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.