Topics for July 17 and August 21 Camera Club Meetings

We have a couple good topics for the next two meetings

July 17 - Color Balancing

Allan Barnett will be covering color/white balancing your photos.  This will entail use of both in camera and software tools to provide a starting point in your workflow.  The camera is very precise, it records exactly what it sees while your brain adjusts to the lighting automatically.  By using any of the tool presented this will take the guess game out of the equation and saves time in processing your images, insuring you get the same results every time on all your cameras.

August 21 - Blending Multiple Exposures

Kent Ervin will show some of the techniques he uses to:

• Blend images of different exposures together in order to create a natural looking image with a greater dynamic range.
• Blend a series of images where the focus point is different in order to create an image with a greater depth of field - this is a common approach when creating a macro image.
• Blend a series of images for night photography image stacking in order to create an image with a longer exposure than is possible with a single frame. 
• Images with long star trails require very long exposures, however the ambient light of a scene is often intense enough to limit the exposure to something much shorter. The sky and foreground thus often require two radically different exposures. The solution to this dilema is image stacking! Image staking allows you to take a lot of shorter exposures and combine them for a longer total exposure time with star trails.

Both meetings are in Room 219 of the Eastman Employee Center starting at 6:30 PM.  Google map to the Employee Center.