Digital Photography
10 Weeks
Date: Mon 3 June-Mon 22 July 2013
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
£140.00 /  Conc. £137.00 / Memb. £137.00
Tutor: Heather Young

Designed for beginners who want to develop their skills with a digital camera beyond ‘point and shoot’ photography.  This popular course will give you hands-on experience, taking you step by step through the functionality of your camera, composition, light and its effect on colour, black and white photography, photographing people. Course applicable to both SLR and compact camera users.

Five everyday lives, an uncertain undercurrent and one trusted tea lady stacking teacups. Above a padlocked door, a red maintenance light, blinking. Can you be sure that what you see is true?
nocturn dance challenges you to step out of your comfort zone and entwine yourself in a unique online/live experience. Using a blend of web feeds, social media and site specific performances, www.dareyouwatch.com asks you to become part of the mysterious entangled puzzle. Whose eyes to look through? You decide!

Follow the Dare You Watch Facebook Page to keep up to date with this project.

An SHPLive commissioned piece,  with support from West Berkshire Council, Newbury College and Arts Council England.
Live streamed on www.shplive.tv 12.00-8.00pm Friday, 1.00-11pm Saturday

Berkshire Digital

Date: Thurs 18 April, 20 June, 15 August 2013
Time: 7.00am-10.00pm
Price: Free (Booking Required)

Dynamic digital business networking and presentation series, hosted bimonthly in the SHP mansion and every other month at a venue in the business community.

Further info: www.berkshiredigital.org
Twitter: @BerksDigital

Berkshire Digital is a non-profit community for digital people, run by digital people.
We run monthly events that are completely free of charge to attend and feature prominent speakers and brands, giving our community fantastic insight into cutting edge digital technologies, real life application of digital marketing techniques, interesting statistics and of course, engaging discussions.

The aim of the community is to create a network for those passionate about the digital industry and to faciliate the learning, sharing and discussion of all things digital, from social media, web design and ecommerce through to mobile web, coding for kids and the digital arts.

Mindstorm#2: How to Live Stream

Inspirational brainstorm sessions led by an experienced professional in each of topic area. Presentation of an industry overview, followed by opportunity to get into the detail and develop ideas and skills to apply in your own projects.

Ground up workshop covering set up and delivery of web broadcasts for a range of budgets.
Supported Bursary places are available by application. See www.shplive.tv for details.

Martin Franklin developed and manages the live stream programme SHPLive.TV and the Digital Media Centre at South Hill Park, Berkshire and is also Digital Coordinator at The Place, London.

SHPLive is a project dedicated to further stimulate and inspire artistic excellence and innovation in the world of digital broadcasting and live streaming performance.

3D Printing

Model a three-dimensional object on the computer, and take home the real thing printed in plastic using the RepRap 3D printer. Begin to learn how to use a workflow of Google SketchUp and OpenSCAD 3D design programs for modelling, file conversion and output to the RepRap.

See the video from our previous weekend

TVRRUG: We are a group of people who live in the Thames Valley. We aim to encourage ultra low cost 3d printing (a.k.a. 3d printing) in all its forms but we are particularly interested in RepRap printers and their derivatives. One of our main activities is getting groups of people to come together to build RepRap Prusa Mendels. However, we also aim to help and support other builders – of RepRaps and other models.

REPRAP Printer: RepRap is humanity’s first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.
RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself – a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that – if you’ve got a RepRap – you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend…

More Info:
www.tvrrug.org.uk
reprap.org
www.hannahnapier.co.uk

Inspirational brainstorm sessions led by an experienced professional in each of topic area. Presentation of an industry overview, followed by opportunity to get into the detail and develop ideas and skills to apply in your own projects.

Tracking your web site visitors and extracting vital information about how they interact with your online presence.Analytics tools allow you to collect, report and analyse data to evaluate the success of your digital activities. The information and the tools to capture the required information are widely available but making sense of the data is often the main challenge of this task. This analytics training session will
focus on bringing clarity to this challenge showing the features of Google Analytics and how to interpret key metrics reports.

