Fred & Edie Greene Speaker Series

How Do I Improve This Image?
Hazel Meredith

Whether you are new to Photoshop and editing, or a seasoned pro, I’ll show you some simple adjustments that will make your images “sing”! Easy adjustments for contrast, shadows, highlights, clarity, cropping and more, will improve your images. As an active camera club judge, I often comment on simple fixes that will improve an image’s score. I will demonstrate in Photoshop, but the same techniques apply in almost any editing program.

Bio:
Hazel Meredith is an award-winning photographer and a sought-after teacher, speaker, and competition judge. She began teaching in 2007, and now does seminars at camera clubs and conferences across the U.S. – both in-person and virtual. She offers her own workshops and webinars and has done webinars for several software companies.

She has written two eBooks on working with textures and released two creative courses. She and her husband, Dave, produce the “Virtual Creative Photography Conference” with attendees from around the world. Hazel loves the creative aspect of photography and postprocessing, especially the use of textures and software to create unique images.

She is actively involved with the photographic community and has held leadership roles and received honorary distinctions from several organizations. In the Fall of 2020, she was the recipient of the Ashbrook Award for Digital Imaging Instruction from the Photographic Society of America.

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite

Puffins at Ile aux Perroquets
France Boutilier

Ile aux Perroquets is a tiny, rocky island in Quebec’s MinganArchipelago National Park Reserve. It is famous for its Atlantic Puffins and it features a historic 1951 heritage lighthouse that has been beautifully restored into a unique inn.

If you are interested in capturing puffin images where you are up close and personal with these birds, then this island’s photographic experience is for you!

Bio:
France’s photography interests have always included wildlife and travelling to different places to witness nature’s beauty. Her travels have taken her to many places on the mainland of the United States, Hawaii, Portugal, Africa, Costa Rica, Cambodia and Vietnam and of course various places in Canada. Through her travels, wildlife and scenery remains her main goal. Being a member of the Nova Scotia Photo Guild, it has offered some guidance and expertise of other photographers with a view of improving her photographic skills.

Show & Tell

This Show & Tell will be about using AI in your photography. You can show images created entirely with AI, images modified by AI or even your use of AI tools in post processing.

Send up to 10 images to Laszlo or prepare your own presentation and share your screen with WebEx.

Fred & Edie Greene Speaker Series

The Distinction Between Craft and Art and Why It Matters to Photographers
Freeman Patterson

Fluency in the photographic craft, i.e. ease in using photographic tools and techniques and knowing the building blocks of visual design plus useful guidelines for arranging them in picture space (composition) does not produce art any more than fluency in a language means that a person has anything of value to express. ART is conceived in our imagination, our dreams, and our passions. We use CRAFT to give it birth, that is visible or audible form. This presentation explores this important connection.

Bio:
FREEMAN PATTERSON of Shamper’s Bluff, New Brunswick, Canada, has had a career in photography and visual design that spans more than 60 years. He has taught innumerable workshops in many countries, but especially in Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand. He has authored 15 books, five of them on photography and visual design; his most recent, Embracing Creation, was published in conjunction with the opening of his large retrospective exhibition at New Brunswick’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery in September 2013. Freeman is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and a recipient of the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, the Progress Medal. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1985 and the Order of New Brunswick in 2013.

See www.freemanpatterson.com for more complete information and to read the current and back issues of “Images, Ideas, and Reflections,” Freeman’s periodical letter (six issues per year).

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite