Fellow photographers can take advantage of my skills and experience in the following ways:

• RAW editing service
• camera skills tutoring
• adobe lightroom basics
• adobe photoshop basics

CAMERA-RAW EDITING SERVICE

Need clean, colour-balanced, exposure-corrected camera-RAW edits but don’t have time to – or don’t love to – do the work? available light ltd can turn a job around promptly and for a fair price so you can get on with the parts of your photography business that you love. Not sure? Contact me below and send me a free test RAW file for correction.

• Delivery via hard disk, memory stick, DVD, or Dropbox (depending on the size of the job).
• Industry standard current or recent versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will be used.

TUITION IN CAMERA SKILLS

In-person tutoring one-on-one (for this reason, this service is only available in Auckland). Suitable for beginners to intermediate photographers. Improve composition, shooting, and camera control. Topics which can be covered during a session include:

• gear overview and selection
• basic camera controls & settings
• shooting modes and what they are for
• manual shooting
• better portraiture – tips and techniques
• moving subjects (kids/pets/sports etc)
• better landscapes – tips and techniques
• storytelling: photojournalism tips & techniques
• basic flash photography
• other questions you may have…

TUITION IN PHOTO EDITING

Editing for digital photography has replaced the darkroom and the trays of chemicals – but it is no less specialised. Learn how to repair some basic shooting errors after the fact, and make your finished images look how you imagined when you took them. Topics which can be covered during a session include:

• exposure & colour correction (jpg and raw)
• cropping, straightening, rotating
• contrast adjustment, black & white conversions
• working with layers (in Photoshop)
• creating and using actions & presets
• cloning/healing (replacing sections of an image, removing/adding objects)
• blending multiple images including creating panoramas (in Photoshop)
• finishing your images and preparing them for print or online
• other questions you may have…

Sessions are booked in 1-hour slots. You will require a computer/laptop with Adobe Photoshop and/or Lightroom installed (or active 30-day trial versions). Online tutoring is available via skype and screen-sharing.

Adobe Creative Cloud now allows users to subscribe for a low monthly amount rather than purchasing software outright. 30-day free trial versions for all required software are also available at the above link.