Head On Foundation – Photo awards and festival 2023

I got a request from Head On Foun­da­tion if I would be able to put some­thing on the web­site about the Head On Foun­da­tion Pho­to Award and Fes­ti­val, and I’m hap­py to put it in this quick announce­ment. The entries for 2023 are open, it is an Aus­tralian orga­ni­za­tion, but open for inter­na­tion­al entries. There are Cash … Read more

The Photoshop Creativity Virtual Summit

APRIL 17 – 20, 2023 Every year I enjoy the free Pho­to­shop train­ing these guys put togeth­er, and this year will be no dif­fer­ence. You can get a free pass for the 4‑day train­ing course ses­sions (online event) here: Pho­to­shop Cre­ativ­i­ty Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (pscreativitysummit.com) They encour­age you to buy the VIP pass, which main­ly removes the view­ing time … Read more

What’s on the plate for 2023? Printing!

I thought about what the year 2023 should bring, and I decid­ed to progress a num­ber of per­son­al projects I had in my mind. One top­ic will be print­ing on your home inkjet print­er.  Peo­ple might under­es­ti­mate the capa­bil­i­ties of their office print­er; some are quite capa­ble of pro­duc­ing beau­ti­ful prints good enough to enter into com­pe­ti­tions. I … Read more

Next year 2023

It is time to reflect on the past year, and what has been done (or not). There is no way to white­wash it, I just have to admit that I neglect­ed the web­site this year. There are rea­sons for it, but for you as the read­er it does not real­ly mat­ter, there was just no new con­tent. … Read more

David Osborn Photography – The Making Of Tower Bridge

Today I would like to direct your atten­tion to a pho­tog­ra­ph­er who cre­ates quite unique images. He start­ed a new series of … well I don’t know how to call it … steps to doc­u­ment how he works on an image from scratch. Read about it here on his blog part of the web­site: David Osborn Pho­tog­ra­phy ~ One … Read more

Photoshop Summit 3

It’s this time of the year again, the vir­tu­al Pho­to­shop Sum­mit 3 will be here soon! If you haven’t heard of it by now, you should def­i­nite­ly give it a try this year if you want to get full-on Pho­to­shop edu­ca­tion for noth­ing more than your time! There will be free live stream­ing and free access for 48hours … Read more

Lightroom Virtual Summit

If you are inter­est­ed in learn­ing Adobe Light­room, you might want to have a look at this free event here (3 ‑7 May 2021): Light­room Vir­tu­al Sum­mit I have attend­ed a num­ber of vir­tu­al sum­mits sim­i­lar to the upcom­ing one, and it was always valu­able. You have to pro­vide your email address to get a free pass for … Read more

Nik Collection user – quick tip

I’m using the Nik Col­lec­tion tools for a while now, but for what­ev­er rea­son I did­n’t know that they have some good webi­na­rs on their web­site. I stum­bled across that when I was watch­ing one webi­nar of them on Youtube, the one about Sil­ver Efex Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sDQAuHtTc4 They made a ref­er­ence to their webi­nar page, and here it is:  https://nikcollection.dxo.com/webinars You … Read more

Vision-21 – the 68th PSNZ National Convention is open for registration

The Photographic Society of New Zealand (the umbrella organization for amateur photographers in New Zealand) is calling all New Zealand based photographers to register for the National Convention 2021. It is happening in Christchurch, with CPS (Christchurch Photographic Society) hosting the event. Have a look at the convention website here: Vision-21 – PSNZ National Convention – The Art of ... Read more

Affinity Photo price currently 50% off

Just a quick note to let you know that Affin­i­ty Pho­to is cur­rent­ly 50% off. So if you always thought about get­ting a license, now might be a good time. There is also the update ver­sion 1.9 avail­able. I am not affil­i­at­ed with Serif Affin­i­ty Pho­to, I am just a casu­al user, but I found it a good alter­na­tive with a dif­fer­ent licens­ing mod­el.  … Read more

PSNZ Camera Talk

Screenshot of CameraTalk PSNZ

In case you did­n’t know, the Pho­to­graph­ic Soci­ety of New Zealand (PSNZ) has a bi-mon­th­­ly pub­li­ca­tion, alled “Cam­er­aTalk”. You don’t have to be a mem­ber to read it, and you can also read through pre­vi­ous pub­li­ca­tions. Find them all here: Cam­er­aTalk PSNZ

The Photographer Academy – get it free for one year

The Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Acad­e­my mem­ber­ship free for a year A cou­ple of weeks ago I got a tip from a fel­low club mem­ber of my local pho­to club. He said there is a UK based pho­to com­mu­ni­ty web­site who decid­ed to make their low­est mem­ber­ship plan free for a year (nor­mal­ly £49).  I took on the offer and got some good infor­ma­tion from … Read more

Welcome!

London Building

First post on Glob­alPho­to­Club! It takes a while to set­up the web­site and get every­thing in order. Some things are still rough around the edges, so you can expect more con­tent and func­tions in future. The About page is fin­ished, and you can con­tact me via the Con­tact page. I have the first arti­cle already pub­lished on … Read more