Next Zoom Meeting will be Jul 16 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for July’s meeting are “Summer Adventures“. Please share photos of any summertime travel, event, or general image.
“San Diego Fair – cont’d” – the San Diego Fair is happening so share any images taken during this year’s Fair. We shared some images from our June 11th meetup at our last meeting. But many of us want to continue and improve on different ideas.
“Sports” – although we are planning a meetup at the San Diego Velodrome Jul 22nd. There are members who proposed sports as a theme. This may be continued into August.
Photos for the June’s meeting themed “Missions“, “San Diego Fair” & “Open Catagory” are online here.
Welcome to the UCSD Photography Interest Group’s website – ucsdphoto.group. The UCSD Photography Interest Group (UCSDPhIG) is one of several special interest groups of the UCSD Retirement Association.
Our group is comprised of current UC staff and faculty and UC retirees and their legal spouses or same-sex domestic partners with an interest in photography. We have a monthly meeting, every third Wednesday of each month, to discuss various photography topics and share photos. Meetings are currently via Zoom and require an invitation: Zoom meeting registration link.
New members of any skill level are always welcome – for more information on the Retirement Association, membership eligibility, the Interest Groups, & to sign up, use the following links:
- Info on UCSD Retirement Association Membership: https://retirement.ucsd.edu/members/index.html
- UCSD Retirement Association Events – https://hrweb.ucsd.edu/ra/
- Photography Interest Group Zoom meeting registration form
Next Meeting will be Jul 16 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for are:
- Summer Adventures: share photos of your summer activities or events.
- San Diego Fair: Share photos of the San Diego Fair or any recent fair you’ve photographed
- Sports: share images of sporting events or activities.
- Open: share any photos of a recent trip, project, or interest
Next meetup: Jul 22th 7:00pm at the San Diego Velodrome.
Jun 18th Meeting Minutes: The June 18th meeting from 2-4:10pm had 5 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Missions”, “San Diego Fair” & “Open theme”.
- 2:00-2:40pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. Cathy and Gary talked about places in Lake Tahoe to hike & photograph. Jim is traveling next week to Sequoia National Park and asked for tips and photo destinations. There was a lively discussion about bears, bear encounters, and bear prevention. Also how to protect your vehicles undercarriage from Marmot attacks. Cathy & Jim talked a bit about their SD Fair Photo entries, the new photo reception format (verbal reveal vs exhibit unveiling). SD Fair Photography Themes will be a perpetual option for any monthly meeting, including discussions on Fair entry categories, image formats and post-processing.
Jim demo’d some new Lightroom features in the June update. Lightroom has some features that were only available in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. These are:- AI distraction removal such as people or reflections
- Denoise/Enhance is now non-destructive – Lightroom does not create a new dng file when denoise is applied to a raw image. The denoise amount is now dynamic and adjustable after being applied.
- Lightroom’s AI Landscape masking was actually discussed last meeting
- 2:30-4:05pm: participants shared their photos. Participants shared a wide variety of Mission & San Diego Fair photos.
Participants also shared wonderful non-themed images shared. - 4:05-4:10pm: discussion of next month themes.
- Themes for July –
- “Summer Adventures“: many of us have summer plans so photos of any summer-related trips or activities are good.
- “San Diego Fair”: continuing from last month, since the Fair is opened till July 6th.
- “Sports”: there is a lot of interest in a sports theme so both July & August themes will include sports.
- “Open Subject” – any photos that you’ve taken recently are always welcome.
I’ve set up a google drive share for image uploads to streamline the process of uploading images for the meetings. Create a personal folder and upload image to share here. It requires you to login into your google/gmail account. So if you do not have one, email your photos instead.
Photos from the last few meetings: