Focus on Imaging 7th -10th NEC Birmingham
STAND F50

Well its that time of year again down at the NEC with Mary Walker Exhibitions, 4 days all about photography and PhotoTraining4U are in the thick of it with 81square metres of full on teaching every 45 minutes.

All the team as well as a few of our new PT4U Masters will be on hand to chat and present some new and exciting ideas for photographers for 2010, plus the hunt for the new Apprentices starts so remember to stop by the stand.

Debbie and Nicola also have some great offers from Lastolite, Ray Flash and ExpoDisc on PhotoKit4U.

If you are not a member of PhotoTraining4U yet we have some join up show offers for you as only members will be eligible to become the next Apprentices and this year its all about wedding photography, with 12 months of training with Mark and the Team in Cardiff.

Members will be asked to submit a contact sheet of images in June for first selection and then in an exciting weekend in Cardiff in July, 2 lucky members will be chosen to become the next Apprentices, life changing training worth over £20,000.

Sunday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 Black –with Mark Cleghorn
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Photoshop Edge EFX –with Mark Cleghorn
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn
15.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
15.45 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
16.30 - Creative PhotoShop –with Mark Cleghorn
17.15 - Creative Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn

Monday, Tuesday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 -Black –with Kenny Martin
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Kenny Martin
15.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
15.45 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
16.30 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
17.15 - Creative Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn

Wednesday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 -Black –with Kenny Martin
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Kenny Martin
15.00 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
15.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack

Sunday Schools - Each day starts at 10am and finishes at 4.30pm
Delegates should bring their own camera equipment.
Flash and all reflectors will be supplied to use but feel free to bring your own speedlites etc for off camera flash use if you wish.

Studio Portraits 6th June 2010

	Sundat School Studio Portiat Seminar 6th june 2010
	Studio Portrait Practical Workshop Sunday school includes Flash Lighting Basics Creative Stuido Flash Exposure Hi Key Low Key Creative Colour Fashion and Beauty Lighting
	Price: £	Qty:

Limited to 12 People
Seminar Location - Cardiff

Creative Location Portraits 27th June 2010

	Sunday School Creative Location Seminar 27th june 2010
	Creative Location Portrait Practical Workshop Sunday School includes Off Camera Flash Lighting Basics Creative Off Camera Flash Exposure Hi Key on Location Low Key on Location Creative Colour Fashion and Beauty Lighting Background and Locations Reflected Light
	Price: £	Qty:

Limited to 24 People
Seminar Location - Cardiff

	Creative Couple Posing Sunday School 11th July 2010
	Creative Posing Portrait & Wedding Practical Workshop Sunday School includes The Male The Female Animation Relaxed Pose Exagerated Pose Hands Expression Studio Location
	Price: £	Qty:

Limited to 12 People
Seminar Location - Cardiff

	Creative Off Camera Flash Sunday School Workshop 24 october 2010
	Off Camera Flash Practical Workshop Sunday School includes Speedlie Set up Studio Fash on Location Speedlite on Location Accessories Honeycomb and grids Controll the light Balance and Power
	Price: £	Qty:

Limited to 12 People
Seminar Location - Cardiff

We are sorry but we do not give refunds if you are unable to attend.

The answer to All your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short lessons that you can easily fit into a daily coffee break. Join Mark Cleghorn’s PhotoTraining4U.com on line training web site now

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PhotoTraining4U is the answer to all your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short photography videos that you can easily fit into daily coffee breaks.

To Instruct & Inspire you is our goal, your skill level doesn’t matter, you can be a keen amateur photographer or a seasoned Pro – you just choose the subject that fits what you want to learn today, whether to “Instruct” you in a technique or to “Inspire” you with ideas, there is a video in the knowledge bank to watch.

Workshops can cost you thousands during a year but this meticulously planned photographer training website can instruct you or inspire you every day. Developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way you work and the profits you make – and for less than the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

With over 250 films already on line and with at least three new films added every week, can you afford not to be a member of this life changing photographer training programme.

If you want a taster of the videos check out our Sponsors pages or register for our FreeView Section and see the films at the full size. Also check out the Raves page and see what some of our members say.

“See You Inside”

Topics Include
Camera Skills
Lighting Techniques
Posing Guides
Photoshop & Plugins
Off Camera Flash
Business & Pr
Starting a Photography Business
Equipment Guides
Tips & Ticks
and loads more.

What Some Say

Gatwick-based Lee Crawley:

“I signed up for phototraining4U.com at the official Focus launch.

Just Released is Mark CLeghorn’s Pocket Guide to Off Camera Flash which has over a 100 images to inspire and instruct from Fashion to Wedding, men to women.
Any text is designed to give simple instruction in the hour of need and not as a full teaching How To manual.

New Pocket Guide Books

	Pocket Guide To Off Camera Flash
		Price: £ Qty:

Includes P&P in the UK

Don’t forget to visit
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‘Deaf people, including photographers, have been excluded for too long’ – Cardiff-based photographer Dafydd Everleigh

Cardiff-based Dafydd Everleigh, an amateur landscape shooter, contacted PhotoTraining4U.com founder Mark Cleghorn when he noticed the site’s training videos had no subtitles.

