Thursday, December 7, 2017

Micron Photo Club Agenda Dec 7th 2017

December's photo assignment "Lights"

With Christmas and the holidays there are many opportunities to shoot the lights of the season.  Shoot indoors or outdoors and capture the lights.







This presentation will be given by Fabiana Huffaker.  She has offered to give critiques to the club on the pictures the club has submitted for this month's assignment.


My love for photography started when I was a young girl. Unfortunately, it took me quite a while to get some professional training. I started my first college photography class when my youngest child went to first grade. He is now in college.


I used a medium format film camera for my first few years and developed and printed all of my work in my darkroom. When the digital world caught up with what I could do with film, I made the switch.







Thursday, November 2, 2017

November 2nd Micron Photo Club Agenda

Calendars, you can buy yours, do so by Nov 17th

Photo Walk Pictures

CultureWizard Photo Contest
How to Enter:     Email your entries to contest@rw-3.com
     File type: .jpg, .gif, or .png
     Size: 5MB or smaller     
     Include:          
          Your full name
          Company name
          Caption (including location, content description, and anything else you’d like to share)
          Category name
     Submission limit: 5 photographs per category.
     Deadline for submissions: November 17, 2017

Lightroom changes
     Lightroom Classic
     Lightroom CC

November's photo assignment "Choose your best"
Choose a picture of your best work and one that you don't know what to do with.






This month's presentation will be by Glen Hush
He will present post processing in Lightroom, those fall colors you just took and you want to know how to process them.  Glen will give you some ideas of what you can do to post process your photos.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Micron Photo Club Agenda Oct 5th 2017

Review September's assignment "Get Low"

October's assignment "Fall Colors"






Our presentation is by Scotty Perkins
Scotty will talk about his photography and a recent trip to Alaska.  His work can be found at his website http://www.scottyperkins.com/ and on 500px https://500px.com/scottyperkins



Thursday, September 7, 2017

Micron Photo Club Agenda Sept 7th 2017

Our assignment for Sept "Get Low"


Review August's assignment


Presentation by Monte Stiles:

Monte Stiles - Several years ago, a growing interest in photography gave me an opportunity to rediscover everthing that is wonderful about life - a life filled with amazing people, places, and creatures.  Although I stil work as a prosecutor, I now spend more of my time seeking out beautiful landscapes, climbing mountains, tracking wildlife, and captureing it all with my camera.





Thursday, August 3, 2017

Micron Photography Club Agenda Aug 3rd

Review July's assignment "The Rest of the Story"

This month's assignment "Rule of Thirds"




This month's presentation is by Jim Harmer
Jim is the creator of the website and business Improve Photography, this site is dedicated to helping people improve their photography skills.  He has multiple people writing articles on various photography subjects.  Along with the website he has several podcasts and has just released a new app called Really Good Photo Spots (RGPS).

Jim has been able to offer workshops taking people to places around the world, places like China.








Friday, July 14, 2017

Review June's assignment "Reflections"

July's assignment "The rest of the Story"
Share your one good shot for July's assignment to tell a story.

Presentation by:
Glen Hush, Chuck Knowles, Brent Lindsay
































Each will show one of their pictures and discuss in length the various aspects of how it was taken.  Such as:
                Title
                Date     
                Location
                Photographer
                Time of day in relation to sunrise/set
                Camera
                Lens
  
              Sensor type (crop?)
    F-Stop
                Shutter
                ISO
                Raw?
                Tripod?
                Filter(s)?
                Shutter release?
                Mirror Lock?

                Flash?
                Where was the SUN?
                How high was your camera from the ground?
                Theory behind the settings you chose
                What might you change if you could now
                How did you find this spot
                What tools were used to find this spot


Thursday, June 1, 2017

Micron Photo Club Agenda June 1st

June's assignment "Reflections"


Review May's assignment "Spring Colors"


Our presentation is by Fabiana Huffaker, owner of Fabiana Beatriz Photography
Fabiana Huffaker is an international award winning portrait photographer in Eagle, Idaho. She loves to explore high school seniors' hobbies and interests and personalize each session to that person's strengths and interests. She loves to travel almost as much as she loves chocolate.

 

Fabiana has come to our club a couple of times and it is always a pleasure, she has such a great enthusiasm and passion for what she does.  She loves to work with people and produces outstanding photos of the people she works with.  I have ask her to talk about the lighting which will continue further discussion of the subject we had last club meeting about using flash.

