March 4 – Lightroom Classic Essentials – An Introduction to Lightroom, 7-9pm via Zoom
About This Workshop
During this introductory Lightroom Classic presentation, Elizabeth Gray covers the essentials of organizing, editing, and exporting photos. Starting with an overview of Lightroom’s interface and features, you learn how to import and organize photos using folders, keywords, and flags. Then,we will explore some of Lightroom’s basic editing features, including adjusting exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, and colour settings like white balance, vibrance, and saturation. Lastly, we will discuss exporting your photos for the web, social media, and print.
Elizabeth uses the subscription-based Lightroom Classic. However, this session will apply to most versions of Lightroom.
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/Events/View/a1010789-9978-409f-b1ca-088641cfa2ac
March 11 – Tips and Tricks for Lightroom Classic 2025 (Part 1) with Elizabeth Gray, 7-9pm via Zoom
About This Workshop
Registration for Part 1 of this workshop will automatically enroll you in both sessions.
In this two-part presentation, Elizabeth will show you powerful tips and tricks to boost editing efficiency, streamline workflows, and unlock creative possibilities when using Lightroom Classic. She will also discuss the new features of Lightroom CC 2025 (v14). This session is aimed at all abilities of Lightroom users. Each session provides practical techniques and lesser-known features that help photographers take full control of Lightroom’s tools.
Elizabeth uses the subscription-based Lightroom Classic. However, many of these tips and tricks will apply to most versions of Lightroom.
Topics of discussion will include:
• Upgrading your catalogue and removing older versions
• Renaming catalogues
• Speeding up LR
• Preview sizes and when to use each type
• Why should I keyword?
• How to move photos from LR to Photoshop and back without losing them
• Generative remove tool
• Content credentials on export
• How to create an export preset
• The difference between presets and profiles and how to use and create them
• Batch processing for consistency across images
• Black and white conversion tips
• How to use the colour picker
There will be lots of time for your questions!
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/Events/View/43ae792d-25e7-4a85-a334-723a329a919f
March 17 – Novice Image Review with Pam Irvine, 7-9pm via Zoom
This is an opportunity for Novice members to get a few of their images reviewed by some of the more experienced members of the club. This is NOT a competition. You can be anonymous if you wish, but our intention to is create a safe place to honestly discuss your images and help you to improve your photography.
Your images will be viewed and discussed by the reviewers and simple suggested edits will be performed live with Lightroom giving the participants a chance to see before and after recommendations and to learn some Lightroom techniques and tricks. You are welcome to attend to learn from the discussions even if you do not have an image being reviewed.
Please email 1 – 3 images to Pam Irvine at at least one day before the scheduled session. Images sent at the last minute (less than an hour before) will not be able to be downloaded and reviewed. Images can be raw or jpgs.
Please send images in jpg format if possible. If your image is cropped out of a larger image, please send the original larger image as well as the cropped one as this will be useful/educational to see the original and the cropped versions.
If you have problems sending your images email or phone Pam at 250-479-8152.
Minimum 4, Maximum 20 participants
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/club/Events_view.aspx?Eventid=3e2ac942-f99f-4912-b10d-b136993b3a2a
March 18 – Lightroom Classic Tips and Tricks 2025 (Part 2) with Elizabeth Gray, 7-9pm via Zoom
About This Workshop
Registration in Part 1 of this workshop will automatically enroll you in both sessions.
In this two-part presentation, Elizabeth will show you powerful tips and tricks to boost editing efficiency, streamline workflows, and unlock creative possibilities when using Lightroom Classic. She will also discuss the new features of Lightroom CC 2025 (v14). This session is aimed at all abilities of Lightroom users. Each session provides practical techniques and lesser-known features that help photographers take full control of Lightroom’s tools.
Elizabeth uses the subscription-based Lightroom Classic. However, many of these tips and tricks will apply to most versions of Lightroom.
Topics of discussion will include:
• Upgrading your catalogue and removing older versions
• Renaming catalogues
• Speeding up LR
• Preview sizes and when to use each type
• Why should I keyword?
