Gainesville Photography Club

There is a well written explanation of "Equivalent Exposures" on the Shutterbug magazine web site at http://www.shutterbug.com/newsletter/063009equiv/ . This may be a topic you are already familiar with, but the article is short but well done so I suggest it as worthwhile reading.

Any club member who finds an article, tutorial, software, or hardware info on the web that may interest other members, please share it by posting a link on this blog.

This is a followup to last month's program on shooting your photos in RAW format, NOT .jpg. OK, shoot both if you like. As mentioned in the program, RAW images are captured and saved as 16-bit data files. (The actual picture data is contained in  12 or 14 of the 16 bits available, depending the camera.) The 12-bit images can have  4,096 tones of Red, Green and Blue which translates to over 16 million colors. The 14-bit images can have 16,384 tones of Red, Green and Blue, a lot more for only two additional bits. For this discussion, let's assume 12-bit data. 

While searching the web for Photoshop tutorials, I stumbled across a very good web site to share with club members. It's written and maintained by an excellent photographer and is found at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ . Rather than try to summarize this 3500 page web site, it's better if you visit there yourself. Hold the Control key down and click on the link above. A new tab will open in your browser and transfer you to this web site. Hope you like it as much as I do.  Philippe

Florida Museum of Natural History

The Gainesville Photography Club will have it's monthly meeting at 7 PM, Monday, June 15th at the Civitan Regional Blood Center, 1221 NW 13th St., Gainesville (see the map on the Meetings page). The theme for June is "Lines" (see "themes" page). You can also bring color and monochrome photos in the General category. There will be a short business meeting followed by a program presentation yet to be determined. After the program we will share our best theme photos. Guests are always welcome at club meetings and can show up to 8 digital pictures. Your work will not be judged, but will be critiqued if you ask for it.

Member's of the Gainesville Photography Club have indicated that these are their favorite places nearby Gainesville to take pictures:

           Butterfly Rainforest, Univ. of Fla Campus

           Paynes Prairie

           Kanapaha Gardens

           Farms of Kanapaha

           Oleno St. Park

           Lake Alice, Univ of Fla Campus

           Silver River

           Alligator Farm, St. Augustine

Meet us (Phil and Fred) at Kanapaha Gardens on Saturday May 23 at 8:00 AM for a club photo shoot.  Weather this week has been awlful and we will not be there if it is raining in the morning.  However, chances are good for overcast conditions perfect for shooting flowers.   

The Gainesville Photography Club, GPC, is proud to announce that the Downtown Gainesville Library will be hosting GPC members' photos during the month of April 2009.

We send our gratitude to the Alachua Country Library District for hosting our photos. We also thank Rodney for providing the frames for the photos. We hope you enjoy our photos as much as we enjoyed creating them.

Enjoy!

President Fred