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Our usual meeting time is 6:30–8:15 pm the fourth Thursday each month at the Belmont branch of the Dayton Library at 1041 Watervliet Ave., Dayton. All meetings are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise.
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January 2010January 28, 2010: "What Santa Brought" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.Bring in any photography related goodies you got for Christmas, or anytime within the past few months and tell us about it. Be thinking about what you would like to demo, or see demonstrated in the next few months so we can plan our future meetings. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. | |||
December 2009December 24, 2009: "No meeting"November 2009November 26, 2009: "No meeting"October 2009October 22, 2009: "TBA" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.No topic was scheduled for this month. September 2009September 24, 2009: "Panorama Stitching" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.This month, Dave demonstrated two free programs (AutoStitch and ICE) for stitching together multiple photos into a panorama. He also showed some of his WEBN 2009 Fireworks photos, as well as some from a trip to the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati last weekend, DMA's 33.3 picnic, etc. If you couldn't attend, some of them are on his Flickr account. August 2009August 27, 2009: "Geotagging" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.This month Dean Miller demonstrated some uses for geotagging photos. Geotagging is a process of recording geographic coordinates (latitude & longitude) in a photo's metadata - typically in either the Exchangeable image file format (EXIF) or Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) format. This can be done automatically when the photo is taken if the camera has the capability, or added later using specialized software. Dean's camera can automatically geotag photos when his GPS receiver is attached and turned on. He has also geotagged photos using software he will demo. Dave has geotagged several photos using Flickr, which you can see here. When you click one of the geotaged photos, it will display where the photo was taken on Google Maps. Dave also showed some photos of the Gemwood Horse Trials a few weeks ago, and some of the "Monet by Moonlight" from last weekend. If you have any suggestions for future topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. July 2009July 23, 2009: "Canceled"Since no topic has been scheduled yet for this month and several people said they couldn't attend, this month's meeting was canceled. June 2009June 25, 2009: "TBA" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.No topic was scheduled for this month. Steve Bankey showed us lots of photos, mostly of flowers, and also a few Dayton skyline shots. Dave showed a few photos of Pileated Woodpeckers and a couple HD videos pf them that he shot with a Canon SX1 IS. He also showed a short slow motion HD demo video shot at 1,000fps & 2,500fps with an I-Movix SprintCam v3. You can see a lower resolution version at Vimeo and elsewhere. There are also links on the Vimeo page to higher resolution files, including 720p and 1080p H.264 QuickTime .MOV versions. May 2009May 28, 2009: "Augmented Reality" at Belmont Branch of Dayton Public Library, 1041 Watervliet Ave.This month Nancy demonstrated Augmented Reality using GE's Plug Into the Smart Grid demo. A common use of AR that most of us have seen is the "first down" line superimposed on the field on TV broadcasts of football games. Dave showed some of his photos from his week in the Smokies, as well as some local Spring flowers photos, and the new Canon SX1 IS camera. Steve Bankey showed some of his photos from "Light Up Dayton". Dean Miller showed some flower macro photos and the lighting setup he used, with a pair of Black & Decker LED Bright Bars. He also showed some baby cardinal and rabbit photos, as well as several he shot at the National Museum of the USAF. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. April 2009April 23, 2009: "TBA" at Wilmington & Stroop Branch of Dayton Public LibraryThis month Dean will demonstrate some features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. March 2009March 26, 2009: "TBA" at East Branch of Dayton Public LibraryThis month didn' have any specific topic. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. February 2009February 26, 2009: "Open Discussion" at 6470 Little John Circle, CentervilleThis month didn't have any specific topic. There had been some discussion of face recognition software and macro photography lately, so Dave demonstrated the face recognition function included in the Photoshop Elements organizer. Dave also demonstrated macro photography using a 150mm macro lens and Nikon R1 macro flash system. January 2009January 22, 2009: "What Santa Brought" at 119 Valley St.This is our annual "Show & Tell" meeting. Show off what you got last year - whether for Christmas, Hanukkah, your birthday, or you just bought it yourself. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. December 2008December, 2008: "No Meeting"This month we didn't meet, since our regularly scheduled date fell on Christmas day. November 2008November, 2008: "No Meeting"This month we didn't meet, since our regularly scheduled date fell on Thanksgiving day. October 2008October 23, 2008: "TBA" at 119 Valley St.Last month's subject was free (and very inexpensive) utilities. Dave demonstrated Autostitch, FastStone Photo Resizer, Opanda's IExif, VLC, & XnView. We all know Nancy is very partial to GIMP. Billie Taylor demonstrated several utilities, including KCal, 1-4a Rename, Fotosizer, and others. This month we'll continue this discussion and demos. What are some of your favorite photo utilities? Come prepared to demo (or at least discuss) a few of your favorite photography oriented free utilities. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. September 2008September 25, 2008: "Favorite Free Utilities" at 119 Valley St.This month's subject was free utilities. Dave demonstrated some of his favorites: Autostitch (automatically stitch multiple photos into a panorama), FastStone Photo Resizer (easily resize photos and much more), Opanda's IExif (display Exif info in file or web browser), VLC (play nearly any video or audio file), & XnView (excellent photo browser). We all know Nancy is very partial to GIMP (photo editor rivaling Photoshop in features), but she didn't demo it. Billie Taylor demonstrated several utilities, most of which were free. They included:
