An opportunity to share ideas, images, questions, and inspirations

Our Jan 17 Meeting has been cancelled due to weather. Montgomery County School Activities are cancelled, so we are cancelled as per our policy.  This agenda will be postponed until next month: Thursday February 21.  

Half an hour will be an open forum discussing issues at hand.  A half hour is devoted to presentations by members.  And a half hour is set aside for member image reviews. 

This is always a great evening of sharing and learning. What topics would you like to explore?  Topics are very wide ranging, such as photo book reviews, an aspect of your own photography that you’d like to share, reviews or discussion of gallery shows, photo gear, software, etc.  Or bring a gadget to share.  

For January we will have multiple breakout sessions tailored to your interests.  We will also have discussion topics, photo sharing, and at least one gear review:

• Breakout Sessions:  This month we will have 3-5 breakout sessions depending on attendance and the variety of member interests.  Each breakout will have its own table,  laptop computer, and member expert/facilitator.  While most folks will want to work on post-processing, some of you may want to discuss your camera – say, its operation or setup.  The sessions are planned to be free-flowing and highly interactive.   
  • For Lightroom or Photoshop projects: Bring in a thumb-drive with 3-4 images that you would like to work with.   Just as examples, we could work on blending layers, sharpening,  cloning, transforming the geometry of the image to make edges vertical, and many other things you are interested in.  
  • For camera operation/setup: Bring in your camera (and tripod, flash, etc if applicable) and instruction manual.  
• Picture assignment:  Bring anything you would like to discuss.  These can be photos for feedback, discussion of your post-processing, your compositions, examples of new ideas you have, etc.
• Book/Gear Reviews.  What book/gear/software have you experienced that you’d like to review?  

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A preview of  February’s A Closer Focus meeting:

In February, bring in a sequence of photographs.  The photos should “hang together” in some manner so that they represent a set of photos that you would notionally like to present as a portfolio or a show of some sort.  On the order of 5 – 10 photos should do it.  You can bring them as prints or on a tablet.  We will share and discuss how they work as a set, and how you have chosen to sequence them for best effect.  See David Powell’s Let’s Get Started article this month for a discussion about this. 

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Future topics of A Closer Focus include: compositional strength, HDR, or anything else photographic you want to bring to the table. This is an opportunity for you to provide input to the SSCC experience.

If you would like to be on the agenda, please email me at: 
davidwesleypowell@gmail.com