The Prodig email discussion List has been bringing people together for well over a decade.
Is it time we held some real-world intensive workshops “Prodig Bootcamps”?

Here’s some inspiration (thanks to Jorge). Pick your favourites…
-Full LightRoom hands-on learning, all the in-depths and barely known hidden features of LR.
-Photoshop CS4-CS5 tips and tricks
-Camera calibration methods- Custom white balance, [...]

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For those in the San Fransisco area on 18th June, Jorge Parra, a regular Prodig contributor and former listmom, is presenting this month’s seminar at the Greater Bay Area Professional Photographer’s meeting.
Jorge carves a noteworthy commercial, fine art and social issues photography career. In addition to his still photography and video expertise, Parra has extensive [...]

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Prodig listowner Ed Horwich will be chairing one of the debates, The Collective and the Library, at the forthcoming National Photography Symposium taking place in Manchester from 19th to 21st June 2009.
It is intended to be a major gathering place for ideas and discussion about photography. The weekend includes around 20 different events – debates, keynote [...]

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Catch the latest kit and techniques at a day-long expo organised by the SUN Awards, featuring…
• NIKON – with plenty of new releases there will be a lot to see and hear about
• EPSON – demonstrating their latest professional printers
• EIZO – see the industry-standard monitors first hand
• DROBO – giving a presentation about optimising [...]

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Back in July Adobe held a Digital Imaging Summer School in Amsterdam, featuring Mikkel Aaland, Arjan van Bruggen and Ton Fredriks, talking about Lightroom and a touch of CS3 too. Well you might just not have been able to get there, but the kind folks have made several videos of the classes available to [...]

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Since 2003 David Black has been publishing a monthly workshop on his web site about various aspects of professional photography. Entitled “Workshops at the Ranch” they cover many aspects, but lighting in its many aspects is a topic he revisits frequently.
It was in Doug Young’s response to a thread on Prodig, that we came across [...]

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Here’s a date for all of those of you who can make it to New York next week. Based on his latest book, Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography, Johnson will discuss the history of electronic imaging, the transformation of the darkroom, ethics in the digital age, and trends in digital photography for the future.
SVA Amphitheater
December [...]

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etntworld are presenting a free workshop at Apple’s Briefing centre in central London:

Back to basics.
Starting with the basics, you will learn to adjust exposure, contrast, colour correction, and colourcasts removal.
Actions and droplets.
Apply the basics to a series of buttons in which you can edit images with quality and consistency.
Workflow.
Build automated systems to bring greater quality [...]

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UK dealer the Square Group will host a free Creative Suite 3 seminar at the National Film Theatre in May.
The event takes place on Tuesday 15 May. Two sessions will be made available: a morning session starting at 9.30am and an afternoon event which starts at 1.30pm.
register at Square Group 
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LOOK07 and Redeye kindly invited me to their symposium The Democratic Image last weekend.
With speakers flown in from around the world, and an audience coming from similarly widespread destinations, it was a thought provoking, fascinating and inspiring couple of days.
I managed to record many of the presentations and I’ll be making them available [...]

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GBM are presenting this seminar at the Bridgewater Hall on 8th May.
“In this feature packed presentation you’ll learn more about the different Creative Suites and some of the key features in the latest versions of Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, inDesign CS3 and many more Adobe Creative products.
In the second session of the day, you will [...]

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Academy Class and Adobe presents a seminar for Creative Suite 3.
Get an informative overview of the all-new, fully integrated Adobe Creative Suite 3 solutions for print, web, film, video, and interactive projects. This overview will help you determine which of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 versions are right for you and your business. The seminar [...]

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An introduction to Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ by Richard Earney and Sid Jervis who are both involved in the Public and Private beta testing of Adobe Lightroom.Three hours of information about Lightroom and attendees will also receive the Lightroom V1.0 Tutorial DVD from Luminous Landscape.
This seminar has a very special introductory price, places will be limited.
Date: [...]

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For those based in the north of England the AOP is presenting a short season of seminars in Manchester.
Self promotion is often a challenging task and for freelance photographers it can be crucial to the success of their business. This season of seminars, workshops and discussions will explore successful self promotion methods in the current [...]

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