Thursday, July 20, 2023, from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
“Photo Forum” is our monthly opportunity to share ideas, images, questions, and inspirations on a wide variety of photographic topics.
This is an online event. We will meet using Zoom – look for the meeting link in an email and via Meetup.
We are going to flip things around a bit to keep you on your toes this month! First, we will have Presentations. We will follow this with Open Discussion, then Image Sharing. There is a method in this madness.
Presentations:
- “Madeline Island Macro & Closeup Photography” – by Dennis Freeman
- “Demonstration and Techniques for the new Photoshop (beta) Generative Fill” * – by Pete Morton
- We are looking for volunteers to present for this and future months. Contact Dennis ( dennisfreeman4510@msn.com ) with your idea.
* “The revolutionary and magical new suite of AI-powered capabilities grounded in your innate creativity, enabling you to add, extend, or remove content from your images non-destructively using simple text prompts. You can achieve realistic results that will surprise, delight, and astound you in seconds.”
Open Forum Discussions:
- What’s on your mind, photographically?
- What summer projects are you pursuing?
- What do you think about employing AI-generated content in the editing of your images (i.e. adding AI-generated objects that were not in a photograph you took)? What about in competitions?
- Would you like to see more AI-generated photography discussion/examples in future meetings? (e.g. Mid Journey, etc)
Image Sharing:
- .Send up to 2 images you would like to share and get feedback on. Use a “1” or “2” in the titles. We will do all of the #1’s first, then the #2’s. If your two images are to be compared with each other use a “1a” and “1b”. We will spend more time on the #1’s. We may not spend as much time on the #2’s. If you are submitting images to Photo Forum for the first time tell us!
- If your prefer, include “Share Only” in your title to indicate that you’d like to just share and talk about your image, and are not asking for suggested critiques and processing suggestions. To get the default critiques and suggestions do nothing!
This month’s theme will be Open.
Send up to 2 jpg images. Your jpg images can be up to 1 MB size each. (please use our digital Competition specs: ssccphotography.org/competitions/digital-entry-specifications/ ) . Send your images to Dennis Freeman before 5:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, July 19. (dennisfreeman4510@msn.com).
This is expected to be a great evening of sharing and learning. What topics would you like to explore? Topics can be wide ranging, such as photo book reviews, an aspect of your own photography that you’d like to share, reviews or discussion of shows, photo gear, software, etc.
Please join us for a fun and educational evening!