Hello All
Here are my
Notes for the SLO Bytes Photo Group Meeting of 09/11/2022
TOPIC: New Skills, New Thrills Again
Ralph Sutter opened the meeting calling attention to the
Links Page;
https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html, of the Photography Group website. It cited PhotoSync, free software that allows the user to wirelessly transfer images and videos between smart phones and computers. Ralph created a YouTube video demonstrating the program. View it at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnQOCqibJE Ralph then showed images of his coffee harvest, experiments with his new TT Artisan f2.0 50mm fixed focus lens and photos taken with his Samsung Galaxy s22 smartphone. Finally, he shared images of his kayaking trip to the San Juan Islands and the Portland wedding album that he created for his nephew.
Alan Raul continued to explore Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography. ICM photography is an impressionistic and abstract style of shooting that has no rules - it all comes down to moving your camera over a long exposure.
Stanford Brown demonstrated the play of light on leaves, cats, kids and farms
Kaye Raul introduced the group to Midjourney.com;
https://www.midjourney.com/home/, a web portal that used artificial intelligence to create original images from your input
Connie Sutter chronicled her challenges in attempting to take a picture of the moon with her Canon digital camera, commenting that she got far better results using her iPhone.
The next meeting will take place on
October 9th beginning at 2:00 pm. The topic for the meeting is
Look Up Members are encouraged to offer images that the topic suggests.
The meeting will be held via
Zoom. An invitation will be e-mailed to Photo Group members shortly before the meeting.
The meeting schedule for the remainder of 2022 is as follows
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
