Everyone says that to be a good photographer, you need a good camera. And a good lens, a good monitor and good software.
But how many experts suggest that what you really need are good ideas?
Don't get me wrong! I love buying new equipment, but I've never taken a great photograph without first having had a great idea. It's ideas and inspiration that will set our photography apart, not equipment which everyone else can buy!
My ideas have come from reading (and writing) magazines. Sometimes I’m reading another magazine, often I’m interviewing a photographer for my own Better Photography magazine. These are ideas I would never have thought about on my own.
I'd never type these ideas into Google because they're simply not on my radar - and that for me is the brilliance of magazines. It takes only one idea, one connection or one image to give you the inspiration for an entirely new direction, a special technique or a new concept.
Years ago in Better Photography magazine, I wrote a book review on Creative Elements: Landscape Photography written by Eddie Ephraums. His book featured Eddie's remarkable photography, printed in a way I hadn't seen before. On the first page of each chapter, he showed the original photo and then opposite was his final interpretation. The differences were magical, inspirational - and achievable. On the following pages, he explained how he captured the photos and the steps he took in the darkroom to create the final result.
Yes, in the darkroom! I said this was quite a few years ago!
Around 12 months after reading Eddie's book, I was standing on a stage having won the 1995 AIPP Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year award. I'd submitted four prints that were heavily inspired by Eddie's approach.
Those ideas completely transformed my life.
Following this initial success, my photography continued to develop in the digital realm and I began working with leading camera and software manufacturers around the world - Canon, Adobe, Phase One, Nik Software. They liked the way I worked.
I attribute this and hundreds of other great experiences to my involvement with magazines, not because I was writing them, but because of the ideas and inspiration I was exposed to. The same ideas and inspiration that every subscriber gets to read in Better Photography.
And that's why I'm still passionate about photography magazines. Better Photography is written by professional and enthusiast photographers who are willing to share their ideas and inspiration, which in turn provides the catalyst for readers to transform their own photography.
Most of us love the idea of buying a new camera, but once purchased, what are we going to photograph with it? How are we going to use it? And how will it help us take better photographs without better ideas?
This is the concept behind every issue of Better Photography magazine. We follow a carefully planned strategy of sharing ideas and techniques.
A subscription to Better Photography (including its extensive back issues archive) will give you a decade of the best ideas, collated by me and a team of expert writers and photographers.
Our special subscription pack includes:
- Online subscription to Better Photography magazine for one year – valued at $49.80
- Four new issues of Better Photography magazine, each with 100 pages packed with ideas
- Access to our exclusive archive of over 45 magazines – a treasure trove of ideas and techniques, valued at over $550
- Read online or download to your device.
- Automatic renewal - but of course, you can end your subscription at any time.
- Full money-back guarantee - also at any time.
That's $600 value for just $49.80
Remember, it only takes one idea to transform your photography. Imagine how hundreds of great ideas from our archive could help you!
I have judged many photo competitions and there are lots of little things that entrants forget to do. If only I could let them know before they entered, they would do so much better!
As a judge I’m not allowed to ring up and help entrants, but I can show you here what I have learnt over the last thirty years that will give you a great head start.
No one can give you an iron-clad guarantee that you will win the next photo competition. However, what I can guarantee is that if you read my eBook and watch the accompanying movies, you will greatly improve the quality of your photography and your standing in competitions generally.
You see, whether you’re aiming to win a photography competition or just take a better photograph, the advice is very similar. And I know that the techniques and approaches I’ve developed will help you capture and produce better photographs.
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My eBook and movie package is called How To Win Photo Competitions. It begins with a little about me. Why? Well, it’s easy enough to write a book about winning photography competitions, but I will gently suggest it’s much better if the author has some experience, not just in winning competitions, but in judging them too.
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to win quite a number competitions around the world, plus I have extensive experience as an international judge and competition organiser. Check out my little brag book!
But enough about me - this is all about helping you capture and edit better photographs - and by extension, being in a better position to win a photo competition.
However, do you need to win to be happy? It is nice, of course, but just doing well in a photo competition can be incredibly satisfying. And what can we realistically expect when we enter? While we control how good our own photos are, we have no control over what the judges think or what other photographers enter - so how can we be sure of winning anything?
