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Personal Development Photography Workshop is my workshop with Matti Sulanto. We will have the workshop in Helsinki Finland, in August 2022. The exact dates are from 1st to the 5th.

Personal Development

The workshop’s whole idea is your Personal Development. The goal for you is not to start making images like me and Matti. The goal is to develop your own style. We will start from your interests and try to develop your own photograph towards your goal. Of course, we will guide you along the way and help you to find the goal.

We will gather every day at this nice old building called Kiseleff’s house. It is an old sugar refinery and later a department store. Now it is a co-working space with conference rooms, called Sofia Helsinki.

The day starts with a photo feedback session.

We will start every morning at 8.30 AM for photo critic. We will watch images from the assignment that was given the day before. Yes, there will be an assignment for every day.

Every day we will also go to different locations in Helsinki. There will be a variety of locations, urban areas, parks, and nature reserves. We will also make a trip to Suomenlinna island, an old fortress from the 18th century in front of Helsinki.

Photography and great food!

The main thing is of course photography, but we will also have three dinners together. (included in the price). So it is also having some leisure time and discussions about photography over dinner. We have picked very good restaurants that offer traditional Finnish and Scandinavian cuisine.

Our goal with Matti is to make this Personal Development a great experience in many ways.

We still have a few spots left and if you want more info go to our website: www.helsinkiworkshops.fi

More info from our website and videos!

More info can also be found from videos I and Matti have made about our Workshop:

Skylum had a second briefing about it’s new image editing software Luminar Neo. Some of the AI tools were covered.

The main thing in these new tools is subject recognition. It is a big thing in Mask AI and also Relight AI. I think those two AI tools are the most interesting at least for now.

Relight AI

In Skylum’s examples of the Relight AI it seems that the Relight AI works excatly the way a photographer would light a scene. Sometimes it is not possible to adjust the light and the propositions of them when photographing. Relight can help with that.

As you see from the photo example from below it works very well. Of course we have to remember that these are samples taht are provide for us. The actual quality of all these tools will be confirmed when we can actually test these on our on images.

Mask AI

Mask Ai is using object recognisition to mask out area in an image. The traditional way is to paint the mask or select an area. Neo uses object recognition. They way you mask is just choose the object from the menu.

At the first stage Luminar Neo will have Portrait Mask, Sky Mask, Water Mask, Mountain Mask, Architecture/Buildings and Vegetation. The second upgrade will have roads, vehicles etc. All these are subject to change. Let’s hope that Skylum can keep this schedule up.

Luminar Neo is on to something.

The tools that Luminar Neo has are really exciting. Even though I am a bit disapointed about Skylum’s software release policy I have to admit that Luminar Neo is something I want to try. Then I can make my final thoughts about it.

Good deal on Skylum’s website!

Even though the early bird deal is over, there is another quite good deal. The price for current Luminar software users is 47€ for one computer. (Price is valid until 17th of October). I think that is good deal. What is good about the deal is that there is a 30 day money back guarantee. That starts when the software is available.

If you are interested in getting Luminar Neo here are my Affiliate links:

Link to Luminar Neo.