Gary shared three color-themed photos this month. His backyard, the last few months, has been a great location to photograph. Just goes to show you don’t have to travel far to find great photos.
Category: Albums
Photos shared during UCSD PhIG monthly meetings
17 July 2024 Theme Food/Color: Cathy
Like all of us, Cathy had a wide variety of photos to share this month. Some photos were from a recent trip to Colorado, the San Diego Fair and some were from her photo archive. As we become more proficient at post-processing and as the software improves. Re-processing or recovering older images is becoming a common practice. Cathy shared some older travel images that had promise but may have had technical issues. Using post-processing techniques she’s learned and some of the newest tools. She shared these images, explaining the processing used.
17 July 2024 Theme Food/Color: Jim
Many of us rely on finding theme-related images in our photo archives is we are unable to take new ones. The recent warm weather makes taking your camera out less appealing. But motivation is one thing about being a member of the photography interest group. You often push yourself to get out an take new photos.
I did both this month, relying on some recent photos from my 2023 trip to Japan, and a local photo ‘walk-about’. I’ve been wanting to do some macro photography using the focus shift feature of my camera. So I setup on some flora I spied when walking the dog. Like astrophotography, macro photography takes some practice especially when using focus-shift on windy afternoons. So like astrophotography, macro photography will be something I’ll do more to get better. The local walk-about was to an area of Oceanside where I thought I might find some color – wall murals are common near the beach. I loved that a few of the photos I shared were a little bit better because of happy accidents. A bright orange car and bicyclist riding by the Cafe 101 mural; the train reflecting between the algae mats at Buccaneer Beach Bridge.
17 July 2024 Theme: Food & Color
July’s themes were Food and Color (or colorful food). Participants shared a wide variety of subjects because a color theme can be virtually any color subject. We chose a broad theme this month because the last few months have been pretty specific, appealing to members who enjoy post-processing.
Barbara
Cathy
Gary
Heather
Jim
John
Sharon
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Sharon
Like me, Sharon went into her travel archives to share some fine architectural themed images. Here are the images she shared:
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Cathy
Cathy has been busy submitting photos to the San Diego Fair Photography contest and winning. We’ll have to setup a page of her award winning photos since she does the group proud. This month she shared several architectural photos to fit the theme:
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Heather
Heather is the newest member to join the UCSD Photography Interest Group. The June meeting was the first time she shared her photos. The images she shared were from a recent tour of the Idaho State Penitentiary Museum. Welcome Heather – great images!
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Gary
Gary’s been busy re-landscaping his backyard and fortunately he’s come across some spontaneous image opportunities. Which are often harder than planned images. He only had two this month and they weren’t theme-related but any great shots are always welcome.
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Jim
Jim enjoys using Lightroom and Photoshop along with other digital darkroom tools to bring out the best in an image. Practicing processing Milky Way images taken during his recent trip to Yosemite. He’s been learning how to use Starnet++ and StarXterminator with Siril to separate the Milky Way nebula from the stars. This allows the Milky Way to be processed independently from the stars, as separate layers.
For architectural photography, Jim watched a few tutorials on how to convert architectural images into ‘fine art black&white’. So many of the images he shared this month, were black&white high contrast, dark sky images.
19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Jerry
Jerry focused on how he’d edit the other member’s unprocessed images. He’s got great Photoshop skills and is able to bring out the best in the images. Here are the several images he processed from raw to final:
