“Our next meeting will be on Saturday Feb 6th @ 3pm at the Main Library in Conf room C. We will have a camera with studio lighting tethered to a laptop and projector so you can immediately see what each light is doing.

Dave’s Photoshop Classes will be held on Thursday the 4th of Feb. at his office (Chapman-Richards 1414 E Murray Holladay rd. 4700S) @ 6:30pm. If any of you would like to come a half hour early he will go over some photoshop basics.

Our current photo challenge “Before and After” will be due at this meeting. Please bring two prints, one of your image before editing (straight out of the camera) and one after editing.

Hope to see you there! –Rene

Photo Club Links:
SLC Photo Club Website
SLC Photo on Facebook
SLC Photo on Flickr“

This year one of my New Year’s resolutions is to edit more of my photos. Last year I shot thousands of photos and only managed to edit some of them. This year I’m using Lightroom’s smart collections to rethink my workflow, stay better organized, and get more photos edited. In this video I demonstrate how I’m using smart collections and show you how to setup your own.

FYI: Click the vimeo logo to make the video larger.

(Re-posted with permission from PhotowalkingUtah.com)

“Friday, January 29th, is a full moon, and if the weather cooperates, Ann Torrence will organize a photowalk up Millcreek Canyon that evening.
The plan is to meet at a parking lot on the west side of Wasatch Drive between 3300 S and 3800 S at 7:30 pm to car pool up to the gate where the road is closed. We should be ready to depart the gate area by around 8:00 pm.

Snowshoes or cross-country skis are both used in the canyon, but some people get by with just sturdy winter shoes. Warm clothes, layers, all the usual winter gear is advisable. She blogged once about gearing up for winter photography.

Moonrise is at 5:24pm, by 8:00 it should be well over the mountains.

Leave a comment on discussion thread if you think you might attend.”

“The Zoo will be holding its 17th annual art exhibit January 29 – March 14, 2010. Art work for this show will be accepted at the Zoo on January 16 in the EdZoocation Station from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Please call if you cannot make it up to the Zoo that day and we can make other arrangements – (801) 584-1739.

This exhibit was started to provide Utah artists an opportunity to display their works of wildlife and “wildnature” in a setting complementary to their work. This show has grown to be one of the best venues in Utah for viewing wildlife and nature art.  You can download anEntry Form, read the art show Prospectus and check the Art Show Calendar for important 2010 dates.

This year’s show will be juried by Robin Rankin, the exectutive director of the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah.”

Fore more information and details visit the Hogle Zoo web site.

My friends Alex Gallivan and David Kevitch are having a free Photoshop and Lightroom class on January 13 at 6:30pm. The class will be held at the office of Chapman Richards at 1414 East Murray Holladay Boulevard (about 4700 South) Anyone interested is welcome to attend.  They will be going over what’s new in Lightroom 3 and continuing their Photoshop tips & tricks lessons. Contact Alex Gallivan at alexgphotography@aol.com if you have any questions.

Also, remember to check out the new class schedule at Pixels. Owner Ray Taggart is still teaching his popular Photoshop classes and we’re also teaching classes on Lightroom, HDR, and using off-camera flashes.

In this new digital world film has become something of a relic of the past. Certainly among a select group of photographers film is still the preferred medium, but for you’d have to pry my digital camera from my cold dead hands before I switched back to film entirely. But that is not to say that film doesn’t have it’s place. Go on over to the Digital Photography School to read “How Shooting Film Can Improve Your Digital Photography” a great article on why film is still relevant, even to die hard digital photographers.

Lensbaby, makers of the wonderful Lensbaby lenses, is holding a photo contest! Photographers are invited to submit photos taken with Lensbaby products for a chance to be published in an upcoming book. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009 and photographers may submit two photos via the via the company’s website. Successful entries will be announced on Lensbaby’s website on January 15, 2010. Best of luck!

Photography is all about light. In fact, the word “photography” means “light drawing”. As photographers we are in a certain sense drawing or some may prefer, painting with light. Understanding light and how light changes subjects, scenes and transforms an average scene to something extraordinary is essential to producing great photographs. Local Utah photographer Nicole Young wrote a great article for Photofocus on seeing the light. Read the article “See The Light”.

Photo by Sam Scholes

(Re-posted with permission from PhotowalkingUtah.com)

Rich Legg writes: “It is time again for Photowalking Utah to make its annual trek to Temple Square in Salt Lake City to photograph the holiday lights on display. This year’s event will again be in two parts. The first part will be a mini-clinic on taking low-light photos held at the Salt Lake City Library. When the one-hour clinic ends, the group will make their way to Temple Square to photograph the incredible holiday lights on display.

Here’s the schedule:

December 17 – 6:30 to 9:00 pm

6:30 pm – Mini-clinic at the Salt Lake City Library (210 E 400 South) 4th floor conference room.
7:35 pm – Clinic concludes. Head downstairs to the TRAX station
7:50 pm – Ride the TRAX train (for free) to Temple Square
8:00 pm – Photography at Temple Square

This year we are adding a bit of giving to the December event. We will be collecting winter clothing to be donated to local organizations that help clothe those in need. Please bring any extra jackets, scarves, hats, etc. that are in good condition to the library. These will be collected and distributed to those less fortunate.

As always, there is absolutely no charge to participate in this event. Photographers of ANY skill level are invited to join in.

Head on over to the event discussion on the Photowalking Utah Flickr page if you have any questions or would simply like to say you’re coming. I hope to see a great group on the 17th.”

Wedding photographer Martin Whitton shared a great list of “10 Rules for Editing Digital Images” at the Digital Photography School. His rules are very similar to what I personally try and do every time I edit a photo.