My most successful result in a competition was coming second. Tim Griffith won the 1995 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year and I was one of the category winners. Was I upset I hadn't won? Hell, no! I was ecstatic because suddenly my photos were up on the wall alongside all the really good photographers. Coming first is great, but that acknowledgement was so much more important for me - and I'm guessing it would be for you too.
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And that's what I want to share with you - why entering photo competitions is so much fun and so rewarding, if only you have the correct approach. There are four eBooks to lead you through the program.
In addition to the four eBooks, there are over 25 short movies, each explaining in more detail how a real photo entry could be improved or enhanced for judging.
This complete package has been carefully thought through and presented to give everyone a chance at winning a photo competition. Follow the directions and you’ll be surprised at what you can achieve as a photographer!
By now, we hope you have a good idea of what's in the package, which retails for AUS $129.
Whether you want to win your next photo competition or simply improve your photography, this is the closest you'll get to having a personal mentor, sitting next to you and helping you through. Don't delay - begin improving your photography right now!
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If so, Better Photography Magazine's Landscape Photography MasterClass is a fun and enjoyable way for you to easily learn how to capture and create stunning landscape photographs. And it's a special opportunity to be taught first-hand by one of the world's leading landscape photographers, Peter Eastway. The MasterClass is designed to be self-paced, there are no exams, but we guarantee you'll learn to take and make better landscape photographs (or your money back)!
What Is A MasterClass?
The MasterClass is a collection of movies, articles and photo critiques that can be viewed and read as often as you like. Explains Peter, "It aims to share essential techniques and experiences I have collected over many years, not just from my own work, but from that of the many famous photographers I have interviewed and worked with for the magazine." View the movies, read the articles and you will quickly learn techniques and tricks to advance your own landscape photography. Nothing is held back and you will not only see where Peter works, but how he crafts and edits his images in post-production.
What's In A MasterClass?
There are 18 MasterClasses in the program - plus two extra classes. Each MasterClass comprises six components.
- FINE ART takes a hero photograph and explains exactly how it was created, from capture through to post-production. There are now two Fine Art movies, the new ones using more recent versions of Photoshop, Lightroom and Capture One.
- CRITIQUE explains how to improve images that were submitted by earlier class participants, so you can get some real-world feedback.
- KNOWLEDGE discusses the techniques and equipment needed to produce top quality landscape photographs.
- POST-PRODUCTION takes one or two techniques from a program like Photoshop and describes in detail how to use them.
- ACUMEN discusses the business side of landscape photography, whether you want to be a full-time professional or just earn some pocket-money.
- JOURNEY describes a photogenic location for landscape photography, a place you might want to put on your own 'to visit' list.
- The six components in each MasterClass are presented as four or five movies to view (around 5 to 15 minutes each) and three articles to read.
- In addition, there's a 19th MasterClass which has a series of fundamental seminars on essential landscape photography capture techniques, such as focus stacking, understanding the histogram and so on. Plus there's a Reference section which includes the basics of using Photoshop layers, just in case you're new to Photoshop. However, the majority of the techniques only require Lightroom or Capture One.
When Does The MasterClass Start?
You can start the Landscape Photography MasterClass today! You have a lifetime subscription, so there is no hurry to get through the material. You can take your time to view and read at your own pace, and return as often as you like to refresh your memory and perhaps re-discover tips and ideas. You can complete the MasterClass in a couple of weeks, or take 18 months (one MasterClass per month). Realistically, there is a lot of material and information within the MasterClass, so while it's possible to read it all in a week or so, becoming a great landscape photographer will take a little longer. However, we guarantee that if you engage with the material over the next 3 to 6 months, you will definitely be a significantly better photographer.
Who Is Peter Eastway?
There are a lot of great photographers and teachers in the world, so finding one that suits the way you think and take photographs is important. You want to feel confident that what you're being taught is not only factually correct, but is practical. In other words, does it make sense and can you use it? This is where the Landscape Photography MasterClass has a great advantage. The course has been written and presented by Peter Eastway who has specific expertise in all these areas:
- Peter has been a professional photographer for over 40 years. He is an AIPP Grand Master of Photography and the past Chairman of the AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards.
- He has won the Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Award twice, and the Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year three times. He has also won over 300 awards in Australia, UK, Europe, USA, New Zealand and Japan for his work at a professional level.
- Peter is also the publisher of Better Photography magazine, so he has great communication skills. Not only does he know how to take and create amazing photographs, he can explain his techniques clearly and simply.