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

May 4th Micron Photo Club Meeting Agenda

Review last month,s photo assignment "Inspiration"

This month's photo assignment "Spring Colors"





Our presentation will be by Glen Hush and Chuck Knowles

They will be presenting flash photography - Learning to work with flashes will help you improve your photography.  Understanding how and when to use flash will provide the extra professionalism for your photos.  They will talk about some of the different equipment and how to do off camera flash and the power of flash modifiers.

Hard light versus soft light by using a flash modifier
Image result for hard light soft light

Image result for light modifiers

Friday, April 14, 2017

Micron Photo Club Agenda April 15th 2017

Review March assignment "Self Portrait"

April assignment "Inspiration"
Use this information from the presentation to inspire you and create a picture from the information.  Come prepared to share how you were inspired and where the inspiration came from.





This was inspiration from Gavin Hoey, from his youtube channel.  He demoed how to do it and I gave it a try.








This was inspiration from Bryan Peterson who is on Adorama TV youtube channel.








This month presentation:  Where do you go to get information and inspiration about photography?  Chuck Knowles and Brent Lindsay will be discussing the various ways to get information for your photography.

Sharing sites
Flickr - picture sharing site, can have 1G of space for free
Facebook - Social media site where a lot of photographers share info and pictures
Instagram - Social media meant for sharing pictures where a lot of photographers share their pictures
500px - picture sharing site
Pixoto - picture sharing site with competition, you try to get the most points
Gurushots - picture sharing site - with competition to try and get to different levels.

Podcasts
CoolPhoto tools - This site was created to help photography enthusiasts of all skill levels find new tools and techniques that can improve your photography
*ImprovePhotography - 5 different podcasts
Improve photography round table
Latitude
Photo taco
Tripod
Portraits session
*PetaPixel - news, equipment, stories
*Photography tips from the top floor - Tips from the Top Floor is a weekly show about photography.
Photog Adventures - Brendon, Porter and Aaron King decided in 2016 to finally get serious about building up their photography portfolios and focused on GETTING OUT THERE to capture beautiful landscapes.
The art of photography - Lets talk about creative work. Creativity is not something you are born with or without. We all have it and its up to us to decide how we want to use it. We live in a consumer based society and creative work is more important now than ever.

Apps to help your photography
*TPE - The Photographer's Ephemeris® (TPE) is a tool to help you plan outdoor photography in natural light, especially landscape and urban scenes. It is a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light will fall on the land, day or night, for any location on earth.

LunaSolCal - Calculate times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and more for your location at any given date.
*StuckOnEarth - Discover countless amazing places to visit
Digital DOF - free app for calculating your Depth of Field (DOF) for your camera aperture and lens.
MyRadar - for finding how the storms are moving
PhotoPills - PhotoPills is your personal assistant in all photographic matters. It provides tasty remedies to help you answer most of the questions when planning and shooting your creative ideas.
SkyView Free
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
WeatherBug - Look at the weather, it has a lightning dector
Google Earth -

Internet information sites
Improve photography - site to help you improve your photography, lots of articles about a variety of different subjects.
DP review - reviews camera equipment
Ken Rockwell - Photography who writes articles and review equipement.
SLR lounge - 
PetaPixel - News, equipment, tutorials, inspiration, etc.


Youtube 
Adorama TV - have various how to's and have created a program Top Photographer where photographers compete to be the top photographer on the show.  They also create through the lens which they take a look at selected photographers.
Jared Polin - Fro Knows Photo - talks about various photography topics and has some guess as well.
rafya A - photoshop tutorials major photoshop manipulation
tutvid - Tutorials, tip and techniques for lightroom, photoshop
Improve Photography - portions of podcasts, tips and tutorial
Lexar - channel about their memory
Photog Adventures - video of their adventures
Gavin Hoey - Tips, tutorials, etc.
Thomas Heaton - on location showing how to get the composition
KelbyOne - Shows, tutorials, etc.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Micron Photo Club March 2017 Agenda

Review Feb assignment "Love, Valentines, Relationships"

March assignment "Self Portrait"





Our presentation will be by Glen Hush
Glen will be continuing his process for post processing a photo.  He started last month and didn't get to some of the pictures by some of the group members. He will cover the type of things that he does to a photo using Lightroom and Photoshop.