July 28, 2009 - by Arthur Barnett

Arthur shared his experience and techniques during this month’s workshop on Table-Top Photography.

I found out that there’s a whole lot more to consider than just arranging something neat on a table and photograph it.

Led by Tylene Trout and Sue Craft

Our new competition chairman, Helen Henry, had her thinking cap on. After accepting the position of Competition Chair and realizing the July competition was Flowers, she thought about all the beautiful flowers in her backyard and asked if Tylene Trout and Sue Craft would present their flower workshop again, at the Henry’s home.

Led by John Shedrick

This month’s workshop was a moderated discussion (Show and Tell) of photo gear. Members were encouraged to bring in something of interest and tell us about it.

Ted Dayton, President of the Santa Clarita Photography Club, conducted this month’s workshop.

Ted picked just this one area of image processing, and thoroughly covered it. The workshop was primarily geared towards those who were fairly new to RAW processing and to those who were still undecided whether its worth the effort to work with RAW image files.

Led by Stokely Wilson, King Photo Supply

We had a large turnout for this month’s workshop on Off-Camera Flash Photography.

I counted 48 in attendance.

Stokely began with a primer on flash photography and the various devices that can be used to tie in multiple flash units, or just a single flash unit off-camera.

We had a large turnout for this month’s workshop with many of the attendees being members of the public, since this was advertised as free to the public.

Tylene focused primarily on how to take better pictures and used actual photographs to illustrate all the points as she explained them.

Bill took on a real challenge this time in presenting a workshop that is the opposite of what he usually presents. That is, this time he focused on making changes to a photograph that would be obvious to the viewers that it was deliberately manipulated to produce a particular creative effect.

This was timed to give us ideas and help to prepare for our March photo competition for which the theme will be “Creative”.

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.