This is the second year in a row that Hank hosted a Portrait Workshop at his studio exclusively for our club.
This time, he did four separate sessions for us in order to accommodate our growing membership. Hank spent two full days plus preparation on this, but he said that he has so much fun with this that it’s all worthwhile.
Vince Capasso is an old hand at black and white photography and has mastered techniques for manipulating photographs in a chemical darkroom to accomplish just about any result you could want.
His experience and understanding of how colors relate to each other has enabled him to accomplish the same results using digital techniques.
Lots of fun with tonight's workshop.
We ended up having quite a large turn out for tonight's "Doggy Workshop", both photographers and dogs.
Every once in a while we have one of these where everyone becomes an active player. One big mass of photographers just doing their thing. The not so experienced led by the experienced.
Image Sharpening – From Dummies to Experts, Presented by Bill Kuhlemeier
We had a nice turnout, with quite a few of our newer members present for October’s workshop.
Bill only covered one subject this time; Image Sharpening, but he covered it thoroughly.
So, tonight was our monthly workshop moderated by Lyle Trusty. It was all about critiquing and how to make your pictures better.
Critiquing takes a lot of courage, both having your pictures critiqued and doing the critiquing. If you bring your pictures in, you better be ready for the worst. That way there's no surprises. If you're doing the critiquing, you'd better be prepared for a lot of dirty looks.
Led by Bill Riedhart
We got lucky!!! An evening in the desert with no wind! The temperature was near perfect, the sky full of color, and we watched the crescent moon sink below the horizon. The evening could not have been more perfect for hanging around and taking long time exposed shots of star trails.
Over thirty LPA members and guests (including two new ones who joined this evening) met at the group campground at Saddleback Butte State Park.
Almost all of us nowadays are either printing our own photos at home or sending our digital files to a lab for printing. Either way, if our monitors aren’t correctly calibrated, we won’t like our end result.
With the fair coming up next month, and everyone getting their prints ready, this resulted in a nice turnout for this workshop.
We had the largest turnout yet since we’ve been conducting the Pre-Fair Workshop. There were over fifty people present, with many of them being the public.
John began by explaining the fair rules and taking questions as we went along. There were questions of every sort presented. Some of them required quite a bit of discussion, especially the definitions of some classes like abstract and computer imaging. It’s apparent that we’ll need to better define these classes next year.
