Commons:Photographers User Group Meeting 2018
User Group Meeting interested photographers journey registration program photos blog lessions learned
The Commons Photographers User Group Meeting was a proposed meeting of the Commons Photographers User Group in 2018. The Grant was declined.
Proposed focus areas
editHere you'll find examples of what we could do. If you'd like to propose a session, please scroll down and add your proposal in the section below.
FOCUS AREA 1: PRACTICE | PRAXIS | PRATIQUE
- Landscape photo walk
- Contest „Photo of the day“
- Excursion: shooting a 5-minute wildlife video documentary
FOCUS AREA 2: TEACHING & LEARNING | LERNEN & LEHREN | INSTRUIRE & APPRENDRE
- Metadata - standards (EXIF, IPTC) and how to use them
- Processing RAW files with Camera RAW (Photoshop, Lightroom), Capture One, Open source alternatives etc.
- Outreach: how to engage local communities in photography projects
- Advanced stitching techniques
- Nature photography workshop
- Studio photography how-to
- Video editing workshop
- Off-camera flash best practice
FOCUS AREA 3: DISCUSSION | DISKUSSION | DISCUSSION
- Commons Photographers User Group: the path ahead
- Quality images, featured pictures and valued images: time for change?
- What’s the future of „Wiki loves…“ events?
FOCUS AREA 4: GEAR & INFRASTRUCTURE | AUSRÜSTUNG & INFRASTRUKTUR | ÉQUIPEMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE
- Sharing and donating photography gear
- Open content workflows, the potential of raw footage and how to share more than the final products
- Ten things you didn’t know about your camera
- Wikimedia Commons from the viewpoint of a photographer: which are our biggest unfulfilled needs?
Locations
editIceland is relatively cheap and quickly accessible from America and Europe. That's why the attending photographers at a meeting at Wikimania Montreal pleaded for the first international meeting to be held in Iceland.