Wednesday, August 3, 2016

August 4th Micron Photo Club Agenda

August assignment "Patterns / Textures"











Facebook group


Photo walk


August 13th
We have been looking for a good time and place for the next photo walk. We think we have come up with real winner. If you remember the last photo walk was the Botanical garden light show. We had a low turnout, because of the weather? Well no weather excuse this time.
The photo walk will be the farmers market in Boise. There are actually 2 farmers markets in Boise with two start times, one starts at 9:00 and the other starts at 9:30. I have been there several time and I find time to easily go to both. The best photography is before they open for business while they are setting up. I usually try to stop taking pictures when they open for business because I do not want get in the way of their livelihood.
Opportunities
                Food photography
                Homemade crafts
                Homemade signs
                People in action (the vendors have a ton of personality, but you have to bring it out in them)
Recommend
                My recommendation is camera, no tri-pod with a 50mm full frame or 35mm crop.  But bring what you have.
                Bring some different lenses to try.
               
The plan;
o   Meet at the corner of Grove and 11th at 8:15. For the Boise Farmers Market
o   At 9:00 or when you are done at the Boise Market, head over to Main and 8th for the Capital City market. We can shoot there until 9:30 when it opens.

 

Photography question
I would like to know the differences of the four different light meter modes and how they interact with exposure compensation and ​focus points.     Does the manual mode,  aperture, iso and f stop selections have an effect on the selected light meter readings?
Metering modes explained


Presentation Glen Hush
Glen has had the opportunity to photograph brown bears at the McNeil rive in Alaska, he will share some of his pictures and talk about his experiences.






Thursday, July 7, 2016

Micron Photo Club Agenda July 7th

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Elliott Erwitt


Photo club questions:
Why do I need a telephoto lens?  What can I do with the lens?
What is digital zoom?
A 50mm lens is considered normal lens by most people, anything above that is telephoto.
Reasons for a telephoto, to get close, to isolate your subject, to create bokeh or shallow depth of field, to change perspective, portraits.
A good article from Cambride in Colour blog about using telephoto lens.

Digital zoom is zooming in on the image sensor, doing so you lose resolution.


July's assignment "Perspective"
Get low, get high.  Perspective in photography - by Sudipta Shaw
















Review June's assignment "Red"


This month's presentation will be on equipment.  Part of the equipment talk Chuck Knowles will go over what is in his bag.














When Ansel Adams was asked what size camera to use.  The answer "the biggest one you can carry".



Gear guide from the website Improve Photography


Thursday, June 2, 2016

Micron Photography Club June 2nd Agenda

Review pictures from May's assignment "leading lines"

June's assignment "Red"





Presentation by Glen Hush
Glen is going to present some post processing techniques, we had a couple of people submit photos to Glen and he will show what he would do to post process them.  Glen has done this in the past and it is always a wonderful learning experience.  Glen is a master at Photoshop and has taught classes on the tool.








This picture is an example of Glen taking a club members (Richard Puzio) picture and post processing it.


Some of Glen's Pictures