Hi Everyone,
I am doing some thinking aloud and looking for feedback on an idea.
From a purely selfish perspective, I want to improve my image processing skills.
I am toying with the idea of setting up an Astrophotography processing workshop in Melbourne.
The idea will be to run it over 1 or 2 days and have it be a truly hands on experience mixed with some lectures.
Participants would bring their own laptops and would follow along to some worked examples. Also some time for people to work on their own data with a few roaming experts to give tips on certain aspects.
Venue would be some kind of training centre or lecture hall in Melbourne with several round tables with power so people can have their laptops in front of them. Plus large projector or 2 projecting up the instructors screen.
I will be looking to get some of the IIS Astro Photography Gurus to volunteer to run some of these sessions.
This would be 100% non profit and any costs would be to cover venue facilities and possibly flights for some of the presenters.
I am happy to organise this if there is enough interest and may form a bit of a working group to sort through the details.
No timeline yet as this is just kicking around the idea.
There would be some pre requisites I guess.
- Laptop required
- Photoshop installed
So let’s get some discussion going.
Do you think its viable?
Should it be 1 or 2 days ?
What format would you like it to take?
Venue suggestions?
Ideas or volunteers who may be interested in presenting. I am thinking people of the calibre of Mike Sidonio, Greg Bradley, Paul Haese etc.. would be the kind of experienced instructors/presenters I would love to have at this. ?