January Meeting Agenda

11:30 - 11:32 - Club Business

11:32 - 11:42 - Holiday Picture review

11:42 - 12:00 - Glen Hush Photoshop session

12:00 - 12:25 - Mike Shipman
Bio:

Mike Shipman is a self-taught photographer with a bachelor's degree in wildlife biology and a near master's degree in raptor biology. He's been photographing most of his life and left the wildlife field in 2005 to pursue a full-time career as a professional photographer. He's been exhibiting his fine art prints and teaching photography in the Boise area since 1998, has been published in several magazines in the northwest, and has international editorial and commercial clients.

We seem to be caught up in the explosion of technology as it relates to digital photography; Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom, plug-ins, filters, APS vs full frame sensor, video, laptop, desktop, monitors, HDR, wireless remote triggers, color spectrometers, printers, paper, ink, the list goes on. Do we really need all that clutter? Somewhere amongst all the jumble and mental overload are the reasons we photograph. Have you become derailed by technology and are now running down a different set of tracks away from your original objective of creating great art? Mike Shipman, professional freelance photographer and owner of Blue Planet Photography in Nampa, will present an argument that "old school" thinking still applies in the digital age and pose a challenge to photographers to remember where you came from as well as where you're going.

Janurary photo Assignment "Reflections"
Let's see those reflection shots.  Remember, the assignments are not supposed to come from your archives.  We want pictures from after the assignment date.
Reflection Photo by Brent Cheffings

December 3rd Meeting Agenda

11:30 - 11:32 Club Business

11:32 - 11:42 Review B&W Still Assignment

11:42 - 11:52 Glen Hush Photoshop

11:52 - 12:22 Presentation by Brent Keith

My
Background

Equipment Evolution

Outdoor Sports - The easy Stuff

Indoor Sports - The Hard Stuff

Workflow Issues

12:22 - 12:34 Website Review Chuck Knowles

Club Assignment for December - Capture the holiday spirit

Nov 12th 2009 Meeting agenda

11:30 - 11:32 Club Business

11:32 - 11:42 Review Fall Assignment

11:42 - 11:52 Photoshop tip - Glen Hush

11:52 - 12:25 Presentation by Kevin McDowell
It all started with a Minolta SRT 101 coupled with a passion for the outdoors. That was over 25 years ago. Since then, I’ve gone through many different film and digital cameras, thousands of images and hundreds of locations in the U.S and abroad. For me, photography is a way to share my love of the outdoors and travel with others.







This image is of a Bleeding Heart that I shot in my front yard after spending a day up in the mountains taking photos. Turned out to be my favorite photo of the day and also the one that opened the door to being selected for several assignments to shoot for a local magazine.


12:25 - 12:29 Website Review (by Charles Knowles)

12:29 - 12:30 November Assignment: Black & White Still Life

Oct 8th Meeting Agenda

Club Business

Review Emotion Assignment

Website Review (by Jim Cullum):

Zack Arias

• About Zack
• His Reviews of other photographer's websites
• Dope, Soap and Hope
• Seamless Whtie Paper Tutorial

Presentation (by Jim Cullum):

Remote Flash Triggers

• Why
• Types
• Setup
• Photo shoot on seamless white paper.

Photoshop Tutorial (by Glen Hush):

Processing Seamless White Shots

• Dodging
• Canvas size
• Background color and radients

October's Photo Assignment: Fall

September 3rd Meeting Agenda

MPC business - announcing Western Idaho Fair results
Review photos from assignment Wild Life

Website Review: Brent Cheffings
Digital Photography Review

Presentation: Janell Martin - Creating Photo Books











September Assignment: Emotion
Try to capture an emotion, happy, sad, mad, etc..







Glen Hush - Western Idaho Fair judging experience and tip of the Month

August 6th Meeting Agenda

Introduction of new members

Website review - by Ryan Van de Wetering site: Fred Miranda

Review Motion Pictures Assignment

September Assignment:
Wildlife - Get out and shoot something wild; birds, waterfowl,animals, etc.
Restrictions are:

• Photo must be taken after challenge date
• No captive animals or pets

Glen Hush - Presentation on wildlife photography which includes: show & tell of gear, images and techniques. Also maybe a photoshop demo on one of the image from the presentation

One of Glen's tips with Photoshop for wildlife pictures to make them pop is to adjust the temperature of the animal, select the animal make it warmer and the background cooler. You do that through filters.

July 2nd Meeting Agenda

Introduction of new members

Website review - Brent Lindsay
Ken Rockwell

Review Self Portraits Assignment


August Assignment - Motion Blur
Capture a sense of motion by any means possible. Panning, zooming, time exposures, slow shutter speeds, etc. This is a good creative control technique to have in your bag of tricks. Please, no Photoshop motion blur effects for this assignment.






My visit with Ansel Adams in 1982 and what he taught me about photography - by Chuck Knowles

In 1982, during spring break of my senior year in high school, my best friend and I set off for Carmel California to meet our idol in photography, the great Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams and his wife welcomed us into their home, and gave us the tour of a lifetime. Ansel brought his images that we had only seen in books, to life. He shared the art of visualization, and reminded us that a picture is three dimensional until you capture the image on film. To this day, I can feel his teachings every time I wait for a drifting cloud to arrive.
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August's Agenda

June 4th 2009 Meeting Agenda

Introductions of officers

Introductions of members

Blog site

Discussion of Challenge and competitions - Next Month's Assignment
First assignment (complete for July meeting) – self portrait. Rules:

• Must be taken by you!
• Get creative and show us the real you.
• Post processing in photo editing software is allowed and encouraged

Flickr Site - Jim Cullum

Show & tell of images

Website review – Richard Puzio
http://strobist.blogspot.com/

Tip of the month – "Don't waste money on cheap glass"

Next month agenda

Q&A