Hello All,
Here are my Notes from the SLO Bytes Photo Group Meeting of 06/12/2022
TOPIC: New Skills, New Thrills Again
Ralph Sutter opened the meeting with images of his recent landscaping project as well as shots from his orchard and vegetable garden. Ralph added a video of rocks sliding downward as he scooped them into a wheelbarrow.
Kaye Raul offered weather-worn barns, scenes from Oceano and Port San Luis before demonstrating the use of the level horizon tool in Adobe Lightroom
Alan Raul showed images shot with his Sony A7iv with a 35mm F2.8 lens of the north end of Pismo Beach at low tide. He then showed images shot with his 24-70mm F4.0 lens of the sand dunes and the Pismo Beach Creek area. Images were modified with a variety of image editing software to get the desired effects he wanted to share.
Alan's photography gear is listed on DP Review
https://www.dpreview.com/members/9828863162/gearlist
Stanford Brown found fractured trees and scenes high above Las Vegas before retreating to Paso Robles where he added angles inside his house and local landscapes.
John Waller demonstrated the use of luminosity masks inside Adobe Lightroom. This technique allowed him to enhance yellow flowers in a field of yellow while affecting the flowers but not the field behind. John then applied the technique to trees in Morro Bay and the iconic rocks of Yosemite.
Connie Sutter looked at trees and the shadows that they cast. She then shifted focus to a rock outcropping that she excavated as part of her landscaping project.
The session closed with Kaye’s positive review of several lesser known lenses for her Sony A7iv camera. Alan called attention to the free web space offered by
DP Review where he posted details of his camera gear and showed samples of his photos.
See
https://www.dpreview.com/members/9828863162/gearlist Ralph showed some of the camera resources that he posted to his web site at
https://www.fullbean.com/camera/camera.html Our next meeting will take place on 07/10/2022 beginning at 2:00 pm. The topic is once again
New Skills, New Thrills; Learn and share that knowledge. A Zoom invitation will be sent shortly beforehand.
The meeting schedule for the remainder of 2022 is as follows
August 14
September 11
October 09
November 13
December 11
All meetings begin at 2:00pm
See the Links Page,
https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html for tutorials and other resources
Ralph Sutter
