Carmen presented a show from 2004 PPA Photos. He reviewed each picture telling us how he would judge the picture. With PPA there are usually 6 judges involved and they have 30-45 seconds to review the picture and score it. A picture must receive 80 points to hang in the PPA Show.

We then went through members slideshows on the homework topic of Holidays.

Tony Silvestro had a fantastic stiched print that was prined by Bob Salyers of the stage at a Baptist Church.

Stan gave us a update on Visisketchpro which is now for sale at $39.00. A 15 day demo is available. Stan has been beta testing this program and showing us different applications. Basically you are creating a animation program. If you create a image that requires 66 seconds be prepared for a 1 gig file to show up on your harddrive. The website is visisketchpro.com

Quote from the visisketch site "The animations created by VisiSketchPro are built as uncompressed AVI files that can then be imported into an Audio/Video program of choice to add interest to your final video production.  They can also be compressed to a smaller file size, using compression tools such as those available from DivX or Xvid, and imported into PowerPoint to add an animation enhancement to your presentation to capture audience attention.  These files can also be uploaded to video sharing sites such as YouTube to showcase your video productions. Stan also said the current size image is 640 by 480.

Homework for next month is

Architecture.

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March 2008

Stan Ashbrook went over the Nik Software called color efffects pro which was bought by Nikon. Lots of controls and costs $239.00. Larry Mulvehill showed us the GPS Google program. Larry Linton showed us his photo book which was quite impressive. The color and sharpness was excellent.

Homework Assignment

Zoo Pictures

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April 2008

Stan Ashbrook went over lighttroom 2 and Nik's new Viveza which looks complicated. For more information check out Stans blog which gives tips on photoshop express, lightroom 2 and NIK at Stans Blog.

Homework Assignment

MACRO

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June 2008

Please send in $24.00 membership fees.

Check out if the Bridge is taking storage of pictures brought in and stored in memory. The new plugin that Stan likes a lot is called fractalius by Redman - shareware 30 day demo.

DVD's converted to Video - wil not play on your computer unless you have a DVD video software on your computer.

Masking in Producer is what stan used to create his 25 slides on a time line.- 25 layers with 25 masks on a wall of pictures.

HDR - High Dyaminic Range - tonal range - think of Ansel Adams pictures.

Camera sensor can show 256 to 1 at 8 bit and prints only 100 to 1. Human eye can see 100,000 colors morethan a print or display. 24 bit each channel has 256 red, green, and blue the more bits you have the more color. Camera sensor - maxium Dyamic - shoot raw 16 bit 4000 tones, limited by noise. Twice 24 bit - 16,000 bits.

JDR is 32 bit - infinite dyamic range

Photoshop CS3 in file automate or bridge use to merge HDR. You need pictures in different tonal ranges on tripod. Photomatrix Pro - better than photoshop. Your monitor is not capble of showing 32 bit.

Clarity improves midtone contrast on raw menu.

HOMEWORK Assignment

Something historic

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