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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rsutter on January 10, 2023, 11:49:21 AM
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Hello All,
Here is my Photo Group Report for the meeting of 01/08/2023
TOPIC: Things That I Learned with My Camera/Software
Ralph Sutter opened the meeting, calling attention to the Links Page https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html (https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html) of the Photo Group website There, Sutter posted the following links
Add an audio track with Davinci Resolve https://youtu.be/zrA7WW73lVg (https://youtu.be/zrA7WW73lVg); video by Ralph Sutter
For a more complete explanation by another author, see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nR5fNrGPH8
My Notes on Luminar Neo https://www.slobytes.org/digital/tutorials/Sutter-Luminar-Neo-Notes.docx (https://www.slobytes.org/digital/tutorials/Sutter-Luminar-Neo-Notes.docx)
Luminar Neo Keyboard Shortcuts https://manual.skylum.com/neo/en/topic/windows-keyboard-shortcuts (https://manual.skylum.com/neo/en/topic/windows-keyboard-shortcuts)
Luminar Neo Keyboard Shortcuts on Two Pages https://www.slobytes.org/digital/documents/Luminar-Neo-Keyboard-Shortcuts.docx (https://www.slobytes.org/digital/documents/Luminar-Neo-Keyboard-Shortcuts.docx)
Sutter Notes Photo Group Meeting 01/08/2023 https://www.slobytes.org/digital/documents/sutter-notes-01-08-23.pdf (https://www.slobytes.org/digital/documents/sutter-notes-01-08-23.pdf)
Ralph continued, sharing images of garden plants that he enhanced with Luminar Neo, his image editor of choice.
His most often used tool was the Supersharp extension
Alan Raul showed various manipulations of a King Tide image using different image editing programs.
He then took a gray dismal color picture and changed it to B&W using different image editing programs for a variety of effects.
Stanford Brown, trying to get the best images from his Samsung Galaxy phone, played a podcast that recommended always shooting in Portrait mode rather than Photo mode.
Further recommendations were to turn off the flash and avoid the digital zoom.
When shooting groups, tell everyone to close their eyes, opening them on the count of 3.
The final suggestion was to compose portraits leaving minimal space above the subjects' head
John Waller apologized for having few images to share. Sadly, he had an attic fire at his home and the only pictures that he could offer were shots of firetrucks and water damage.
During the Second Session, Kaye Raul pointed out resources for setting up a Sony A7IV camera, the camera used by three members of our photo group. Kay also called attention to the Nicolsy Challenge, https://community.nicolesy.com/s/52-photo-challenge (https://community.nicolesy.com/s/52-photo-challenge) consisting of 52 subjects to photograph, one for each week of the year.
Ralph Sutter attempted to show some of the features of the free version of the video editor, Davinci Resolve, but the cybergods did not allow that to happen.
Instead, Ralph directed the attention of the group to his YouTube video that illustrates what Sutter couldn't do during the Zoom Session See Add an audio track with Davinci Resolve https://youtu.be/zrA7WW73lVg (https://youtu.be/zrA7WW73lVg)
Ralph Sutter