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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rsutter on June 13, 2021, 08:33:43 PM
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Hello All,
Here are my notes from the SLO Bytes Photo Group meeting of 06/13/2021
TOPIC: The topic is Favorite Images from Nature; Please share scenes of a place free from human interaction
In the First Segment, Alan Raul and Bob Ward reflected nostalgically over their earlier years diving for abalone locally and further up the California coastline. Ralph Sutter shared pictures of Santa Cruz Island's Painted Cave and Lopez Cave. Stanford Brown showed scenes from his frequent walks
The Second Session opened with Ralph offering images of the his backyard trees and pond followed by water scenes from Santa Margarita Lake and Morro Bay.
Kaye Raul took us down country roads, visiting See Canyon and the beach at Morro Bay.
Alan Raul walked the Bob Jones Trail and presented shots of the coastline at Shell Beach. See his images at https://www.365.acdsee.com/en/album/alan/2194471/thumbnails
Connie Sutter focused on trees, showing them from unusual angles.
The Third Session opened with Ralph playing videos from the club's web site. They included
Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements 2021; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ykEjX2kpE
Vignetting in Luminar AI; https://www.fullbean.com/tutorials/luminar-ai-vignetting.mp4 and
How to Load Your Own Skies a Luminar FAQ; https://insiders.skylum.com/posts/how-to-load-your-own-skies
Alan Raul showed the Clone Stamp in Adobe Photoshop Elements
Kaye Raul demonstrated Adobe's free app, Lightroom Mobile
Our next meeting will take place on July 11th
The topic is Follow That Creature; create a portfolio based on a single animal. The meeting will take place via Zoom.
A Zoom invitation will be e-mailed to Photo Group members shortly before the meeting
The meeting schedule for the remainder of 2021 is as follows
August 8
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12
See the Links page; https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html, for tutorials and other resources
Ralph Sutter