December 2nd Micron Photo Club Agenda

Review Patterns / Textures picture assignment

Lightroom demonstration - Brent Lindsay
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 has some new features which we would like to continue to show how you can edit pictures. 

Demo Features:
Brush tools
Edit portaits using the brush tools to soften skin, darken eye brows, lighten hair, whiten teeth etc.  Change exposure in specific areas of your photo, burn and dodge your pictures.

Heal tool
Remove blemishes from skin of people in portaits, remove dust spot and sync with the other photos.

Gradient Filter
Use the gradient filter to give pictures a nice contrast

New Lens Correction

Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved.

New Superior noise reduction

Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built into Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

Perspective correction

Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, nondestructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upward, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backward in your image.



December Assignment: - Show us your Treasures
Whether it is things that you treasure, memories, places, or people, we want to see those things.

October (September 30th) Micron Photo Club Agenda

Review picture assignments "Vanishing Point"

 Mike Reid is a Boise photographer and he is here to talk about engagement / wedding /bridal & senior portraits.  Mike is going to bring a bunch of his favorite images and talk about what went into making the i.i. his thought process, planning, posing and technical details.  Check out his websit and blog.

Mikes website
Mikes Blog

Octobers Photo Assignment "Patterns / Textures"

September 2nd Club meeting agenda

Eastern Idaho Fair Photography contest review

Review vehicles assignment

Presentation by Janell Martin - click on her name to see her pictures at her smugmug site

Jannell Martin will take us through all the steps she takes to make beautiful travel pictures.  Janel will cover planning, tips and tricks she has used in her travels.  The list of countries Janell has travelled to include: Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Israel, Egypt, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus.

























September's assignment "Vanishing Point"

August 4th 2010 Agenda

Jim Fiscus "Outwork your competitors" - ariticle
Does the Jim Fiscus style come from your lighting or postproduction?
The “Jim Fiscus Style” is a weird thing to me. There are a lot of different looks in my book. The images are different based on what I’m trying to tell. Lighting is the basis of any post technique. Without good light it’s just a picture that’s run through a computer, and that’s not legit. Lighting technique and a computer are really just tools to manage the Zone System. I spent months learning the Zone System from Jim Newbury and at the time it seemed unnecessary. I’m certainly glad I learned it as I use it on every image I make. Thank you, Jim Newbury.

Zone system for digital cameras
A simplified Zone system for making good exposures



Review Jim Fiscus assignment

Post Processing Techniques Glen Hush

August assignment "Vehicles"

From fire trucks to tractors to mustangs - pick a vehicle and show us your best image. Include the whole vehicle or do a study of one part of the vehicle...it is entirely up to you.

Agenda July 8th 2010

Business items

Flickr contests -
Photo Competition

Nightscapes show & tell - all those who have added pictures will be in for a drawing of stuff from B&H camera

Photoshop - Postprocessing by Glen Hush

Managing Trees
Using curves
Nightshots postprocessing

This months assignment - Emulation
Jim Fiscus take one to three (if your are ambitious) of his photos and emulate it

Agenda June 3rd 2010

Review smoke assignments

June assignment Nightscapes
Lets combine what we learned from Chuck's presentation last month and Dylan's presentation this month to get some great Night shots

Presentation by Dylan MacMaster "Nightscapes"

Images captured at night often create a mood and feel that is unlike photos taken during the day.  While taking photographs at night may pose some new challenges and push you to learn new techniques, your payback is the chance to create some really unique images that will stand out from many of the typical “postcard” shots that are possible.  Another benefit of taking night shots is that it often gives the photographer a chance to bask in the solitude of even some of the most famous and popular locations without the hustle and bustle of daylight crowds.

Due to lack of familiarity, and since night photos are often highly technical, many photographers simply put their camera away and "call it a day" after sunset.  Seeking to familiarize you with some of the obstacles you may encounter at night, Dylan’s presentation will focus on a few night photography tips, specialty gear used, a review of nocturnal light sources, and some general step-by-step guides for various shots like: landscapes by moonlight, urban shots, star trails, lightpainting, and more.

If time remaining Glen Hush "Photoshop tip"

May 6th Agenda

Club Business

Assignment Review "Red"

Taking landscapes by Charles Knowles

The gifts to a photographer are in those moments ust after sunrise or just before sunset, never knowing what Mother Nature will present you.  Some elements can be controlled or predicted, like the location and the moon's cycle, but will the clouds cooperate?  Will the moon be visible? Will it rain, snaow ore will ther be a dust storm?  All of these variables become the tools of design and will help build your art and control your outcome.  You have no control over Mother Nature.  What you do have control of is how you use nature to build and create your art. Visualization must be tactical and change for the moment .  Strategy come in to play when deciding where to go for your next photography adventure and when.

From where the sun rise

To where the sun sets

The world is my Canvas

2008 Charles Knowles

Photography Tip Glen Hush "How to work with Trees"

May's Assignment "Smoke"

Here is a setup how to shoot smoke

June's Presentation by Dylan Macmaster "Night Photography"

March 11th 2010 MPC agenda

Business
Review February's assignment "Frame"

HDR -Jim Cullum

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight


 HDR (Software)

• Radiance - HDR rendering software (free)
• Hypershot - HDR rendering software
• CinePaint - open source HDR image editing software, forked from GIMP in 1998^[22]
• Unified Color HDR PhotoStudio – an advanced HDR imaging software
• Highlight headroom
• Photomatix Pro (MacOSX, Win32; USD 99; free trial with watermark)
• SilverFast HDR / HDR Studio – 48 bit per pixel image processing software
• Hugin - open source HDR merging and panorama stitching software (Linux, MacOSX, Unix, Windows; GPL-2+ free of cost)
• Dynamic Photo HDR (MacOSX, Win32; USD 55; trial available)

March assignment:
Get out of your comfort zone and shoot something that you don't typically like to shoot or don't have experience or confidence in.  An example "I'm not very good at taking landscape pictures so I tend to avoid those.  I like landscapes, but I don't like taking picture of them."  For others it might be portraits or fill flash or cityscapes or sports or macro, or... or... or...

April Program:
"Wildlife Photography"
Ernie Lombard will share tips and insight into capturing stunning wildlife photographs.  He will present imagery from his most recent trip to Africa.

February 4th Meeting Agenda

11:30 - 11:35 Club Business
11:35 - 11:45 Review Reflections Assignment

11:45 - 12:25 - PhotoShop (Picture Post processing) by Glen Hush

Before

 After

  

Assignment:

"Frame within frame".  Frame it!  Frame your subject within the image itself using surroundings such as doorways, foliage, bridges, etc.  No Phototshop frames.