Commons:Photographers User Group Meeting 2018
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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
[edit]Here 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
[edit]Iceland 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.