Evergreen Camera Club

The May Tips & Techniques meeting will be held at the Evergreen Wild Bird Store - 32156 Castle Ct. ( the strip mall directly west of the Bergen Park Fire Station). The owners of the store, John & Diane Sears have kindly offered to host our meeting. They will give us tips on how to attract wild birds to our yards and create wild bird habitats.

PRESENTER: CHARLES DIRKS
The Tips and Techniques meeting this month will cover basic photography concepts concentrating on exposure. We will look at various camera settings to allow the camera to properly expose an image while maintaining some control (shutter speed, f-stop or ISO...) over the camera. The session
will be targeted towards DSLR owners, but point-and-shoot controls will be covered as well. We will also have an opportunity to hear a few words from a freelance photographer for the Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.

Tips and Techniques for April will feature experimenting with digital conversions to black and white. We’ll explore various ways of creating black and white images from original color digital images using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Club members may e-mail a color image (and the black and white version, if desired) that they would like to see converted during the session to me ahead of time at siriusenergy@msn.com.Tips & Techniques: Digital Conversion to Black and White

Presenters will include several club members with black and white conversion experience.

#1 Living with lions and bears. Be smart and stay alive. (Ev Jones)
#2 Stalking for better pictures. (Tom Nelson)
#3 The nature photography barnyard -- Don't step in it. (Doug Holling)
We live in a land of wildlife photography wonders. Our Tips and Techniques program is pertinent to anyone who ventures out to encounter wildlife with the idea of adding to our photo collections. We can inadvertently harm some creatures while others can harm us.

Be sure to attend to learn the ethical and responsible ways to be successful and safe with a camera in our wild lands!

Harry Sherwood - Cropping and Making your Photos POP

Presenters: Doug & Betty Holling
ECC members enjoyed a fascinating presentation last evening of wildlife photos and stories from Doug & Betty's recent trip to Botswana.
In our next Tips and Techniques meeting, they will facilitate an open discussion about building your own personal code of conduct for outdoor photography.

Harry Sherwood
ECC crop-meister, Harry Sherwood, presents cropping and editing techniques to dramatically improve your photographs.

David Smith, ECC Member and owner of the Timberline Gallery in downtown Evergreen will present tips on printing. Items discussed will include; preparing files for optimal printing, cropping margins and cropping ratios, different print media, framing options and tips to help streamline the process.

Meeting will begin at 7 pm, Social time at 6:30. Pre-meeting dinner will be at the Whippletree and all are welcome to attend. Please RSVP for dinner to Katy: ktkansas@yahoo.com

Evergreen Camera Club Meeting
Weds, August 26, 7 pm, Bergen Park Fire Station (6:30 Social Time)
Tips & Techniques
Presenters:
Several Members of Our Club Will Share Their Tips & Techniques!

Bring your camera, gear and user manuals. By popular request we will do another session of “How does my camera work?” We’ll break out into small groups based on camera type and interest.

We are pleased to announce a very special treat for tomorrow night's Tips & Techniques Meeting. Evergreen resident Barb Binder, an Adobe Certified Instructor and Principal of Rocky Mountain Training will take us through some of the basics of retouching with Photoshop. She will focus on layers (and adjustment layers and masking). She will teach us how to do this without destroying the photo. (I didn't know this was possible!! :-) )Please join us for this special training session. Bring your laptop and follow along as Barb teaches.

Here is a bit more about Barb:
Barbara Binder, ACI, CTT+