- untouched 13
- featured photographer 7
- Photo library management 6
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) 5
- Essential IT Skills 4
- photo sharing 4
- Camera Settings 3
- Post Production 3
- camera technique 3
- iPhone 3
- Monthly Themes 2
- Software 2
- composition 2
- photographers 2
- Camera Controls 1
- Flickr 1
- General Interest 1
- Photobook 1
- Photography Thoughts 1
- challenges 1
- gallery 1
- meetings 1
Black and White Photography Using Google Photos, Apple Photos or Your Phone’s Gallery
Learn how to convert your photos to black and white using simple tools like Google Photos, Apple Photos, or your phone’s built-in gallery. Whether you use a camera or a phone, this guide makes it easy to add drama and emotion by removing colour. Perfect for beginners—no special software required.
Not All “Google Photos” Are Created Equal
Confused by Google Photos? This post explains the crucial difference between the Google Photos app and using it in a web browser, especially for iPhone and iPad users. Learn why installing the app ensures your photos are automatically backed up and easily shared with WGPC — and how to set it up in minutes.
📷 Using Google Photos in Your FreePrints Photobooks Workflow
This post explains how to streamline your photobook projects by using Google Photos with the FreePrints app. Learn how to sync, organise, and select your best WGPC images to create a book in minutes.
📘 Creating a Photobook Using the FreePrints Photobooks App
This post walks you through making a personalised photobook using the FreePrints Photobooks app—perfect for capturing your latest photo walk or project. From choosing photos to adding captions and ordering your free copy, this step-by-step guide makes it easy.
Another New Camera – But It’s Free This Time!
Adobe has released a powerful new iPhone camera app called Indigo, offering manual controls, RAW capture, and advanced computational photography – all for free. It’s a great option for photographers looking for more creative control than their phone’s default camera app allows.
I will be experimenting with it over the next few weeks and will share hints on how it might improve your photography.
Not All “Photos” Are Created Equal — A Tale of Three Apps
An illustrated guide clarifying the confusion between Apple Photos, Windows Photos, and Google Photos. Aimed at photography club members, this aide memoire explains which app to use for sharing images in the WGPC album — with a touch of humour to keep it engaging.
Photo IT Aide Memoires
I introduced you to some new aid-memoires last week and have widened the topics a little. The full set is now stored in our blog on the residents website at: https://bit.ly/45PnWhZ. Each aide-memoire tackles one of the IT topics we need to know about and often struggle with.
The topics so far are:
Why do Photographers Like Constructive Criticism
A few bullet points to barinstorm why photographers like “Constructive Criticism”.
Creating a Panel (Collage)
A panel is, in photographic circles, an arrangement of photographs designed to be viewed together as a group. They are often referred to as a “collage” in less formal circles when additional graphic elements may be added. This post shows how to create a collage in Google Photos.
Composition
I gave a presentation on composition at our meeting on Wed 26 June using 4 of my own photographs to generate discussion. A copy of the presentation that you can read read and/or print is contained in this blog post.
Photo Editing Apps
There are a very large number of Photo Editing Apps on the Internet and on the Android/Apple Apps stores. They range from “toys” to “professional standard” packages. I have listed those I am familiar with together with recommendations for getting into phot editing.
Taking More, Taking Better Photographs
In order to take better photographs we need to take more photographs and learn from taking those photographs. That is why I bang on so much about uploading your photos and commenting on those photos that are there.