LBPC PhotoMastery

LBPC Members mentoring site. Share your images, get feeback and constructive critique. Personal 1-on-1 coaching and mentoring from other members to give you the training and the support you need to truly reach your potential as a photographer.

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Index Of Other Blogs

LBPC - Lightroom Tutorials

LBPC - Photo Critique

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Organizing Photos with Adobe Lightroom

LBPCPhotoMastery Lightroom beginners recommended video 3

Tim Grey will share his expertise and experience to help you stay organized using   Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Topics will include:

Organized at Import

Rating Images

Updating Metadata

Adding Keywords

Incorporating Location Information

Finding your Photos

Much more!

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Streamlined Organization in Lightroom | Tim Grey

LBPCPhotoMastery Lightroom beginners recommended video 2

If you'd like to streamline your workflow for keeping your photos organized. During this presentation, Tim shares tips and strategies for defining a workflow you can implement efficiently to help keep your photos organized. 

 While the presentation will focus on the use of Adobe Lightroom, the concepts presented can be applied to virtually any image management software. You'll learn: 

Strategies to keep your photos organized right from the start 

Tips for reviewing photos quickly 

Insights on making the most of keywords 

Techniques for locating specific photos

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Introduction

Welcome to LBPCPhotoMastery.

In this group, we aim to provide a mentoring service for LBPC members, where experienced and knowledgable members in a particular area can help and support other members.

Whether you are new to the club, club photography or just beginning your photography journey or an experienced photographer we can help each other grow as individual photographers and help improve our club.

As a member please take part as often as possible in posting and commenting on each other photographs, answering members questions to help and encourage us all to improve.

Our aims are:

Help each other learn and improve.

Give and receive critique and honest feedback on your images with recommendations and instructions on what areas to work on.

Get quick answers to photography questions that have had you stumped until now.

You simply want to improve your processing in general but you don't know where to start.

You don't speak fluent Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, Affinity Photo, etc and would like help getting the fundamentals and beyond.

You've been stuck on Auto mode and are yet to really understand aperture, shutter speeds and ISO.

Get simplified explanations of the technical side of photography, as it relates specifically to your situation.

Group Rules

Membership is invitation only.

Only fully paid up members of Leighton Buzzard Photographic Club can join and post images, along with any honorary members and lifetime members so awarded by the committee of the club.

Persons who have not renewed/continued their membership with Leighton Buzzard Photographic Club can be asked to leave the group at any time thereafter, or be allowed to remain on as an honorary member at the discretion of the administrators.

Under no circumstances, should members post any pornographic images or any other subject matter that will lead the author to civil prosecution. We would like to keep this group open to all ages.

Artistic nudes are allowed, as per the above criteria, but no genitalia to be included in the shot.

Any complaints about images posted in the group should be directed to a moderator or the Administrators. Complaints upheld will mean that the image will be removed and the person posting the image will face a possible life ban from the group depending on the severity of the offence caused.

As a member please take part as often as possible in posting and commenting on each other photographs to help and encourage us all to improve.

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Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom 6

LBPCPhotoMastery Lightroom beginners recommended video 1

This presentation features Lightroom 6, but the LR fundermentals covered by Tim works with newer versions of Lightroom as well.

Admit it: Your Lightroom catalog isn’t quite as organized as you’d like. In fact, you might even be a little embarrassed if another photographer were to see your Lightroom catalog.

In this session, Tim Grey shows you how to resolve organizational challenges in Lightroom and how to optimize your workflow to ensure you can always find the photo you need when you need it.

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Top 10 Tips For Optimizing Photos in Lightroom by Tim Grey 

LBPCPhotoMastery Lightroom beginners recommended video 4

In this session Tim Grey shares his top ten tips for making the most of your photos using Lightroom. You’ll gain insights into an approach that can help improve your image-optimization workflow, and how to make use of tools beyond what Lightroom’s Develop module offers.

You’ll learn how to optimize the quality of your photos through adjustments that remove noise, chromatic aberration, and perspective distortions.

And you’ll learn some techniques for exploring creative interpretations of your photos as well.

There are many possibilities when it comes to any photographic image. So join Tim for an entertaining and educational presentation that will help you gain confidence in your own ability to make the most of your photos.