Recap of Our August 25, 2011 Meeting

On Monday, 7-25-11 we had our July DPA meeting, and I am pleased to report that it was quite well attended, particularly for these summer months.  About 10 hungry people showed up at 5 PM at Selmons for the pre-meeting dinner, and there were about 20 at the meeting itself.

I was able to introduce two new members, Mary-Lou Johnson and Morris Emigh, both accomplished photographers.  Mary-Lou joined us for dinner, and while chatting, I discovered that she has a lot of her work printed on large scale canvas.  I hope to encourage her to present some details to us in the future. 

Speaking of canvas, Lou Newman brought in some of his spectacular canvas animal prints, and discussed the advent of sharp matte canvas material now available.  I brought in some prints made on Red River Arctic Pearl Metallic paper, the metallic surface gives prints extra "pop".  Next time I'll bring in the Micro 4/3 Panasonic GH2 camera the images were captured with, quite small and light.  Good quality 17 x 22 prints from a sensor just 60% size of the usual "Crop" APS-C size, most welcome for a travel camera.

Chuck Stevenson shared his very high quality 30 minute Pro Show of his UK trip, excellent organization, images, and appropriate sound.  I hope he will share his methods for acquiring and safeguarding travel images, and producing such quality shows.

We ended the evening with 5 member Pro Shows around the theme "COLORFUL'", including my first DPA submission, which was kindly received - whew!  Next month's show theme will be "TRANSPORTATION".  Remember that ANY theme is welcome for shows up to 3 minutes in length of fairly recent images.

Recap of Our Nov 11/23/09 Meeting

Larry Mulville-sent around a package of Shrinky Dinks - SHRINKY DINKS SHRINK to approximately 1/3rd their original size and actually become 9 times thicker. Simply place the SHRINKY DINKS piece you created into a Home Oven or Toaster Oven for 2 magic minutes. Watch as your creation gets smaller and smaller. www.shrinkydinks.com

Larry has a special page on his website which shows you how to make the pictures on the back of a business card and several other fun items to try out. doiop.com/fyi\

Stan showed us a new software product called topazlabs. This company has several different products sold separately or you can buy a complete suite. Stan showed us different ones - adjustment, clean, and detail.

There is no meeting in December.

Recap of Stans comments from our Nov 09 Mtg

Adobe elements version 8. New options enable you to create perfectly lit shots, recompose photos to any size without distorting key subjects, and quickly find your highest-quality shots or shots of specific people.

Adobe is offering a $20.00 rebate. Adobe changed the front format of elements, making it far simplier to take action on images. You can correct problems during the screen new front menu. Full edit capability in screen new. Also version 8 has a pseudo HDR format and does the changes automatically when viewing the same image with different tonal qualities.

Stan mentioned that with the new features added to Adobe Elements 8 that one can use it for just about anything except if you need Vector Graphics.

Homework Assignment - Food

Sept 2009 Meeting Recap:

Recap of Stans comments from our Sept Mtg

The website for the moving water is http://www.nufsoft.com/naturestudio.php

The book mentioned by Art Benjamin is Photographic Multishot Techniques: High Dynamic Range , Super-Resolution, Extended Depth of Field, Stitching (Paperback)by Juergen Gulbins (Author), Rainer Gulbins (Author) Available from Amazon

The one I mentioned is Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style by  Alain Briot also available at AmazonBoth books are published by Rocky Nook.

Ever since Photoshop 7 you could no longer view psd file thumbnails in Windows Explorer. To view thumbnail images for Photoshop PSD files in Windows XP and Vista go to http://www.josh.biz/tech/6-view_psd_thumbnails.html
where you will find instructions and a downloadable zip file. The instructions are on this web and in a txt file included in the ZIP. The last step in the instructions is double click Adobe.reg to run this program. After running this Vista users should Restart. Also it won't display a thumbnail if the file is a layered file and the top layer's visibility is turned off.

Homework assignment for October - Water

if you have not paid your dues. Send your dues for 2009 to Don Litwiler $24.00 Address - Don Litwiler, 7146 Willowleaf Ct., Noblesville, In 46062