- December 20 2023 Meeting Notes: Gary shared details on his recent trip down under to Australia and New Zealand. His ‘winter’ photos were also of his recent trip, which is summer in the southern hemisphere.
- Gary talked about his recent trip to Australia, Sydney in particular, and New Zealand. He shared photos of his trip.
- Photos with the Winter theme and other subjects were shared and discussed
- John wanted to discuss how to setup a Star of India portfolio on portfolio.adobe.com with a custom domain. If you are a Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you can setup up to 5 ‘free’ portfolio websites. Custom domain names cost ~$10-$15 for an annual domain registration.
- Hawk Watch in Jan-Feb 2024 was discuss and a possible meetup to photograph rescued raptors and other birds.
- A brief demo of adding photos to the UCSDPhIG Uploads Google Drive
- A discussion of using Photoshop’s ‘puppet warp’ feature to straighten curved sections of a panoramic photo
- Nov 15 2023 Meeting Notes: a brief discussion of recent trips, participants shared recent images following the travel theme for this month. Also, more photos from our moonrise meetup have been posted. The difficulty of balancing exposures of the moon and skyline were discussed while viewing the images. Moon photography is challenging and something we will continue to pursue.
- I’ve set up a google drive share for image uploads to streamline the process of uploading images for the meetings. Here is the link and I will post it on the website soon. Please test it soon so if there are any hiccups, I can work them out before the next meeting. Create a personal folder and upload a test image:
- Moonrise link:
- Travel photos from Nov 15th meeting:
- Next month’s (20 Dec) meeting theme proposed by Jerry is ‘Winter’. But as always, all images regardless of theme are welcome.
- Oct 18 2023: Theme for October is ‘Fall/Autumn’
- Jim Wilkinson was unavailable to host so John Leighton did the honors
- Photos were shared by participants
- Sep 20 2023: Theme for September is “Animals – Birds/Zoo/Wildlife/Insects/Pets”
- Photo-sharing took up the entire meeting from 2:15-4:15pm so all the discussions were photo-critique & technique related.
- Photoshop 2024’s new generative fill was discussed with examples.
- Lightroom shadow & highlight masking to improve images taken on bright sunny days was discussed.
- Cell phone macro photography examples were presented and discussed.
- Discussed planning a possible Alabama Hills Photography Excursion, Jim will research and propose details at a future meeting/email
- We plan on setting a Hawk Watch group excursion in Jan or Feb, a Doodle Poll will be conducted to find the best weekend date.
- Oct 28th Full moon at sunset excursion to Harbor Island or nearby is proposed and tentatively planned. A rendezvous spot will be forthcoming based on the Photographer’s Ephemeris or PhotoPills for the best spot to setup.
- Photoshop Virtual Summit 5 is coming October 30-November 3 – Free and paid VIP Passes are available (Thanks Cathy)
- Aug 16 2023: The theme for August was ‘Black&White’. Participants shared their favorite photos, some in black&white & some color favorites.
- Photo-sharing took up the entire meeting from 2:10-4:10pm so all the discussions were photo-technique related.
- Black&White conversion of color images were discussed. The best black&white photos having strong light and graphical elements.
- Additionally, because of the recent (Aug 12-13 2023) Perseid Meteor Shower, astrophotography techniques were also discussed.
- July 19 2023: The theme for July was ‘Water/4th of July‘. Participants shared up to 10 photos that followed the theme or non-theme-related.
- Travel plans were discussed and potential outings – Del Mar horse races or horse workouts
- Most of the discussion were related to the photos shared, particularly Gary’s Canada kayaking trip. Other topics were macro-photography related and my fav – film simulation presets.
- Jun 21 2023: The theme for June was ‘Travel‘. Submission of up to 10 photos that followed the theme were shared. Other non-theme-related photos were also shared.
- Photographing in weather and how it affects gear selection was discussed
- Film simulations were also a short topic of interest (at least to Jim Wilkinson)
- May 17 2023 2pm-4pm, hosted by John Leighton
- Apr 19 2023 2pm-4pm, hosted by Jim Wilkinson
- Theme – ‘Eyes’, hosted by Jerry Vaughn
- Mar 15 2023 2pm-3pm, hosted by John Leighton
- Theme that week was ‘Opportunistic‘
- Feb 15 2023 2pm-4pm
- Tutorial – Masking in Lightroom & Adobe Camera Raw
- Discussion – Setting up a group website
- Photo Sharing – open theme
- Continuing issues with our Google Drive share was discussed and anyone who has trouble can go back to emailing the photos to me.