- Peter was asked by Lonely Planet to write a whole book on landscape photography in 2002.
- You may have seen some of Peter's Lightroom tutorials - when you open up Lightroom itself? Adobe asked him to provide a number of tutorials for cloud version. Check them out!
- Peter also featured in Tales By Light, a television series sponsored by Canon and National Geographic about professional photographers which you can view on Netflix. He's in Series 1, Episode 5 on Antarctica.
But finally, the main question you should ask is, do you like Peter's style of photography? You will see many of his images on the Better Photography website, or you can take a visit to his personal website and look around (you'll find it at www.petereastway.com). The MasterClass will show you exactly how he achieves his style and uses his techniques.
What Are Some Of The Things I Will learn?
The KNOWLEDGE sections provide the building blocks for great landscape photography technique. This is the essential equipment and information you need out in the field so you can bring back high quality captures.
- Which cameras are best for landscape photography?
- What lenses capture the best landscape photographs?
- Why the smallest aperture isn't necessarily the best for landscapes.
- What type of tripod works best for landscape photography?
- Choosing a camera bag for comfortable landscape work.
- Useful accessories and gadgets for better landscape photographs.
- Controlling colour temperature and managing white balance in the field.
- Determining correct exposure for difficult landscapes.
- Finding great light and making the most of it.
- Stitching images for panoramic landscapes.
- Computers, monitors and hard drives - post-production tools.
- Shooting aerial landscapes.
- Composition - a series of articles on framing, horizons, centres of interest, balance, rule of thirds, colour, contrast and so on.
What About Photoshop and Post Production?
One you have captured a high quality raw file, the fun has just begun. This is the beginning of an amazing journey of discovery and transformation. You will be simply amazed how simply you can edit your images so they are absolutely breathtaking. Many people have commented how easy the techniques are, once you know how.
Most of the techniques can be applied in Lightroom, but it's true that some of the techniques require Photoshop. However, by the time you've mastered the techniques and the approaches in Lightroom, you'll know whether you need to go to the next step in Photoshop, or stay within Lightroom and be completely happy!
- Processing a raw file to get the best quality.
- Setting the correct white balance and managing colour casts.
- Using luminosity masking to control tonal distribution.
- Controlling mood and emotion with colour overlays.
- Vignetting - how to maintain interest in the middle of your image.
- Lab Color - Is the alternative to RGB the best thing since sliced bread?
- Local contrast - two ways to make your photos really pop.
- Using channels to control the hue/saturation tool.
- Making selections for local adjustments.
- Controlling sharpness for output.
And there are three movies in the special Reference section that outline exactly how to use layers in Photoshop. These movies demystify the most powerful techniques in Photoshop and, being movies, you can replay them as often as you need to, following along every mouse click at your own rate. These movies have been purchased by thousands of photographers and have received universal acclaim for being so easy to understand.
How Does This Make Me A Better Landscape Photographer?
Most great painters and photographers have learned from other great painters and photographers. Many of the most famous names in photography worked as assistants before starting out on their own. The time they spent 'in school' with more experienced photographers allowed them to master their art more quickly and more completely. It gave them a head start in developing their own style and reputation.
Of course, it's not possible for everyone to be an assistant, so other opportunities such as workshops, seminars and courses are a great opportunity to listen and learn from experienced photographers. The Landscape Photography MasterClass is an in-depth workshop with the advantage you can do it in your own time and replay it as often as you like.
Every time you take a photograph, you are drawing on a database of information, ideas and influences. If you've never been taught how to look for photographs, or never worked with another photographer, the MasterClass is an ideal way to learn first hand from a world-renowned landscape photographer, and develop your own database.
Is This The Right Course For Me?
Different people approach photography in different ways. Landscape photography is no different. You can take 'pure' landscape photographs with a traditional bent, or more avante garde landscapes with a painterly feeling. The Landscape Photography MasterClass covers both approaches, but as you can see from Peter's style, he is a strong believer in using post-production.
Explained Peter, "Modern cameras today are so good that anyone can take a great photograph. However, the days of accepting a photograph straight out of the camera as being the final result are long gone. Every good image you see in books, magazines, on television and the internet has had some post-production. Post-production, whether in Lightroom alone or in combination with Photoshop etc, is an essential skill and the difference in style generally comes down to how much post-production is applied.
