They will be there with their Summer Truck, a tent, and some giveaways for visitors.  It’s a fun addition to our closing day event!  
Stop by and say hi!"

University of Manitoba Graduate Student, Alisha Ritchie, has been conducting ground-breaking research on Purple Martins at Ellis Bird Farm. She recently presented a paper at the North American Ornithological Conference entitled Intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing parental provisioning rates of a migratory songbird, Purple Martin (Progne subis). Alisha will be give a repeat presentation of this paper at Ellis Bird Farm on Thursday September 1 at 4:00 PM. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. ​

This course will give extensive training in the use of Adobe Lightroom, which is the most popular photo-editing program in use today.  Your presenter will be Leo de Groot, currently President of the Central Alberta Photographic Society.
 
You will learn how to:

Import your photos into the program’s Library module which can handle 200,000 images or more

• Automatically apply custom settings during the import
• Customize the way the software displays your images on screen
• Analyze your photos for technical quality
• Filter your photos to expedite organizing them
• Rank your images
• Organize them so you can easily find photos  using keywords
• Add watermarks or signatures
• Export them again in various sizes and formats

Edit your images using the Develop module

• Modify basic settings like exposure, contrast, shadows, blacks, saturation, and more
• Use the histogram to decide what adjustments are appropriate
• Use presets to quickly apply adjustments
• Make fine adjustments to individual colors in images
• Sharpen your image
• Control noise
• Automatically have lens corrections applied
• Correct distortions in images
• Use special tools to crop, remove spots, apply graduated filters, and adjustment brushes

 
Lightroom also has Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web modules which we will touch on if there is time.
 
The schedule for the course will be:
Saturday, October 29
9:00-11:00 Library Module Part 1
11:00-12:00 Question and Answer session
1:00-3:00 Library Module Part 2
3:00-4:00 Question and Answer session
Sunday, October 30
9:00-11:00 Develop Module Part 1
11:00-12:00 Question and Answer session
1:00-3:00 Develop Module Part 2
3:00-4:00 Question and Answer session  

​​Cost $100 (half price for Central Alberta Photographic Society Members) 
​Register and pay here.
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