Dallas Camera Club Master Training Catalog (2020–2026)

Browse Dallas Camera Club training by topic. Each item includes a one-sentence summary and a link to the year page where the related PDF, video, or supporting materials are posted.

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Fundamentals Composition & Visual Design Critique & Competition Editing & Post-Processing Lightroom Photoshop Creative Photography Night / Astro Macro / Nature Travel / Field Trips Printing / Output Workflow / Organization Lighting / Flash Case Studies / Demonstrations Art History / Inspiration Ask Me Anything / Open Q&A
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Fundamentals

Basic Digital Photography
2026 • Beginner
A structured beginner class covering introductory camera concepts and basic digital-photography workflow.
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Beginners Hands On and Projects
2023 • Beginner
A practical beginner series built around hands-on exercises and guided projects to reinforce core photography skills.
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Shooting Scenarios and Considerations
2022 • Beginner to Intermediate
Discusses how to think through practical shooting situations and make better decisions in the field.
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Support (Tripods) and Shot Discipline
2022 • Intermediate
Explains how tripod use, camera support, and disciplined shooting habits improve sharpness and consistency.
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Fundamentals of Digital Photography – Landscape Photography Session
2020 • Beginner
Introduces basic digital-photography concepts through a landscape-photography teaching session.
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Composition & Visual Design

Developing a Critical Approach to Looking at Photographs
2025 • Intermediate
Teaches a more analytical way to evaluate photographs by studying design choices, visual impact, and image structure.
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Refining Your Image
2023 • Intermediate
Focuses on improving photographs through thoughtful review, refinement, and stronger visual decision-making.
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Themes and Projects
2023 • Mixed
Encourages photographers to build personal projects and work within themes to strengthen creative direction and coherence.
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Seeing Beyond the Subject
2022 • Intermediate
Encourages photographers to move beyond the obvious subject and search for stronger composition and visual meaning.
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Composition in Still Life
2021 • Intermediate
Demonstrates how arrangement, lighting, and visual design principles can create stronger still-life images.
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Visual Design
2020 • Beginner to Intermediate
Explores the core principles of visual design to help photographers build stronger, more intentional compositions.
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Critique & Competition

Competition Topics 2025–2026
2025 • Reference
Provides the competition-topic list for the upcoming contest year as a planning aid for club members.
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What Judges Look For – Advanced Edition
2024 • Intermediate to Advanced
Explains advanced competition criteria and what separates stronger images from weaker ones in judged club contests.
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Photo Club Contests
2024 • Beginner
Introduces how club competitions work and how to prepare more successful entries.
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Image Review
2023 • Mixed
A critique session where member photographs are reviewed for composition, technical quality, and impact.
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Introduction to Club Competition
2023 • Beginner
Introduces competition basics, including how to look at photos critically and prepare images for display and print labs.
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What Judges Look For
2023 • Intermediate
Explains the standards and visual qualities judges typically respond to in club competitions.
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What Judges Look For
2021 • Intermediate
Provides practical guidance on what improves outcomes in club competitions and how judges evaluate entries.
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Image Review
2021 • Mixed
A group critique series focused on reviewing member images and discussing improvements.
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Editing & Post-Processing

Making Difficult Masking Selections in LR and PS
2026 • Intermediate
Demonstrates how to handle more challenging masking and selection problems in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Departure from Reality
2025 • Advanced
Explores creative editing techniques that move an image beyond straight representation into a more interpretive result.
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AI Discussion
2024 • Mixed
Explores how AI is affecting editing workflows, image creation, and photography practice.
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Bringing Life to a Flat Image
2023 • Intermediate
Shows how tonal adjustments and targeted editing can add depth, energy, and visual presence to an image.
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Gold Leaf Process
2022 • Creative Editing
Presents a decorative or stylized finishing technique built around a gold-leaf visual treatment.
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Handling Noise in Lightroom Classic and Topaz DeNoise AI
2022 • Intermediate
Demonstrates practical approaches for reducing image noise while retaining useful detail.
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Refining Your Image
2020 • Intermediate
A multi-part editing series focused on improving photographs through stronger processing decisions and refinement.
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Lightroom

