Deborah Sandidge is a professional photographer who enjoys sharing her insight and creative ideas through writing, workshops, teaching, and seminars. She is the author of Digital Infrared Photography, published by Wiley. As an instructor at BetterPhoto.com, Deborah teaches Enhancing Images and Creating Works of Art, as well as Digital Infrared Photography. Deborah shares her knowledge and enthusiasm with photographers in her seminars and courses around the world.
Deborah enthusiastically shares a wide variety of creative and technical skills in her classes, seminars, and presentations, making time spent with her educational and fun for all skill levels. She shares innovative tips used by professionals and uses compelling images to illustrate photographic and Photoshop ideas that are both inspirational and helpful to the photographer.
Deborah’s passion is not only capturing images of people and places with her digital cameras, but also in the creative work she does in the digital darkroom. She considers Photoshop her "artist's palette.” Deborah’s creative ideas and presentation style will benefit any photographer wanting to expand their artistic and photographic options. Deborah’s goal is to inspire the photographer to create unique, story-telling imagery through enhanced photography skills and artistic Photoshop techniques.
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| Deborah Sandidge's presentation for Orlando Camera Club @Susan Germyn |
Event Schedule
Indian River Photo Club - Presentation Infrared Photography - March 22, 2012
Mission to Cuba - March 27 - April 10 2012 (
Florida's Birding & Photo Fest - April 25-29 2012
Kenya & Tanzania - June 15 -29 2012
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - July 2012
Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club March 15-17 2013
The Image Doctors Podcast - Discussion with Dr. Jason Odell and Rick Walker about infrared & Cuba.
Nik Radio - Scott Sheppard of Nik Radio interviews Deborah Sandidge about everything infrared.
Nik HDR Efex Pro Webinar - Creativity with Nik HDR Efex Pro
Topaz Adjust Webinar Creating an HDR look with Topaz Adjust
Lensflare35 Podcast Dave Warner of Lensflare35 interviews Deb about her photography.
Top Five Digital Photography Tips - Video by Wiley
Top Five Digital Photography Tips - Video by Wiley
Nikon D7000 Instructional/Promotional Video
Feisol Pro Directory
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| Deborah being interviewed by a Latin American TV station at Bay of Pigs Museum in Giron, Cuba @ Peter Berg |
Digital Infrared Photography
Deborah Sandidge, author of Digital Infrared Photography, illustrates the beauty of infrared photography in her presentation as it applies to landscapes, architecture, birds and wildlife. Using compelling infrared images created with her infrared converted cameras, and color/infrared comparisons, Deb will discuss in detail the best techniques to enable you to capture one-of-a-kind infrared images.From understanding infrared light and filter choices, to imaginative techniques in photographing, and post-processing in Photoshop, Deb will share insightful and creative techniques that you can immediately apply to your infrared photography.
HDR
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is exciting, creative and technically amazing! Join professional photographer and author Deborah Sandidge as she shares her tips and techniques for creating inspirational images through the process of HDR.
The art and technique of HDR allows the photographer to create extraordinary and dramatic story-telling images.
With HDR, a new image is created by combining a variety of exposures to reveal incredible detail, color, and definition throughout the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas. Deborah will discuss techniques for combining HDR images, and will review artistic enhancements with plug-ins and filters such as Topaz Adjust, Lucis Pro, and Nik Software.
Artistic Imagery
Deborah Sandidge's informative presentation, Artistic Imagery, will cover techniques ranging from interpretation of a subject for the best photographic outcome, to creatively enhancing an image in Photoshop. She will share with you innovative ways to shoot for special effects such as zooming, long exposure to convey motion, multiple exposures, shooting through glass, reflections, HDR, and Photomerge.
Working with images in Photoshop, Deb will show you how to easily use creative techniques such as adding a watery reflection, mirroring, and composites for texture. In addition, Photoshop plug-ins will allow you to achieve artistic effects, as well as detail and color enhancement, thus providing additional creative alternatives for your own work.
Travel Photography
Travel photography can be creatively accomplished. Come away with photos that transcend snapshots, and become truly works of art. You can be a photo-expressionist, creating captivating photographs to treasure for years and share with family and friends.
Night Photography
Night transforms an ordinary scene into something magical, providing a wonderful opportunity to expand your creative and artistic options. Deborah Sandidge will show you how to capture extraordinary night scenes from twilight and beyond. Learn the tips, techniques and tools that will make creative and compelling images at night. Master the techniques of photographing at twilight, to create an image with impact.
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Discussing composition elements during a mission to Cuba
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