"I teach the idea of 'invisible Photoshop', meaning experienced photographers may guess your image has been enhanced, but they can't point to exactly where.
"John Sexton was Ansel Adam's last assistant. He printed for Ansel and is a great photographer in his own right. When you look at his images, they seem so real and natural that you could almost walk into them. However, as John admits, both he and Ansel would work their prints to create this 'naturalness'. Post-production in the darkroom was a part of their artistic process and the only difference today is that we use Photoshop, Lightroom or Capture One instead."
The Secret Ingredient
Learning the skills in the Landscape Photography MasterClass will allow you to determine how much post-production you need to apply. The MasterClass is designed to give you a set of techniques, visual approaches and ideas that will allow you to develop your own individual style.
If you're wanting to win a photo competition, exhibit your work or simply produce a portfolio of stunning photographs to show your friends and family, then the MasterClass will give you a whole new way of looking at photography.
Asked if there is one technique that really established his style, Peter answered, "It's my use of selective editing and using the adjustment brush in Lightroom or layers in Photoshop. I cover the practical use of layers in three special movies in the Reference section, but it's when you view the FINE ART movies, and watch how I use layers to build up the drama and tension in my images, that you'll really understand what I mean.
"I've had many MasterClass students send me a note of thanks, saying that watching the Fine Art movies really made everything crystal clear.
"The techniques themselves are not difficult or complicated, but you need to have them as a foundation for your photography. With that foundation, the way you see and interpret becomes incredibly liberating. It means you can turn an ordinary photograph into an amazing, sparkling, engaging landscape."
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How Do I Join The Landscape MasterClass?
Joining the Landscape Photography MasterClass is as easy as clicking on the Subscribe Now button above. However, you can also view the first MasterClass chapter for free, so maybe that's the first place to go. You'll find the links in the menu on the left of this page.
Although we recommend starting with the first MasterClass and working through the material, you can read or view any of the material at any time and in any order. The subscription lasts a lifetime - so it's just the one purchase. There is no re-subscription.
When Should You Start?
As you may have gathered, we're trying to give you all the information we can to encourage you to sign up to the MasterClass now. There's no time like the present to begin a new stage of your photographic development!
Money Back Guarantee
However, we also offer a full-refund guarantee. If at any time in the next six months you decide the Landscape Photography MasterClass is not for you, for any reason, we will refund your subscription. We look upon your subscription as the beginning of a partnership. We'll be introducing more products in the future, so we want to ensure you feel comfortable about purchasing from us.
What Happens If I Have Problems?
Every now and then, a subscriber will make contact because there has been a problem with their connection or access. We do our best from our end to ensure the issue is resolved as quickly as possible, but if there's a problem we simply can't solve, we will refund your subscription.
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This is the section where we try to encourage you to subscribe, but there's no pressure. Take your time and make the decision that's right for you. However, if you haven't already, we would suggest you view the sample lesson to see if you like what what we do. If so, we'd be delighted to welcome you aboard as a Landscape Photography MasterClass member.
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What's Different About Our Lightroom Atelier?
- Produced by one of the world's leading professional photographers
- Concentrates on the 'art' of photography
- All examples fully explained with no secrets held back
- Incredibly affordable for a course that will literally transform your photography for life
- Money-back guarantee - no risk to purchase!
The Lightroom Atelier will quickly turbo-charge your creativity!. Don't waste your time using Lightroom the wrong way, subscribe to the LIghtroom Atelier now to learn how you can transform your photographs into incredible works of fine art!
We know there are lots of free tutorials around that show you how to use Lightroom, so why would you be interested in the Lightroom Atelier by Peter Eastway?
If you're really new to Lightroom, you should take advantage of all those free tutorials - even if they are produced by people with limited photography experience. And maybe that's all you'll need if you're happy with the average results that come out of your camera.
Use the slider to show the original image compared to how it was edited in Lightroom.
Is this the type of editing you'd like to do with your own photographs?
However, as all creative photographers discover, using Lightroom isn't just a matter of sliding controls left or right, it's also an amazing tool with unlimited creativity - if you know how to use it properly.
The reason you'll be interested in Peter Eastway's Lightroom Atelier is because you like what you see on this website and you'd like to achieve something similar with your own work.
Not every one wants to make such dramatic changes as these, while others will think the edit could have
been taken further. Once you've learned Peter's approach to Lightroom, that decision will be yours to make!
