Roy Packer on Light Room 5 and Silver Efex Pro

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB A large turn out of members and guest attended the club meeting on Thursday 26th September to listen to Roy Packer the club chairman on the subject of Light Room 5 and Silver Efex Pro, together with black and white conversion. Roy firstly pointed out all your adjustments to the images are non destructive and you can go back at any time to reverse, remove or re edit them. Light Room 5 cannot match Photoshop’s layers, masks, blend modes and other high end manipulation tools, but from the photographer’s point of view, Light room still has practically all the enhancement and adjustment tools needed to make a good photograph great. Roy explained briefly what was new to this Light Room package and gave us an overview of the upright tool, radial gradient and smart previews. Following a break for tea and coffee, Roy went on to talk about ‘Silver Efex Pro 2’ which is a plug in and allows global adjustments with slide show of images that Roy had converted and adjusted to black and white, together with music. 3rd October – Judging of the clubs 1st open competition and hand in of prints and digital images for natural history 10th October – Aircraft and bird flight photography an illustrated talk by Steve Littlewood