Mr Everleigh said: “I was extremely upset and annoyed about it. Deaf people have been excluded from society for too long. I accept that even eighteen months ago subtitles on flash based movies were both expensive and very difficult to do - but technology has moved on and now providing subtitles is relatively cheap. There is just no excuse not to subtitle online videos – in fact it could be financially rewarding for training organisations as a whole new audience will be able to access the services. For example, the Facebook group, ‘Deaf Photographers’ – alone boasts over 1300 members.
There is no specific requirement to subtitle web-based movies but the Disability Discrimination Act which states that services must be reasonably adjusted and be made accessible.”

He added: “I contacted Mark Cleghorn about this and although it has taken some time, I am delighted that he is now providing subtitles on all his training videos.
His PhotoTraining4U site is a terrific idea because it allows people to learn what they want, when they want and where they want. There is far more flexibility compared to the conventional training approaches, like college tuition - and it doesn’t matter if you are ill.
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PhotoTraining4U founder, Mark Cleghorn said: “Dafydd contacted us directly and he was rightly very upset that we had no subtitles on our training videos.
We were actually working on the challenge at that time but it took us a while to put it into effect.
Dafydd’s comments are all valid and his complaint stirred us into accelerating our pioneering subtitle programme. Now all new videos have subtitles options and within weeks our entire back catalogue will also have this facility.”

Limited to 12 Photographers

A follow on from the amazing Wedding Photographers Wanted Workshops, this 2 day workshop will get your creative juices flowing as Mark takes you on a whirl wind tour of shooting the bride and groom.

Over the 2 days delegates will get to shoot 2 different couples in a variety of locations in and around Cardiff to create an awesome selection of images to help boost your creativity with posing and shooting the individuals as well as the Bride & Groom images.

With a combination of Basic and advanced techniques this workshop will help move your photography to the next level.

Day 1 Includes
Classical Location
Beach Location
City Location 1
City Location 2
Night Scape

Day 2 Includes
Business Breakfast Meeting
Bedroom Location
Funky Location
Cafe Quarter
Marina Location

	Location Location 2 day Workshop 16th and 17th August 2009
	Shooting in Loads of Locations near Cardiff Including - The City, A Night, The Beach, Wacky Backgrounds, Great Architecture Limited in numbers Photographer 2 different Bride & Grooms As well as Breakfast Meeting to Discuss Business Ideas Tuition by Mark Cleghorn plus a guest photographer
	Price: £	Qty:

Price excludes - Accommodation

Hundreds sign up for ‘real and raw’ specialist photo-training videos online:

So what do you need to learn today?

UK photo guru Mark Cleghorn is asking Photography Monthly readers: ‘So what do you need to learn today?

Hundreds of photographers nationwide have already signed up to his pioneering online photo-training website; Phototraining4U.com since its official launch at Focus this spring.

Billed as ‘the UK’s first affordable and comprehensive online photo-training solution’,
the site provides video tutorials in bite-sized learning chunks with at least one brand new twenty minute lesson added to the site’s knowledge bank each week.

Says Cleghorn, one of Europe’s top ranked and most respected professional photographers:
“This programme is the first of its kind in the UK. The photographer’s skill level doesn’t matter. You can be a seasoned professional or a complete novice. Just log on and select the video tutorial that you want to learn about at that time. Phototraining 4U is all about lifting the technical fog.”

Now leading social lab, Loxley Colour, is pledging a £100 voucher to every new photographer subscribing to Cleghorn’s soaraway website and every photographer signing up to his £199 a year training programme will also receive free onOne PHOTOTOOLS 1 plug-in software worth over £100.

Adds Cleghorn, who holds no less than four industry Fellowships and has notched up hundreds of photo-awards in a 25 year career: “This has been years in the planning but now it has really got wings – and expansion plans are already underway. “

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“I want to show photographers how they can improve; how they can sidestep all those mistakes I made along the way. And right now in the middle of a recession increasing numbers of amateur photographers are looking at Phototraining4U as a must-have launch guide to a new career.”

The site’s ‘knowledge bank’ already boasts over 35 hours of training and includes tutorial videos on a wide raft of topics including: camera and lighting techniques; software applications: posing subjects: marketing strategies, PR, back to basics: photography fundamentals revisited hints and tips for every day shooting; how to beat the recession and which kit to buy.

Says Cleghorn: This is 21st century learning at its best – these are genuinely affordable short lessons that can easily fit into a daily coffee break.
We are proving that Phototraining4u can transform the way photographers work and the profits they can make – and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich per session.”

Loxley Colour Marketing Director Chris Kay comments: “There is a substantial market for ‘on demand’ professional training at a cost-effective price -and Mark is providing it.
Photography can be a lonely world for newcomers too, and Phototraining4U enables them to access top quality tuition.
New registrants can redeem our voucher against any Loxley product, including print, until the promotion ends later this year.”

For more information visit: www.phototraining4U.com.