This session will help you to

• Configure Google Analytics for your specific goals
• Learn how to effectively interpret Google Analytics reports and identify trends within your data
• Understand how your visitors arrive to your site
• Find out the online behaviour of your users and how they interact with your content
• Monitor live streaming activities on your website and social media channels
• Learn how to configure your own dashboard relevant to your organisation

Supported Bursary places are available by application. See www.shplive.tv for details.

Elena Villaespesa works as Web Analyst and Producer at Tate. She is responsible for managing the digital analytics of Tates digital activities. This includes producing website, mobile and social media metrics reports, and co-ordinating user testing and surveys, to inform decision making across Tate with the aim of improving user journeys across different digital platforms. Elena is also a PhD student on
Digital Heritage at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her research is about how to measure the impact and value of museums on the Social Web. In this capacity, she is working on the project led by Culture24 How to evaluate online success?

SHPLive is a project dedicated to further stimulate and inspire artistic excellence and innovation in the world of digital broadcasting and live streaming performance.

Web Design with WordPress
Date: Saturday 15 June 2013
Time of event: 10.30-5.00pm

No HTML required to take this quick start guide to the versatile WordPress platform.

Covers posting, accounts and collaborative authoring, administration, designing with themes, popular plugins to integrate Social Media channels and embed media.

About the Tutor
Martin Franklin is a digital artist & musician, curator, online broadcaster and event programmer. He has worked as a freelance web designer and multimedia author since 1998 and gained an MA in Computer Arts from LCMM, London in 2003.
Web: www.hypermedia.me

Mastering RAW

RAW image format gives you freedom and flexibility for your digital photographs. Learn basic and advanced RAW processing in the digital darkroom, using Adobe Photoshop CS6 covering all the major adjustments and features within the program.

Topic areas covered:

An introduction to image file types

What does RAW actually mean and why use it?

RAW processing software overview (Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW)

• The interface
• The sliders
• White balance
• Saturation
• Contrast
• Exposure
• Basic workflow

Corrections and enhancements overview

Exercise 1 Correction – Rescuing an image with RAW
Exercise 2 Enhancement – Making an OK photo a brilliant one with RAW

Noise control and Colour Management

Understanding the Histogram

Exercise 3 – Making the best of low-light – thinking with RAW
Adjustment brushes and other miscellaneous features

About the tutor: Alex is a professional photographer, specialising in portraiture within arts and culture. He draws inspiration from the iconic images of the 20th Century, particularly of the 1960s. There is no question of the influence that photographs can have on people. We live in an age where photography is everywhere and available to everyone. Therefore the skill of the professional to create evocative, emotive and powerful imagery has never been more important. When working with clients I take pride in being more than just a man with a camera – photography is about considerate interaction with the subject, being unobtrusive and friendly.

For those interested, I work with Nikon DSLR cameras, always shoot in RAW and edit with a Windows PC and Adobe Lightroom.

Web: savannahphotographic.com/about

Digital SLR: Dance Photography

Explore studio flash photography with dance photography expert James Rowbotham. A dance company will be on hand to model, with studio lighting and photography equipment supplied. Intermediate level photographers and up. Please bring your Digital SLR and tripod.

You can see some beautiful images from our last Dance Photography day, with the James Cousins Dance Company on our Flickr page

About the Tutor: Professional photographer James Rowbotham first became interested in dance photography while watching tango dancers in Buenos Aires. He shoots in a variety of locations including large and small theatres, dance studios and on location.

Web: www.rowbotham-dance.book.fr

Game World: Arena
Date: Tues 28 May/Weds 29 May 2013
Time: 10.30-4.30pm

Learn to design, build, texture and play game maps for multiplayer arena combat using the engine from the genre-defining FPS game, Quake.

Day 1:Introduction to designing and building levels for 3D computer games, using the engine from the genre-defining FPS game, Quake.
Day 2: Mapping for 3D computer games, with emphasis on adding interactivity to game levels with lifts, teleporters, deadly traps and sounds.

Here’s a video of maps made during our Game World: Arena workshop in August 2012.

Images from maps made by young people during our previous Game World days below