• How to move photos from LR to Photoshop and back without losing them
• Generative remove tool
• Content credentials on export
• How to create an export preset
• The difference between presets and profiles and how to use and create them
• Batch processing for consistency across images
• Black and white conversion tips
• How to use the colour picker
There will be lots of time for your questions!
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/club/Events_view.aspx?Eventid=20d7178d-fdcc-4a7f-8e13-c3a7e1c6c2bf
March 25 – Intermediate/Advanced Image Review with Jill Turyk, 7-9pm via Zoom
This image review session is an opportunity for intermediate and advanced members to receive valuable objective feedback about their work. Jill Turyk and a guest reviewer will assess 12 images per session. The reviewers will place emphasis on where and how the photographers have been successful in meeting their goals and intent. Through discussions with the photographers, the reviewers hope to suggest ideas that might help the photographers to better convey their intent. The guest reviewer for this session will be Jim Fowler.
Although these reviews are not meant to be preparation for competition, and Jill is hesitant to score images, the scoring process may help members self-evaluate their images in the future. Therefore, we can discuss the scoring process if requested.
Jill hopes to provide ideas that will encourage members to review their own images. While it is important to become an effective critic of your own work, it is equally important to appreciate what you have accomplished.
Though the images up for review will be from intermediate and advanced members, all VCC members are welcome to attend and learn from each session. You must register to receive the Zoom invitation, which is sent to you on the day of the workshop.
How to Submit Images for Review
Intermediate and Advanced members should send one image to Jill when they receive the email request for submission, usually 2 weeks prior to the review session.
Please include the following information in your image submission email:
· Image title in the name of the JPG submitted
· Size the image: maximum 1400 pixels wide x 1050 pixels tall, at 300 dpi, no watermarks
· Camera metadata – f stop, ISO speed, focal (lens) length, shutter speed
· A brief statement of what you expected to achieve with your image
· Submit to
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/Events/View/4289799c-3233-4bb6-80be-26c3ff6a6776
March 31 – Urban Abstract Photography Workshop (In Person Event)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN IN-PERSON WORKSHOP, to be held from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM in Room 200, Fisher Building, Camosun College Lansdowne Campus (3100 Foul Bay Road).
Rick Lawrence works in a number of different photographic styles but is best known for his abstract and minimal images produced from photographs taken in urban environments, either his immediate environs or on his travels in Canada, South America and Europe. Urban abstract photography is about seeing your town or city differently. Rather than documenting a city’s most recognizable or photographed features, Rick looks for the relationship between lines, shapes, patterns, textures, colour and the interplay of light and shadow in streets and alleyways. It is often a seemingly uninteresting fragment within a particular field of view that reveals hidden beauty or perspectives that are often overlooked in the bustle of urban life.
This workshop will aim to inspire you to see your surroundings in new ways. Rick will talk about his influences, discuss his approach to seeing and taking photographs, and will demonstrate some of his post-processing techniques. Participants are welcome to bring their own computers/laptops if they wish to follow along or try out some ideas. Rick primarily uses Lightroom and Photoshop; a basic understanding of these tools would be useful but not essential.
https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/club/Events_view.aspx?Eventid=02ef72c6-44ca-4fcf-844e-ebe820e60dd5
Camosun College Lansdowne Room 200 Fisher Building
Room 200 Fisher Building 3100 Foul Bay Road Victoria BC V8P 5J2
No address is available.
https://camosun.ca/sites/default/files/2021-11/la_map.pdf
How To Register For Workshops:
1. You can click on the link provided in this email or you can clip on the workshop on the VCC calendar just as you if you were registering for a field trip. This will bring you the workshop description and bio of the workshop presenter.
2. At the bottom of this page, click on Registration Information, the click on Register for Event.
3. Final Step: Click on Register – you will then get a message that says you are currently registered for this event. If you don’t click on that last Register, you won’t be registered. Think of it as a final verification.
Mary Weir, Workshop Committee