Looking at Photography With Your Mind's Eye, Not Your Camera Lens - Workshop 2 This is the second workshop in a series of three half-day workshops hosted by Brisbane Camera Group and run by Adrian Lowe on artistic, creative photography to produce images with outstanding visual impact. These Workshops will not cover technical camera skills associated with taking photos. Instead these talks will explain how the mind works in the background in relation to a scene, and how we see, interpret and use techniques in camera and in post-production to highlight those unique elements. They all come from our prehistoric conditioning and still remain our subconscious motivators to this day. Adrian will cover such things as why do we peer into shadows, get distracted by a lot of highlight blocks, why do we like repetition, high contrast, BW, why does expression get to us? Why does a broad smile make us smile automatically? The workshops will delve into the psychology of photography and how we can create extraordinary images with strong visual impact. Adrian will present concepts based around how the subconscious gets attracted to, and distracted by, different elements in a scene/subject. Knowing what these are and the effect they have on you allows you to shoot to get the most from the scene, and ultimately to get the viewer using those same subconscious reactions to be moved by your image Adrian Lowe is the foundation President of The Masters' Apprentices Photography Club. He has been a professional photographer and operated a successful processing business back in the days of film. He has been a member of the Photographic Society of Queensland executive and a source of dynamic reformist ideas. Adrian has wide ranging interests in Philosophy, Video Photography and Personal Development strategies to name a few. Another area of expertise he has worked in is Hypnotherapy. Please register for this event at Eventbrite by clicking here. delete

Bird Photography-  Sandy Camp Wetlands  Sandy Camp Wetlands Reserve is one of the best birding locations in Brisbane, even better than Oxley creek in David Jones' opinion. It has a mixture of water birds, small grass birds, parrots, kits, & hawks.  There are very good walking tracks around and through the reserve. From the car park to the first water track is only 60m. The walking track has two large water lagoons on each side with a bird hide on one of the lagoons. A 200mm lens will be able to take photos of the ducks, cormorants, darters, pelicans, jacanas and crakes. For the finches, manakins, kingfishers, fairy-wrens, warblers, cisticolas, parrots and cuckoos, it just depends on how close they are. Where to meet We will meet in the car park, 135 Sandy Camp Rd, Lytton @ 08:00 https://goo.gl/maps/4LJb6VGdzhS2 Sandy Camp Wetlands is approx. ½ hour drive from BCG Club house in Albion What to bring: Camera The longest telephoto lens you have. Preferably 400mm or a 70 – 200mm with a x1.4 or x2.0 teleconverter/extender Fully charged batteries and empty storage cards Sun glasses, water, hat and sunscreen Covered walking shoes Insect Repellent Mobile phone (emergencies) Monopod (optional) Tripod (optional) Camera flash (optional) Thermos and snacks (optional) Towel (optional) This is a weather permitting outing, further contact information will be provided to registered participants. David Jones has kindly provided some helpful documents for assisting you with creating and processing your images from this outing: Australian birds keyword list - this is a text file so do not change the format. Instructions on how to use this document are below. How to import or export keyword lists from Lightroom or Adobe Bridge Wildlife and Sports Photography Back Button Focus NB. The registration commencement date for this event is 15 June 2018. If you see 6/15/2018 as the registration commencement date below then your computer/browser is using US delete