The Art & Creativity Behind Lightroom
On this page you'll see a number of 'before and after' examples - the photo as mechanically captured by the camera and the resulting creative interpretation. All the examples have been prepared in Lightroom without any special plug-ins or tools.
Once you've learned how to use Lightroom's controls, the most important step is to work out what you actually want to do creatively with your photographs, and this is where the Lightroom Atelier is different from other tutorials. Throughout the ten Ateliers, Peter will show and explain the thought process behind his work, explaining key ideas and concepts that you'll be able to immediately apply to your own photography.
Some photographs only require one or two adjustments to be improved, others take a little more work.
What's An Atelier?
During the Renaissance, the 'teacher' was one of the revered painting masters and his 'students' worked with him in a studio called an 'atelier'. It is a common term in the world of art today and it has been borrowed here to describe the process taken in the Lightroom Atelier, that of explaining the processes behind the technique and then sharing the creative process.
While in no way associating himself with the old masters of art history, Peter is recognised by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) as a Grand Master of Photography. He has won the title Australian Professional Photographer of the Year twice, he is a photography magazine editor with over 30 years experience and he lectures around the world on photography and post-production.
His aim in the Lightroom Atelier is to share in great detail both the craft and art of creating great images in Lightroom. There are very few people who can equal his experience as a teacher, writer and presenter who also have such success in the real world of professional photography.
Each Atelier movie can be played and re-played so you get to understand exactly how
Peter achieves his edits in Lightroom.
What's In The Lightroom Atelier?
There are ten lessons comprising two or three video presentations. Each lesson describes the creative approach used to edit and transform one of Peter's photographs, followed up by the 'technique' required. In this way you get the best of both worlds. If you already know how to use Lightroom, you'll just need to watch the creative video, but if you're still learning Lightroom, then the technique videos will be really helpful.
Here's a snapshot of what is covered.
How far would you like to take your photographs in terms of creativity?
Incredible Value For Money!
A one-on-one mentoring session with Peter Eastway for half a day is priced at $995. You can also attend seminars and workshops for hundreds of dollars - so when you look at the expertise and knowledge available right here, it's incredibly good value!
The secrets and skills you'll share in the Lightroom Atelier come from nearly forty years of first-hand professional experience, from working in the darkroom all the way to editing in Lightroom! And we're so sure you'll truly benefit from the Lightroom Atelier we have an unconditional money-back guarantee!
What are you waiting for! Subscribe and learn how to create better, more imaginative photographs in Lightroom right now!
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Is this the type of editing you'd like to do with your own photographs?
If there were a simple approach to photo editing that transformed your images into masterpieces, would you be interested?
Even better, what if you could use this approach without having to learn Photoshop and layers because it can all be done in Lightroom?
And what if this approach were so ridiculously simple you wondered why you hadn’t learnt it before?
My name is Peter Eastway and if you Google me, you’ll learn that people consider me a bit of an expert in post-production. And what I’ve discovered is that photographers want to learn how all the different tools operate in Lightroom, but forget the fundamental ingredient.
And that ingredient is creativity. Your creativity, not mine, but the Lightroom Atelier course will show you exactly what you need to do to transform your raw files into professionally edited masterpieces, all within Lightroom.
There are lots of courses that teach how to use Lightroom practically, so now it’s time to harness your imagination and use Lightroom creatively.
- Do you wonder how other photographers create images with a special sparkle that yours don’t have (yet)?
- Do you need a process that will take your photos from average to amazing, every time?
- Are you struggling to use Lightroom creatively?
- The Lightroom Atelier has your answers!
Did you know that your camera is designed to take ‘average’ photographs? Seriously! And this isn’t a criticism because cameras are truly amazing, but they have no idea what you’re photographing or why, so the best they can do is provide an average result that looks pretty good. On average.
What your camera can never do is interpret your photos creatively. It will never suggest you darken down a sky or lighten up a face – it can’t. But just by looking at your photos, you can easily see what needs to be done, you just don’t know how to do it yet!
The good news is that creative Lightroom is straightforward to learn with the right teacher.
Editing photos in Lightroom needn’t take hours and hours – you can finish your images in just a few minutes if you know how.
And rather than it being unethical to edit and improve your photographs, it’s what famous photographers have been doing ever since photography was invented! Even in the old darkrooms!
