Hello All,
Here are my notes from the SLO Bytes Photo Group meeting of
05/15/2022TOPIC: New Skills, New Thrills Again
Ralph Sutter began the meeting demonstrating focus stacking with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021. This required purchasing the after market add-on, Elements+;
https://elementsplus.net/. Sutter then showed a video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrkURWyRsQ of the flight, crash and recovery of his DJI drone in conjunction with the autonomous flight software, Dronelink;
https://www.dronelink.com/Kaye Raul shared images taken with her new Sony A7 IV full frame camera;
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1667800-REG/sony_ilce_7m4_b_alpha_a7_iv_mirrorless.html. Her subjects included shots of Guadalupe, Main Street Beach and local strawberry fields.
Alan Raul showed images of Shell Beach including the construction project of a new seawall, staircase and sidewalk along the oceanfront. Later in the day (when it was cooler) using his Sony A7iv with a 35mm F2.8 lens;
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=sony%2035mm%20f%202.8&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma he ventured into the dunes near the Pismo Beach Creek to capture images of the creek and dunes area.
Stanford Brown used his Vikeri Trail Cam;
https://vikeri.tech/ to capture images of 4 footed nighttime visitors around his house. He then reminded the group of the capabilities of the free Microsoft Photos app;
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/microsoft-photos/9WZDNCRFJBH4?hl=en-us&gl=US. It allows image and video viewing, slideshows and simple video editing. program,
John Waller introduced log exposure photography in conjunction with density filters. The filters allowed him to take much longer exposures and capture details of dark scenes that otherwise wouldn't be visible.
Bob Styerwalt shared several closeups of roses growing in his back yard.
Our next meeting will take place on
06/12/2022 beginning at 2:00 pm. The topic is once again
New Skills, New Thrills; Learn and share that knowledge
Here is the meeting schedule for the remainder of 2022
July 10
August 14
September 11
October 09
November 13
December 11
See the Links page for tutorials and other resources
Ralph Sutter
