Frances has earned her place as one of Western Australia’s finest photographers by striving to turn out beautiful, incisive and technically fine images. An authentic Western Australian feel pervades her images, from the tiniest fleck of rusty corrugated iron to the vast grandeur of red ochre landscapes.
Frances’ images grace the covers of magazines, feature articles, books and campaigns, including Good Weekend, Australian Geographic, Halliday Magazine, Gourmet Traveller, Wine Decanter (New York & London Editions), The Financial Review Magazine, Qantas Magazine and Wish Magazine. Her portfolio is diverse, grown out of her ability to be versatile, and her desire for the extraordinary. It includes portraits documentary, dance, corporate, landscapes, food and wine. A particular passion is working collaboratively with dancers, which she is looking forward to sharing at the Photo Live Expo 2017.

11.45am–13.45pm - Software - Nick Melidonis

Seeing your hard won photographic images on a lovely bright computer screen is great, but there is nothing quite like a hard copy paper print of your masterpiece, it simply feels more substantial. The price of high quality photographic printers has come way down; they are now within reach of most keen photographers. But you know, those printers may be affordable, and there is no doubt they can produce amazing results, but they never seem to work quite the way the salesman said they would, the print just doesn’t look like it did on the screen! There is a whole lot of stuff that the camera shop salesman didn’t tell you, stuff that when you see it in a book or on a web page looks awfully daunting and complex. It’s not, not when it’s explained carefully in logical steps with practical examples, and that’s exactly what we do in this printing workshop.

The workshop will explain the how and why of digital Photographic Printing while being interesting and practical. All the right information, delivered in a clear and understandable way that won’t put you to sleep!

This course will resolve the Colour Management mystery with a clear concise explanation of what colour management is and how it actually works. This will be followed by a practical demonstration calibrating a graphics monitor for accurate printing colours, before moving onto colour managing the image right through to the printer.