Is your club looking for a program which is entertaining, instructive, inexpensive and features images by your own club members?
Based on your choice of the type of commentary, these commentaries may or may not include adjustments to images submitted to better demonstrate the results of the suggested enhancements. As such, requests for commentaries that provide adjustments the club should include raw or psd images in addition to the edited versions. The commentator will be a person with a great deal of photographic experience who will critique the images and offer helpful suggestions.
Commentary Options
- Commentary Only. Commentator will make constructive comments on the images submitted but will not show any examples to demonstrate his or her suggestions. Number of images to be commented on (Maximum 30)
- Commentary and Adjustments. Commentator may make adjustments to selected images submitted to better demonstrate the results of the suggested enhancements of your members’ images and include those adjusted images with the returned commentary. The choice of which images are used is up to the Commentator. Number of images to be commented on (Maximum 20)
- Commentary, Adjustments and Adjustment Steps. In addition to the comments provided on the submitted JPG images, the commentator will demonstrate suggested adjustments starting with the RAW or PSD images provided. Uncropped RAW or PSD images are preferred for maximum learning potential, allowing more meaningful instruction and guidance. In addition to the final adjusted images, the commentary will include intermediate screen captures of the steps used to create the final image or recording of the steps as a video. Adjustments will be made using Photoshop, Lightroom, and assorted plug-ins. The tutorials can also be more beneficial to your members if you identify the platform (Windows or MAC) each member uses. Tutorial type commentaries could be 1½ hours to 2 hours long.
To Request this Service:
- Select a date to play the Recorded Commentary at your club meeting.
- At least ten weeks before the scheduled program, submit a request for a commentator.
- Do not send the images, flash/thumb drives, or share a drop box at this time.
- Prepare jpeg images sized to 1400 pixels by 1050 pixels at a minimum.
- Not limited to one image per person.
- Clubs may elect to send fewer than the maximum number of images.
- At least eight weeks before the scheduled program, submit your club’s digital images on a flash/thumb drive, or via drop box to the commentator.
- If you have any questions, please contact Shiv Verma, neccc-recorded_commentary@neccc.org