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Beginning with our March 27, 2008 meeting, we return to 119 Valley St., Dayton, where we will continue to meet unless stated otherwise. Here are directions. Our usual meeting time is 7:00–9:00 pm the fourth Thursday each month. All meetings are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise.
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April 2008April 24, 2008: "Paint.NET" at 119 Valley St.This month we'll discuss a very nice free photo editor, Paint.NET. Except for GIMP, it's the only free photo editor I know that supports layers. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. May 2008May 22, 2008: "TBA" at 119 Valley St.This month's topic hasn't been decided yet. If you have any suggestions for topics, or would like to do a presentation, please contact us. June 2008June 2, 2008: "Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera" at Kettering Moraine Branch of the Dayton Metro LibraryGetting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera | |||
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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Search the contents of all the publicly available web pages at www.dma.org/photosig/ or archives of our mailing list. Subscribe to our mailing list for occasional correspondence regarding digital photography at Photo-SIG Info Page & read our archives. Check out our other Special Interest Group (SIG) mailing lists here. Users Group Contact: Nancy Christolear or Dave Lundy (937) 426-1132, digiphot-contact@dma.org Web Site Contact: digiphot-web@dma.org | |||
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