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E & D report back — 21 February 2024
Image evaluation by Tony Bramley

This E&D evening was special for two reasons. Tony Bramley FRPS gave his riveting

presentation on Zoom from the UK, which allowed him to demonstrate all his sug-

gested changes on the big screen to the audience in the meeting hall. His presenta-
tion was followed by a social get-together with eats and drinks, where old and new

members could get better acquainted.

Report and images by Steffne Hughes.
We were treated to a very professional and helpful pres- and editing. It made me realise that I am often stuck on
entation by Tony Bramley during this meeting. He didn’t the original composition of an image and will make edits
just offer comments on the submitted images – he took in post-production to improve on the original, but not
them into an editing program and showed us how he change it drastically.
would have made changes to improve the image. Tony’s demonstration of how he makes cropping deci-
His comments were spot on and every image that he sions showed me that I need to move on from looking at
worked on showed a remarkable improvement. I was my images in their original composition.
fascinated by his no holds barred approach to cropping He made use of dodging and burning to increase the
contrast in an image and to help the viewer’s eye move
through the photo. He demonstrated how he uses dodg-
ing and burning with masking in Lightroom and Camera
Raw so that one can selectively enhance or decrease the
exposure in different areas on the image.
I was particularly taken by one of Tony’s suggestions to
turn the image upside down. Thinking about it, remind-
ed me of a discussion about how your eye and brain
work in tandem and that you sometimes need to give
your brain a fresh look at the object by turning it upside
down.

Ruth Scholtz, Kim Stevens and Walter Berndorfler socialis-
ing after the meeting.

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