newsletter We have about five of our 2012 calendars left for anyone who wants one or a spare for family or friends. I will not be ordering any more until next year but you can get your copy from http://www.digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/calendar.html

Can you believe it's 2012 already? I hope you all had a good Christmas and Santa got you everything you wanted. If not then don't worry there are now only another 357 more more shopping days until Christmas all over again.

This month's project is Monochrome. As the trees have lost their leaves and the colours have become more muted it is a good time to try your hand at Black and White photography. I've also included a Picasa tutorial to get you started.

Upcoming Courses One to One Photography Tuition Photography Course Gift Vouchers Sat 14th Jan Beginners DSLR 1 Space Sun 15th Jan Beginners DSLR 3 Spaces Sat 28th Jan Beginners DSLR Course Sun 29th Jan Night Photo Course (L2) Sat 11th Feb Creative Lighting (L2) Sun 12th Feb Beginners DSLR Course Sat 25th Feb Beginners DSLR Course Sun 26th Feb Portrait Course (L2) Sun 11th Mar Beginners DSLR Course

Gift Vouchers

If you are one of the lucky people who received a Digital Photography Course Gift Voucher the we start our beginners courses again on Saturday 14th January 2012 but you vouchers are valid for a full 12 months. Visit www.digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/gv for details on how to book your course date.

Night Photography Course We're running the very popular Night Photography Course in January this year, rather than February, so we can spend more time outside as it gets dark earlier. This course covers taking A portrait indoors without flash A portrait indoors by candle light Buildings by street light Halloween pictures Firework Pictures Writing with light pictures Car light trail pictures

New Creative Lighting Course

I've had lots of people ask about water splash, smoke and taking abstract pictures so I've launch a new Creative Lighting Course covering these topics. This course is normally only run as a 121 private tuition day so this is the first time as a group course of four students. Two of these spaces are already taken so for those of you who got a new separate flashgun this, or the portrait course, is a good opportunity to try it out. How to use Off Camera Flash A Water Splash under various lighting scenarios Smoke under various lighting scenarios Painting with light spirographs Bokah Photography - Out of Focus Light Points Blending images in photoshop

Portrait Course

Students are increasingly asking how to take portraits using home studio flash kits with white & black backgrounds so we are adding this to the course itinerary. There will also be the chance to try out various professional flash techniques using bounced & direct flash. Your own dedicated flashgun with a bounce head & a tripod are really useful additions for this course.

During this photography course you will learn how to take:

A portrait outside without flash A portrait outside with fill in flash A portrait indoors without flash A portrait indoors with flash A portrait indoors with off camera flash A portrait indoors using bounce flash A portrait indoors by window light A moody low key portrait with a black background A light high key portrait with a white background A portrait indoors by studio flash and a white background A Portrait indoors by studio flash and a black background

This Month's Project - Monochrome

Frosty mornings and the low sun creating long shadows make great black and white images so this months project is to upload monochrome pictures to the Facebook group. If you have access to full Photoshop then there are lots of different methods to create a mono image but here a just a few.

• Image - Mode- Grayscale
• Image - Adjustments - De saturate
• Image - Adjustments - Channel Mixer - Monochrome

All these methods will produce different results so try them all. They might need as bit of an extra boost in contrast by using the Level (CTRL L) command.

If you only have Picasa the simply go the the Effects Tab and choose B&W. Now choose the Tuning Tab and play with the Highlights, Fill and Shadows sliders until you get the look you want. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your results.

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Happy New Year and very best wishes

Glen & Jacqui

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