This CPD session will cover how to set up your drone camera initially, the importance of shooting RAW files over jpgs, how to use browsers, colour profiles, colour balance & calibration, exposure levels using histograms, contrast curves, saturation, linear graduation filters for detail in sky, correcting converging verticals, dust removal & saving images as unsharpened 8 bit RGB TIFF files as master copies and subsequent jpg production from these. Also how to create a contact sheet.
Speaker: Alun Bull
Architectural & Landscape Archaeology Photographer at Historic England
Alun is a drone pilot with 30 years’ professional experience as a photographer and filmmaker documenting the built environment and its culture. His work is featured by National Geographic, The Guardian, Times and Telegraph newspapers, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Time Team and almost 30 guidebooks for English Heritage. He regularly teaches photography to Oxford University & Oxford Brookes University students on their Buildings Conservation MSc course.