In fact, if you’re not editing your photographs creatively, you’re letting yourself down.
How far would you like to take your photographs in terms of creativity?
I realise all this might sound a little daunting if you’re just learning Lightroom. On the other hand, if you’ve already been playing in Lightroom, it should sound incredibly exciting to use the controls in a more creative way. And I promise you that watching my videos will make using Lightroom incredibly easy to use – it will just click!
Check out the first lesson in the Lightroom Atelier for free - click here.
This series of movies isn’t about applying pre-sets and speed editing all your photographs with the click of a mouse, hoping that one or two of them will look good. Sure, you can work this way, but it’s completely missing the point. The Lightroom Atelier is for photographers who want to take their very best raw files and turn them into gob-smackingly amazing photographs.
However, I realise our time is valuable, so you won’t be spending hours and hours on a file. Within a few minutes you will have made both global and selective changes using the techniques outlined in the Lightroom Atelier. And they’ll be so polished and refined, your friends will think you’ve hired a professional retouched to help!
And in a way, you have! But after I’ve shown you these creative techniques, you’ll be comfortably working on your own, secure in the knowledge that you have the skills to interpret and refine any image you want. Okay, almost any image because if I’m honest, there are still one or two raw files that are stumping me and perhaps I need to go back and photograph them differently!
Each Atelier movie can be played and re-played so you get to understand exactly how
Peter achieves his edits in Lightroom.
Does this sound far fetched? Are you concerned that high-level editing in Lightroom is beyond you?
A number of years ago, I was in Las Vegas giving a presentation to around 1000 photographers, describing my approach to image editing (the same approach I outline in the Lightroom Atelier). Afterwards, one of my friends overheard someone in the audience complaining that my approach was too simple! I had to think about this for a little while, but I realised that this photographer was searching for complicated answers to what are really quite simple techniques. Yes, my approach is incredibly simple – and anyone can learn it.
After watching the Lightroom Atelier, you will be confident that:
- You have interpreted the exposure and contrast correctly;
- Optimised the colour balance to match your subject;
- Refined your highlights and shadows, creating the right balance of information and mystery;
- Used selective editing to focus the viewer’s attention on what part of the subject is important to you;
- Be confident that your technique is ‘invisible’ to the casual observer.
The secret to editing great photographs isn’t in how much time you slave over a computer monitor, it’s what you do in that time that matters. Start the rest of your photography life with clear instructions that will save you time, make you more productive and, most importantly, produce a creative result you’re really proud of.
Most other courses don’t teach the secret ingredients of creativity, but isn’t this what using Lightroom is all about? Don’t waste time aimlessly moving the sliders around, learn an approach to editing in Lightroom that will see you creating the photographs you always imagined.
Specially Designed
The Lightroom Atelier includes two key approaches for explaining and demystifying my approach to creative editing. Most important is my creative approach, showing how images can be transformed from the mundane to the spectacular and the ideas behind the changes. The second approach is how the most important Lightroom tools work – so this will be revision for more advanced photographers, but an integral component of the Atelier for photographers who are just learning Lightroom.
Who is this course for?
The Lightroom Atelier will benefit both beginner and advanced photographers in different ways.
- Advanced photographers will learn how to use their existing Lightroom skills more creatively.
- Learner photographers will be taught Lightroom’s essential tools and techniques.
- And Photoshop workers will discover how Lightroom can be used to do many of the things they are using Photoshop for now – such as layer effects and selective editing.
Have you taken online courses before, but you’re still not creating the photos you imagine? Chances are those courses were teaching you the mechanics of using Lightroom, but not a creative philosophy or approach to photography, with Lightroom as the tool. This is the difference you’ll find in the Lightroom Atelier. It’s not just how to use the sliders, but how to approach the creative process itself.
Watch how a range of different subjects can be transformed from standard captures into artistic interpretations.
Many photographers believe that the only way to edit your files properly is with Photoshop, but this isn’t true. Lightroom was designed by the developers of Photoshop to do many of the same things, only more quickly and efficiently. And while it’s true there are some advanced techniques that you can’t replicate in Lightroom, all of the important techniques are available within Lightroom – if you just understand how to approach creative editing.
What This Course Will Teach You?
The Lightroom Atelier will show you:
- The exact techniques I use every time to edit my photographs to a professional standard.
- How to use contrast instead of exposure to produce photographs with power and impact.
