Photo Group Report by Ralph Sutter
Notes from the Meeting of 04/10/22TOPIC: New Skills, New Thrills
Ralph Sutter began the meeting with a single portrait. Ralph then showed the effects of vignetting, exposure manipulation and selective erasure. He then shared a video of the whistling top that he made;
https://www.fullbean.com/woodworking/tops/whistling-top.mp4 , followed by aerial footage from his DJI Mini 2 drone;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5_G5PY1AZ4.
His mission for the next session is to find a way to share videos effectively over a slow Internet connection.
Alan Raul showed videos captured with his Garmin dash cam of one of our local CHP motorcycle officers cruising the 101 freeway. He used ACDSee Luxea Video Editor 6 to stitch together different clips to create a short video.
ACDSee Luxea Video Editor 6
https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/luxea-video-editor/ ACDSee Luxea Video Editor 6 Features
https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/luxea-video-editor/features/ ACDSee Luxea Video Editor 6 Competitor Comparison
https://www.acdsee.com/en/video-editor/competitor-comparison/ 5 Best Screen Recording Tools for 2021
https://www.acdsee.com/en/5-best-screen-recording-tools-for-2021/ Connie Sutter focused on the shadows cast by trees and other plants.
Kaye Raul offered images of the landscaping project in progress at her house. She tied this to last month’s discussion of focus peaking.
John Waller visited the Atascadero Zoo. He experimented with controlling depth of field to mitigate the appearance of the fencing that separated him from the zoo animals. When John returned home, he called on the Adobe Photoshop content aware tool to further improve his images.
Our next meeting will take place on May 15th, 2022 via Zoom beginning at 2:00 pm. Once again, the topic will be open-ended. Members are invited to share projects of their choice and how they created them.
Note that this meeting takes place one week later than usual in recognition of Mothers’ Day. An invitation will be sent to members shortly before that meeting.
Here is the meeting schedule for 2022
June 12
July 10
August 14
September 11
October 09
November 13
December 11
See
https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html for tutorials and other resources
Ralph Sutter
