Calendar
Meeting Agenda:
- 6:30-7:00 Members’ Project time and review (see sidebar for logistics)
- 7:00-7:10 President’s meeting notes, upcoming events, member comments
- 7:15-7:30 Fifteen minute camera lesson
- 7:35-8:15 or 8:35 Speaker/Program
- 8:35-9:30 Social time, hands-on Photoshop Elements Q&A, SOS (bring problem image)Members attend free. Guests pay $5, which can be applied toward membership if they join by the next meeting.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Project: Square crop – find an image that looks good cropped square. Do certain subjects look better this way?
Lesson: Terry Lorenc – dodging and burning basics
Speaker: Dave Hecei – Topic is TBA
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Holiday party!! This year the party will be held at Jerry and Suzette’s home. Look for an email with info.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Project: Moving object- photograph a moving object, trying out panning (or partial panning) and perhaps slower shutter speeds to indicate speed.
Lesson: Three five-minute book reviews.
Speaker: Panel of 4 takes on all photo questions: camera use, gizmos, digital darkroom, etc.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Project: Shooting up – using a camera position roughly vertical (camera can be from ground up but camera is essentially vertical). This is to get you thinking in a different perspective.
Lesson: Demystify the histogram
Speaker: TBA
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Project: Bridges – The image must contain whole or part of a bridge as the central theme. Try to capture why it is there.
Lesson: Indoor fill flash with Terry Lorenc
Speaker: Mark Kirsch on detailed critiquing of member’s images (2 per member and due 2 weeks ahead of time so Mark can preview them) Send 1000px max size, non-composite image to jasphotoclub@gmail.com with the subject title of “March meeting”.
Event: RTPI Banff Film Festival opening reception sponsored by JAS Photography club.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Project: Fill flash: take a photo of a person or object in front of a window (backlit).
Lesson: nik plug-in filters benefits and demo – Bill Seleen.
Speaker: Suzette Allen Video
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Project: Close-up – use the minimum (or close to) focusing distance your lens can go at both minimum and maximum focal lengths of your zoom. You pick the lens aperture to make sure the background sharpness works with the subject. Two shots of your choice. This investigates how focal length affects the subject-background relationship.
Lesson: TBA
Speaker: Don Armstrong presents some favorite images and how they came to be.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Project: Subject motion blur – keep in mind you are going to show your subject moving (people, animals, cars, keep it nature if possible…) in motion blur, not blurring the backgrounds.
Lesson: TBA
Speaker: Black and white vs. color vision in photography.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Project: Low elevation street shoot – take a non-macro, non close-up scene from a camera elevation no higher than your knee. The idea is to try a different camera height than eye level.
Lesson: Online camera tip sources – Don Armstrong
Speaker: TBA
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Picnic!