Masking in Lightroom
2025 • Intermediate
Demonstrates how Lightroom masking tools can be used for more precise local adjustments and cleaner edits.
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Using Gradients in Lightroom
2024 • Intermediate
Shows how gradient-based Lightroom adjustments can improve tone, emphasis, and balance across an image.
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Applying Lightroom Tools
2023 • Beginner to Intermediate
Demonstrates practical Lightroom tools and workflows that improve everyday photo editing.
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Finding That Image in Lightroom Classic
2023 • Beginner
Shows how keywording and search methods in Lightroom Classic help photographers find images in large catalogs.
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Managing Mobile Photos
2022 • Beginner to Intermediate
Explains how mobile-device images fit into a broader Lightroom-based workflow and reference system.
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Lightroom: Camera to Print
2021 • Beginner to Intermediate
A comprehensive Lightroom workflow series covering importing, library management, developing, and printing.
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Photoshop

Making Difficult Masking Selections in LR and PS
2026 • Intermediate
Focuses on more complex masking and selection techniques that are useful in both Lightroom and Photoshop.
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TK8 Panel for Luminosity Masking
2023 • Advanced
Demonstrates luminosity masking workflows built around the TK8 panel for more precise tonal control.
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Photoshop Tips and Tricks
2022 • Intermediate
Introduces efficient Photoshop techniques that make editing faster and more flexible.
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Things I Do in Photoshop That I Can't Do in Lightroom
2022 • Intermediate
Shows edits and problem-solving techniques that require Photoshop rather than Lightroom alone.
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Fun with Photoshop
2021 • Beginner to Intermediate
Introduces creative Photoshop techniques for enhancing or transforming photographs.
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Selections in Photoshop
2021 • Intermediate
Explains how to isolate subjects accurately in Photoshop for more targeted corrections and composites.
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Luminosity Panel
2021 • Advanced
Introduces luminosity-mask techniques for more selective and nuanced tonal adjustments.
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Addendum: Burning with Luminosity Masks
2021 • Advanced
Builds on luminosity-mask methods to demonstrate more controlled burning and tonal shaping.
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Small Object Lighting
2020 • Editing / Studio
Shows how small-object subjects can be photographed and refined through controlled lighting and presentation.
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Creative Photography

iPhone Apps for Creative Editing
2025 • Mobile / Creative
Introduces creative-editing apps on iPhone that can expand mobile-image processing possibilities.
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ICM and Me
2024 • Intermediate
Explores intentional camera movement as a way to create abstract, expressive photographs.
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Abstract Photography
2023 • Intermediate
Explores how color, form, pattern, and interpretation can be used to make abstract photographic images.
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Impressionism
2022 • Intermediate
Explores painterly and impressionistic approaches that move beyond literal photographic rendering.
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Making a GIF
2022 • Creative Output
Demonstrates a playful workflow for creating animated GIFs from photographic source material.
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Night / Astro

Lunar and Solar Photography
2026 • Intermediate
Covers planning and technique for photographing the moon, sun, and related astronomical events.
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Astrophotography with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras
2025 • Intermediate
Explains how to photograph the night sky using modern cameras and thoughtful field planning.
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Solar Eclipse – Once in a Lifetime Event
2024 • Intermediate
Provides guidance for safely planning and photographing a solar eclipse event.
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Preparing for Totality
2024 • Intermediate
Offers additional eclipse-preparation guidance focused on totality planning and field readiness.
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Planning the Shot with PhotoPills
2024 • Intermediate
Shows how to use PhotoPills to plan alignments involving the sun, moon, and other sky events.
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Aurora Dallas Survival Guide
2024 • Reference
Provides planning guidance for photographing unusual aurora opportunities from the Dallas area.
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Night Photography
2022 • Intermediate
Introduces night-shooting technique, low-light problem solving, and planning considerations for dark scenes.
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Macro / Nature

My Passion: Cacti, Succulents, and Macro
2025 • Intermediate
Explores close-up photography of plants and textures through a macro-focused personal-subject session.
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Bird Photography
2024 • Intermediate
Shares techniques and subject-specific considerations for making stronger bird photographs.
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Flowers
2024 • Intermediate
A two-part flower-photography session focused on botanical subjects, detail, and visual treatment.
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Nature
2024 • Mixed
Presents approaches and ideas for photographing natural subjects with stronger visual impact.
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Macro and Close-Up Photography
2022 • Intermediate
Introduces techniques for photographing small subjects and fine details with close-up and macro methods.
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Small Object Lighting
2020 • Studio / Close-Up
Demonstrates how lighting setups for small objects can improve tabletop and close-up photography.
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Travel / Field Trips

