Ah.  Like a cold breeze on a hot summer day.  Or the refreshment of a summer shower to break up the building humidity.  It is time to focus on refining our post processing.  Unlike prior talks where we have a speaker presenting on a particular topic, these will be focused from start to finish on post processing.

This is about refinement.  To refine something is to have something "with impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing" and while our work is rarely flawless there are often times things we can refine and improve.  

The educator will start the session by walking and talking you through their workflow on a new image that they have never processed for an audience before.  This image and the way they approach it will dissect a particular challenge they needed to refine to make the image complete.   It might be how they balanced the colors, or how they fixed a defect in their capture techniques, or how they brought back some detail that looked to have been lost.

After this short intro we will proceed to process as many of the images that you submit.  You should only submit one RAW file and the completed or attempted to be completed JPG and also include a short writeup of a particular challenge with the image, something you don’t think looks right, or a problem you have not been able to solve.   

Our instructor will then tackle the image and talk about the process so we can all learn.  Each week we will have new images (That were not covered before) and we will also have new instructors as each person approaches the scene differently.   At the end of each image you will be able to ask questions live.