If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. August 2008August 28, 2008: "TBA" at 119 Valley St.This month's subject has not been announced yet. Dave will show some of his soaring photos (a few of which can be seen here), as well as some HD soaring video, and some photos from Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark last weekend. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. July 2008July 24, 2008: "Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii" at 119 Valley St.This month, Nancy discussed Library of Congress's efforts to display early 20th century photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and showed some of his photos. He shot his photos between 1905 and 1918 in the end of Tzarist Russia by using a Yellow, Red and Blue filtered monochrome photographs. People have been taking his photos and generating full color prints and they are beautiful. For more info, see this web site. Also, Dave showed some of his fireworks photos (a few of which can be seen here), as well as some HD fireworks video, and some photos from Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark the previous weekend. June 2008June 26, 2008: "Picnik" at 119 Valley St.This month Dave demonstrated a free on-line photo editor, Picnik. June 2008June 2, 2008: "Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera" at Kettering Moraine Branch of the Dayton Metro LibraryProgram Description: Whether you're traveling this summer to Disneyworld, the Rocky Mountains, Beijing, or Myrtle Beach; you'll want to bring home great pictures. Kim Coughnour can help you better understand the settings on your digital camera so you can capture that stunning skyline or the joy of your kids playing on the beach. A few camera tips can last a lifetime with that perfect snapshot! Notes about the Speaker: Kim Coughnour is a former photography instructor at the Ohio Institute of Photography. She has great experience teaching Camera Skills, Black & White Photography, Color Concepts, and Advanced Commercial photography courses. She has had a successful commercial photography career and currently owns the portrait studio, Red Leaf Photography, in Oakwood, Ohio. Did anyone from our SIG attend this? May 2008May 22, 2008: "Smokies Trip Show & Tell, etc." at 119 Valley St.This month, Dave discussed his trip last month to the Smoky Mountains with Julie Guenther and her entourage, and showed some of his photos (a few are here). Also, Nancy showed us her new inexpensive mat cutter and showed some pictures she took at the Christmas Tree Farm on a recent Focus Photo Club model shoot. Ken showed a video his kids made of their trip out west. We gave away a couple books this month. April 2008April 24, 2008: "Paint.NET" at 119 Valley St.This month we discussed a very nice free photo editor, Paint.NET. Except for GIMP, it's the only free photo editor I know that supports layers. March 2008March 27, 2008: "PPO Review" at 119 Valley St.This month Nancy will share her thoughts regarding the recent PPO Show. We also have a free book on photography to give away from Peachpit Press, for someone willing to review it. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. February 2008February 28, 2008: "Open Discussion / Q&A" at 160 Rike Hall, W.S.U.This month we had an open discussion and general question & answer session. January 2008January 24, 2008: "HDRI" at 160 Rike Hall, W.S.U.This month we discussed HDRI and demonstrated a couple inexpensive HDRI programs, Dynamic-Photo HDR, and Photomatix. HDRI is a process used to create photos that more closely resemble what we see than can be achieved by traditional film or digital photography. The human eye can see a much wider range of light intensity than any currently available camera can with a single exposure. The HDRI process involves taking two or more photos of the same scene at various exposure values (typically at least one underexposed, one "properly" exposed, and one over exposed) and combining them with specially designed software to create a composite of the various exposures that looks more like what our eyes see. December 2007December 27, 2007: "Look What Santa Brought" at 119 Valley St.This month we had our usual end-of-year show & tell session where we brought in our newest photography gadgets and software and talked about them. November 2007November 29 (postponed a week due to Thanksgiving), 2007: "Favorite Photo Sharing Sites" at 225 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month we'll talk about our favorite photo sharing web sites. Dave will talk about Flickr.com that he's been using for several months and briefly discuss Picasa Web Albums if nobody else does. Other sites include dotPhoto, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, SmugMug, Snapfish, Webshots, and many more. Some are primarily for sharing photos with friends and family, while others are much better suited for professional photographers to sell their photos. Please be prepared to talk a little about one or two of your favorite sites and why you like them. We will have Internet access, thanks to the very generous donation of a Clearwire account and wireless modem by Jeremiah Ilges of The Ohio Technology Group in Springfield. This will allow us to demonstrate some of the neat features of various sites. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. October 2007October 25, 2007: "DSLRs" at 225 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month we talked about Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras (DSLRs). Several of us who own a DSLR (all Nikons tonight), brought them with us. We tried our best to answer the questions put to us, and Rufus left a happy camper after we helped him tweak some of his camera settings. Roger Jensen showed one of his newest gadgets, a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet & multimedia display device. Nancy showed her Sony DSC-H2 ultra-zoom camera and DigiPro WP4030 4"x3" pressure-sensitive digitizer tablet (a poor man's Wacom) that she got for only $30 at geeks.com. She also talked a bit about the Amazing Circles method she used in The GIMP. A visitor asked for help putting together a short video. Nancy and I gave him some suggestions. Nancy showed some zoo photos and I showed some photos I took at The Wilds. You may see them here. September 2007September 27, 2007: "Cropping" at 225 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month we discussed image cropping and cropped some photos various attendees brought in. There are many reasons you might want to crop a photo. Several are discussed here. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. August 2007August 23, 2007: "Ann's Photoshop Tricks" at 240 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month Ann shared some of her Photoshop tricks with us. At the June meeting she showed us a few composite photos she had created using Photoshop. This month we learned how she did it. July 2007July 26, 2007: "FastStone Image Viewer" at 240 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month, the main topic was a demo of the free for personal use FastStone Image Viewer - a very versatile photo viewer. Also, Nancy discussed her recent experience scanning slides. June 2007June 28, 2007: "Scanning" at 240 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.We tried a new meeting format this month. We started out with a general "Q & A" session where you could try to get some nagging question(s) answered. We'll then had the main presentation, followed by a "Show & Tell" session where you can show off your latest photos, new gadgets, etc. This month's topic was scanning prints by Nancy Christolear. More meeting details will be added shortly. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. May 2007May 24, 2007: "Video Editing" at 225 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month's topic was Non-Linear Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, presented by Dave Lundy. For a quick overview of the video editing process, see these Video Editing Tutorials. April 2007April 26, 2007: "GIMP" at 225 Allyn Hall, W.S.U.This month Nancy was scheduled to discuss and demonstrate the free and open source photo editor, GIMP. This month's photo challenge theme was "Easter". Post a few of your favorite Easter photos to our Gallery. March 2007March 22, 2007: "Flickr, PPO Show, etc." at 206 Fawcett Hall, W.S.U.This month Dave Lundy discussed and demonstrated some features of Flickr, a photo sharing web site. Nancy led a discussion of plugins. Plugins are small programs that extend the usefulness of our photoediting software. Also, Nancy discussed the PPO Trade Show. This month's photo challenge theme was "March". Post a few of your favorite Lions, Lambs & Leprechauns photos to our Gallery. February 2007February 22, 2007: "Converting color photos to B&W" at 206 Fawcett Hall, W.S.U.The topic for this month's meeting was a discussion and demonstration by Nancy Christolear of converting color pictures to glorious Black and White. There's more involved than just changing the mode to Greyscale. So if you aspire to make your photos look like Ansel Adams, come to this meeting. Bring a photo to have converted. This month's photo challenge theme was hearts, in deference to Valentine's Day. Post a few of your favorite heart photos to our Gallery. January 2007January 25, 2007: "Infrared Photography & HDR with Qtpfsgui" at 206 Fawcett Hall, W.S.U.Nancy talked a bit about Infrared photography with Digital Cameras, and showed a few web sites with sample photos. Some cameras can be used without modification. If your camera isn't one of those, one site offered step by step instructions for modifying a camera for infrared photography and another site will do the modification for you for $200 to $350, depending on camera. In general, infrared photography will require the use of an infrared filter to block most visible light, and rather long exposures, requiring the use of a tripod. In exchange, you can get some very interesting and surrealistic photos. She also demonstrated creating High Dynamic Range Images with the free program Qtpfsgui. HDRI is a process of combining at least two differently exposed photos of the same scene and combining them using software to display a wider dynamic range than is possible in a single exposure with currently available cameras. There are a couple example HDR photos on the Qtpfsgui site, but there are many more excellent examples here. We started a monthly photo challenge this month. Our theme was winter scene photos. We'll have a different theme each month. Sites Nancy used in her infrared presentation were:
A first-time visitor, Mike Scarberry, showed us a couple of his photos that he has posted since to our theme page. We showed the few photos that have been posted so far, including a lovely palm tree in Texas. ;-). Dave Lundy showed some of his photos from Hamilton Ohio's 2005 IceFest, Cox Arboretum's luminary walk, and Beavercreek Wetlands. He also shared news of a new ultra zoom camera, the Olympus SP-500 UZ that was just announced. It's the first camera in its class with an 18x (28 - 504mm equivalent) optical zoom range. See the imaging-resource.com or dpreview.com articles. | |||
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