TV-quality video production available to anyone with digital images and a computer

If you are looking for a quick and easy way to bring your images alive, in such a way it even amazes you each time you watch the show then look no further ANIMOTO is for you.

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Animoto is a web based slide show Video maker that can either give you a 30 second quickie or a longer flash slide show. Once the show has been made you can re edit images and text at any time, as well as download a low and high res Mpeg version to either play on your computer and the likes of your ipods or you can burn it to a dvd to play on your DVD players.

SO HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Before you start select around 15 images for a quickie or up to 300 for a long video.

1- Select short or Full Length Video to make
A 30 second video is a great teaser and a full length video is perfect to sell to a client of their shoot as an extra or show to clients to promote your services

2- Upload Images - Choose the folder of images and shift click to select the selection now let Anomoto upload the files. Remember to re size images before this stage in Photoshop to make this process quicker. Animoto has some great tips and tricks on the site so when you get chance check them out.

3- Re-arrange Images and Add Text Slides - Simply drag images around to move their pecking order inthe show. Hit the “T” to add a Text slide.

4- Select Copyright Free Music - This is where you choose to either select one of Animoto’s copyright free tracks or upload your own.

5- Choose Genre of Music from list - Depends on your taste or more importantly the clients.

6- Select Track - you can play the track to select the best for your images. There are loads of choices here and if you are anything like me once you have found a couple of tracks you like, you will keep using them.
Fast = Funky and Young Images
Slow - Wedding or Classical Images

7- Save music track choice and continue to the last step.

8- Customize your video - this is where you select the speed of dissolves and EFX of the show as well as as add a link button at the end of the video to go to your web site or blog.

9- Enter Video Info - Name your show and add info about you and your services or enter details of the video you have made for clients to see, remember this video can be posted straight to Youtube as well as your own blog. Click Create Video

10- The last screen - but you don’t need to watch it as now its in Animoto world where all the magic happens. At this stage you can close the window down as the Animoto Team will send you an email and a link when its done OR you can go and start another. Its as easy as that!

11- The Video Slide Show will appear in your MY VIDEOS on the page or just click the link in the email

12- Click Play and Watch the wonder of ANIMOTO.

You can edit and re-edit the slide shows and it still keeps the original incase yo change your mind. This means you can have multiple copy’s of the same video with perhaps different text. Very Cool !

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Join Mark Cleghorn’s PhotoTraining4U.com on line training web site now and get £100 to spend at Loxley Colour on any of their products as well as onOne Softwares PhotoTools 1 worth over £100 for free.

Pree Release
How to snap up £200 worth of photo-products.FREE.

Photographers who sign up for Mark Cleghorn’s pioneering
Phototraining 4U.com tuition programme will be able to claim over £200 worth of ‘added value extras’ from May 1st.

Leading social lab, Loxley Colour, is pledging a £100 voucher to every new customer subscribing to Cleghorn’s soaraway website.
In addition, the Cardiff-based photo-expert has negotiated free onOne PHOTOTOOLS plug-in software worth over £100 for every photographer signing up to his £199 a year video-based online training programme.

Hundreds of professional and serious amateur photographers have already registered at the website, which offers scores of specialist training videos across all key photo-disciplines, including camera and lighting techniques, posing guides, business ideas and Photoshop application.

Said Cleghorn: “We are delighted with the immediate impact that Phototraining4U.com is having in the imaging community. Photographers can now cherry-pick their video training at a time to suit them – and all for less than the cost of a coffee and a sandwich each week.”

He added: “From May 1st every new delegate will also receive a £100 Loxley Colour voucher and an onOne software package – all within the £199 (incl.VAT) fee for a full year’s membership on the site.”

Loxley Colour Marketing Director Chris Kay said: “Loxley Colour is always keen to see photographers climb the social photography ladder.
We are 100% behind Mark and his new online training programme. It’s clear there is a substantial market for ‘on demand’ professional training at a cost-effective price -and Mark is providing it.”
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He added: “Photography can be a lonely world for newcomers too, and Phototraining4U enables them to access top quality tuition.
New registrants can redeem our voucher against any Loxley product, including print, until the promotion ends in the autumn.”

Cleghorn is adding new themes to the website’s video ‘knowledge bank’ every week.
For more information visit: www.phototraining4U.com.

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Further information: Trevor Lansdown at Wordengineers.com
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PhotoTraining4U.com

At last - the answer to All your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short lessons that you can easily fit into a daily coffee break.

Your skill level doesn’t matter in this programme, you can be an amateur or a seasoned Pro - you just choose the video subject that fits.

Meticulously planned and developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the UK’s best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way photographers work and the profits they make - and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

The site is based on Streaming Video all in bite sized chunks so you you can dip in and out as you wish, there is a new film on a different theme each week and members get to influence topics as well.

Topics Include
Camera Skills
Lighting Techniques
Posing Guides
Photoshop & Plugins
Off Camera Flash
Business & Pr
Starting a Photography Business
Equipment Guides
Tips & Ticks
and loads more.

N.B. - Loxley Colour Vouchers will expire on the 31st October 2009