Goodies Box - all kinds of everything

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Battle Ready - John Olsen

Club rules, policies etc

• Club Rules (pdf)
• NCC policy on ownership of images (web page)
• Technical capacity (pdf) - information for presenters to help ensure smooth presentations

Club how-to's

• ​Chris Conroy - Basic edits to add zing to your photos (pdf)
• Chris Conroy - Dodging & Burning Using layers (pdf)
• Daniel Wong - Night Sky Photography -  (pdf)
• Graeme Robertson - High Speed Photography -  (web page)
• Graeme Robertson on photostacking (web page)
• Jean Willis - Sizing in Photoshop Elements (pdf)
• Jon Coe - Using Flash (pdf)
• Pep Ventosa technique - an introduction (pdf)
• Peter Wise - How to build your own light box (pdf)​
• Peter Wise's Smoke & Dry Ice Hints (pdf)
• Portrait Photography workshop hints (pdf)
• Stan Sutton's high speed water droplets (web page)
• Working with Stylepix to produce a Pep Ventosa style image (pdf)

Club resources

• ​​Entering into club competitions (pdf)
• Tips for photography competitions - Irene Callaghan (pdf)
• ​'My Photography' brief (.pdf)
• 'My Photography' template (.ppt)

PSNZ Camera Talk

Read the latest Camera Talk publication from PSNZ or browse their archives here,

Technical resources

• PSNZ Natural History rules (web)
• PSNZ definitons Landscape, Nature, Wildlife, NZ Nature, Photojournalism (pdf)

Image editors

• Faststone (free!)
• Adobe Photography plans
• Nik Collection
• OnOne
• Affinity Photo (Photoshop alternative) (check out the reviews: Long review, Short review)
• Stylepix (free, downloadable & portable versions)

Triptych resources

• Constructing a triptych using Photoshop (pdf)
• How to make a triptych in Elements 7 (pdf)
• How to make a triptych in Lightroom 4 (pdf)
• How to make a triptych in OnOne 2018 (pdf)
• How to make a triptych in Faststone 2019 (pdf)
• For more ideas and inspiration, visit http://abstractedreality.com/articles/talking-triptychs

Skybird - Barry Doig

Inspiration

• Seeing like a photographer (web)
• Creative photography on YouTube (web)
• Inspiration on YouTube​ (web)
• Inspiration Grid (web)
• Inspiration on Pinterest (web)

You never know what you'll find on.....

Magazines

• PSNZ Camera Talk​
• ​DPhoto
• ​NZPhotographer

​​Societies

• PSNZ
• Nature Photography Society of New Zealand
• Australian Photographic Society
• Photographic Society of America
• Royal Photographic Society (UK)
• International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP)​

How-to's

• How to use leading lines to improve your photography (web)
• KelbyOne - online photography  courses
• The exposure triangle explained - shutter speed, aperture & ISO (web)
• Photoshop Blend Modes Explained (web)
• Julianne Kost: principal digital imaging evangelist, Adobe

“Photography has nothing to do with cameras.”
— Lucas Gentry

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