- Optimising your exposures with global highlight and shadow control for a professional finish.
- Use the power of Photoshop layers and masks easily in Lightroom.
- How to access selective colour and why it creates stronger compositions.
- Power techniques for retouching the eyes for catchlights and sparkle.
- The concept of ‘dodging and burning’ without layers in Lightroom.
- How far you can push your photos and still produce amazing results.
This course isn’t for everyone. Here’s who shouldn’t purchase the Lightroom Atelier:
- Photographers who only use their smartphones – this course is for serious photographers.
- Photographers who are looking for automatic presets and filters – automation is wonderful, but don’t hand over your creativity to a faceless computer programmer who has no idea what you’re trying to achieve!
- Photographers who don’t want to think about their images. This course isn’t going to help you. In fact, we doubt any course will!
So, if my focus is on the creative use of Lightroom, does this mean I’m not teaching you how to use the various tools and panels that make Lightroom such an effective editing tool? Each of the ten lessons comprises a creative video and a practical video. In the practical videos, I’ll explain my techniques for:
- Setting up Lightroom catalogues and ingesting (importing) raw files.
- The practical way to use the Basic Panel for global editing changes
- How to use the clarity and dehaze tools without making your edits look horrible!
- Both corrective and creative use of the transform tools and when to use them.
- Stitching panoramas within Lightroom and then editing the DNG file.
- Creating HDRs within Lightroom and understanding when you need to use it.
You can checkout a sample lesson for free - click here.
And it won’t take you long to master Lightroom creatively! The Lightroom Atelier comprises 23 videos and around 3.5 hours of material. You can download the videos to your local device for offline viewing and it’s a lifetime online subscription.
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What's In The Lightroom Atelier?
There are ten lessons comprising two or three video presentations. Each lesson describes the creative approach used to edit and transform one of Peter's photographs, followed up by the 'technique' required. In this way you get the best of both worlds. If you already know how to use Lightroom, you'll just need to watch the creative video, but if you're still learning Lightroom, then the technique videos will be really helpful.
Here's a snapshot of what is covered.
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Peter Eastway is a contemporary Australian photographer who is known internationally for his landscape and travel work.
A practising professional photographer, he shoots editorially and works selectively in advertising and portraiture, two diverse ends of the professional sphere.
Peter has been involved in photographic magazine publishing for over 30 years, establishing his own title, Australia's Better Photography Magazine, in 1995. It is now one of Australia’s leading photography magazines.
Peter’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. He was the author of the Lonely Planet’s Guide to Landscape Photography. His photography has recently featured on the cover of the Lonely Planet’s guide to Australia, in articles in the Qantas in flight magazine, and in an Apple television commercial. He has worked with Phase One cameras, researching and promoting its high-end medium format cameras and Capture One raw processing software. And he featured in the television series Tales By Light as seen on the National Geographic Channel, produced in partnership with Canon Australia.
Peter Eastway is an AIPP Grand Master of Photography, a Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, and a Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. He won the 1996 and 1998 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Award.
More recently he won the 2009 Kodak Award of Distinction at the international WPPI Print Competition held in Las Vegas, USA; the AIPP NSW Professional Photographer of the Year 2010; and the AIPP NSW Landscape Photographer of the Year 2013.
Peter’s early landscapes were primarily black and white, carefully printed and toned, but with the advent of digital photography, he is taking a leading role internationally, creating a New Tradition of high quality landscape imagery. Peter speaks nationally and internationally on topics including landscape photography, Photoshop techniques, publishing and the business of professional photography.
Peter is a member of the ND5 Ninety Degrees Five collective with Christian and Michael Fletcher, Tony Hewitt and Les Walkling.
Peter is over 50 years of age, still rides a short surfboard, believes two skis are better than one, and in case you're buying him lunch, he is vegetarian.