Preparing for Rio Grande Valley Field Trip
2026 • Mixed
Provides planning guidance and tour information for the Rio Grande Valley field trip.
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Caddo Lake Experience
2026 • Field Trip Review
A post-trip presentation sharing images and lessons from the Caddo Lake experience.
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Preparing for Caddo Lake Field Trip
2025 • Mixed
Helps members prepare for photographing the Caddo Lake field trip through planning and location guidance.
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Printing / Output

My Print Doesn't Match My Monitor
2026 • Intermediate
Explains how to diagnose color-management problems when prints do not match the display.
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Printer Setup Addendum
2026 • Intermediate
Adds printer-setup guidance intended to improve consistency and print matching.
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Matting Photographs
2025 • Intermediate
Covers practical techniques for matting photographs for presentation and display.
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Impactful Monochrome
2024 • Printing / Monochrome
Explores black-and-white image making, including processing and print-oriented monochrome workflow.
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Black and White Conversion and Toning
2024 • Intermediate
Demonstrates how to convert and tone images for stronger monochrome expression and output.
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Mat Cutting Calculator
2022 • Reference Tool
Provides a practical calculator resource to help members plan and cut mats more accurately.
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Creating a Photography Slideshow
2021 • Beginner to Intermediate
Shows how to assemble a photo slideshow and related presentation material for display.
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Printing
2021 • Intermediate
Covers printing basics, print settings, mounting, and mat cutting for final presentation.
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Workflow / Organization

Masters Jeff Schewe & Michael Reichmann's Complete Photography Workflow
2025 • External Workflow Series
Highlights an extensive workflow resource covering the full chain from capture through print and screen output.
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Workflow
2024 • Beginner
Outlines an end-to-end photography workflow from capture through editing and delivery.
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Image Storage and Backup
2023 • Beginner to Intermediate
Reviews practical strategies for backing up, storing, and protecting a photo library.
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New Tools in Lightroom and Photoshop
2023 • Editing Workflow
Introduces newer Lightroom and Photoshop features that can streamline editing workflow.
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Workflow Process
2022 • Beginner
Provides a structured overview of a photography workflow from capture through final output.
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Lighting / Flash

Dance Photography Tips
2025 • Intermediate
Offers subject-specific guidance for photographing dance with better timing, viewpoint, and lighting awareness.
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The Volunteer Photographer
2024 • Mixed
Discusses practical expectations, working methods, and responsibilities when photographing events as a volunteer.
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Small Object Lighting
2020 • Intermediate
Shows how lighting control can improve the photography of small tabletop or close-up subjects.
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Case Studies / Demonstrations

One Image – Several Visions
2025 • Mixed
Shows how different photographers interpret and process the same source image in different ways.
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How I Made It
2023 • Mixed
A demonstration series where photographers explain how specific images were made and processed.
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How I Made It
2022 • Mixed
A presentation series in which members break down specific image-making and post-processing decisions.
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How I Made It
2021 • Mixed
Members walk through the capture and editing steps behind selected images.
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Art History / Inspiration

The Westons
2026 • Photography History
Introduces the work of Edward Weston and Brett Weston as a source of photographic inspiration and study.
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Ansel Adams
2025 • Photography History
Explores the work and importance of Ansel Adams as a reference point for photographic craft and vision.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
2023 • Inspiration
Looks at Georgia O'Keeffe as an artistic influence on photographic seeing and interpretation.
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Ask Me Anything / Open Q&A

Ask Me Anything
2026 • Mixed
An open session where members can ask questions about shooting, editing, printing, and workflow.
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Ask Me Anything
2024 • Mixed
A series of open Q&A sessions covering cold-weather shooting, tripod care, filters, workflow, printing, and other member questions.
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Ask Me Anything
2023 • Mixed
Open Q&A sessions addressing member questions on topics such as watercolor effects, Helicon Focus, film simulation, fog processing, and Lightroom workflow.
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Ask Me Anything
2020 • Mixed
An open Q&A session focused on Lightroom organization, storage, and backup questions.
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