Mentorship News

The mentorship committee will be offering Pre-meeting Seminars meant to be for newer photographers. This year's concept for the Pre-meeting Seminars (to be held from 5:45 p.m. till 6:45 p.m. maximum) is to devote a month to one topic. The first Thursday will be the presentation of the topic, the first Saturday after that will be a photography outing, open for everyone, but one where less experienced photographers can practice what they learned at the previous meeting. The presenter of that month's topic will attend the Saturday outing to answer questions and give assistance where needed. The third Thursday's Pre-meeting Seminar will be a time for show and tell and to ask questions that may have come up on the photo outing. This follow-up session will be a very casual "Show and Tell" setting. No matting or specific presentation requirements.

We are also putting together off-night workshops that will be longer and more extensive than the Pre-meeting Seminars and planned to meet the needs of the more advanced photographers in the club.  Some of the off-night workshops are a "Get to Know Your Camera" workshop where everyone may bring their camera and manual and get some assistance with how to get out of the auto mode. This class will be in October.  In November there will be a 6 hour series on Lightroom 2 (2 hours class once a week for 3 weeks) and, beginning in December, a series on Photoshop. I know I am personally looking forward to that. There will also be a workshop on cutting your own mats, possibly on shooting and digitally stitching together panoramas with Photoshop, possibly a workshop on how to put together a portfolio to present to galleries, and more. We will keep you updated as things get set in the calendar. You can check the club calendar at the ELCC website for details http://enchantedlens.org/mentorship.php.

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Leroy is going to continue his Casual Critiques each month and may offer portrait workshops in the spring. If you have any other suggestions and/or would like to present a class yourself, please let me know. I can be reached by phone at 332-9475 and email at Paigeriffic@comcast.net.)

I am excited about this next club year and working with all of you to make it really special.
 

One-on-One Help

Some of our experienced members have offered to do one-on-one training with newer members who make an appointment with them.  Below is a list of those volunteers, their contact information, and the programs they can help with.