Peter Eastway Major Awards Summary
2013 NSW Landscape Photographer of the Year2010 NSW Professional Photographer of the Year
2010 NSW Landscape Photographer of the Year
2010 NSW Commercial Photographer of the Year
2009 Kodak Award of Distinction, WPPI
2009 1st, 2nd, 3rd Landscape Category, WPPI, Commercial Category
2008 Grand Award, WPPI, Commercial Category
2007 New Zealand Overseas Photographer of the Year
2006 AIPP Grand Master of Photography
2005 Grand Award, WPPI, Commercial Category
2004 AIPP Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year
2004 NSW Professional Photographer of the Year
1998 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year
1998 AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year
1996 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year
1996 AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year
1996 NSW Professional Photographers of the Year
1995 AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year
1995 NSW Professional Photographer of the Year
1995 Master of Photography, AIPP
1986 Kodak Achievement Award
1986 Associateship of the AIPP
When you're the managing director and chief bottle washer (or delivery boy), it can be a little hard to write a website that sings glowing praise about yourself. I'm past fifty years of age, so for some readers I'm a dinosaur, for others just a pup. But age isn't the issue - it's how you think and what you photograph that matters.
In my mind, I'm still learning, but I've reached a point where I'm very comfortable with what I do. Perhaps too comfortable, but that's not a bad place to be when you're ready to teach others who are following a similar road. It's also a great place to be because you can try new things, knowing you can retreat to an area of safety if you need to. As a working professional, this takes away a lot of stress: if I go out on a tangent and it doesn't work, I know I can still produce something my clients will love by reverting to what I already know. I think of my experience as a security blanket.
So, I reckon that having a few years experience is also a big advantage for people who read my articles and watch my movies. I know first hand what it's like to be a photographer. I know what it's like to wish you had a few extra lenses in your camera bag, how bad it feels when you mess up a photograph, how it is to struggle with computers. But I also know what it's like to work with the best equipment in the world, shoot large campaigns for international clients and to win major photography awards. I'm a lucky person because I live doing what I love and I never take it for granted.
Today, what gives me the biggest thrill is helping other photographers. There's nothing better than an email from someone who attended a seminar or read an article, thanking me for giving them a hand.
And with the internet changing the way we can communicate, I now realize I have a great opportunity to share what I know with a wider audience. You don't have to live in Australia or attend one of my seminars to access my material or magazines, you can simply surf the Better Photography websites.
When I lecture around Australia and the world, I'm usually talking about portraiture or landscapes, and it tends to revolve around Photoshop. Lightroom or Capture One. Photoshop and post-production generally is definitely an important part of what I do as a photographer, but it's not everything and sometimes I worry that people who see my seminars think that all they need to do is learn Photoshop.
Unfortunately, Photoshop alone isn't enough. You need to start with a good photograph in the camera, and good photographs will only come from ideas, from creativity, and from inspiration. How can I teach everything I know in a single seminar?
To teach everything I know will take time. And even when you learn something, I know from personal experience that it takes time for new ideas to sink in, to become a part of what you do as a photographer. And so the idea of a MasterClass was born.
When you join a MasterClass, you can slip straight into the process as quickly or as slowly as you like. The idea is for you to assimilate my approach to photography - and adapt it to your own style - over a period of time. I don't believe you can read a few articles and instantly take perfect photos, but I know that if you stick with our MasterClasses and Ateliers that your photography will improve in leaps and bounds.
And I'm confident enough to offer you a money back guarantee if it doesn't improve your photography.
The Better Photography MasterClasses are premium subscriptions. They represent a lot of work and, I hope, great value, but they are not for everyone. Less experienced photographers may be better off with an Atelier or a subscription to Better Photography and upgrade to the MasterClass once they're sure that their passion is photography.
My undertaking is to share with you what I know about photography. If you like my photography, I'm sure you'll like my MasterClasses and Ateliers.
So, that's what makes me tick. There has never been a better time in history to be a photographer. There's so much to learn and so much you can do that I hope you'll consider joining a Better Photography MasterClass or Atelier.
Better Photography Education is published by Better Photography Magazine in Sydney, Australia. We are a small bespoke publishing house, producing the quarterly Better Photography Magazine since 1995. We also publish the Better Photography website (www.betterphotography.com). This satellite website will host online educational content.
The editor and publisher is Peter Eastway.
Art director is Kathie Eastway.
Reader Services Manager is Kim Valenti.
We run from two offices, one in Collaroy NSW, next to Long Reef. The photograph above is of Long Reef headland, but unforuntately we don't have that view from our office window! However, we do have a great view of the Upper Crust pie shop across the road!
The business entity is Pt78 Pty Ltd
ABN 75 003 152 136
PO Box 351 Collaroy Beach
NSW 2097 AUSTRALIA
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Inquiries: Contact Kim Valenti kim@betterphotography.com