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

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 March we will focus on sequences of photos that you bring in and hear a presentation on Photoshop Layers.  We will also have discussion topics, photo sharing, and at least one gear review:

• 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 an exhibit 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 from the January Cable Release for a discussion about this. 
• David Blass will share with us some of the ways he uses Layers in Photoshop.  
• 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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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